Former Nigeria’s Military Vice President, General Donaldson Oladipupo Diya, is dead. Diya died at the age of 79. He served as Chief of the General Staff, under military head of state General Sani Abacha from 1994 until his arrest for treason in 1997. He previously served as Chief of Defence Staff and was Military Governor of Ogun State from January 1984 to August 1985. His death was announced in a message that went viral on social media and signed by one of his children, Prince Oyesinmilola Diya, on behalf of the family, that Diya died in the early hours of…
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Hoodlums have vandalised the Zamfara state anti-thuggery agency’s secretariat. According to NAN, Bello Bakyasuwa, commandant of the agency, said the secretariat was attacked after the announcement of governorship election results on March 21. He spoke about the incident in a press conference in Gusau, capital of Zamfara, on Saturday. Last week, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) declared Dauda Lawal, candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), as the winner of the governorship poll in the state. Lawal polled 377,726 votes to defeat the incumbent governor, Bello Matawalle of the All Progressives Congress (APC), who scored 311,976 votes. The hoodlums…
As a consequence of the events of the last few days I am constrained to say that, like a rabid and mad dog that is foaming at the mouth, the Nigerian opposition, represented by the followers of Atiku Abubakar (Atikulators) and the followers of Peter Obi (Obidients), have lost control of their senses. They need to get a grip before it is too late. They are attempting to start something that they cannot finish and that they cannot possibly fathom the end of. They are beating the drums of war and are indulging in a level of irresponsible and…
A Labour Party aspirant in the upcoming Governorship primaries in Imo State, Chief Humphrey Anumudu has been found dead in his house. The aspirant died in his house in Lagos after he had returned from an LP meeting at the party national headquarters in Abuja on Friday. A native of Mbieri Ancient Kingdom in Mbaitoli Local Government Area of Imo state, Anumudu was reportedly found dead in his house in what family sources described as a “spiritual attack.” As a multi-billionaire businessman cum politician, he has been contesting for the governorship seat of the state since 1998. He was…
Terrorists have reportedly shot dead Rev. Musa Mairimi, the minister in charge of Ecwa Church, Buda two, Kasuwa Magani in Kajuru Local Government Area of Kaduna State. The Kaduna State Chairman of the Christian Association of Nigeria, Rev. Joseph Hayab confirmed the incident on Saturday. He said the attackers invaded the community on Thursday after killing the clergy, they also abducted his wife while over 100 people who were abducted from different parts of the state were released. He explained that reports have it that over 100 people were abducted and have been in the terrorists’ camp for over six…
The Court of Appeal, sitting in Abuja, Friday evening, dismissed an appeal by the Peoples Democratic Party, seeking the disqualification of the presidential candidate, All Progressives Congress, Bola Tinubu, and his vice, Kashim Shettima, in the February 25 election. A three-member panel headed by Justice James Abundaga, in a unanimous judgment, held that the PDP failed to establish that it had locus standi to institute the case. The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the PDP, in an appeal marked: CA/ABJ/CV/108/2023, had prayed the appellate court to reverse the Jan. 13 judgment delivered by Justice Inyang Ekwo of a Federal…
The Super Eagles of Nigeria have lost to Guinea-Bissau for the first time ever. The Nigerians were defeated by their African counterparts on Friday evening in their Group A clash of the Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) qualifiers. Jose Peseiro-led team had lost five of the last seven games — with three consecutive defeats — before the match. Victor Osimhen, brimming with the confidence of his goal-scoring form with Napoli, had also promised that they would do “everything to win back the love of Nigerians”. In the early stage of the match at the MKO Abiola stadium, Samuel Chukwueze’s shot…
The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has confirmed the evacuation of banknotes from its vaults to commercial banks across the country as part of a coordinated effort to ease the circulation of banknotes of various denominations. The CBN has also directed all commercial banks to open for operation on Saturdays and Sundays. Also Read: Naira Redesign: CBN’s Non-Compliance With S/Court Verdict Contemptuous – Yadudu, Falana The Acting Director, Corporate Communications Department of the CBN, Dr. Isa AbdulMumin, disclosed this in Abuja, on Friday, stating that a substantial amount of money, in various denominations, had been received by the commercial banks…
The Court of Appeal on Friday set aside an earlier election tribunal verdict that declared Gboyega Isiaka of the All Progressives Congress as the winner of the last Osun state governorship election. The court in its ruling confirmed Ademola Adeleke of the People’s Democratic Party as the winner of the election. Details later
There is growing tension in All Progressives Congress (APC), as Presidential Election Petition Court (PEPC) sitting in Abuja, on Friday, ordered the President-elect, Bola Tinubu, should be served with copies of petitions seeking to nullify his election, through substituted means. The ruling, TRIBUNE ONLINE gathered, comes after separate ex-parte applications that were brought before the court by the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Atiku Abubakar and his counterpart in the Labour Party, Peter Obi. The duo accused Tinubu of deliberately avoiding the service of their petitions on him. They told the court that several attempts they made to…
Kingsley Kanu, the brother of the detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, lost a legal case against the British government in a London court on Thursday over his continued detention in Nigeria. Kingsley brought a judicial review against Britain’s Foreign Office over its alleged rejection to acknowledge that Nnamdi Kanu, who holds Nigerian and British citizenship, was the victim of an extraordinary rendition from Kenya to Nigeria in June 2021 According to Reuters, Kingsley’s lawyers argued that the Foreign Office should reach a concluded view on whether his brother was the victim of extraordinary rendition…
Nigeria Air will fly before May 29 — FG Insist Amid controversy, the federal government has insisted that national carrier,Nigeria Air would begin operations before the end of the President Muhammadu Buhari-led administration. The minister of aviation,Hadi Sirika spoke at the national aviation stakeholders forum 2023 in Abuja on Thursday. In October 2022, Buhari had said the national carrier would commence flight services by December 2022, but that did not happen due to controversy surrounding the airline’s ownership structure, leading to a court order stopping the federal government from implementing the project. Speaking at the stakeholder forum, Sirika said the…