A total of 80 suspects have been named following a failed attempted coup on November 26 in Freetown, the capital of Sierra Leone, local police have said. William Fayia Sellu, inspector general of the Sierra Leonean police, told a press conference Tuesday that the suspects include former President Ernest Bai Koroma, 50, currently serving military…
Hamas on Friday released 24 hostages it held captive in Gaza for weeks, and Israel freed 39 Palestinians from prison in the first stage of a swap under a four-day cease-fire that offered a small glimmer of relief to both sides. Israel — wrenched by the abduction of nearly 240 people in Hamas’ Oct. 7…
_The Strategist 30.08.23_ These days when I hear that popular chant around churches that “the devil and his agents” have planned this or planned that, I find myself wondering why devil and his cronies are not directing their evil at the west (Europe, North America, etc) Upon all the generational atrocities committed by the west…
Thirty-seven years after the death of the founder of Newswatch, a public affairs analyst and public relations consultant, Mr. Deyemi Saka, yesterday, refuted claims that the veteran journalist, late Dele Giwa, died from a letter bomb. Saka, who spoke on a breakfast show, a Television Continental, TVC, programme, said no investigation or forensic analysis was…
Kenneth Okonkwo, a Nigerian Actor, Lawyer, and Politician has replied to the National Broadcasting Corporation in response to Friday’s warning to Arise Television over what it called the use of derogatory and incendiary remarks on its programmes. In an open letter addressed to NBC’s Director-General, Dr. Balarabe Ilelah, Okonkwo said that the DG’s statement…
Zamfara’s Governor Dauda Lawal has banned illegal mining in the state and also ordered security agents to shoot violators at sight. The Governor’s media aide, Malam Suleiman Idris, quoted Lawal as saying in Gusau that the order was part of measures to restore law and order. The governor noted that illegal mining had fuelled banditry…
By Joyce Ifejika Dikko Radda, the governor of Katsina, has urged security personnel in the state to speed up their existing efforts to combat banditry and other various crimes. The governor said this while paying a condolence visit to the family of Ibrahim Abdullahi, who was killed by the terrorists who attacked the Kankia town…
Lawyers representing the presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi, have tackled President Bola Tinubu and Vice President Kashim Shettima over their final submissions that the Presidential Election Petition Court sitting in Abuja should not nullify their clients election victory over a 30-year-old United States District Court judgement. In 1993, Tinubu was ordered to…
An Islamic scholar, Sheikh Ahmad Gumi, has stated that President Bola Tinubu must probe everyone who worked under former president, Muhammadu Buhari to “vomit what they have stolen.” The cleric also claimed that if the Nigerian government failed to negotiate with bandits, the Boko Haram terrorists would soon hijack them. Gumi said this during an…
The Governor of Enugu State, His Excellency Barr. Peter Mbah has launched the first batch of patrol cars fitted with communication equipment already delivered. Barr. Mbah has reiterated his commitment to protect the lives and properties of Ndi Enugu as New Security outfit set to take charge of the Enugu Urban Security Patrol. Soon, Enugu…
