Author: Lawan

INEC boss must resign, denies social media reports asking Muslims to pray Supreme Council for Shari’ah in Nigeria (SCSN) has distanced itself from viral social media reports alleging that it directed Muslims to embark on prayers for the removal of the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). Despite its denial of the alleged directive, the Council reiterated its previously stated position regarding the INEC chairman, maintaining that he must either resign or be relieved of his duties In a statement yesterday by its Secretary-General, Nafiu Baba Ahmad, the Council described the reports as misleading and unsubstantiated, accusing unnamed…

Senator representing Borno South, Ali Ndume, has raised fresh alarm over the fate of more than 400 abducted residents of Ngoshe community, urging President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to immediately scale up federal intervention to secure their release and rebuild the ravaged town. Speaking to journalists on Monday, Ndume said the victims, mostly women and children, were taken last month when insurgents from Jama’atu Ahlis-Sunna Lidda’Awati Wal-Jihad stormed Ngoshe in Gwoza Local Government Area of Borno State, razing homes and overrunning military formations. The lawmaker warned that despite the Nigerian Army’s subsequent recapture of the community, residents remain displaced and anxious,…

Outrage over murder of Colonel, 6 soldiers in fresh terrorists raid Less than a week after the Nigerian Army lost Brigadier General Oseni Braimah, Commander of the 29th Task Force Brigade, the military has confirmed the death of another commanding officer during a terrorist attack on their location in Monguno, Borno State. The Army, in a statement by the Media Information Officer, Headquarters Joint Task Force (North East) Operation HADIN KAI, Lieutenant Colonel Sani Uba, disclosed that six soldiers also died during the attack. Anger and outrage have trailed the killings of the security operatives, with many Nigerians calling on…

Iyabo Obasanjo has suspended her aspiration to contest the Ogun State governorship election in 2027. The daughter of former President Olusegun Obasanjo announced the decision in a statement issued on Monday. Her withdrawal follows the party’s decision to adopt Senator Adeola Olamilekan as its preferred candidate for the forthcoming governorship race.

The battle for the control of the African Democratic Congress (ADC) has shifted to the courts as the Supreme Court and a Federal High Court, Abuja, are scheduled to begin hearing on suits filed by former deputy National Chairman of the opposition party, Nafiu Bala Gombe, against the Senator David Mark-led National Working Committee (NWC). The subject matter of the appeal marked SC/CV/180/2026 is a dispute involving Mark and four others, including Gombe, the party, Rauf Aregbesola, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), and Chief Ralph Nwosu. Mark, who is challenging his removal as ADC National Chairman, is seeking an…

Delta State Police Command has recovered the Range Rover believed to have been used in the kidnapping of Sapele Local Government Chairman, Bright Abeke. The vehicle was abandoned at Ogorode Waterside, suggesting that the abductors may have escaped via the river after abducting the council boss last Friday. Sources revealed that the vehicle was left at the waterside, hinting that the kidnappers possibly transported Abeke through the river after storming the Debro Fred Guest House on Owumi Road, Sapele, around 7:25 pm. It was gathered that during the attack, the gunmen shot and injured Abeke’s security detail and a vigilante…

…Lament bad equipment, poor welfare Nigeria’s aviation sector is edging toward disruption as the Nigerian Air Traffic Controllers’ Association (NATCA) signals it may slow flight movements nationwide to cope with rising fatigue, failing systems and worsening welfare conditions among its members. In a firm statement jointly signed by its President, Edino Ilemona Amos and General Secretary Umar Fahad, the association warned that air traffic controllers are being stretched beyond safe limits and alluded to serious concerns about the reliability of the country’s airspace management. NATCA insisted its alarm is based on operational realities, not sentiment. Controllers, it said, are working…

The move by President Bola Tinubu-led administration to decentralise the current policing system in the country received a boost from former Inspector-General of Police, Mohammed Abubakar Adamu, who said the fears by some Nigerians that state police would be misused by state governors was misplaced. Adamu, who is a governorship aspirant on the platform of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), spoke at the weekend in Abuja while interacting with some journalists on his ambition to govern Nasarawa State. According to him, although the constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria provides for a centralised policing system, he however noted…

•NAF steps up investigation Casualty figures from the military’s airstrikes on a village market in Yobe State suspected to be harbouring some terrorists have risen to 60. A military jet, yesterday, bombed a market at Jilli village, Geidam Local Government, Yobe State. Some survivors who are residents of Geidam, headquarters of the LG, told The Sun that the military might have traced some terrorists to the market before dropping bombs. “The military jet might have followed some terrorists from the bush to the market and mistaken all of us at the market then as terrorists,” said Saleh Idrissa, who sustained…

NASA astronaut Victor Glover has safely returned to Earth after piloting the landmark Artemis II, the first crewed mission to orbit the Moon in more than five decades. The Orion spacecraft splashed down in the Pacific Ocean off San Diego on April 10, bringing to a close a nearly 10-day journey that saw the crew travel as far as 252,756 miles from Earth — one of the farthest distances ever reached by humans in space. Shortly after his return, Glover expressed gratitude in a message shared alongside a photo of his reunion with family. “Home, again! Mission complete. I hope…