The Church of Nigeria, Diocese of Ogbaru Diocese, Anglican Communion, has called on the All Progressives Congress, APC-led Federal Government of President Muhammadu Buhari to implement, without further delay, the reports and recommendations of the 2014 National Conference. The Church of Nigeria also called on the Federal Government to consider …
Read More »Senator Adeyeye has been appointed Senate spokesman
Senator Adedayo Adeyeye (Ekiti South) has been appointed chairman of the Senate Committee on Media and Public Affairs. By the appointment, he becomes the spokesman of the Ninth Senate. Five other Senators were also appointed members of the committee by Senate President, Ahmed Lawan.
Read More »cattle colonies can set Nigeria on fire-Soyinka
Nobel laureate Prof Wole Soyinka joined the raging cattle settlements dispute, describing the policy as a keg of gunpowder. The planned Ruga (settlements) is the Federal Government’s antidote to the bloody herders/farmers clashes, which have taken many lives, setting Nigeria on edge. Even before its execution, the policy has sparked …
Read More »INEC deputy director bags six years in jail for receiving N45m Diezani bribe
Justice Yusuf Birnin-Kudu of Jigawa State High Court sitting in Gumel, has sentenced a Deputy Director of the Independent National Electoral Commission, Auwal Jibrin, to six years in jail for unlawful enrichment and gratification. He was convicted alongside one Garba Ismaila who bagged seven years in jail for benefiting from …
Read More »Ex-Edo Speaker vow to expose Oshiomhole
Immediate past Speaker of the Edo State House of Assembly Kabiru Adjoto has vowed to open a can of worms on National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Adams Oshiomhole. Adjoto was sacked by the Supreme Court two weeks after he was sworn in as a member of the …
Read More »COZA’s Biodun Fatoyinbo steps down
Biodun Fatoyinbo, founder of the Commonwealth of Zion Assembly has stepped down. He announced his leave of absence from the pulpit via his verified Instagram page. He wrote, “The past few days have been sobering for me. I have taken time to pray and seek spiritual counsel from Christian leaders …
Read More »Atiku sues Buhari’s aide Lauretta Onnochie for N2.5bn
The Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the last general elections, Atiku Abubakar, has sued the Special Assistant on Social Media to President Muhammadu Buhari, Lauretta Onochie, for her alleged libelous tweet via her twitter handle on May 7, 2019. In the suit filed on June 26, …
Read More »Ruga and the Fulani agenda, by Fani-Kayode
On 6th February 2014 the leader of IPOB and the lion of the East, my friend and brother Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, said the following, “As they campaign vigorously for elections, you would think, they are coming to grow the economy, enthrone justice, breed unity and tolerance, love for one another. …
Read More »Insecurity: Nigerian govt accuses Leah Sharibu’s mother, others of ‘falsehood’ at U.S. event
The Nigerian embassy in Washington, D.C., has frowned at a recent event in the U.S. capital where some “victims’’ of terrorism and farmers/herders conflict in northern Nigeria made “false” claims against the Federal Government. The event, which was a panel discussion tagged “Insecurity in Nigeria: Eyewitnesses Speak’’, was hosted by …
Read More »Heavy security at COZA as protesters ask Fatoyinbo to step down
The church has come under nationwide interest since one of its members came out Friday to accuse Biodun Fatoyinbo, its lead preacher, of rape. Busola Dakolo, the wife of the musician Timi, said she was raped by Fatoyinbo at age 16 in Ilorin, Kwara State. Fatoyinbo has denied the allegations …
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