Gov. Oluwarotimi Akeredolu has directed that flags should be flown at half-mast in all public buildings, facilities and official residences for seven days in honour of the victims of the Owo terror attack on Sunday. This is contained in a statement issued by the Akeredolu’s Chief Press Secretary, Richard Olatunde on Monday in Akure. ”In…
Gov. Seyi Makinde of Oyo State has described the attack on worshipers at St. Francis Catholic Church, Owo, Ondo State, which left many dead, as barbaric and condemnable.In a statement issued on Monday in Ibadan by his Special Assistant on Print Media, Mr Moses Alao, the governor expressed his condolences to his Ondo State counterpart,…
Gunmen opened fire and detonated explosives killing dozens of people an attack on a Catholic church in southwestern Nigeria. The violence began as worshippers gathered at the St Francis Catholic Church in Ondo state on Sunday. Among the dead were many children.delegbe Timileyin, who represents the town of Owo where the attack took place, said…
Colombian superstar, Shakira, and Barcelona defender, Gerard Pique, announced on Saturday they were calling off their relationship of more than a decade. The 45-year-old Hips Don’t Lie crooner is one of the biggest names in the global music industry and has sold more than 60 million albums. Spanish football hero Pique, 35, won the 2010…
The All Progressives Congress (APC) governors from the north have asked President Muhammadu Buhari to look toward the southern presidential hopefuls when considering his successor. The governors released a statement to this effect after a meeting on Saturday. They asked the northern presidential hopefuls to withdraw from the race in national interest. According to the…
a’u Darazo, a presidential aide, has described the comments of Bola Tinubu on President Muhammadu Buhari as “acceptable and politically relevant”. At the meeting with party delegates on Thursday in Ogun state, Tinubu said without him, Buhari would have lost the 2015 presidential election. The outburst has stirred a plethora of reactions from political figures…
The President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), has backed the emergence of a southerner as a president in 2023. He made this known at a dinner with the All Progressives Congress presidential aspirants in Abuja. A source privy to the meeting told our correspondent that Buhari failed to name any consensus candidate. He also said…
A group of aggrieved members of the Peoples Democratic Party in Lagos state has organized a protest at the party headquarters, Wadata Plaza in Abuja. The protest is coming after the National Working Committee announced the cancellation and rescheduling of House of Representatives primaries that took place on 22nd May, 2022. According to PDP National…
Mallam Ya’u Darazo, Senior Special Assistant to President Muhammadu Buhari on Special Duties, has urged Nigerians, especially members of the All Progressives Congress, to ignore the malicious attempt by the opponents of Asiwaju Bola Tinubu to misrepresent what he told party leaders and delegates in Abeokuta, Ogun State on Thursday. Darazo, in a statement he…
