Author: Tosin Ajayi

IBADAN, Nigeria (VOICE OF NAIJA)- At least 15 persons were reportedly killed when terrorists opened fire at worshipers on Friday, during Jummat prayers in the North West of Zamfara State. It was gathered that the incident occurred in Ruwan Jema town in Bukkuyum Local Government Area of Zamfara, when the peaceful worshipers were observing their prayers. A source said “The terrorists, who rode on motorcycles invaded the mosque and opened fire on worshippers, leading to the death of 15 persons on the spot, while many other victims sustained various degrees of injuries.” This is coming as the Nigerian military launches…

IBADAN, Nigeria (VOICE OF NAIJA)- The Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation Limited, NNPC, Mele Kyari, has called on the international community to join Nigeria in its battle against crude oil theft. Of recent, almost 50 per cent of crude oil produced in Nigeria is lost to thieves. This has greatly reduced oil revenue due to the country. Speaking at the Nigeria International Economic Partnership Forum in New York, Kyari said investors should treat any Nigerian oil from unofficial channels the same way blood diamonds were treated in the recent past. Kyari said: “Oil theft is not…

IBADAN, Nigeria (VOICE OF NAIJA)- Bandits have attacked the entourage of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) in Kaduna state and abducted two chieftains of the party. It was gathered that the recent attack took place at Tashar Ice village along Kaduna-Kachia busy road on Thursday night when party leaders and chieftains accompanied the APC gubernatorial candidate, Senator Uba Sani to Kafanchan for a political engagement. A party stalwart told the Sunday Tribune that they were returning from Kafanchan after interfacing with Christian leaders in the Southern Senatorial District ahead of the 2023 general elections. A survivor of the attack,…

IBADAN, Nigeria (VOICE OF NAIJA)- The Police Service Commission (PSC) on Friday described the attack on Insp. Teju Moses, a female Police Orderly attached to Prof. Zainab Abiola, as barbaric and inhuman. Mr Ikechukwu Ani, the Head of Press and Public Relations of PSC, said in a statement in Abuja that the assault on Teju was a direct threat to national security and a calculated attempt to ridicule the Nigeria Police Force and what it stands for. Ani called for immediate investigation and prosecution of all characters involved in the show of shame and urged the police authority to review…

IBADAN, Nigeria (VOICE OF NAIJA)- Dr. Dauda Lawal Dare has emerged the Gubernatorial candidate on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Zamfara State He scored 422 votes to beat two other contestants. Dare defeated Ibrahim Shehu Bakawuye and Hafiz Nahuce who scored one vote each, saying that none of the contestants was seen at the venue even though they were all said to be in Gusau, the State capital. Announcing the result, the Chairman of the electoral committee from the party’s national secretariat, Phillips Hassan Hyati said four of the votes were invalid. When addressing newsmen after…

IBADAN, Nigeria (VOICE OF NAIJA)- The Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, has asked the Court of Appeal sitting in Abuja, to set aside the judgement of the National Industrial Court, NIC, that ordered its members to call off seven-month old strike action. The union, in a 14-ground of appeal it lodged through its team of lawyers led by a frontline human rights activist, Mr. Femi Falana, SAN, equally applied for a stay of execution of the judgement. It will be recalled that the NIC had in a judgement ordered the striking varsity lecturers to return to the classroom, pending…

The late Desmond Tutu’s daughter has been barred by the Church of England from leading a funeral because she is married to a woman. Mpho Tutu van Furth is an Anglican priest in the Diocese of Washington DC and had been asked to officiate at the funeral of her late godfather, Martin Kenyon, in Shropshire on Thursday. Ms Tutu van Furth told BBC News it “seemed really churlish and hurtful”. The Diocese of Hereford said it was “a difficult situation”. The Church of England does not permit its clergy to be in a same-sex marriage because its official teaching is…

IBADAN, Nigeria (VOICE OF NAIJA)- The Supreme Court has struck out a suit instituted against the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), seeking to enforce the zoning and rotatory policy in the 2023 presidential election. In a unanimous judgement delivered by Justice Adamu Jauro on Friday, the court struck out the suit on the ground of lack of jurisdiction to entertain it. A presidential aspirant of PDP and former Deputy Speaker of Abia State House of Assembly, Cosmos Ndukwe, had instituted the suit against his party, praying for an order of the court to compel it to uphold the zoning and rotatory…

IBADAN, Nigeria (VOICE OF NAIJA)- The National Peace Committee (NPC) has slated Thursday, 29 September, for presidential candidates to sign a free, fair, and peaceful accord ahead of the electioneering campaign. In January, they will also sign an agreement to accept the result of the election come 2023. The chairman of the committee, General Abdulsalami Abubakar, briefed the press after the committee meeting in conjunction with INEC held in Minna, Niger State on Thursday. He urged Nigerians to desist from selling their votes during the elections. According to him, in this election period, two peace accords would be signed by…

Veteran journalist Christiane Amanpour said Thursday that an interview with Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi was scrapped after he insisted she wear a headscarf, the focus of major protests in the cleric-run state. Amanpour, the chief international anchor of CNN who also has a show on US public broadcaster PBS, said she was ready for the interview Wednesday on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly when an aide insisted she cover her hair. “I politely declined. We are in New York, where there is no law or tradition regarding headscarves,” Amanpour, who was born in Britain to an Iranian father,…