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Aisha Yesufu, a co-convener of the Bring Back Our Girls (BBOG) group, has urged President Muhammadu Buhari to resign on health grounds. She advised the National Assembly to impeach the president if he fails to step down. “We need to take our country back, let the president resign, if he can’t resign, let the National Assembly do the right thing and let’s have another president. It is not about President Buhari, it’s about Nigeria, and right now Nigeria is suffering and we cannot continue to allow this,” Ms. Yesufu said…

Four policemen attached to the Esigie Police Division have been made to face orderly room trial at the office of the Assistant Inspector General of Police in charge of Zone 5. They were arrested after pictures and video of their brutality against a commercial bus driver went viral. Their victim, Odozi Kester, was handcuffed to a police Hilux van and dragged on the ground until he fainted. The AIG, Zone 5, Abubakar Adamu, described the conduct of the policemen as unprofessional, which he said, did not depict the ethics and…

Scores of construction workers were trapped while one was reported dead when a three-story building under construction at Richard Abimbola Street, Ilasamaja, Lagos, collapsed, yesterday. Seventeen persons were rescued alive at about 7.15p.m., with rescue work still ongoing. Most of the workers were reportedly foreigners. The lifeless body of one of the workers was brought out from the rubble at 7.55p.m. Work was reportedly ongoing, when the building suddenly caved in at about 2p.m. The impact of the collapse affected a nearby church, but there was no one in the…

Alhaji Lai Mohammed, Nigeria Minister of Information and Culture, has debunked media reports claiming that he said the federal government does not know who will sign the 2017 budget. In a statement issued to newsmen on Wednesday by his Special Adviser, Segun Adeyemi, the Minister said he was misrepresented in the statement, maintaining that such statement was a malicious misrepresentation of what transpired at the post-Federal Executive Council Meeting press briefing earlier today. “Our attention has been drawn to a story in a section of the media quoting the Honourable Minister…

Family of the late Senator Isiaka Adeleke have threatened court action as it was confirmed that Adeleke died as a result of aspiration of gastric contents due to multiple drug overdoses. The leader of a team of pathologists who conducted an autopsy on him, Dr. Taiwo Olufemi Solaja disclosed this yesterday. The pathologist made the disclosure at the resumed proceeding of the Coroner Inquest raised by the Osun State government to probe the death. Solaja also ruled out the element of poison in the politician’s death. Giving evidence during a…

A public bus driver was yesterday handcuffed to a patrol truck by policemen along Sopkonba Road Junction, Benin, the Edo State capital. A resident, Augustine Ogbomwan, who was filming the torture of the unidentified driver with his mobile phone camera, was also said to have been detained by the police. It was learnt that some cops attached to the Esigie Police Division had stopped the driver’s vehicle on Sunday. The policemen allegedly asked the driver to alight from the vehicle and searched him. A businessman, Franklyn Irabor, who lived close…