A chilling video has surfaced from Okunran, a community in Yagba West Local Government Area of Kogi State, showing an entire settlement abandoned after a wave of violent bandit attacks. Once bustling with life, the community now lies silent, its homes deserted as residents fled for safety. The mass displacement followed repeated raids by armed … Read more
Africa’s hunger for solar energy is rising fast, thanks to a flood of affordable Chinese-made panels lighting up rooftops and large power plants across the continent. A fresh Oxford Economics report shows that African countries imported a record 9,516 megawatts (MW) of Chinese solar panels in the first seven months of 2025, up sharply from … Read more
Kogi State has been rocked by two deadly attacks on police personnel, leaving three officers dead and several firearms stolen, the state police confirmed on Sunday. The first attack occurred around 8:00 a.m. when about 20 armed hoodlums ambushed officers of the 70 PMF Kabba, attached to the Isanlu Area Command, at their patrol point … Read more
EDO citizens are calling on Senator Monday Okpebholo to urgently intervene in the deplorable state of the Uhiele/Opoji Junction road where erosion swept away a man on a motorcycle yesterday after. The unidentified man was spotted in a video clip struggling for survival while two Samaritans joined in rescuing him out of the ravaging erosion … Read more
Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka has turned down an invitation from the United States Consulate in Nigeria to attend a visa reinterview, scheduled for September 11. The globally acclaimed writer described the request as both “strange” and unnecessary. Speaking in an interview with TheNEWS Online, Soyinka said he initially dismissed the email invitation—meant for B1/B2 visa … Read more
Party warns against unconstitutional bid to truncate councillors’ tenure, describes planned exercise as a civilian coup against Edo people’s mandate. September 1, 2025 PRESS STATEMENT Edo PDP Condemns Illegal Plan for Council Bye-Elections …bye-election is a kangaroo exercise by kangaroo EDSIEC The attention of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Edo State, has been drawn to … Read more
The South-South region, long a stronghold of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), is experiencing a political earthquake. Several governors have defected to the All Progressives Congress (APC), sparking intense debate among their political mentors, allies, and opponents. What was once a predictable PDP landscape is now a hotbed of realignment, ambition, and shifting loyalties. In … Read more
Zambia is in the middle of a tense moment as President Hakainde Hichilema has openly rejected claims linking him to witchcraft in the death of his predecessor, Edgar Lungu. The rumours, mostly pushed by Lungu’s Patriotic Front party, suggest the government wanted to use the late leader’s body for sinister purposes—a claim Hichilema called regrettable … Read more
UGBOWO Community in Edo State has petitioned the new Chief medical Director, Prof. Idia Nibokun Ize-Iyamu and the Code of Conduct Bureau (CCB) to rein in Assistant Superintendent of Police, (ASP) Mohammed Usman, Olayiwola Afolabi (SAN), former University of Benin Teaching Hospital Chief Medical Director (UBTH), Prof. Darlington Obaseki, Mr. Abu Jeremiah, Mr. Sylvester Ineyen, … Read more
The father of Ukpo Nwamini David — the young man at the center of former Deputy Senate President Ike Ekweremadu’s UK organ trafficking case — has died. Family members say he passed away on Sunday afternoon, allegedly from heartbreak after years of being unable to see or speak with his son since the 2022 incident. … Read more