Author: Vincent Osuwo

The Kwara State Police Command has verified the murder of two officers as well as the kidnapping of a Chinese national and a Nigerian in the state’s Oreke-Okeigbo community, Ifelodun LGA. The incident occurred at a mining site in the village at 6.30 p.m. on Wednesday, when gunmen attacked the facility, killing two officers – an Assistant Superintendent and an Inspector from the 45 Police Mobile Force in Abuja. SP Adetoun Ejire-Adeyemi, the state Police Public Relations Officer, confirmed the occurrence in a statement issued on Thursday on behalf of the Commissioner of Police, CP Adekimi Ojo. The statement read…

The management of Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Osun State, on Thursday refuted reports that two students were arrested for protesting the presence of the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike, on the campus. It was gathered that Wike was delivering the Distinguished Personality Lecture at the university’s Oduduwa Hall on the topic “Nigeria of Our Dreams”. However, it was reported that the two students, Oladepo Joshua and Ejike Kelechi, held posters within the hall, urging the minister to “compensate those whose houses you demolished.” According to video footage obtained by our journalist, the duo was then escorted out…

A former Minister of Petroleum, Prof. Jibrin Aminu, passed away on Thursday at his residence at the age of 85. Adamawa State Governor Ahmadu Fintiri extended his condolences on Aminu’s death, calling him “a towering figure in Nigeria’s intellectual and political landscape”. Announcing his demise, Adamawa State Governor Ahmadu Fintiri, while expressing his condolences, described the late Aminu as “a towering figure in Nigeria’s intellectual and political landscape”. In a statement issued by his Chief Press Secretary, Humwashi Wonousikou, Fintiri said that the loss was monumental, not only for Adamawa State but for the entire nation, which greatly benefitted from…

Ram traders in the Ibafo, Kara and Agege markets of Ogun and Lagos states on Wednesday lamented low patronage, blaming it on the rising cost and economic downturn as Nigerians gear up for the Eid-El-Kabir celebration. Traders who spoke with our correspondents separately reported a decrease in patronage compared to the previous year because of the market price increase for rams. They also stated that the cost of procuring rams from the northern sections of the country had soared, contributing to the exorbitant price they were selling. Rabiu Abubakar, a trader in the Ibafo market, remarked that patronage was lower…

A Russian drone ploughed into a residential residence in central Ukraine overnight Thursday, killing three members of one family, including a one-year-old baby, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky confirmed. Zelensky accused Moscow of “buying time for itself to continue killing” and urged the West to impose “maximum sanctions” and “pressure” on Moscow, despite Russia’s repeated rejection of calls for a full and unconditional ceasefire. Pryluky, a city in central Ukraine, saw five individuals slaughtered, including three generations of the same family. A local firefighting chief was responding to an earlier attack when his own home was targeted by a Russian drone,…

Oyo State Police Command, on Thursday, deployed personnel in strategic locations across the 33 local government areas of the state to ensure sufficient security during and after the Eid-El-kabir celebrations. Johnson Adenola, the state Commissioner of Police, revealed this in a statement issued in Ibadan, the state capital. He also directed Area Commanders, Divisional Police Officers, and Heads of Tactical Teams to establish a proactive security strategy to ensure efficient security coverage during and after the festival. Adenola said, “The command had emplaced comprehensive security protocols. These measures are designed to protect strategic locations. “The locations are places of worship,…

Sapphire Egemasi, a Nigerian programmer known online as “tech queen”, faces nearly 20 years in prison after the FBI arrested her for allegedly helping defraud US government organisations of millions. Egemasi was arrested in April 2025 in the Bronx, New York, along with other suspects, including Ghanaian national Samuel Kwadwo Osei, considered to be the leader of the fraud ring. The charges originate from a federal indictment for online fraud and money laundering, said to have occurred between September 2021 and February 2023. According to court filings, Egemasi’s role was to establish fake US government websites in order to steal…

The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, on Wednesday, released the final list of candidates for the 2025 Anambra State governorship election. INEC also announced June 11 as the formal start date for election campaigns, which must conclude at midnight on Thursday, November 6, 2025. According to a statement issued on Wednesday by Sam Olumekun, National Commissioner and Chairman of the Information and Voter Education Committee, the list was compiled after the candidate substitution processes were completed and the personal information submitted by political parties was verified. INEC stated that 16 political parties met the submission deadline of May 12, 2025,…

Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan, the suspended senator representing Kogi Central, denied on Wednesday any connection to a viral audio and video purportedly featuring her in a conversation with a journalist in which she claimed that Senate President Godswill Akpabio blackmailed President Bola Tinubu to imprisoning her. In a statement personally signed and released in Abuja, Natasha unequivocally disassociated herself from the recordings’ contents, encouraging the public to dismiss them altogether. She condemned the viral materials as “a deliberate act of misinformation” designed with malicious intent to harm her name and undermine the National Assembly’s leadership. Her statement partly read, “I categorically and…

President Donald Trump issued a fresh proclamation preventing nationals of 12 nations from entering the United States, citing national security concerns. The whole travel restriction applies to citizens of Afghanistan, Myanmar, Chad, Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Haiti, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, and Yemen. The restriction will come into effect on June 9, 2025. In addition to the outright bans, the decree places partial limitations on citizens of Burundi, Cuba, Laos, Sierra Leone, Togo, Turkmenistan, and Venezuela. According to the BBC, some exemptions apply, including sportsmen travelling for important sporting events, some Afghan nationals, and dual nationals with citizenship in unaffected…