The Northern Elders Forum (NEF) has issued a 14-day ultimatum to the Edo and federal governments to fish out and prosecute the killers of the 16 hunters hunters from the north. On Thursday, a mob in the Uromi, Edo state intercepted the hunters of northern who were travelling from Elele, Rivers state to Kano to…
The Saudi Arabian authorities have announced the sighting of the moon’s crescent marking the beginning of Shawwal and the end of Ramadan. With this development, Ramadan will be 29 days long, while Eid-el-Fitr will be celebrated on Sunday in Saudi Arabia. “The crescent moon has been sighted in Saudi Arabia. Eid-Al-Fitr will be celebrated on…
The Kaduna state chapter of the Social Democratic Party (SDP) has said that ex governor Nasir El-Rufai is yet to register as a member of the party over two weeks after his defection The party also rejected the purported dissolution of the Kaduna State Working Committee of the party by the National Secretariat. Addressing a…
The House of Representatives on Thursday passed for second reading a bill seeking to stop anyone above 60 years from contesting for election to the Offices of the President and Governor in Nigeria. If the bill scales legislative scrutiny and is signed into law, President Bola Tinubu, former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, and the 2023…
A coalition of some civil society organisations (CSOs) has called the United Nations (UN) to sanctions Nigeria over declaration of emergency rule in Rivers state. President Bola Tinubu had declared a state of emergency in Rivers following growing political tension in the state. The president suspended the Rivers governor, Siminalayi Fubara, his deputy, Ngozi Odu,…
Secretary General of the Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria (PFN), Bishop David Bakare has appealed to Governor Ahmadu Fintri of Adamawa state, to temper justice with mercy by pardoning Sunday Jackson, the man sentenced to death for killing a Fulani herdsman in self defence. Speaking in an interview on Tuesday in Kaduna, Bakare pleaded with the…
