Saraki to Kwara Gov: Offa robbery case against me, desperate ploy by drowning politician
Former Senate President, Dr Abubakar Bukola Saraki, has described as a “desperate ploy by a drowning politician” the move by Kwara State Governor, Abdulrahman Abdulrazaq, to initiate a case of criminal culpability against him over the Offa robbery incident of 2018. While describing the criminal case as “dirty politics taken too far and too low”,…
First batch of JAMB result released, urges candidates to check online
UTME candidates The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has candidates who participated in the first day of the nationwide examination to check their results today (Saturday). It announced that it has released the first batch of results for the 2026 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) before midnight on Friday. The update is expected to…
Benue JAMB candidate tells chilling story of how he escaped from bandits’ grip (Video)
One of the students abducted while returning from writing the JAMB-UTME exam in Otukpo, Benue State, has shared a chilling account of how he managed to escape from his captors. The survivor, who was among the 18 victims reportedly taken during the incident, said they were travelling in a bus when they ran into armed…
Finance minister clarifies, no plans to seek financial support from IMF
Against the insinuations that Nigeria is planning to borrow from the International Monetary Fund, IMF, Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister of the Economy, Wale Edun, has said the country has no plans to seek financial support from the organisation. Edun made this known during a press briefing by ministers at the ongoing spring meetings…
Islamic cleric Gumi rains curses on kidnappers, urges new strategy to tackle insecurity
Islamic cleric Ahmad Gumi has condemned the rising wave of kidnappings in Nigeria, invoking divine punishment on those responsible for the crisis while calling for a new approach to tackle insecurity. Gumi made the remarks in reaction to the abduction of a student of the University of Jos, John Arum, whose ordeal has drawn widespread…
Robbery: Kwara government files criminal against Saraki, Ahmed
Kwara State Government has officially filed a 20-count charge against former Senate President Bukola Saraki and former Governor Abdulfatai Ahmed over their alleged arming of top suspects convicted in the tragic Offa armed robbery incident of April 2018. Those also listed in the charge, filed under case number KWS/114C/26, include Yusuf Abdulwahab, former Chief of…
After over 1000 applicants to marry autistic daughter, OPM founder suspends marriage plan
The founder of Omega Power Ministries (OPM), Omega Power Ministries, Apostle Chibuzor Chinyere, has announced the suspension of the proposed marriage arrangement involving his 21-year-old adopted autistic daughter, Chiemeka Chibuzor, following what he described as an overwhelming number of responses from interested suitors. In a Facebook post on Thursday, the cleric said the exercise had…
Nigerian army hunts down bandit Kingpin Kachalla Auta’s deputy, Bala, wife
Nigerian troops have arrested the second-in-command to a notorious bandit kingpin, Kachalla Auta, alongside his wife in Gombe State. The arrest followed an intelligence-led tracking operation across multiple locations in the state. This was disclosed in a post on X by Zagazola Makama, a counter-insurgency and security expert in the Lake Chad region. Makama, citing…
Wife faints, children of another grieving mother ask, ‘where is dad’ as soldiers killed in Boko Haram attack are laid to rest
Emotions ran high at the Maimalari Cantonment Cemetery in Maiduguri, Borno State as fallen military officers and soldiers were laid to rest with full honours, amid heart-wrenching scenes from grieving families and colleagues. The hours proceeding the solemn burial ceremony, one of the widows collapsed and was revived following swift intervention by the Theatre Commander,…
Pastor to spend rest of life in jail for raping church member’s daughter
Justice Rahman Oshodi of the Lagos Sexual Offences and Domestic Violence Court, Ikeja, on Thursday, sentenced a 63-year-old pastor, Chris Mcdouglas, to life imprisonment for raping his church member’s daughter aged 18 years. The judge sentenced Mcdouglas, a pastor at the Peculiar Generation Assembly Church, Lagos, to life imprisonment after he found him guilty of…
