Bomb explosion has rocked Nukkai community in Jalingo, the Taraba State capital. We gathered that the explosion occurred yesterday evening. At the time of this report, it is unclear if anyone died in the explosion. This coming barely one week after six persons lost their  lives in an explosion that occurred in the state.

BREAKING!!! Alaafin Of Oyo, Oba Lamidi Adeyemi Is Dead. The Alaafin of Oyo, Oba Lamidi Adeyemi,   has joined his ancestors. He was 83 years old and the longest reigning Alaafin ever, having ruled for over 52 years. Oba Lamidi, the third from the Alowodu Ruling House, joined his ancestors at the Afe Babalola University Teaching Hospital, Ado Ekiti in Ekiti State. His remains were said to have been moved to Oyo town in the earliest part of Saturday and were received at Idi-Igba by his first son, Prince Tunde and his other siblings. The Governor of Oyo State, Engineer Seyi Makinde, is expected to make an official announcement upon receiving the report of the monarch’s passing from the Bashorun of Oyo, Yusuf Akinade, the head of the ‘Oyo Mesi’, who will now lead Oyo town before a new Alaafin is installed. Unconfirmed reports said the paramount ruler had been sick and a plan had been made to fly him abroad before he passed on late Friday night. A source familiar with the medical travel ...

                      VP  YEMI OSHIBAJO. Segun Dada, a national youth aspirant of the All Progressives Congress has fired a salvo at those claiming Vice President Yemi Osinbajo is a betrayer. Dada, who was forced to step down for Dayo Israel at the APC convention on March 26th questioned the skewed reasoning that Osinbajo betrayed Asiwaju Bola Tinubu. “Lol. Just less than 3 weeks ago, these people shouting betrayal called it politics when they stabbed me in the back. How do you even have the moral authority to call the VP a betrayer? Lmaoooooo God abeg,” he wrote on his Twitter account. His tweet has already started generating widespread acceptability. Users on the platform reckon that the decision by the Vice President to declare for 2023 presidential election is not a betrayal by any strand of imagination. Michael Lanre said:- “Osinbajo didn’t betray Tinubu. He was only lucky to have been approved by Buhari to be ...

Afolabi Oyekunle. A man, Ifeanyi Njoku, has been arrested for allegedly killing his girlfriend, Precious Okeke, 24, in an estate at Badore, in the Ajah area of Lagos State.   The live-in lovers stayed on Oke Street, where Njoku allegedly killed his girlfriend for ritual purposes. It was learnt that a native doctor, who was assisting the suspect, instructed him to have sex with Okeke’s corpse. Njoku was said to have engaged in the illicit act with the corpse for six days, as the stench emanating from his apartment prompted his neighbours to inform the management of the estate. A source, Elizabeth John, said during a search of the apartment, Okeke’s decomposing corpse was found. She said:- “ The boy killed his girlfriend about six days ago, and he confessed that he wanted to use the girl for money rituals. He said he was told that he should have sex with his girlfriend’s corpse for seven days, but he was caught on the sixth day. “The smell of the corpse had been disturbing neighbours...

To avert a repeat of the recent bandits’ attack on a Kaduna-Abuja bound train that claimed nine lives with scores injured of which many passengers are still in captivity, President Muhammadu Buhari has approved a railway surveillance contract. A presidency source, who disclosed the development   lamented the manner the contract was shot down by the Federal Executive Council, FEC on September 24, 2021, despite approval by the Bureau for Public Procurement, BPP, saying that if the contract had been approved earlier, the recent disaster would have been avoided. Said the source:- At the September 24, 2021 FEC meeting, the Minister of Transportation, Mr. Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi presented a memo for the procurement and installation of electronic surveillance equipment system and intervention unit on the Abuja to Kaduna rail line. The memo proposed a monitoring and surveillance system that would detect any intrusion on the rail and an emergency response system. However, the memo was discr...

Afolabi Oyekunle. Disk Jockey and Oxford University postgraduate daughter of billionaire Femi Otedola, Florence Otedola, popularly known as DJ Cuppy, has taken to her social media to pray to God for a husband. The billionaire’s daughter shared a photo of herself praying during a church service held to mark the 90th birthday of her grandmother. A birthday celebration where Cuppy herself had performed.                         DJ CUPPY Recall in February, Cuppy reacted to Rihanna’s pregnancy news. The DJ lamented over the fact that Rihanna is expecting a child and she is not remotely close to having a boyfriend. Recall in February, Cuppy reacted to Rihanna’s pregnancy news. The DJ lamented over the fact that Rihanna is expecting a child and she is not remotely close to having a boyfriend.

Afolabi Oyekunle. Governor Nasir El-Rufai of Kaduna State has told the National Leader of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Bola Tinubu, that Nigeria is at “critical crossroads” following what he called “multiple quagmires” under the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari. El-Rufai said that at this point, Nigerians must take very difficult decisions to get the right leaders that would take the country out of the multiple quagmires that it is going through. The Governor said this when he received the APC National Leader, who was in Kaduna, on a condolence visit over the bandits’ attack on a Kaduna-bound train. El-Rufai also told Tinubu that he was aware of his presidential ambition, but added that he was looking unto God to help Nigeria choose the best leader come 2023. El-Rufai, whose words sounded like criticism of the Buhari led Federal Government, said that by visiting the State, Tinubu had displayed a historic and unprecedented leadership quality. President Buh...

Afolabi Oyekunle. According to a report by SaharaReporters, the National Administrative Council (NAC) of the National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW) has sacked Alhaji Musiliu Akinsanya as the Lagos State Chairman of the union. Akinsanya, popularly known as MC Oluomo was earlier suspended by the national body of the union on grounds of insubordination and incitement to violence. In a statement on Wednesday titled, Dissolution of Lagos State Administrative Council signed by NURTW President, Alhaji Tajudeen Ibikunle Baruwa, the union also dissolved its Lagos State Council. Baruwa said that the decision of NAC was based on the provisions of the union’s constitution. The Secretary of the state council was appointed to take over the management of NURTW activities in the state in the interim. The statement reads in part, “In view of the fact that nature abhors vacuum, the state secretary of the union, Comrade Seyi Bankole, is hereby directed to take over the running of the affairs of...