MaTaZ ArIsInG WASHINGTON, June 9 (Reuters) – The United States urged Nigerian authorities on Friday to investigate an air strike that Reuters reported killed dozens of cattle herders earlier this year and highlighted a pattern of deadly aerial assaults. Dozens of ethnic Fulani herders died in a Jan. 24 aerial bombing in the central state of Nasarawa, […] Read more
MaTaZ ArIsInG Pat Robertson, the fire-and-brimstone evangelical preacher who helped turn America’s Christian conservatives into the powerful constituency they remain today, died on Thursday at the age of 93, his organization announced. The longtime TV host, religious broadcaster, and one-time presidential candidate died at his home in Virginia Beach, according to a statement from the […] Read more
MaTaZ ArIsInG A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress in Plateau state, Samuel Kwamkur, on Sunday cautioned former Governor of Kaduna State, Nasir El-Rufai, not to set Nigeria on fire with his utterances Kwankur, who is a former National Director of the Christian Association of Nigeria, stated this at a press conference in Jos on […] Read more
MaTaZ ArIsInG Chief Raymond Dokpesi, Chairman of Daar Communications has reportedly died. According to reports, Dokpesi, who was a chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) died at the age of 71 in Abuja. Raymond Dokpesi Media mogul Raymond Dokpesi has reportedly passed on. Mr Dokpesi, the founder of DAAR Communications, proprietors of Africa Independent Television and […] Read more
MaTaZ ArIsInG No fewer than 2,167 repentant insurgents have graduated from the Operation Safe Corridor’s (OPSC) Deradicalisation, Rehabilitation and Reintegration (DRR) programme, organised by the Federal Government, an official has said. Mr Audu Ayuba, the Assistant Director of Planning, Research and Strategy, National Orientation Agency (NOA), disclosed this on Friday at a capacity-building workshop for […] Read more
MaTaZ ArIsInG The Federal High Court sitting in Abuja has been asked to bar the Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Olukayode Ariwoola from swearing-in the President-elect, Bola Tinubu, on May 29 pending the determination of whether it is compulsory for the winner in a presidential election to get 25% of votes in the FCT. The […] Read more
MaTaZ ArIsInG Gov. Seyi Makinde of Oyo State says delay in the emergence of new Aalafin of Oyo and Soun of Ogbomosoland, was to allow due process to be followed in their selection to avoid repeat of past mistakes. Mr Makinde made this known on Tuesday in Ibadan while swearing-in the new Chief Judge of […] Read more
By Bola Bolawole MaTaZ ArIsInG Going through heaps of files, old newspapers and other records in my library a few days ago, I came across pieces of unsolicited advice I had offered mint-new President Muhammadu Buhari on how he could make a success of his tenure as the country’s fourth president circa the Fourth Republic, […] Read more
The Catholic Bishop of Sokoto Diocese, Matthew Hassan Kukah, has urged Nigeria’s president-elect Asiwaju Bola Tinubu to avoid cheap talk and work towards fixing Nigeria’s challenges. Kukah also stated that the most urgent task facing Nigeria is not infrastructure or the “usual cheap talk” about the dividends of Democracy, urging the president-elect to start a […] Read more
MaTaZ ArIsInG Renowned Nigerian rapper, Folarin Falana, AKA Falz has given reasons why he called out the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Prof. Mahmood Yabuku in his new song. He said the song titled ‘Yakubu’ is based on “his truth” about the elections. The Singer who decried the violence and manipulation that […] Read more
