ABANDONED UKANAFUN COTAGE HOSPITAL BACKLASH: Man 25 dies of snake bite A 25-year-old young man died recently in Okoyo village in Ukanafun, Akwa Ibom State, Nigeria after a snake bite. According to a family member named Ofonime who spoke to Townhall Platform on phone, he said the young man was bitten by the snake while […] More
WHY BUHARI, NIGERIAN OFFICIALS ARE ‘NERVOUS’ ABOUT BIDEN –BY JOE PARKINSON President Muhammadu Buhari and his administration officials are reportedly not comfortable with the victory of Joe Biden. The Democratic candidate will be sworn in as the 46th President of the United States of America. This will happen if the incumbent Donald Trump fails in […] More
The Governor of Ekiti State, Dr. Kayode Fayemi, and his counterpart in Ogun State, Prince Dapo Abiodun, have inaugurated judicial panels against police brutality. On his part, Fayemi named a retired Judge of the Ekiti State High Court, Justice Cornelious Akintayo, and a retired Police Commissioner, Mr. Dipo Ayeni, as members of the panel in […] More
… Say other interests have taken over the protests, could compound collective security . By Luminous Jannamike Northern Elders Forum, on Monday night advised the anti-SARS protesters to end their agitations on the streets. Youths had, since October 6, begun non-stop protests against and extra-judicial killings by operatives of the now-disbanded Special Anti-Robbery Squad, a […] More
The Ekiti State Government has denied deploying armed soldiers to disrupt the #EndSARS protests that were held at the state capital on Monday, October 19. The state commissioner of information Akin Omole in a statement released on Tuesday, October 20, said the soldiers were sent to protect the citizens against harm and to ensure that […] More
A Nigerian man has been arrested in Malaysia for the murder of a 36-year-old fellow Nigerian over a love triangle involving a Malaysian woman. Kuala Lumpur police chief Comm Datuk Saiful Azly Kamaruddin disclosed this during a press conference at the Sentul police headquarters on Monday, October 19. He said that the yet-to-be-named Nigerian man […] More
