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President Muhammadu Buhari has pledged to increase the budget for the education sector by as much as 50 per cent over the next two years. The Nigerian leader stated this at the ongoing Global Education Summit in London, United Kingdom, on Wednesday. In a document titled : Heads Of State Call To Action On Education Financing Ahead Of The Global …

The Court D’Appal of Cotonou has ordered that Yoruba Nation agitator, Sunday Adeyemo, popularly known as Sunday Igboho should be kept in prison custody pending investigation. The court, however, declined immediate extradition of Igboho to Nigeria as demanded by the federal government.   The Court, which was expected to start hearing the case at 10:00am, chose to bar journalists and …

CCTV footage matches image of person being interrogated by investigators.A nine-year-old girl has been identified as the culprit of the arson that reduced Ebeano supermarket in Abuja to ashes and black powder. Ebeano supermarket in the Lokogoma area of Abuja was burnt to the ground on Saturday, July 17, 2021, with goods worth billions of Naira destroyed in the raging …

President Muhammadu Buhari will today Monday July 26, 2021, travel to the United Kingdom to participate in the Global Education Summit on Financing Global Partnership for Education (GPE) 2021-2025. The Summit, which will be co-hosted by the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Boris Johnson, and the President of Kenya, Uhuru Kenyatta, will bring together Heads of State and Government …

Omoyele Sowore, the Convener of the #RevolutionNow Movement and publisher of SaharaReporters, has been released by the Nigeria Police Force. Sowore was arrested on Monday at the Federal High Court in Abuja where the leader of Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu’s trial was to resumed. READ ALSO- Sunday Igboho finally unchained, granted access to doctor, to meet wife …

Trial Adjourns Till October 21 The Department of State Services, DSS, on Monday, failed to produce the detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu before the Federal High Court in Abuja for continuation of his trial. When the case was called up around 11:09am, Government lawyer, M. B. Abubakar, blamed Kanu’s absence in court on what …

The trial of the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu, at the Federal High Court, Abuja, has been adjourned till October 21.His trial was scheduled to start Monday in Nigeria’s capital Abuja with many journalists barred from entering the courtroom, a move that was condemned as restrictive by rights groups.He was arrested in late 2015 in Nigeria …

DSS accredits just 10 Media organisations to cover Nnamdi Kanu’s trial The Department of State Services (DSS) has accredited only ten media organisations to cover the trial of the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) slated for Monday, July 26th. Kanu, re-arrested in controversial circumstances in Kenya, is facing charges bordering on terrorism, treasonable felony, illegal possession of …

The Olubadan of Ibadanland, Oba Saliu Akanmu Adetunji, Aje Ogungunniso 1, has sent a delegation to Cotonou, Benin Republic over the court case involving Yoruba Nation agitator, Sunday Adeyemo, popularly called Sunday Igboho. A statement by the first-class monarch’s Director of Media and Publicity, Adeola Oloko, did not disclose the identity of members of the delegation. He, however, said the …