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The wedding between Oba Adeyeye Enitan Ogunwusi and Princess Aderonke Ademiluyi is taking place on Thursday, October 20, 2022 in Ile-Ife, Osun State. This is the 7th time the Ooni is getting married and the 4th time in less than 2 months. In 2008, before he became king, he got …

Children as young as four and five are being given war lessons in Vladimir Putin’s Russia. Shocking footage shows an officer in combat fatigues demonstrating a Kalashnikov machine-gun and an anti-tank grenade launcher to kindergarten youngsters. The ‘teacher’ is Pavel Firsov, from a militaristic pro-Kremlin movement called Combat Brotherhood. Children …

The Presidential Campaign Train of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, is making a stop at the Southern Nigerian state of Edo, on Saturday. PDP bigwigs are expected to be at the rally which holds 10 am on Saturday with all elected governors on the platform of the party have been …

The Minister of Water Resources, Suleiman Adamu, has said it is not yet necessary to declare a state of emergency over the flood disaster across the country. Speaking on Channels TV on Thursday night, October 20, Suleiman says the relevant authorities have not said they are not capable of handling the …

The national chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Senator Abdullahi Adamu, has said that all the Presidential aspirants who contested the party’s ticket alongside Bola Ahmed Tinubu have now declared support for him. The APC national chairman, however, challenged the media to meet the said presidential aspirants to hear directly from …

The Nigerian military says two suspected fake National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) officials have been arrested in Niger Republic for allegedly enrolling non-Nigerians for National Identity Number (NIN). This was disclosed by the Director of Defence Media Operations, Major General Musa Danmadami, during the biweekly briefing at the Defence Headquarters. …

PRESIDENT, Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN, Archbishop Daniel Okoh, has distanced himself from the revised list of members of the All Progressives Congress, APC, and presidential campaign council wherein names of some officials of the organisation were featured. In a statement on Thursday night, he said the umbrella Christian body …

•••URGES NIGERIA, INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY, NGOS TO RESCUE VICTIMS The Ijaw Women in America have raised the alarm over the worsening living conditions of endangered flood victims in the Niger Delta. The National President of the Ijaw Women of America, Mrs Eunice Apreala, made the desperate call in a statement on …

Gunmen have allegedly dispatched a letter to Gulu, Lapai Local Government Area of Niger State, of another attack slated for 30th October 2022. This is coming barely 48 hours after they invaded the Gulu General Hospital in the area, resulting in the death of two persons and the abduction of several others, …

Governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Lagos State, Olajide Adediran (Jandor) on Thursday said he exercised his constitutional right in picking Nollywood actress, Funke Akindele as the party’s Deputy Governorship candidate. A member of the State Working Committee (SWC) of the party had told DAILY INDEPENDENT that Jandor …