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As the Sunday Igboho saga continues to drag on, the Benin Republic government has slammed fresh charges against the wanted Yoruba nation agitator. One of Sunday Igboho’s lawers, Ibrahim Salami, told BBC Yoruba that the legal team was expecting extradition charges from the Nigerian government against the activist. He also noted that Igboho was further remanded to allow police to conduct...

Peter Godwin, a former pastor of the Living Faith Church International, popularly known as Winners Chapel, who was sacked for failing to make enough money has been compensated by a South African-based pastor, Isaiah Okechukwu. The founder of Abba Father Ministries, a South African-based church made this known via his Facebook where he revealed that he’d be placing Godwin on...

Nigeria has so far recorded 10 new cases of the Delta COVID-19 variant. The Director-General, Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), Dr Chikwe Ihekweazu disclosed this at the ministerial briefing on COVID-19 in Abuja, The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the Delta variant is recognised by the World Health Organisation as a variant of concern, given its increased transmissibility. The variant...

Dr Hakeem Baba-Ahmed, spokesman of the Northern Elders Forum, has alleged that by 2023, the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) will have wrecked Nigeria. He stated this during an interview on Channels Television’s Politics Today on Monday. Baba-Ahmed said the party that will take over from APC would have a huge challenge. He attributed the current security crisis to leadership failure,...

Uduak Akpan on Monday pleaded guilty to the murder of Iniubong Umoren, the Akwa Ibom woman who was lured out of her home with a fake job interview. He was arraigned before a State High Court judge in Uyo. Miss Umoren was raped and killed in April in the outskirts of Uyo by Mr Akpan who the police in Akwa Ibom...

No fewer than 7,000 artefacts plundered from Benin Kingdom are expected to be repatriated by Germany to Nigeria not later than October, Nigeria’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs has said. The Permanent Secretary, Gabriel Aduda, disclosed this at the Inaugural Nigerian Cultural Show exhibiting Nigeria’s diverse cultural heritage, sites and traditional festivals held at the Cultural Centre, Nigeria House, New York. Mr Aduda also...

A man identified as Kasimu Barangana, has been abducted by the bandits who kidnapped 138 pupils of Salihu Tanko Islamiyya School, Tegina, in Rafi Local Government Area of Niger State, on May 30, when he and seven other members of the Tegina community were sent to deliver N30 million ransom to the bandits in the forest. The money, according to...

Three government-owned refineries being run by The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) have reported a N10.3billion loss in the first two months of 2021. According to the most recent NNPC Monthly Financial Operations Report (MFOR) the refineries recorded total revenue of N581 million but had an operating cost of N10.9 billion. The three refineries are Warri Refining and Petrochemical Company (WRPC) Port Harcourt...

The General Overseer, Citadel Global Community Church (formerly called The Latter Rain Assembly) Lagos, Pastor Tunde Bakare, has launched a scathing critique on the clampdown on the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra(IPOB) Nnamdi Kanu, and Yoruba Nation agitator, Sunday Adeyemo (a.k.a Sunday Igboho). According to the cleric, the federal government has replaced the search for justice with intimidation...

President Muhammadu Buhari will on Monday travel to the United Kingdom to participate in the Global Education Summit on Financing Global Partnership for Education (GPE) 2021-2025. The President will also visit his doctors after the summit for medical check-up. This was contained in a statement issued on Monday morning by the Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Chief...