In a bid to commiserate with the victims of the Owo church massacre, the Osun State Government has on Monday declared that three-day mourning should be observed across the state as a mark of solidarity and commiseration with the people of Ondo State over last weekend’s terror attack that left many church worshippers dead and injured.
The three days of mourning, according to a statement signed by Funke Egbemode, the state’s Commissioner for Information and Civic Orientation, will be observed from Monday, June 13; to Wednesday, June 15.
During the mourning, the statement added, all flags will be flown at …
Bishop David Oyedepo who is the Founder and President of Living Faith Church Worldwide, has minced no words as he lambasted President Muhammadu Bubari’s administration, tagging it the most corrupt regime the country has ever seen so far.
Oyedepo, who spoke during a church programme, Special Prayer for The Nation, on Monday lamented the level of hardship imposed on Nigerians through corruption.
According to Oyedepo, the Federal Government claimed to be fighting corruption but the officials are also corrupt.
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He said the ₦80 billion allegedly stolen by the …
No fewer than 40 people who were taken hostage in a mass kidnapping in Haiti’s capital Port-au-Prince were on Monday morning freed, one day after they were abducted by a gang, a transporters’ union announced.
‘The passengers who had been kidnapped were released… on 11 June,’ the Haitian Owners and Drivers Association (APCH) disclosed on Twitter, adding that the two minibuses they had been travelling in were also recovered.
The association, however, declined to reveal whether a ransom was demanded and paid to the kidnappers.
The 36 passengers and two drivers …
The Chief of Defence Staff, General Lucky Irabor, has asserted that the citizens of Nigeria must trust the military and other security agencies for the war on insecurity to be more effective.
He made the comment while speaking on a Channels Television special program for Democracy Day which was monitored by Africa Daily News, New York.
‘It is for us to have an understanding that we can’t withhold information and expect miracles to happen,’ he said. ‘Certainly it’s not going to happen.
‘I’m a victim as well as any Nigerian that is on the street. We are all victims together. …
Some commuinites in Kaduna State were thrown into a state of turmoil as some bandits attacked the villages and plundered them while killing a few indigenes and kidnapping some more. Several residents who fled their homes during the attack on three Kaduna communities; Dogon Noman Kajuru village, Urgwan Sarki, and Urgwan Maikori have been reported that they are not yet back.
Some victims who recounted their experiences vowed never to return to the communities as the horrible experiences will continue to haunt them.
Africa Daily News, New York recalls that the terrorists attacked some communities in the Kajuru Local Government …
The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has exposed no fewer than four Nigerian governors who are yet to implement the paltry ₦30,000 minimum wage in the country.
The governors mentioned included Prof. Ben Ayade of Cross River, Darius Ishaku of Taraba State, Bello Matawalle of Zamfara, and Okezie Ikpeazu.
The NLC also went on to appeal to the Federal Government to compel state governors owing the National Minimum Wage to implement without further delay.
The NLC President, Mr Ayuba Wabba, made the appeal at the ongoing 110 Session of the International Labour Conference in Geneva, Switzerland, on Saturday.
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Former president of Bolivia, Jeanine Anez was yesterday sentenced to 10 years in prison, more than a year after her arrest for an alleged plot — dismissed as fictional by many — to remove her rival and predecessor Evo Morales.
Anez, who has been held in pre-trial detention since March 2021, has consistently denounced what she calls political persecution.
The former interim leader will serve 10 years in a women’s prison in La Paz, the administrative capital’s First Sentencing Court announced in a decision that comes three months after her trial began.
Convicted of crimes ‘contrary to the constitution and …
No fewer than eleven people were killed and dozens left wounded when their pick-up truck ran over a landmine near Syria’s southern city of Daraa, a war monitor disclosed on Sunday.
‘Eleven people, including five children under 16 and three women, were killed and around 34 people were injured’ in the explosion, said the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, adding that some were in critical condition.
Most of the victims were labourers harvesting wheat, Syria’s official SANA news agency disclosed.
The latest toll brings to 124 the total number of people killed by explosive remnants since the beginning of 2022, …
Controversial socialite who is currently embroilled in a tussle with the EFCC, Ismaila Mustapha, also known as Mompha has reportedly breached the terms of his bail by procuring a new passport and travelling to Dubai on 11 April.
The EFCC’s prosecuting counsel, Rotimi Oyedepo has told the Ikeja High Court.
Oyedepo made the startling information known on Friday to Justice Mojisola Dada, in whose court, Mompha, with his company Ismalob Global Investment Limited, was standing trial.
The Instagram celebrity and businessman was arraigned by the Lagos Command of the Economic and …
Popular Nobel Laureate, renowned playwright and social critic, Prof. Wole Soyinka, has described the attack on St. Francis Catholic Church, Owo, Ondo State, where many worshippers were killed, as vendetta killing which was meant to send a message to the entire people of South-West.
Soyinka made his view known on Friday while paying a condolence visit to Gov. Oluwarotimi Akeredolu over the terror attack last Sunday.
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He described the attack as a message and said it was targeted at the governor who has been showing leadership in terms of …
As the strike action by the umbrella body of the Nigerian Univesities trudges on into months, some students of Nigerian public universities have expressed their displeasures and frustration over the lingering strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU).
Some of the students in an interview with Newsmen in Port Harcourt on Friday appealed to the Federal Government to meet at least 50 per cent of ASUU demands to end the strike.
Greatness Nnamdi-Ikpo, a third-year student of the University of Port Harcourt, who is studying gas engineering, said that the ongoing strike was impacting negatively on the future
In response to the fresh court ruling on the agency’s operations, the Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) has promised to abide by the new court ruling which would be bordering on the tenure of the six area council chairmen, which has been generating a lot of controversies lately.
Recall that the Court has overturned an earlier judgment issued on Friday, May 13, 2022, which would be granting a one-year extension to the outgoing Chairmen and Councilors of the 6 FCT Area Councils.
To this end, the administration has received the Certified True Copy of the revised judgment of the FCT …
