Author: Boniface Ihiasota USA

  The Pan-Yoruba socio-political organisation, Afenifere, has said nothing will stop its planned campaign against the consumption of beef in the South-West billed for Friday, March 5. Its National Publicity Secretary, Yinka Odumakin, spoke with SaharaReporters on Tuesday, while reacting to reports that

  There is currently outrage in Nigeria as food has been made to halt moving from the Northern part of the country to the South. The development started when a body known as Amalgamated Union of Foodstuffs and Cattle Dealers of Nigeria (AUFCDN)

  Yoruba activist, Sunday Adeyemo aka Sunday Igboho; the Afenifere, the Are Ona Kankanfo, Gani Adams; and the Odua Peoples Congress (OPC) are set to launch a campaign against cows. The Punch reports that this is made known in an advertorial published in the

Uzor Anwuka, a medical doctor, who was allegedly shot during a fracas between the former governor of Imo State, Rochas Okorocha, and some youth loyal to Governor Hope Uzodinma, is to be flown abroad for medical treatment, according to The Nation newspaper. Mr Anwuka,

  Press Release I welcome you most heartily to this special stakeholders meeting. I call this meeting special because it falls within the ambit of our one year in office anniversary, and even more because it is coming on the heels of disturbing

  The Senate has confirmed Abdulrasheed Bawa as the substantive chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). The confirmation was done after a screening which lasted for over two hours. The screening exercise was done in plenary and was presided over by the

  Zamfara State Governor, Bello Matawalle on Monday said it is not a sign of failure for anyone to negotiate with bandits. Matawalle stated this while receiving some repentant bandits, who surrendered their weapons and embraced his administration’s peace deal, at the Government

  A court in Norfolk, Virginia, United States on Tuesday jailed Nigerian scammer Obinwanne Okeke 10 years for computer-based fraud scheme that caused approximately $11 million in known losses to his victims. The sentencing was pronounced by Chief U.S. District Judge Rebecca Beach