The 2023 Labour Party presidential candidate, Peter Obi, highlighted several key factors contributing to insecurity in Africa during a Leadership Dialogue in Athens, Greece, over the weekend. Speaking at the event, which focused on governance, particularly in the areas of democracy, security, and the economy, Mr Obi stressed the need for leaders to recognise the profound global and generational shifts currently underway. In a statement shared on his X (formerly…

The Multinational Joint Task Force (MNJTF) deployed in Kukawa Local Government Area of Borno State has announced that a self-confessed Boko Haram terrorist, Bochu Abacha has surrendered to its troops. Bochu was said to have confessed to having surrendered because of the intensity of the operation of the MNJTF and declining interest. The Information Officer of the MNJTF, Lieutenant Colonel Olaniyi Osoba, in a statement on Saturday, noted that the…

At least 17 people were reportedly killed in a mass shooting in a remote South African town on Friday.A BBC report, quoting the police, stated that 12 women and one man were killed in one location, while three women and one man were felled in a second location, with the 18th victim in critical condition in the hospital.The report also noted that the yet-to-be-identified gunmen targeted two homesteads in the…

A zookeeper and lion handler at Olusegun Obasanjo Presidential Library in Abeokuta identified as Babaji Daule has reportedly been killed by a lion in the zoo. The library is said to be one of the investments of the former head of state and two-time president of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo. The New Daily Prime recorded that the victim’s body had been recovered and taken to the…

In continuation of the money laundering trial of a former governor of Kogi State, Yahaya Bello, a Bureau de Change operator based in Abuja, Jamilu Abdullahi, has narrated how the former governor severally paid his children’s school fees in dollars. Abdullahi, who is the third prosecution witness in the trial of Ali Bello, the current Chief of Staff to Kogi State Governor, Usman Ododo, and nephew of Yahaya Bello was…

Not less than five people have been confirmed dead and others hospitalized at the infectious diseases center, Olodo in Egbeda LGA following the ‘Love feast (Ipese)’ planned by a white garment church. According to The Punch newspaper, It was recorded that the incident happened to occur in the church environment, in Apata Ido LGA has put the entire community in chaos. However, according to a source that remains anonymous, it…

Just a few days to the nation’s 64th independence anniversary, organizers of the #FearlessOctober1 protest have insisted that the military, police, and the Department of State Services (DSS) would not stop them from going ahead with the planned demonstration.Disclosing this to newsmen on Saturday, the National Coordinator of the Take It Back Movement, Juwon Sanyaolu, and the Director of Mobilization of the group, Damilare Adenola, said they have written to…

Agitation for a return to the regional system of government has generated a heated debate among Nigerian Senators from the southern and northern regions, with the lawmakers expressing sharply contrasting positions. This development came to the fore at a two-day retreat on the amendments to the 1999 Constitution, organized by the Senate Committee on Constitution Review in collaboration with the Policy and Legal Advocacy Centre (PLAC) in Kano on Saturday.While…

Four bloggers—Precious Eze, 38, Olawale Rotimi, 47, Rowland Olonishu, and Seun Odunlami—have been remanded at the Ikoyi Correctional Centre for allegedly cyberstalking and false dissemination. Punch newspaper reported that the bloggers committed the offences against the Chief Executive Officer of Guaranty Trust Holding Company PLC (GTCO), Segun Agbaje which aimed at defaming him. The paper added that Justice Ayokunle Faji of the Federal High Court in Lagos ordered the bloggers…

A witness of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Abubakar Umar, has said that he gave a former governor of Benue, Gabriel Suswam the sum of $15.8 million cash (N3.1 billion) at his Abuja residence in 2014. The former governor and his finance commissioner, Omadachi Okolobia were accused of diverting N3.1 billion from the state coffers.They were arraigned before Ahmed Mohammed, a federal high court judge in 2015. They…

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Elders Forum has waded into the acrimonious relationship between Governor Siminalaye Fubara of Rivers State and his predecessor and current Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike.The PDP Elders apologized to Wike “for what Fubara is doing to you” on Saturday (today) at the Rivers State Ijaw Peoples Congress.Led by the Executive Director of Finance, NDDC, Boma Iyaye, the elders said the Ijaw…

The Ondo State Government has approved a N3.5 billion counterpart fund for the Universal Basic Education Commission (UBEC), aimed at bolstering the construction and renovation of public primary schools across the state. Governor Lucky Aiyedatiwa’s Chief Press Secretary, Ebenezer Adeniyan in a statement said the governor revealed the plan during the State Executive Council meeting on Thursday. Addressing journalists after the meeting, Commissioner for Education, Olaolu Akindolire, highlighted that the…