*Petrol panic in Lagos, Abuja*NARTO threatens strike over cost*No scarcity of product, says NNPC Queues returned to petrol stations in parts of Lagos yesterday. The fear of scarcity spread across the metropolis. In Abuja, the queues, which have lingered for ...
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Hisbah plans to question Shatu Garko’s Parents over illegal participation in Miss Nigeria.
The Kano State Hisbah Board, aka Sharia Police, is set to invite the parents of the 44th Miss Nigeria, Shatu Garko, over their daughter’s ‘illegal’ participation in the beauty pageant.The 18-year-old Garko become the first hijabi to win the Miss ...
Read More »Investigative journalist detained over story on high-level police corruption released
The Inspector-General of Police, Usman Baba, has ordered the detention of investigative journalist, ‘Fisayo Soyombo, at the Force Headquarters in Abuja. It was learnt that Soyombo, the founder of the Foundation for Investigative Journalism, was detained on Monday when he ...
Read More »2023: S’West, Not S’East Deserves APC Presidential Ticket — Yakasai
*No unity among Igbo govs, elites*Explains opposition on BuhariA chieftain of the ruling All Progressives Congress APC and former Special Adviser to the Kano state Governor, Salihu Tanko Yakasai has faulted agitations for a Nigerian president of Igbo extraction in ...
Read More »Hisbah Arrests Sadiya Haruna For Uploading ‘Sexual Content’
The Kano State Hisbah Board has docked a Kannywood actress and social media blogger, Sadiya Haruna, for “uploading sexual contents on her social media handles.” According to Daily Trust, the actress, Haruna, a resident of Kabuga Quarters was initially arrested ...
Read More »Historical Perspective Of Hatred Between Igbo And Yoruba
NOTE : THIS IS THE CORRECTED VERSION, PLSI had the privilege of attending some meetings of the Yoruba and Igbo Leaders. I was not a leader but a youth who knew how to wash his hands. At one of those ...
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That was what my clock read. Thirty-four minutes past midnight. Perfect math, I thought. I got up to take a walk. I plugged my ears with my earphones and turned on Apple Music 1. I stepped out into the darkness ...
Read More »Court Convicts Farouk Lawan Over $500,000 Bribe
A High Court of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) in Apo, Abuja has convicted former member of House of Representatives from Kano State, Farouk Lawan for receiving $500,000 bribe from a businessman, Femi Otedola. Justice Angella Otaluka convicted Lawan on ...
Read More »Amaechi: Work On Lagos-Calabar Railway To Start This Year
Transportation Minister, Chibuike Amaechi, says work on the proposed Lagos-Calabar railway will commence before the end of this year. Delivering the 34th Convocation Lecture of the University of Calabar with the topic: “The National Question and the Challenges of Nationhood ...
Read More »I ran two kilometers to escape death – Gov Ortom
By Peter Duru, Makurdi Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue State has narrated how he ran for close to two (2) kilometres after suspected armed herdsmen, numbering about 15, attacked him in his farm at Tyo-Mu community, near Makurdi, the state ...
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