Gunmen kill nine people in Plateau attack
Gunmen on Wednesday killed nine civilians in an attack on a village in Plateau, said police, in what one politician describe as the latest outburst of intercommunal violence. A police spokesman for Plateau state said the unidentified assailants shot dead residents and burnt 22 houses in the assault on the village of Hura. The bloodshed…
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CAN declares one week daily prayers against COVID-19
Friday Olokor, Abuja The Christian Association of Nigeria has directed all its members nationwide to dedicate 30 minutes each day for the next seven days to praise God in the fight against coronavirus. The organisation said the prayer session should commence with effect from Monday, April 20 to Sunday April 26, 2020. The President of…
FG pays N200bn to offset Gencos’ gas bill
Okechukwu Nnodim, Abuja The Federal Government has in the past two to three days paid over N200bn for power supply in Nigeria, the Group Managing Director, Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, Mele Kyari, declared on Wednesday. Also, the Association of Nigerian Electricity Distributors, the umbrella body for Discos, has said the proposed two-month free electricity for…
Infidelity: Husband bathes wife with pepper-laced hot water
Bola Bamigbola, Osogbo A 27-year-old man, Adeniyi Akinde, has reportedly bathed his wife, Deborah, with hot water laced with pepper, while she was sleeping over suspicion of infidelity. The incident happened on Tuesday around 12.30am in the Oke-Owu area of Modakeke, Osun State, where the couple resides. The victim was said to have been rushed…
Kano records first COVID-19 death
Four days after it recorded its index case of coronavirus, Kano state has confirmed its first death from the disease. The state ministry of health announced the death in a tweet posted at 11:55pm on Wednesday. Details of the death were not given but the ministry said there were 21 total cases of COVID-19 in…
Revolution in Nigeria: Let’s face reality
There are many young Nigerians within the country and in the diaspora, who genuinely think that revolution in Nigeria is the only solution to our problems. If their definition of revolution is related to the revolutions that ousted Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak in 2011, Iranian Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi in 1979, or Libyan Colonel Muammar…
Top Nigeria politics forum: Liberating Nigeria
Originally Published On April 07, 2020 Liberating Nigeria forum is currently the only Nigeria Politics forum that is fully dedicated to enlightening, organizing, influencing and uniting first-time voters across Nigeria. This forum seeks to engage a lot on current Nigeria political news, digitally organizing and enlightening Nigerian students and social media politicians, as well as…
Power Supply: We Need The Facts
Originally Published On Feb 07, 2011 The President (through his VP) recently said during the opening ceremony of a Nestle manufacturing plant that Nigeria was going to add 5,000MW to the grid supply. He didn’t tell us how! I also recently read on President Jonathan’s facebook page that Nigeria has hit 4,000MW for the first…
Oil Subsidy Removal: Please Lead Us By Example!
Originally Published On Nov 03, 2011 Debo Onifade Nigeria is blessed, and we have enormous potential to become a rich country. But we are very far from our potential. In 2011, our oil benchmark price was reported as $62 per barrel. If you assume 2.2 million barrels per day were produced in 365 days, and…