A statement signed by Afenifere’s spokesman, Jare Ajayi, on behalf of Adebanjo said, “This attitude on the part of President Buhari ‘recalls to one’s mind, the story of the Roman Emperor Nero who was busy on the fiddle when his empire was burning’. “Afenifere not only called on President Muhammadu Buhari to ‘redirect its administration…
The late embattled student activist, Omomewa was gruesomely killed in a cold blood. Friends, family and activist friends have reacted to his death, Omomewa was allegedly shot near chest. The purpose of this message is to update all of us about the developments at the Morgue of the Mainland Hospital, Yaba Lagos. Many of you…
Pantami, who recently said he had denounced his allegiance to the Boko Haram, however, expressed support for the global extremist groups — the Taliban and Al-Qaeda. Nigeria’s Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Isa Pantami, who has been accused of having links to terrorist groups, in his sermons in the 2000s prayed for “victory” for…
For sub-saharan Africa, particularly Nigeria which now finds itself buffeted by an unending war against insurgents in the northeast and religiously motivated cells of militias and bandits in the North West and Central, there could be explosive consequences as local jihadists could very well find motivation for their actions and be spurred onto even deadlier…
Afghanistan’s embattled president, Ashraf Ghani has left the country, joining his fellow citizens and foreigners in a stampede fleeing the advancing Taliban and signalling the end of a 20-year Western experiment aimed at remaking Afghanistan. This was confirmed by Abdullah Abdullah, the head of the Afghan National Reconciliation Council, in an online video on Sunday….
It is with deep pain, a sense of loss and shame on our collective nationhood that I write to condemn the calamitous killing of at least thirty (30) Nigerians in Jos, Plateau state by a militia group. At least 30 Nigerian Muslims who were traveling back south from a Muslim New Year programme in Bauchi…
The Grand Commander of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, President Muhammadu Buhari met with the leader of the All Progressives Congress, Sen. Bola Ahmed Tinubu after he had done two major surgeries as uncovered by SaharaReporters. The two old men who were looking tired, faintly smiled at the camera after they both enjoy good medical…
Former Military President, General Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida (IBB), might have ruled out a former vice president, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar and a former governor of Lagos State, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, from the 2023 presidential run, because they would be in their 70s by the next election. Although IBB as Babangida is fondly called did not in…