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Akure the state capital of Ondo state was yesterday agog in jubilation as Chief Sunday A deyemo popularly known as Sunday Igboho stormed the town to further sensitize the populace on his plan to establishing a Yoruba nation. Recall recently he was at Osun state with the same agenda, which they were greeted by large crowd of sympathizers. If the crowd during the Osun rally was huge, the Akure's is massive, to which the former minister of aviation Femi Fani Kayode could not hold his admiration at heart, but also put a call across to the 'Yoruba Nation' leader. The former minister shared this information on his twitter handle where he said a prayer to God to be with Sunday Ighoho. He also on the tweet shared a video of the rally. "Just got off the phone with my friend & brother, Chief Sunday Adeyemo (AKA Sunday Igboho). He stormed Akure in style & power today. He shook the town to its foundations! I am so proud of him! Such courage, energy& strength! God be ...

There was pandemonium today in Lagos, within Oshodi axis. Traders and passerby fled for safety as security men were seen assaulting people and damaging properties, especially commercial vehicles as alleged by eyewitness report.  The story making rounds has it that an Air Force personnel was killed within the axis yesterday. So the security men came today to avenge the death of their colleague. The Lagos police spokesman, Muyiwa Adejobi, has released statement on the Oshodi crisis. Though the statement did not say for sure the cause of the crisis, “We are aware of the conflict that occurred at Capa Park/Mosafejo Oshodi Lagos today Thursday, May 20, 2021 around 7.am. Normalcy has since been restored to the area." The matter is under investigation and the official cause yet ascertained until police concludes its investigation.  Meanwhile, normalcy has returned to the area as men of Nigerian Police arrived the scene as ordered by Lagos CP H. Odumosu. The police urged Lagosians to ...

It is no longer news that Cross River State Governor Prof. Ben Ayade has cross carpeted from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to the All Progressive Party (APC). He made the announcement on Thursday in his Calabar office after meeting with APC governors led by the party's interim chairman Governor Mai Mala Buni of Yobe State. According to the DailySUN report, t he governor cited Cross River as being emasculated economically and so needed to return back to the scheme on federal level, reason for his defection. He also cited personality of President Buhari and his commitment for the country's development as other reason, and he believes joining hands with the president would be better for the country. "I believe if everyone of us, as governors, joins hand with Mr. President, we can sit on the same dining table and fashion out a way to govern this country. Read Also: Stop Stifling With EFCC, PDP Warns Recall that the All Progressives Congress (APC), sometime last year aske...

Recently the governors of the southern region of Nigeria met in Delta state to discuss the security issues beleaguering the region.  They arose after the meeting and issued a communiqué that contained among other requests/suggestions to the federal government, they issued a ban on open grazing of animals in the region. However, this ban did not settle well with some Nigerians especially of Northern extracts, who has also openly shared their displeasure over the ban. Yesterday, Nigeria's Attorney-General was on Channels TV programme 'Politics Today' said the Southern governors ban is constitutionally illegal, and so does not hold water. He directed the governors to first go and change the constitution to grant them such privilege power. But Reno Omokri has taken to his twitter handle to slam back at the Attorney-General, demanding where he was and his constitutional legality when the Northern governors banned and empowered Hisbah to destroy such businesses of Nigerians up no...

Mr. Benjamin Netanyahu the prime minister of Israel have spoken with the foreign ambassadors in Tel Aviv about the conflict between Israel and Palestine, and Israeli stance. He shared this information on his twitter handle.  As the conflict in the Gaza strip between Israeli forces and the Palestinian Hamas led militia escalates, causing more casualties of human lives and properties. As at the last count before filing this report a total of 239 lives has lost with well over 1600 people injured. On both sides of the casualties includes women and children. Israel has lost only 12 lives, while Palestine 227. There has been calls from various world leaders for ceasefire since it broke out. President Biden of United States on Wednesday put a request call  across to prime minister Netanyahu for a deescalation of the conflict.  The NewYork Times can confirm, "President Biden has told Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that he expected a significant deescalation today on the path t...

The former Nigerian financial minister Ngozi Iweala seem more now headed as the next World Trade Organization head as her only rival South Korean Moo Myung-Hee drop out of the race. The Korean in her pulling out statement stated she has underwent several consultation to come to conclusion that other position off life where he will better useful to his nation and World at large. Meanwhile, there are several calls for the USA president Joe Biden to rescind the position of the US by the former president Trump. The US has by Donald Trump refused support for the Nigerian candidate Mrs Ngozi Iweala. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Do you think of President Biden will bow to pressure to rescind the decision?

Hours after President Buhari extends by three months the tenure of IGP Mohammed Adamu who has reached the mandatory retirement age of 60yrs or 35yrs of service. There has been uproar in the society against the president's action. Prominent lawyers has weighed into the matter to give legal meaning to the order. However, all the lawyers agreed the president has the power to elongate or terminate prematurely the services of the service chiefs, but that must be done according to the prescription of the law. According to Barr. Lebrous Oshoma while answering questions on AriseTV also toe the line of Barr. Ubani who just granted interview to Nigerian Info radio, that the manner the president went about the tenure elongation nullifies it, and so in the eyes of the law as at February 2, 2021 Nigeria seizes to have an Inspector General of Police and any action carried out by Mr Mohammed Adamu is challengeable. Meanwhile, the president also has submitted to the National Assembly the names of...

