Obadiah Mailafiya, a former deputy governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) is dead. Luka Binniyat, spokesman of the Southern Kaduna Peoples Union (SOKAPU), confirmed Mailafiya’s death in a telephone chat on Sunday. Binniyat said Mailafiya who took refuge in Markudi, Benue state, following alleged persistent harassment by the Department of State Security Services (DSS),…
Queen Elizabeth II, the UK’s longest-serving monarch, has died at Balmoral aged 96, after reigning for 70 years. The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) reports that the Queen died peacefully at Balmoral on Thursday afternoon. The Queen came to the throne in 1952 and witnessed enormous social change. With her death, her eldest son Charles, the…
Christian Awareness Initiative of Nigeria (CHAIN), on Thursday organised Town Hall meeting for the Town Hall Meeting for Christian leaders in Northern Nigeria at the Epitome Hotel, Kaduna, to brainstorm on the controversial Tax reform bills before the National Assembly. The event with the theme: “Church and Society: Tax reform and matters arising”, was attended…
Governor of Ondo, Rotimi Akeredolu (SAN), has warned that current hardship being faced by Nigerian as result of the scarcity of new naira notes and hike in petrol price, may lead to “unpleasant consequences” if the situation is not addressed. In a statement on Friday, Akeredolu called on President Muhammadu Buhari to take urgent steps…
By Prof. Terhemba Wuam According to the historian Jorma Kalela, “Why history?” is more fruitful than the question of “what is history?” The former question is posed because people need knowledge of the past, which they can use as they deem fit as the past is always used in the present. In the United States…
The Nigerian Air Force (NAF) fighter jets under the air component of Operation Udo Ka II, has destroyed the armouries and hideouts of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB)combatants in Anambra and Imo states. The NAF spokesperson, Air Commodore Edward Gabkwet, disclosed this in a statement on Wednesday. Gabkwet said on Tuesday, the fighter jets…
