The Rivers State 43Command said its men arrested three suspects in connection with the alleged killing and organ harvesting of a man identified as Progress in Ogbaraye community, Abua/Odual Local Government Area of the state. This came barely two weeks after three persons, including two pastors, were arrested by a vigilante group codename OSPAC in Port Harcourt over the death of a 24-year-old physically challenged man. They were apprehended for allegedly killing the physically challenged...
Tragedy stuck in Okanla community in Irepodun Local Government Area of Osun State on Sunday as some men bearing arms stormed the palace of Olokanla of Okanla, killed an admission seeker, Ibrahim Qudus, before setting the building ablaze. Uncle to the deceased, Jimoh Qadri said the assailants were led by a man identified simply as Naim, who was the only one among the attackers that did not cover his face during the incident. Qadri, who...
The Civil Society Legislative Advocacy Centre has accused the administration of President Tinubu of taking a cavalier attitude regarding the steadily increasing debt profile of the country. “the figure represents an increase of 75.29%, or N37.53tn, compared to N49.85tn recorded at the end of March 2023,” said the Executive Director of CISLAC, Auwal Ibrahim Musa (Rafsanjani), in a statement issued on Saturday. He voiced his concerns over Nigeria’s startling increase in debt, which has ballooned...
The National Assembly Election Petition Tribunal had already fired certain House of Representatives members and directed the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to hold new elections in impacted seats. The Labour Party, Nigeria’s second opposition party, which won the House of Representatives and Senate, has suffered a huge defeat after the tribunal fired their members and declared their prior election triumph null and void. This article by TheNigwrian News outlines the LP’s House of Representatives...
In order to restructure the livestock business and find long-term solutions to the nation’s recurrent conflicts between herders and farmers, President Bola Tinubu has given his approval for the creation of a Presidential Committee. Following the submission of a report from the National Conference on Livestock Reforms and Mitigation of Associated Conflicts in Nigeria, the President announced the formation of the Committee on Thursday in Abuja. Dr. Umar Abdullahi Ganduje, a former executive governor of...
Dr. Olayemi Michael Cardoso has been appointed by President Bola Tinubu to be the new Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), with a term of five (5) years at the outset, pending approval. This order complies with Section 8(1) of the Central Bank of Nigeria Act, 2007, which grants the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria the power to appoint the Governor and four (4) Deputy Governors for the Central Bank of...
The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has condemned the violence that erupted at the NURTW National Secretariat and caused casualties and damage to property. The Nigerian Labour Congress condemned the tragedy as extremely tragic and completely avoidable, but totally blamed the Nigeria Police Force for the horrible events, stating that their inaction and unwarranted interference in the internal affairs of the Union were the root of all evil. “In August, we raised alarm regarding the police’s...
A camp that was alleged to belong to the outlawed Indigenous People of Biafra was raided by members of the police, military, and officials from the Department of State Service in Ebonyi state. The camp was located in Eke-agbebor Isu, which is located in the Onicha Local Government Area. This information was communicated to the public through a press statement that was distributed on Thursday in Abakaliki by the Police Public Relations Officer for the...
The Nigeria Police Force has disclosed that in the last five weeks, it has detained 288 suspects in armed robberies, 187 suspects in kidnappings, 198 suspects in murder, 59 suspects for possessing illegal firearms, 168 suspects in rape, defilement, and other sexual offense cases, 265 suspects in suspected cult activity, and 1891 other suspects for various crimes. In addition, 127 firearms of various calibers, 612 different types of ammunition, and 89 stolen vehicles were all...
The Labour Party leadership reprimanded Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka for saying that the party was trying to trick Nigerians into thinking that Peter Obi, its presidential candidate, won the contentious February 25 election. The protest has been raised in response to Soyinka’s statement made on Wednesday at an occasion called “The Lives of Wole Soyinka — A Dialogue,” which took place in Stellenbosch, South Africa. The eminent author had emphasized that despite Labour Party leadership’s...
