Author: Tosin Ajayi

ENUGU, Nigeria (VOICE OF NAIJA)- Frank Esenwah, Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidate for Oshimili North constituency, Delta State, has warned unknown gunmen to stay away from the State, declaring that the state is not IPOB “territory”. Mr Esenwah said he was pleased to hear that the police were able to kill one of the gunmen. “We were informed that some criminal gang tried to terrorise this community but we thank God that the police were able to live up to their billing and one of them was killed while two escaped with bullet wounds,” he stated. “We have come in…

ENUGU, Nigeria (VOICE OF NAIJA)- Innoson Vehicle Manufacturing Company has insisted that it never breached the agreement in the vehicle deal with the Imo State government. The head, corporate communications and affairs, Innoson Vehicles, Cornel Osigwe made this known in a statement on Monday. According to the company, the state government is yet to pay any amount since it delivered the vehicles in April 2021. The statement read, “Our attention has been drawn to a statement purportedly released by the Commissioner for Information and Strategy, Hon. Declan Emelumba on behalf of the Imo State Government. “The said statement was unscrupulously…

IBADAN, Nigeria (VOICE OF NAIJA)- About five persons have died with several others injured in a ghastly auto crash that occurred early Tuesday morning in the Epe area of Lagos. According to a statement from the Lagos State Emergency Management Agency, signed by its Director-General, Dr Olufemi Damilola Oke-Osanyintolu, the accident occurred at Alaro city inward Epe. The statement reads,” Upon arrival of the LASEMA Response Team, LRT Whale’s Squad at Epe at the incident scene, it was revealed that a truck conveying sand had a head on collision with a hummer commuter bus with 6 passengers on board. Furthermore…

IBADAN, Nigeria (VOICE OF NAIJA)- The Federal government of Nigeria says it has not raised the pump price of premium motor spirit (PMS), above the regulated price. Timipre Sylva, Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, said this at the Nigerian Midstream and Downstream Petroleum Regulatory Authority (NMDPRA) stakeholders’ consultation forum on regulations, held on Monday in Abuja. While the regulated pump price of the product is N165 a litre, some filling stations have been selling as high as N180 a litre. Despite this, petrol subsidy claims climbed to N2.6 trillion in the first half of 2022 — above crude oil sale receipts…

IBADAN, Nigeria. (VOICE OF NAIJA) -Al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri has been killed in a CIA drone strike in Afghanistan’s capital, Kabul, United States President Joe Biden has said. Biden disclosed this in a speech at the White House on Monday night, 1 August, 2022. Al-Zawahiri was killed on Sunday in the biggest blow to the group since its founder Osama bin Laden was killed in 2011. “Justice has been delivered. And this terrorist leader is no more. No matter how long it takes, no matter where you hide — if you are a threat to our people, the United States…

IBADAN, Nigeria. (VOICE OF NAIJA) -Some kidnappers threw some of their victims off a bridge at Alor, in the Idemili South Local Government Area of Anambra State on Sunday. The victims were said to have been abducted along Nnobi-Nnewi Road and taken to Alor, where they were thrown down into the Obiaja River. A video currently trending on social media showed one of the abductees narrating his ordeal to men of the Tiger Squad Local Vigilantes, Alor. The victim, Benjamin Okafor, said he was driving in his Toyota Camry to his hometown, Amichi, in the Nnewi South LGA with one…

IBADAN, Nigeria. (VOICE OF NAIJA) -The family of Fela Anikulapo-Kuti, on Tuesday, 2 August, marked the 25th anniversary of the Afrobeat legend’s demise. Remembering their late father, who died on 2 August, 1997, Femi and Seun Anikulapo-Kiti, who are also musicians paid tribute to the legendary singer. Hailing Fela as the soul of Afrobeat, Femi noted that he misses his father, even after 25 years of the icon’s demise. Sharing a post in the early hours of Tuesday, Femi Anikulapo-Kuti wrote: “25 years on, still in our hearts. I miss you more and more. The one and only Abami Eda…

By Oluwatosin Ajayi IBADAN, Nigeria (VOICE OF NAIJA)- The UNIOSUN Teaching Hospital management has called off its warning strike, in the wake of a recent attack and harassment of their staff. It warned that the hospital would not tolerate any form of attack or harassment of its staff in the course of discharging their duties. Recall members of the National Association of Resident Doctors (NARD), had embarked on a warning strike in protest of the attack on their colleagues. Some hoodlums and relatives of a patient who died after being brought into the Accident and Emergency Department of the hospital…

By Alexandra Dominic-Chukwu ENUGU, Nigeria (VOICE OF NAIJA)- I will rather die in my country, Nigeria, than live free in another man’s country, says Mr. Peter Obi, the Labour Party presidential candidate. The former Anambra State Governor explained that he loves Nigeria and can never have another country to call our own but Nigeria, regardless how successful he is in another country. “If I am out of Nigeria today and there is a war in Nigeria, I will find a way to return to Nigeria because I will rather die in my country, Nigeria, than live free in another man’s…