Author: Vincent Osuwo

Residents of Barikallahu, a village near the Air Force Institute of Technology in Kaduna State, are terrified after Nigerian Air Force (NAF) troops raided the area on Wednesday night, killing one person and injuring two others. Our correspondent obtained various videos of the incident, which took place around 10 p.m. The clip showed a vehicle covered in military camouflage with the NAF logo coming into the town. Aside from the driver, our correspondent observed five armed individuals exiting the vehicle. In one of the films, our correspondent witnessed locals running as the soldiers neared. One videotape shows officials apprehending and…

The National Association of Nigerian Students NANS, has charged the Inspector General of Police, Kayode Egbetokun, to rescue the abducted female students of Joseph Sarwuan Tarka University, Makurdi, Benue State. The NANS National Public Relations Officer, Samson Adeyemi, made the appeal in a statement sent on Thursday. Chronicle NG reports that the female students of the engineering department were abducted on the university campus while returning from a night reading. The management of the university has ordered the school closure. According to sources within the institution, armed abductors stormed out of a nearby bush and kidnapped the students. While the…

The impeached speaker of the Lagos State House of Assembly, Mudashiru Obasa, has stormed the assembly complex. It was gathered that Obasa was in the company of some security officials and entered the Speaker’s Office around 12 noon on Thursday. The development followed the withdrawal of the security aides of the Speaker, Mojisola Meranda. Chronicle NG reports that Meranda’s security details, including police officers, were withdrawn on Thursday morning. A source close to the Speaker confirmed that Meranda was now vulnerable. It was gathered that as of Thursday morning, security details attached to the speaker, including police officers, have been…

Speaker Mojisola Meranda of the Lagos State House of Assembly’s security details, including police officers, were withdrawn on Thursday morning. A source close to the Speaker confirmed that Meranda was now vulnerable. It was gathered that as of Thursday morning, security details attached to the speaker, including police officers, have been withdrawn. However, it cannot immediately verify who authorized the withdrawal, but a source close to the Speaker confirmed that Meranda was now vulnerable. “All the Speaker’s security aides have been withdrawn. All the security aides attached to the House of Assembly have also been withdrawn,” the source said, lamenting…

A Vietnamese court sentenced a prominent independent journalist Huy Duc, on Thursday to 30 months in prison over Facebook posts that criticized the government. Huy Duc, 63, was convicted of “abusing democratic freedoms to infringe upon the interests of the state” for posting 13 articles on Facebook, according to the Vietnam News Agency (VNA). He previously worked for influential state-run newspapers and authored one of Vietnam’s most popular blogs and Facebook accounts, criticizing communist leaders on issues like corruption, media control, and relations with China. Huy Duc stated that he did not want to oppose the Communist Party or the…

The Osun State Government denied forcing career officers in local governments to change signatories to council accounts due to a power struggle between the ruling Peoples Democratic Party and the opposition All Progressives Congress over local government control. Mr. Adewale Adebayo, Chairman of the Allied Peoples Movement in Osun, had alleged that Governor Ademola Adeleke’s administration was coercing finance directors and heads. “We reliably gathered that Adeleke’s government has started taking 30 Local Government Area Finance Directors and Heads of Local Administration to an undisclosed location forcefully. This is unconnected to the contention over who controls the local government. “The…

The National Publicity Secretary of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Felix Morka, has said that the former Governor of Kaduna State, Nasir El-Rufai, voluntarily failed to attend the party’s National Executive Council meeting. Morka noted that the former Minister of the Federal Capital Territory had the right to attend the meeting just like any other NEC member but chose not to do so. Recall that leaders of the ruling party have gathered at the party’s National Secretariat in Abuja for its NEC meeting since President Bola Tinubu assumed office in 2023. The meeting was well attended by all members of…

Ayo Opadokun, a member of the National Democratic Coalition, has branded former military ruler General Ibrahim Babangida’s recent admission of illegally annulling the June 12, 1993 election as arrogant, questionable, and lacking regret. On Wednesday, Opadokun responded to Babangida’s 420-page autobiography, Journey in Service, by claiming that the former military dictator revealed nothing new but rather rehashed publicly known facts under the garb of statesmanship. According to Opadokun, MKO Abiola won the June 12, 1993 election, as results were openly presented from polling stations to state collation centers. He referenced Babangida’s former political strategist, Prof. Omo Omoruyi, who stated in…

The Supreme Council for Sharia in Nigeria has expressed disappointment with the Muslim-Muslim ticket that brought President Bola Tinubu and Vice President Kashim Shettima into office in the 2023 general election. The council also lamented that Muslim communities, especially in Yorubaland, have not benefited from having two Muslims at the highest levels of government, contrary to popular belief. Speaking at a pre-Ramadan speech in Kaduna on Tuesday, the Sharia Council President Sheikh Abdurrasheed Hadiyyatullah stated that millions of Muslims in Nigeria remain politically disadvantaged, particularly in the South-West, where they massively supported the ticket. “We have seen Nigerians vote for…

The Kano State Police Command has detained 17 suspected thugs for allegedly planning a violent rally in the state capital. The suspects were apprehended on Wednesday based on credible intelligence reports, according to a statement issued by the command’s spokesman, SP Abdullahi Haruna. The arrests were made in collaboration with other security agencies, who had deployed personnel and assets to strategic locations across Kano metropolis to prevent a breakdown in law and order. “As a result of these proactive measures, 17 suspected thugs have been arrested, and an investigation is ongoing. The command is committed to ensuring that the perpetrators…