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  The Department of State Security Service (DSS) has invited controversial Islamic cleric Sheikh Abubakar Ahmed Gumi for questioning. According to PeoplesGazette citing a report by VOA Hausa, the invitation came after a controversy between Gumi and the Nigerian Army. The SSS spokesman Peter Afunanya is yet to respond to ...

  The outlawed Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, has said the group is not after Northerners, but rather after killer-herdsmen terrorising the South-East. Naija News earlier reported that Gumi said that Fulani herdsmen and bandits only abduct students for money while IPOB killed security operatives in the Southeast. In an ...

Did you watch the interview granted about 10 days ago by Labour and Employment Minister, Dr Chris Nwabueze Ngige, to Channels Television NewsNight program anchored by Ladi Akeredolu Ale? If you didn’t, then you missed something. But not to worry, you can still get to watch it online. I have ...

  Scheming by three blocs has placed the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) in a fresh dilemma over the zoning of top positions ahead of the 2023 general elections. Society gazette recalls that the Adams Oshiomhole-led National Working Committee was dissolved in on June 25, 2020, and the Buni-led Caretaker/Extraordinary ...

Brenda Ataga is the wife of Michael Usifo Ataga, a Nigerian billionaire, who was gruesomely stabbed to death, multiple times by his side chic, Chidinma Ojukwu, who has since been arrested. Naija News earlier reported that Chidinma, an undergraduate of the University of Lagos, stabbed Ataga who would have been ...

  Embattled Yoruba actor, Omiyinka Olanrewaju James, popularly known as Baba Ijesha, who was arraigned at a Special Offences and Domestic Violence Court in Ikeja, has been granted bail. The actor, who was being tried by Justice Oluwatoyin Taiwo over charges bothering on rape, sexual assault and abuse of a ...

  The group said it is obvious because the cleric is fond of defending bandits and also championing their cause. The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) says Islamic cleric Sheikh Ahmad Gumi is not only a spokesman for bandits and terrorists tormenting Nigerians but equally their main sponsor. The group ...

Nollywood actor, Olanrewaju Omiyinka, popularly known as Baba Ijesha, on Thursday pleaded not guilty to charges of child molestation before an Ikeja Special Offences Court in Lagos. The actor pleaded not guilty to a six-count charge bordering on indecent treatment of a child, sexual assault, attempted sexual assault by penetration ...

  A former Governor of Ogun State, Olusegun Osoba, has kicked against moves to amend the Nigeria Press Council Act. The bill, which seeks to repeal and re-enact the NPC act, was considered at a public hearing organised by the house of representatives committee on information, national orientation, ethics and ...

Several Kenya Defence Forces (KDF) have died and others seriously injured after a military helicopter crash landed at the Ol Tepesi area in Ngong, Kajiado County. KDF spokesperson Zipporah Kioko confirmed that all soldiers on board the Kenya Air Force Mi 171E helicopter had been accounted for with several having ...