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Yoruba activist and separatist leader Sunday Igboho has finally spoken about the recent invasion of his house ny men of the department of  state services DSS. In a press release signed by his spokesperson, Mr Igboho alleged that federal Government planted those ammunition alleged to have been recovered in his house. Read full text of the Press Release: MY PERSECUTION BY...

A total of 85 students made first class out of 2,079, comprising 1,660 undergraduates and 417 postgraduate at the 19th convocation ceremony of Babcock University, Ilisan Remo, Ogun State. Okunola Temitayo of the Department of Mass Communication emerged overall best graduating student with 4.91 CGPA on a scale of 5. The overall best postgraduate in the PhD programme was Olomojobi Femi...

A fresh crisis is brewing in Zamfara State following the rejection of the declaration by Yobe State governor and chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC) caretaker committee that Governor Bello Matawalle is now the leader of the party. Buni had while receiving Matawalle into the ruling party in Gusau on Tuesday, announced the dissolution of the APC executives in...

The Bayelsa State Governor, Douye Diri, has said Ijaw nation is not part of any group agitating for secession, stressing that it is a distinct ethnic nationality. Speaking while hosting the founding fathers of Bayelsa State at the Government House, Yenagoa, on Thursday, Gov Diri said as one of those who struggled for the creation of the state, he was...

The Chairman of Emohua Local Government Area of Rivers State, Dr. Chidi Lloyd, has explained that he locked out some workers because they were late to work. Last week, Lloyd had taken a position under a tree when he resumed last week after his swearing-in by Governor Nyesom Wike, to monitor the activities of the council workers. On Wednesday, pictures emerged...

Former Super Eagles captain, John Mikel Obi has completed a switch from English Championship club Stoke City to Kuwaiti giants, Kuwait SC. The former Chelsea midfielder, who had agreed to a contract extension at Stoke at the end of the season, changed his mind and has now penned a one-year contract with the Kuwaiti side. The 34-year-old made 41 league and...

Commissioner of Police, Lagos State Police Command, CP Hakeem Odumosu, yesterday, handed down a warning to self-acclaimed Yoruba freedom fighter, Chief Sunday Adeyemo, popularly called Sunday Igboho, not to stage any rally in Lagos,  threatening to deal with decisively with anyone who violates the directive. The planned rally slated for tomorrow at the Gani Fawehimi  Freedom Park,   Ojota area and...

Mr Joseph Obele, Chairman, Rivers State Chapter of the Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria (IPMAN), has expressed his dissatisfaction over the three per cent oil derivation take approved by the Senate for oil producing communities. Obele, in a statement made available to newsmen on Thursday in Port Harcourt, said that the long awaited Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB) was not worth celebrating...

A Nigerian footballer, Kelvin Ifeanyi Igweani, has reportedly been shot dead by the police in the United Kingdom. According to The Mirror, Igweani was killed after officers were called to an address in Denmead, Milton Kenes, on Saturday. A sick child, who was found in the apartment, was said to have been immediately taken to hospital. It is unclear if the deceased...

A Constitutional Court in South Africa has sentenced former President Jacob Zuma to 15 months in prison for contempt of court. Zuma was found guilty by the country’s highest court after he defied its order to appear at a corruption inquiry centered on his tenure between 2009 and 2018. “The only appropriate sanction is a direct, unsuspended order of imprisonment” lasting...