The Minister of FCT, Nyesom Wike, has thrown his weight behind the declaration of emergency rule in Rivers State by President Bola Tinubu. On 18 March, Mr Tinubu declared a state of emergency in the oil-rich state and suspended Governor Siminalayi Fubara, his deputy and members of the state assembly. The president cited the prolonged…
The Edo State Governor, Monday Okpebholo, warned on Friday that kidnappers caught in the state would face the death penalty. The governor, according to a statement issued by his Chief Press Secretary, Fred Itua, gave the warning an interactive session held at the Uromi Town Hall with leaders and members of the Arewa community in…
A man identified as Muhammad Maaba, from Fujeregi village in Gbako Local Government Area of Niger State, was reportedly b3aten to dath. According to local sources, Maaba was ambushed on the road between Saganuwa and Fujeregi by a group allegedly led by Alhaji Yikangi from Chikan village, ex-husband of the woman he intended to marry. The motive…
A Texas doctor who has been treating children in a measles outbreak was shown on video with a measles rash on his face in a clinic a week before Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. met him and praised him as an “extraordinary” healer. Dr. Ben Edwards appeared in the video posted March 31 by…
I recently listened to an insightful 25-minute interview of The Guardian journalist Chris McGreal on Democracy Now’s YouTube channel (Democracy Now!, 2025), which looked at the apartheid roots of Elon Musk, the world’s richest man, who has carved out for himself a big job in Trump’s government to reorganise the US’s federal bureaucracy. In that…
