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• CP visits scene, deploys homicide team Survivors of the bandit attack on ‘Aba Sunday,’ a farming settlement in one of Ondo State’s agrarian belts, are still reeling from the devastating attack that left several people dead on the midnight of Saturday. While recounting the harrowing details of the attack in the community, which borders Edo State in Akure North Local Council of Ondo State, the survivors disclosed that bandits who they described as armed herders stormed the community in the dead of the night unprovoked. Four communities identified as Aba Pastor, Aba Sunday, Ademekun Camp and Aba Alajido Camp…

Amid the speculations about possible defections to the Social Democratic Party (SDP), Daniel Bwala, President Bola Tinubu’s special adviser on Policy Communication, has said that politicians joining the party will soon begin to fight. Malam Nasir El-Rufai’s recent defection to the SDP from the ruling All Progressives Congress strengthened the conversation about the proposed coalition ahead of the 2027 presidential election. With El-Rufai’s defection sparking online conversation around political permutations and calculations about the opposition camp, many Nigerians look forward to more defections in the coming days. However, Bwala predicted that opposition politicians’ defections to the SDP would soon stir…

Fenerbahce star Bright Osayi-Samuel has shared his thoughts ahead of his side’s crucial Europa League clash against Rangers, Soccernet.ng reports.  The Super Eagles defender returns from suspension just in time for the second leg in Scotland, where Fenerbahce will be aiming to bounce back from a disappointing 3-1 defeat at the Şükrü Saracoğlu Stadium. In the first leg, Cyriel Dessers and Vaclav Cerney were among the scorers for Rangers, punishing the Turkish giants for their defensive lapses. Osayi-Samuel on Fenerbahce’s Game Plan Speaking ahead of the match, Osayi-Samuel emphasised the importance of gaining possession and being clinical in front of…

A coalition of opposition lawmakers has vowed to resist an alleged subterranean plot by the Rivers State House of Assembly members loyal to the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Mr. Nyesom Wike, to impeach Governor Siminalayi Fubara. At a press conference addressed by their spokesperson, Hon. Ikenga Imo Ugochinyere, on Wednesday at the National Assembly Complex in Abuja, they also raised an alarm over an alleged fresh plot by the pro-Wike group to destabilise Rivers State, undermine the PDP, interfere with the local government election, and frustrate the passage of the 2025 budget as directed by the…

• Extends olive branch to Ajayi• Assures Ondo residents of safety amid security threats Ondo State Governor, Lucky Aiyedatiwa, has hailed the judgment of the Supreme Court that affirmed his candidacy as the standard-bearer of the All Progressives Congress (APC) during the November 16, 2024 governorship election. Aiyedatiwa, who described the verdict as a victory for the rule of law, spoke, yesterday, at the Akure Airport during his arrival in the state capital from Abuja. The governor, while urging Ajayi to sheathe his sword following the final resolution by the Supreme Court, appealed to him to team up with…

Russia downed 77 Ukrainian drones overnight, its defence ministry said Thursday, two days after Kyiv carried out its largest direct strike on Moscow during the three-year war. Thirty drones were intercepted and destroyed over the western Bryansk region bordering Ukraine while 25 more were downed over Kaluga, the ministry said in a statement. More drones were intercepted over the regions of Kursk, Voronezh, Rostov and Belgorod, it added. The latest barrage comes after Russia downed more than 90 drones in the capital region on Tuesday. Mayor Sergei Sobyanin called it the “most massive enemy drone attack on Moscow”. Russia said…

Dirisu Yakubu The House of Representatives has called on the Federal Government through the National Management Agency to provide relief materials to the Ekeke and Amoya-Otuo communities in Owan East Local Government Area of Edo State, which were recently displaced by flooding. The resolution of the House followed the adoption of a motion of urgent public importance sponsored by the House Leader, Prof Julius Ihonvbere, on Wednesday during plenary. Drumming support for the motion, Prof Ihonvbere said, “The House noted with concern the unprecedented flooding disaster that affected Ekeke-Erah, and massive windstorm that affected Ake, Amoya-Otuo other communities in Owan…

Respected as the only geopolitical zone blessed with seven states with high voting population, Nigeria’s North-West has become the epicentre of political mind games. LEO SOBECHI and ADAMU ABUH, x-ray the emerging politics against the voting pattern of the 2023 poll. The general thinking among partisan politicians is that the North-West geopolitical zone will determine the outcome of the next general elections in 2027. As such, that fact seems to be driving every political calculation in various platforms. In 2015, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu rode on that electoral reality to deliver retired General Muhammadu Buhari as Nigeria’s President. In June…

A businessman, Mr Akogun Elijah Adeogun has appealed to the Inspector General of Police (IGP), Kayode Egbetokun to intervene and investigate trumped up allegations leveled against him by some land speculators. The speculators, he said, are linking him to the unrest and murder in Osuke community of Ota, Ogun State. Adeogun at a press conference said those linking him to the unrest in Osuke, which claimed the life of one Obasanjo Jinadu Saheed, have resorted to blackmail and using the police to arrest him incessantly despite the fact that he was not in Osuke community when the incident happened…

NOW Four members of the Edo State House of Assembly have defected to the All Progressives Congress. The lawmakers, Donald Okugbe (Akoko Edo Constituency II), Bright Iyamu (Orhionmwon South Constituency II), Richard Edosa (Oredo West Constituency), and Sunday Ojezele 1 day ago The People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in Edo has said it was unfortunate for the APC-led administration to accuse its members of being responsible for the rising insecurity in the state. PDP Chairman Anthony Aziegbemi said, in a statement on Wednesday in Benin City, that the accusation was an attempt to use the rising insecurity to… 1 day ago…