Last year, some leaders of thought advocated for military rule in Nigeria, apparently due to a sense of frustration with the seeming collapse of civilian authority. Nigerians flatly rejected that call without apology. We have gone too far in the journey of democracy to even think of any other option. Any form of military governance…
Mr Obi’s critics have accused him of playing a politics of ethnicity and religion ahead of Nigeria’s 2023 presidential election. He denies this, asking critics to provide evidence. On Saturday, a telephone conversation between Peter Obi, the presidential candidate of the Labour Party, and David Oyedepo, the founder of the Living Faith Church Worldwide, was leaked…
He was reportedly handed over to a team of four police officers led by SP Ayo, OC Homicide, State CID, Awka who arrived in Abuja on Saturday night, SaharaReporters has reliably gathered. There is palpable fear that the 26-year-old whistleblower, Nnamdi Emeh who exposed the killings and organ harvesting ring among senior police officers in…
The Igbo leader was arrested on Saturday morning by a joint team of policemen and operatives of the Department of State Services. The Nigeria Police Force, Lagos State Command has arrested Fredrick Nwajagu, the Eze Igbo of Ajao Estate in Lagos State, who vowed to invite members of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) to…
In Ghana, Kamala Harris spoke out in support of LGBTQ+ people in Africa, following the introduction of a devastating new law in Uganda that bans queer identities entirely. Ghanaian Speaker of Parliament, Alban Bagbin, has slammed the United States Vice President Kamala Harris for advocating LGBTQ+ practice in Ghana. He noted that her speech regarding…
The SSS said the planners have weighed various options, which include, among others, sponsoring endless violent mass protests in major cities to warrant a declaration of a State of Emergency. Nigeria’s secret police, the State Security Services (SSS), on Wednesday announced that some key players are plotting an unconstitutional interim government for Nigeria, confirming an…
A cobbler identified simply as Wale has been allegedly hacked to death by suspected cultists avenging the killing of a member of their group in the Bariga area of Lagos State. PUNCH Metro had reported that a group of cultists, while avenging the killing of one of their colleagues by a rival cult group on Thursday,…
Nigerian singer, Habeeb Okikiola, also known as Portable, on Tuesday had a hot exchange with the personnel of the Nigeria Police Force who stormed his bar to arrest him. The incident was captured on his verified Instagram page, where the Zazu Zeh crooner was seen challenging the authority of the police as they attempted to take him away. Portable…
Ekpa rose to prominence in July 2021, after he was announced as the lead broadcaster of Radio Biafra. Simon Ekpa, the self-proclaimed disciple of the detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu has asked indigenes of Southeast Nigeria who are resident in Lagos to observe a sit-at-home exercise over an alleged…
Onanuga made this known in his reaction to the trending Twitter hashtags, #TinubuTheDrugDealer and #TinubuForPrison, in which people suspected to be supporters of opposition parties vilified the ‘president-elect’ for alleged involvement in a drug case in the US. The All Progressives Congress Presidential Campaign Council (APC PCC) Director of Media and Publicity, Bayo Onanuga has…