The Nigerian Air Force has said that one of its helicopters made a “precautionary landing” on a farmland in Benue State while returning from an operation against suspected kidnappers along the Enugu-Benue boundary Eyewitnesses said the helicopter landed on a farmland in Utur Tse-Igboji community, Bar Council Ward along Welfare Quarters to Mopol 13 […]
For those who claimed RAUF AREGBESOLA failed as a Minister of Interior, between 2019 and 2023. Wednesday June 10, 2020, was ‘judgment day’ for Minister of Interior, Ogbeni Rauf Adesoji Aregbesola. Incidentally, the day had broken with stories of denials of rift between him and his political mentor, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, former two-term […]
A humanitarian and field operations professional, Lydia Chinenye Nwankwo was k!lled in a bandits’ attack in Sokoto State. Her sister, Chisom Nwankwo confirmed the sad incident in a Facebook post on Wednesday, October 7, 2026. According to her, bandits attacked Lydia and her team while on their way back from back from the field […]
The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Owerri Municipal Local Government Area of Imo State is reportedly embroiled in a deepening crisis, with aggrieved party members, leaders and stakeholders threatening mass defection and petitions to the state government and anti-graft agencies over alleged financial impropriety, abuse of office and marginalisation during the recently concluded tenure of […]
retired Deputy Corps Marshal of the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), Dr. Kayode Olagunju, has mourned one of the victims of Monday’s ill-fated Nigerian Air Force (NAF) plane that crashed in Igbokoda, Ondo State, Flight Lieutenant M. Akintoye. Olagunju shared photos from Akintoye’s wedding in August 2025. “You had great hopes, you pursued your […]
When Nigeria returned to democratic rule in May 1999 after years of military government, the country entered the Fourth Republic with enormous expectations. But within weeks of the inauguration of the new National Assembly, one of its youngest and most prominent figures became the centre of a scandal that would dominate national conversation. His name […]
By Prince Uwalaka Chimaroke 7- OCT- 2026 Relief has come to families and the wider public following the successful rescue of 20 prospective members of the National Youth Service Corps who were abducted in Imo State on October 1, 2026. The victims were rescued on Wednesday, October 7, at Amakohia Ubi Village in Imo […]
By Prince Uwalaka Chimaroke 7- OCT- 2026 A Chief Magistrates’ Court sitting as a coroner in Owerri, Imo State, has recommended the prosecution of two senior police officers over circumstances surrounding the death of 32-year-old Japhet Njoku, who died while in custody of the Anti-Kidnapping Unit, popularly known as Tiger Base, in May 2025. […]
The Edo State Police Command has commenced investigation into the mysterious d3ath of a senior lecturer of Ambrose Alli University (AAU), Ekpoma, Dr. Matthew Uwuigbe, who was found d3ad in a hotel room in Ekpoma, Esan West Local Government Area of the state. Uwuigbe, a lecturer in the Faculty of Medical Laboratory Science of […]
Long before Nigeria’s banking halls became part of everyday life, a financial institution opened its doors in Lagos that would eventually become one of the country’s longest-standing banks. Today, that institution is known as Union Bank of Nigeria. But the name on its signboard has changed several times over more than a century. Its […]