Report according to Daily Sun says, barely 24 hours after negotiations between armed bandits and some communities in Shiroro Local Government Area of Niger State, no fewer than 25 members of neighbouring communities have been killed by armed bandits. The killer bandits went away with about 50 members of the communities, mostly women and children in the attack which lasted over three hours, after killing about 25 people mostly men, while 30 others were seriously injured.   According to source close to one of the communities, the bandits, numbering about 100 invaded the villages in Kwaki in Kurebe/Kushaka Ward of Shiroro LGA on Monday morning to unleash terror on the people for their refusal to attend a meeting which was held on Sunday, a day before the attack. The source further said, said the bodies of those killed were still littered around the bush in these communities as at the time of filing this report 3:00pm (Tuesday) with nobody to bury them. The injured ones, about 30 of th...

THE National Association of Nigeria (NANS) has called on Sunday Adeyemo, aslo known as Sunday Igboho, to employ dialogue and consultations with relevant stakeholders to find lasting solutions to the activities of herdsmen in the South West. Addressing journalists, yesterday, in Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital, NANS Chairman/Ogun Joint Campus Committee, Kehinde Simeon, urged Adeyemo to liaise with the appropriate authorities to find a solution to the crisis and not “to set the entire South West on fire and cause anarchy.” Simeon also called on the state government to consider the registration of herdsmen within the borders of Ogun State, ban open grazing and fast track the inauguration of Amotekun corps to further combat insecurity around schools in the state. “We understand Igboho, but it is our view that he should meet with Yoruba leaders, Afenifere and other stakeholders. This has become important so as not to set the entire South West on fire and cause anarchy. “We observ...

Aduekpe  Precious Edinaeval, 19, hail from Abi Local Government Area in Cross River State, born to Mr Samuel Adu Aduekpe and Mrs Grace Nkanu Aduekpe, became the star attraction at the fifth convocation ceremony of McPherson University, Seriki Sotayo, Ogun State. She graduated with Cumulative Grade Point Average (CGPA) of 4.97, Department of Accounting. By her performance, Aduekpe set a new graduation record.   Her score is the best since the inception of the university eight years ago. She went home with 10 prizes, including the Visitor Leadership, Chairman Award, Board of Trustees, Chancellor, Pro-Chancellor and Vice Chancellor prize. She wrote her UTME in March 2016 and scored 301. I was very excited and thankful for the result. “WASSCE came in May/June. I obtained 7As in Mathematics, Economics, Financial Accounting, Government, Commerce, Computer Studies and Civic Education respectively, B2 in English Language and B3 in Data Processing and later emerged the Valedi...

The  judicial panel investigating cases of police brutality in Akwa Ibom State has summoned the leader of the disbanded IGP Intelligence Response Team, DCP.    Abba Kyari over an allegation on abuse of fundamental right, extortion and false accusation by Maxwell George Edum.  The petitioner, Mr Edum who is also a car dealer, in a memo, JPPB/memo/132, yesterday narrated to the Justice idiok Ukan led panel    how a team of Special Anti Robbery Squad led by one Inspector Friday whose operational code is MadDog invaded his car stand at No.164 Eket/Oron road, Eket and impounded his two vehicles, a Toyota hilux and a Toyota Tundra truck, supposedly at the instance of DCP Kyari.   He said the team also arrested his staff, Mr Sampson Etukudo and took him alongside the vehicles    to a police station at World Bank Estate, Umuahia in Abia State where he was detained over an allegation of the company buying stolen vehicles.   He further said during...

The  news of the death of former minister of Information and Culture, Prince Tony Momoh who passed on, yesterday, at the age of 82 threw shock waves across the country, especially among the media and political circles. The  veteran journalist, lawyer and politician, served as Nigeria’s minister of Information and Culture  between 1986 and 1990, during the military regime of General Ibrahim Babangida. He was onetime Pro-Chancellor and Chairman, Governing Council of the University of Jos.  In January 2011, he became the National Chairman of the defunct Congress for Progressive Change CPC, which later merged with other political parties to form the now ruling All Progressives Congress (APC). In his reaction through a statement by the Special Adviser on Media and Publicity to the president, Femi Adesina, President Muhammadu Buhari expressed sadness at the passing of the statesman who he described as his longtime ally, friend and political loyalis...

Federal Government, yesterday, declared that with Nigeria now experiencing a more virulent second wave of the coronavirus pandemic which has increased the number of COVID-19 related deaths from 1173 on November 29, 2020, to 1,578 on January 31, 2021, no one is safe except vaccinated.    Chairman of Presidential Task Force (PTF) on COVID-19 and Secretary to  he Government of the Federation, Boss Mustapha, said this at the sensitisation meeting on COVID-19 vaccine introduction with leaders of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN)  and scholars, held yesterday, in Abuja.   Mustapha noted that the death rate has increased to 34 percent, adding that the number of infections have also grown tremendously.  The PTF chairman explained that the arrival of vaccines has given hope that solution had been found.  He said: “As a nation, our national response has been very robust with significant positive results because we deployed non-pharmaceutical interventio...