Author: Nigeriacurrent

Many Injured, Properties Destroyed as Bloody Clash Erupts in Ibadan

A bloody clash between miscreants at Sasa area of Ojoo, Ibadan, Oyo State left about nine peoples injured with several properties destroyed. Ttrouble started when some house owners attempted to prevent some scavengers from picking scraps from their area, leading to a free for all. The hoodlums, according to sources regrouped and unleashed mayhem on […]

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Police Warn Against Sowore’s Protest, Say it’s Treasonable

The Nigerian Police have issued a warning notice to Nigerians and any individuals who intend to participate in what is called ‘RevolutionNow’ protest being organized by Omoyele Sowore and other Nigerian rights activists against August 5 to stay clear from it, or risk a felony and terrorism charge. The Inspector General of Police, Muhammad Adamu, […]

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Osinbajo’s Wife Narrates How She Worked Among Area Boys, Prostitutes in Lagos’s slums

Wife of Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo, Dolapo Osinbajo has revealed how she once worked in the slums in Lagos among area boys and prostitutes. Mrs. Osinbajo stated this at the Anti-Substance-Abuse Programme in commemoration of the International Day Against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking in Abuja recently. A statement by the organisers of the programme quoted […]

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Breaking: Ogun Police Rescue Other Four RCCG Pastors

Gboyega Adeoye The Ogun State Police Command has rescued the other four Redeemed Christian Church of God pastors who wereer victims of abduction on Thursday around J3 forest on Ogbere road, in Ijebu-East Local Government Area of the state. One of the victims, Mrs. Ibelegbo Chidimma was rescued earlier on Saturday The Police Public Relations […]

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CACOL Lauds Ruling on Forfeiture of N150m Plaza to FG

Gboyega Adeoye The Centre for Anti-Corruption and Open Leadership, CACOL, has commended the ruling of the Kwara State High court sitting in Ilorin, that ordered the final forfeiture to a plaza valued  at about N150m  to the Federal Government. The plaza, belonging to a civil servant in the state iis now the property of the […]

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Just in: Police Rescue One of 5 Abducted Redeemed Pastors

By Gboyega Adeoye The Ogun State Police Commands said one of the five pastors of the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG) who were abducted on their way to the Redemption Camp on Thursday has been rescued. This happened few hours after one Ogun-based transporter was shot dead along Ijebu-Ode area of Ogun state after […]

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IGP Orders Manhunt for Abductors of 5 Redeemed Pastors, Killers Clergyman, Paul Offu

By Gboyega Adeoye The Inspector General of Police, Muhammed  Adamu has ordered  for the immediate apprehension of those behind the abduction of five Redeem Christian Church of God(RCCG) Pastors allegedly  abducted along J3 Area of Ogbere on their way to Lagos from the Eastern part of the Country. The police boss in the directive issued […]

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PMB, Statemanship and National Security

By Segun Ayobolu One of the most thorny security challenges that has confronted Nigeria in this democratic dispensation has been the incessant clashes between Fulani herdsmen moving their cattle southward in search of grazing land and water and sedentary farming communities particularly in the middle belt states of Benue, Plateau, Nassarawa and Taraba as well […]

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Sowore Reportedly Arrested by DSS

Operatives of the Department of State Services have arrested pro-democracy activist and the convener of #RevolutionNow Protests, Omoyele Sowore. It was gathered that Sowore was picked up at his apartment in the early hours of Saturday. Sowore posted a distress tweet at exactly 1:25 am with an eyewitness confirming that his phone was forcefully taken […]

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Nigerians Living in Extreme Poverty Increases Under Present Administration

A fat-check website, dubawa.org has described as false, the claims of Nigerian President, Muhammadu Buhari that his administration has lifted five million people out of extreme poverty. Rather,the website claims that an approximate 100,917,042 million are living in extreme poverty, an increase of 10 million or 13.01 per cent above the figure of 83,171,151 million, […]

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