Nigeria

Mixed reactions have trailed a report detailing how the late founder of the Synagogue Church of All Nations (SCOAN), Temitope Balogun Joshua, reportedly raped, tortured, and subjected some church members to solitary confinement.

Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, Benjamin Kalu, has launched the Food For Peace initiative as part of efforts in resolving security challenges in the South East. 

Executive Vice Chairman/Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of National Agency for Science and Engineering Infrastructure (NASENI), Khalil Halilu, has stated that investing in human capital development and staff motivation remains the best way to reposition the agency into a power-house of Science, Technology and Innovation (STI) at the global scene. Halilu stated this in his keynote,…

A former governor of Imo State, Rochas Okorocha, and his supporters, known as the ‘Rescue Mission Political Family,’ have resolved to pray, support and work for President Bola Tinubu to ensure that he succeeds in office.  

Nigeria Red Cross Society (NRCS), in collaboration with International Federation of Red Cross (lFRC), has distributed over N39 million to 1,250 victims of the 2022 flood in Niger State. Head of Cash Distribution Programme in Niger and an Information and Communication Technology (ICT) officer from the National Society Headquarters in Abuja, Sakariyau Balaji, disclosed this to newsmen…

Former Chairman of the People Democratic Party (PDP) in Ebonyi State, Silas Onu, yesterday, emerged the party’s senatorial candidate for Ebonyi South senatorial election slated for February 3, after winning the party’s primary by-election.

Chief Whip of the Senate, Mohammed Ndume, has called on President Bola Tinubu to immediately curtail the excesses of “an emerging political cartel” and warned that it may be worse than a cabal, if unchecked. 

Governor Babagana Zulum of Borno State has decried the overloading of many trucks plying federal border roads to Chad and Cameroon.

Governor Caleb Mutfwang of Plateau State, yesterday, thanked the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), Evangelical Church Winning All (ECWA) and other Christian organisations that visited him at the Government House, Little Rayfield, Jos, over the Christmas Eve attacks in Bokkos Local Council, by walking in black attires to Government House.

The Isana Ajie of Asaba kingdom, Chuck Nduka Eze, has revealed that the spirits of about 1,000 Asaba people killed during the 30 months Nigeria civil war are still protecting and guiding them. Hence, there is peace in Asaba, 54 years after the war.

Cross River State Governor, Bassey Otu, has said that since the judiciary is under what he described as unbridled public criticism, it needs to re-invent through self-cleansing. 

Barely four days after the governorship candidate of Social Democratic Party (SDP), Magnus Abe, dumped the party and returned to the All Progressives Congress (APC), some party members and supporters of SDP in Ogba/Egbema/Ndoni Local Council of Rivers State have dumped the party