Former Senate President, Dr Abubakar Bukola Saraki, has described as a “desperate ploy by a drowning politician” the move by Kwara State Governor, Abdulrahman Abdulrazaq, to initiate a case of criminal culpability against him over the Offa robbery incident of 2018. While describing the criminal case as “dirty politics taken too far and too low”,…
UTME candidates The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has candidates who participated in the first day of the nationwide examination to check their results today (Saturday). It announced that it has released the first batch of results for the 2026 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) before midnight on Friday. The update is expected to…
One of the students abducted while returning from writing the JAMB-UTME exam in Otukpo, Benue State, has shared a chilling account of how he managed to escape from his captors. The survivor, who was among the 18 victims reportedly taken during the incident, said they were travelling in a bus when they ran into armed…
Against the insinuations that Nigeria is planning to borrow from the International Monetary Fund, IMF, Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister of the Economy, Wale Edun, has said the country has no plans to seek financial support from the organisation. Edun made this known during a press briefing by ministers at the ongoing spring meetings…
Islamic cleric Ahmad Gumi has condemned the rising wave of kidnappings in Nigeria, invoking divine punishment on those responsible for the crisis while calling for a new approach to tackle insecurity. Gumi made the remarks in reaction to the abduction of a student of the University of Jos, John Arum, whose ordeal has drawn widespread…
Kwara State Government has officially filed a 20-count charge against former Senate President Bukola Saraki and former Governor Abdulfatai Ahmed over their alleged arming of top suspects convicted in the tragic Offa armed robbery incident of April 2018. Those also listed in the charge, filed under case number KWS/114C/26, include Yusuf Abdulwahab, former Chief of…
The founder of Omega Power Ministries (OPM), Omega Power Ministries, Apostle Chibuzor Chinyere, has announced the suspension of the proposed marriage arrangement involving his 21-year-old adopted autistic daughter, Chiemeka Chibuzor, following what he described as an overwhelming number of responses from interested suitors. In a Facebook post on Thursday, the cleric said the exercise had…
Nigerian troops have arrested the second-in-command to a notorious bandit kingpin, Kachalla Auta, alongside his wife in Gombe State. The arrest followed an intelligence-led tracking operation across multiple locations in the state. This was disclosed in a post on X by Zagazola Makama, a counter-insurgency and security expert in the Lake Chad region. Makama, citing…
Emotions ran high at the Maimalari Cantonment Cemetery in Maiduguri, Borno State as fallen military officers and soldiers were laid to rest with full honours, amid heart-wrenching scenes from grieving families and colleagues. The hours proceeding the solemn burial ceremony, one of the widows collapsed and was revived following swift intervention by the Theatre Commander,…
Justice Rahman Oshodi of the Lagos Sexual Offences and Domestic Violence Court, Ikeja, on Thursday, sentenced a 63-year-old pastor, Chris Mcdouglas, to life imprisonment for raping his church member’s daughter aged 18 years. The judge sentenced Mcdouglas, a pastor at the Peculiar Generation Assembly Church, Lagos, to life imprisonment after he found him guilty of…
