No fewer than 82 Islamic State of West African Province (ISWAP) fighters and their families have drowned in a river in the North East axis of Damasak in Borno State, northeast Nigeria.
It was gathered that the terrorists and their families from the Lake Chad axis drowned in a desperate attempt to escape massive troop incursions between June 2 and 3, 2023, while trying to cross over to the Niger Republic.
Tinubu stated this while addressing a meeting with the members of the Progressive Governors Forum led by Governor Hope Uzodimma of Imo state on Friday.
The candidate of the Social Democratic Party, SDP, says its governorship candidate, Muritala Yakubu Ajaka, on Saturday afternoon, escaped an alleged assassination attack on his motorcade, by gunmen suspected to be that of the State Governor Yahaya Bello.
A human rights lawyer, Femi Falana, has claimed the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL) does not have the legal rights to fix or adjust the price of petrol.
Falana insists that the power to fix petrol lies with President Bola Tinubu, because there is no substantive Minister of Petroleum Resources.
On May 31, NNPCL announced it has adjusted petrol prices across its retail outlets.
President Bola Tinubu is currently having a closed-door meeting with the former governors of Rivers and Delta states, Nyesom Wike and James Ibori, respectively, and Governor Seyi Makinde of Oyo State at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.
Big Brother Naija Season 7 winner Josephine Otabor, better known as Phyna, has revealed that she is finally ready for marriage.
She disclosed this via her Twitter handle on June 2, 2023.
Sharing photos of herself donning a wedding gown, Phyna wrote: “Me practicing my wedding gown. 26 and ready.”
Popular Nigerian singer, Ayodeji Ibrahim Balogun aka Wizkid has narrated a strange dream he had recently. He revealed his dream in several posts on his Instagram story on Thursday. The singer said he had a dream that there was no tomorrow. Narrating the dream, Wizkid said “there is no tomorrow. Wait, never mind. Actually, mind.
The Nigeria Labour Congess (NLC) has declared a nationwide strike from next Wednesday.
This comes amid fuel shortages across the country occasioned by President Bola Tinubu’s inaugural speech in which he declared that “fuel subsidy is gone”.
The union announced the industrial action on Friday, following a meeting of its National Executive Council (NEC) in Abuja over the fuel subsidy removal and subsequent hike in the pump price of petrol.
The NEC comprises all Presidents, General Secretaries, Treasurers of all NLC’s affiliate unions; State Chairpersons and Secretaries of the NLC State Councils, Chairperson of the NLC Youth Committee and members of the National Administrative Council (NAC).
The police said they conducted another raid on Auxiliary’s hotel in Ibadan where more dangerous weapons were recovered.
The police in Oyo State, southwest Nigeria, on Friday, declared the sacked Chairman of the Oyo State Park Management System (PMS), Mukaila Lamidi, popularly known as Auxiliary, wanted.
Operatives of the Nigeria Police Force have raided Diamond Hotel,
Alakia, Ibadan, Oyo State, belonging to the immediate past chairman of
the Park Management System (PMS) in Oyo State, Mukaila Lamidi popularly
called Auxiliary and recovered some ammunitions and charms.
