President Bola Tinubu has advised the candidates defeated in the 2024 Ondo State governorship election to seek legal redress if dissatisfied with the outcome of the polls. Earlier, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) declared Lucky Aiyedatiwa, the candidate for the All Progressives Congress (APC), the winner of the election held across 3,933 polling units … Read more
Afrobeat musician Seun Kuti apologised to human rights activist and lawyer Femi Falana on Friday for his connection to remarks made by social media influencer Martins ‘VeryDarkMan’ Otse about crossdresser Idris Okuneye, also known as Bobrisky. PREMIUM TIMES reported that VeryDarkMan shared a leaked audio clip on his Instagram page in September; the clip allegedly … Read more
I had witnessed high-speed chases and intense shootouts only in action movies until Saturday when my colleagues and I found ourselves in the middle of a harrowing, real-life experience while covering an anti-government protest in Abuja, Nigeria’s capital. The initially calm situation on the protest ground began to take a frightening turn when suspected officials … Read more
The Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) has called for the immediate release of the kidnapped Channels Tv reporter, Joshua Rogers. Chris Iziguzo, NUJ President, made the call while speaking with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Friday in Abuja. Mr Rogers was abducted from his residence in Rumuosi, Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital, … Read more
A youth leader in Kagarko Local Government Area of Kaduna State, Yusuf Yunusa, has lamented growing cases of kidnapping across communities in the council area and in Bwari, a local government area in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Abuja. Communities in Bwari Local Government Area of the FCT share boundaries with communities in Kagarko Local … Read more
