Author: Tosin Ajayi

By Alexandra Dominic-Chukwu Enugu, Nigeria (VOICE OF NAIJA)- Udom Ekpoudom, a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Akwa Ibom State, says the former Niger Delta Affairs Minister, Senator Godswill Akpabio, is the reason the party does not have a governorship candidate in the state. Ekpoudom, a retired Deputy Inspector General of Police (DIG) who claims to be the party’s senatorial candidate of Akwa Ibom Northwest, spoke at the weekend in Uyo, the state capital. According to him, Akpabio allegedly manipulated the governorship primaries to install his preferred candidate. He accused the former minister of hijacking the materials for…

Ibadan, Nigeria (VOICE OF NAIJA)- Four informants suspected to be leaking information to terrorists about troops’ locations and movements in Abuja have been arrested. According to a news dissemination platform, PRNigeria, the criminals were already in the custody of a security agency. An intelligence operative told PRNigeria that the suspects were arrested with sophisticated equipment including Walkie-Talkies, revolver, knives, amulets, and old chinese made phones, that do not use data. The source, who was part of the raid that led to the arrest of the informants, said discreet investigations were ongoing to confirm their leaders and financiers. The source added…

Ibadan, Nigeria (VOICE OF NAIJA)- The Federal Government of Nigeria has banned the importation of subscriber identity module (SIM) cards, saying the country should not import things that could be produced within The Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Isa Pantami made the announcement on Monday in Oniru, Lagos. He spoke at the Nigerian Telecommunications Indigenous Content Expo (NTICE) organized by the Nigeria Office for Developing Indigenous Telecoms Sector (NODITS) of the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC). Pantami said Africa’s biggest country should not be importing things that could be produced within. “Let me make it clear that the federal government…

By Alexandra Dominic-Chukwu Enugu, Nigeria (VOICE OF NAIJA)- Mr Philip Wuhe, a chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Benue, has jojned the Peoples Redemption Party (PRP). Wuhe disclosed his defection when he spoke with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Makurdi. According to him, he left the PDP because it did not give him fair treatment in spite of his numerous contributions to its development. “I wanted to contest for the state House of election on the platform of the PDP because I was favoured by zoning. “Unfortunately, the zoning arrangement was later manipulated in favour of…

By Alexandra Dominic-Chukwu Enugu, Nigeria (VOICE OF NAIJA)- The proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), has warned politicians from the South-East to ignore the idea of returning to the region without its leader, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu. The warning came following the lingering insecurity in the country cum the recent attacks in Abuja. Many Abuja residents have reportedly left Abuja to a place of comfort, while others are planning on leaving the nation’s capital, as a result of the incessant attacks by terrorists last week. IPOB in a statement signed by its spokesperson, Emma Powerful, said, “As terrorists and insecurity gradually…

By Oluwatosin Ajayi Ibadan, Nigeria (VOICE OF NAIJA)- Six headers have been reportedly killed and seven others missing in Mongi and Langai communities in Mangu Local Government Area of Plateau State. Malam Nura Abdullahi, the State Chairman of MACBAN, who confirmed the development, alleged that a Bauchi based local security group had on July 22 invaded the communities, and arrested some Fulani, took them to a bush and killed them. The MACBAN chairman said 13 of his members were arrested and six corpses found in the bush while the remaining ones were nowhere to be found. He said, “From Sunday,…

By Oluwatosin Ajayi Former Kogi West Senator, Dino Melaye, has described the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar as a talent hunter, saying he is better positioned to rule the country compared with other candidates. Describing the PDP presidential candidate as a talent hunter, Melaye said Obi was unknown before Atiku identified him. He spoke during an event in Abuja on Sunday. Melaye maintained that everyone who was a reformer in Nigeria between 1999 to date was discovered by Atiku. He said: “Atiku discovered Obi before keyboard warriors discovered Obi. Unfortunately, elections are not going to take place…

Ghana has confirmed its first two cases of the deadly Marburg virus, a highly infectious disease in the same family as the virus that causes Ebola. It says both patients died recently in hospital in the southern Ashanti region. Their samples came back positive earlier this month and have now been verified by a laboratory in Senegal. Health officials in the West African nation say 98 people are now under quarantine as suspected contact cases. These include relatives, medics and mortuary workers who came into contact with the two patients. This is the second time that Marburg has been identified…

Nigeria’s Vice President, Professor Yemi Osinbajo has been discharged from the hospital following a corrective surgery on his right femur Osinbajo’s Chief Personal Physician, Dr Nicholas Audifferen, disclosed this in a statement on Monday. Recall Osinbajo underwent a surgical operation on Saturday, July 16, at the Duchess International Hospital, Ikeja, Lagos. “The Vice President, Professor Yemi Osinbajo, SAN, was admitted to the Duchess International Hospital, Lagos, last Saturday, July 16, 2022, on account of a right femur fracture. He had corrective surgery without any complications,” the statement read. “He was admitted for a total of 7 days, during which he…

A plane has crashed and flipped over on landing at the airport in Somalia’s capital but there were no fatalities among the 36 people on board. Dramatic footage shot near the airport in Mogadishu shows thick black smoke rising above the crash site. Firefighters doused the flames and pictures from the scene show the plane, a Fokker 50, upside down. It belonged to Jubba Airways and it was an internal flight from the city of Baidoa to the capital. The passengers and the crew were all rescued, according to the airport authorities who were quoted by state media. The cause…