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Dr Bolaji O. Akinyemi, the Board of Trustees Chairman of Project Victory Call Initiative, popularly called PVC Naija and the initiator Governance Impact Assessment, GIA, will lead an array of Patriots from across the country committed to nation building in assessing the performance of the outgoing  government of Edo state headed by Mr. Godwin Obaseki. According to a statement issued by Paula Bellgam, the President of Project Victory Call Initiative, GIA, is an assessment of the performance of the party in power and the Governor by the electorate to issue a performance score card and guide. This, we believe will…

A newborn baby miraculously survived spending six hours beneath soil after being buried alive by her mother. According to reports, the child’s mother, 23, from Uganda, buried her baby in a garden just moments after giving birth with no medical assistance. A case report from January states the newborn girl was buried during the night, and was not discovered until 11 am the following morning. The mother’s family members had discovered trails of blood in the garden near her family home, which led them to the burial site. After making an urgent call to the emergency services, medics rushed to…

Yoruba Nation activist, Sunday Adeyemo, popularly known as Sunday Igboho, has sued the Aare Onakakanfo of Yorubaland, Iba Gani Adams, for alleged defamation. Igboho, in a suit filed by his team of lawyers led by J. A. Sanusi, dragged Adams before the Oyo State High Court in Ibadan. The separatist leader prayed that the court should award a compensation of N500 million against Adams for the alleged defamatory statements against him. Among others, Igboho prayed for an order of the court “for the payment of exemplary and aggravated damages in the sum of Five Hundred Million Naira (N500,000,000.00) in…

The Labour Party (LP) has claimed that its National Chairman, Julius Abure, has escaped an assassination attempt on his life. The opposition party also claimed that Abure’s residence in Abuna was gutted by fire on Wednesday. This was made known in a statement to journalists by the National Publicity Secretary of the Labour Party, Obiora Ifoh. He said Abure’s residence was “gutted by a mysterious fire which started a few minutes after 1 am while Abure and the members of his family were asleep.” Ifoh’s statement quoted a member of the family who narrated the incident, saying the family…

Yoruba activist Sunday Adeyemo, popularly known as Sunday Igboho, has issued a notice to Fulani herders in Fiditi area of Oyo State directing them to vacate the region immediately. In a recent broqdcast which was released via his spokesman and monitored by Thecitypulsenews. In the broadcast, Sunday Igboho pleaded with Governor Seyi Makinde of Oyo State to take actions to secure Ilora community before it is too late while noting that there are tensions in the region. Sunday Igboho returned to Nigeria in February nearly three years after he fled the country following an attack on his residence in Ibadan…

A South Afrcan woman, Funanani Mbedzi has been allegedly shot dead by her husband inside the church during Easter celebration. According to South African police, the murder suspect entered the church in Makonde Shadani village, outside Thohoyandou, around 6 pm while the congregation was engaged in worship and shot at his wife multiple times. Limpopo SAPS spokesperson Colonel Malesela Ledwaba while confirming the incident, said the husband fled the scene after killing the worship leader. “While the motive behind this appalling incident remains unclear, domestic violence cannot be ruled out. “The man handed himself over to the police…

The astronomical event of total solar eclipse is all set to embrace our planet on April 8. The phenomenon is not just a spectacle in the sky, but also a living study of how creatures on Earth react to drastic changes in nature. Many studies on solar eclipses have shown in the past that animals and plants tend to behave differently during eclipses. Like during the 1851 eclipse in Sweden, a swarm of ants carrying food literally froze during the darkness of eclipse or a Massachusetts pantry was infested with cockroaches after the total eclipse in 1932. Many such incidents have…

The oldest man in the world, Juan Vicente Perez Mora has died at the ripe age of 114. Mora, a Venezuelan, was certified in 2022 by Guinness World Records as the oldest man in the world. The deceased died on Tuesday. “Juan Vicente Perez Mora has transcended into eternity at 114 years of age,” Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro said on social media platform X. Mora was officially confirmed as the world’s oldest man alive on February 4, 2022, when he was 112 years and 253 days old, according to Guinness. A father of 11, as of 2022 he had 41 grandchildren,…

Thousands of people took to the streets of Tel Aviv and Jerusalem over the weekend in the largest protests Israel has seen since the start of the war against Hamas, a significant challenge to the increasingly embattled leadership of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.d Demonstrators are angry at Netanyahu and his government for not having secured the release of all the hostages taken captive during the October 7 terror attack. While 105 people were released during a temporary truce last year, another 130 that were kidnapped are either dead or still being held by Hamas and other militant groups. Banners at the…

A former President of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Ali Ciroma, is dead, Naija News understands. It was gathered that the former unionist was pronounced dead on Tuesday at the University of Maiduguri Teaching Hospital, Maiduguri, Borno State capital. His death was confirmed in a statement by a family member, who is also the Secretary of the Borno State Council, Nigeria Union of Journalists, Ali Ibrahim Ciroma. The statement read, “It is with deep sorrow that I announce the death of Comrade Ali Ciroma, former President of the Nigeria Labour Congress. “The sad event occurred this evening (Tuesday, April 2)…