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The Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Enita Ogunwusi, has constituted a 28-man committee to brainstorm on the issues surrounding the arrest of Sunday Adeyemo also known as Sunday Igboho. Igboho has been at the forefront of agitation for self-independence for Yoruba ethnic group in the last few months. Our Source gathered that Igboho was arrested by Interpol in Cotonou, Benin Republic...

American music producer, Andre Young, better known as Dr Dre has to pay the sum of $300,000 (N151 million) to his wife, Nicole Young as monthly spousal support. The music producer and businessman was in court for a hearing with his wife this week. According to legal documents, obtained on Thursday, July 22, the music mogul must make the monthly payments as...

Akwa Ibom has recorded 156 COVID-19 cases in the last two weeks, the state government said on Thursday. The Secretary to the State Government, Dr. Emmanuel Ekuwem, disclosed this at a media briefing on Thursday in Uyo. Ekuwem, who is also the Chairman of Akwa Ibom COVID-19 Committee, said the state also recorded three fatalities during the period. He said while the COVID-19 pandemic...

The Yola Electricity Distribution Company (Yola Disco) has been acquired by Quest Electricity Nigeria. The deal has a five-year period to make the local electricity firm financially viable. The acquisition cost Quest Electricity N19 billion, but the private investor is expected to disburse N28 billion in the next two years for an extensive upgrade of Yola Disco. Aside from revamping the...

Human rights lawyer and activist, Mike Ozekhome (SAN) has lambasted the President Muhammadu Buhari-led government, saying while it is sympathetic and weak in handling bandits, it is ruthless and merciless on the leader of proscribed Igbo separatist group, Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) Nnamdi Kanu, and Yoruba Nation agitator, Sunday Igboho. Ozekhome who reacted to the arrest of Igboho in Cotonou,...

Yoruba Nation agitators and activists from all states in the South-West have been put on standby to stage a peaceful demonstration beginning from 12 noon on Wednesday, to protest the arrest and detention of Sunday Igboho in Cotonou, Benin Republic. The protest which will kick off in Ibadan, Oyo State, is meant to press for the release of their embattled...

The Nigeria Civil Service Union (NCSU) says it has resolved to commence picketing of the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) offices nationwide next Monday, July 26, over the management’s decision to seal the union’s unit secretariat. NCSU also said its decision to embark on a nationwide protest arose from the “illegal” deduction of its members’ check-off dues which are accruable...

The All Progressives Congress (APC) has said at the appropriate time, it will come up with a consensus and agreeable presidential candidate for 2023. Sen. John Akpanudoehede, National Secretary, APC Caretaker and Extra-ordinary Convention Planning Committee (CECPC), stated this in a statement issued on Tuesday in Abuja. The statement was in reaction to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) recent allegation that...

Governor Abdulrahman Abdulrazaq of Kwara State and the immediate past Senate President, Senator Abubakar Bukola Saraki, snubbed each other at the Ilorin Eid Praying ground on Tuesday. They joined other dignitaries ahead of the two-Rakat prayer to mark the celebrations. This is the first time Saraki would observe Eid prayer in Ilorin since the emergence of Abdulrazaq. Abdulrazaq and the All Progressives...

A South-South elder statesman, Chief Edwin Clark, has said the region will not be part of the Republic of Biafra when actualised. According to him, the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) was wrong to include the region as part of Biafraland. He maintained that the detained IPOB leader, Nnamdi Kanu is fighting a good cause but using a wrong approach. The elder statesman maintained...