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Activist and African Action Congress presidential candidate Omoyele Sowore has called on the federal government to extend the demolition tactics deployed against kidnappers’ hideouts to the mansions of politicians and public officials accused of stealing public funds. In a statement on his X handle on Tuesday, Sowore argued that the looting of the public treasury…
A British-Nigerian singer and songwriter, Talay Riley, has died after being stabbed in East London, prompting police to open a murder investigation. Riley, whose real name was Mark Yinka Orabiyi, was attacked at about 9am on Friday, June 5, on Pankhurst Avenue in Silvertown, according to local outlet Newham Recorder. Metropolitan Police were called…
The head of the World Health Organisation visited Uganda this week as a deadly Ebola outbreak that crossed in from the neighbouring Democratic Republic of Congo continued to spread, with both countries now recording a sharp rise in confirmed infections and deaths. WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus made the trip after the global health…
Ovation Magazine publisher Dele Momodu has projected the 2027 presidential election as a straight contest between President Bola Ahmed Tinubu and former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, effectively writing Labour Party’s Peter Obi out of his reckoning for the next race. Momodu made the assertion in a statement titled “Time for National Reconciliation, Re-Orientation &…
The Lagos State High Court at Osborne Foreshore on Monday adjourned until September 28, 2026, the hearing of a judicial review application challenging the Coroner’s Inquest into the death of Master Nkanu Nnamdi Adichie-Esege, the 21-month-old son of renowned author Chimamanda Adichie and Dr. Ivara Esege. Justice Aishat Opesanwo fixed the date after counsel…
The Oyo State Government on Monday demolished a three-bedroom bungalow allegedly used as a hideout by kidnappers involved in the abduction of the younger sister of former Minister of Power, Chief Bayo Adelabu, and her children. The property, located in the Lako Community along the Aiyegun-Anaye Road area of Ibadan, was pulled down by…
Dozens of anti-illegal immigration protesters marched through a township outside Johannesburg on Monday, a day after South African President Cyril Ramaphosa pledged action against groups accused of fuelling xenophobic violence. Chanting and singing as they moved through Kwa-Thema, a township about 40 kilometres southeast of Johannesburg, the demonstrators called for tougher government action…
Nuclear-armed states are pulling warheads out of storage and mounting them on delivery systems, researchers warned on Monday, as weapons of mass destruction take on a sharper role in global politics at a moment when arms control frameworks are crumbling. The Stockholm International Peace Research Institute said the world’s nuclear powers held an estimated…
African Democratic Congress presidential candidate Atiku Abubakar has launched a sharp rebuttal of former Secretary to the Government of the Federation Babachir Lawal, accusing him of promoting ethnic prejudice, peddling conspiracy theories and deepening divisions at a time the country requires unity to confront its mounting challenges. In a statement issued on Sunday by…
A renewed dispute over Nigeria’s uneven security response has erupted after Special Assistant to President Bola Tinubu on Social Media, Dada Olusegun, condemned critics who questioned the swift rescue of the family of former Power Minister Adebayo Adelabu, equating their mindset with that of terrorists. Olusegun made the remarks in a series of posts…
