Month: November 2025

News

Sahara Reporters targets Oddiri over Niger Delta funds privatisation

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) views with serious displeasure the insinuations contained in a news story published by Sahara Reporters titled: “DSS Abducts Lawyer Moses Oddiri in Lagos after Petition on Diversion of Funds by EFCC Chairman.”

According to a statement on Friday, 21 November 2025, signed by Head, Media and Publicity, EFCC, Dele Oyewale, the story, contrived to portray the arrest of Oddiri “on the orders and petition of the EFCC chairman over alleged diversion of funds intended for a community that Moses has been advocating for over the years,” is a falsehood taken too far.

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Education

Spelling Bee: We’re to create platform for young people – Organiser

The organisers of Bayelsa Spelling Bee says their core mission is to create a platform for young people to excel, educationally and otherwise.

The organisers said this as winners emerged from the 12th edition of the competition on Thursday.

The competition which was held at Davem Mini Hub and Children Music School in Yenagoa had  winners going home with cash prizes of N300,000, 100,000, and 50,000 for first, second and third positions, respectively.

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News

NOA condemns abduction of Kebbi schoolgirls, attack on worshippers in Kwara

The National Orientation Agency (NOA) has condemned the abduction of 25 students of Government Girls Comprehensive Secondary School, Kebbi State, as well as the violent attack and kidnapping of Christian worshippers in Eruku, Kwara State.

In a statement issued on Thursday by the agency’s Deputy Director of Communication and Media, Paul Odenyi, NOA Director General, Mallam Lanre Issa-Onilu, described both incidents as unacceptable assaults on citizens’ rights and national cohesion.

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Opinion

Sowore’s serial blackmail: Senator Ned Nwoko never grabbed any land at Idumuje-Ugboko

Sowore Omoyele, the publisher of Sahara Reporters, has begun re-enacting the same old lies he told more than two years ago — that Senator Ned Nwoko grabbed land in Idumuje-Ugboko and caused the murder of some persons.

As someone who has followed the trauma suffered by the 29 victims of the 2017 Idumuje-Ugboko mayhem, allegedly orchestrated by Prince Chukwunonso Nwoko, the current state-installed Obi of Idumuje-Ugboko, I am in a good position to correct this malicious falsehood against an illustrious son of the community.

In 2015, Prince Ned Nwoko, now a Senator, applied for a 90-hectare piece of land to establish a Sports University in Idumuje-Ugboko. The then Obi of the community, HRM Albert Nwoko, consulted members of the land allocation committee. After a series of verifications and consultations with stakeholders from the four federating villages, the land was duly approved by the late Obi and allocated to Linas International Limited, a company owned by Ned Nwoko.

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News

Breaking: Court convicts Nnamdi Kanu on FG’s terrorism charge

The Federal High Court in Abuja has convicted the detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, on count one of the terrorism charges filed against him by the Federal Government.

Delivering the ruling on Wednesday, Justice James Omotosho held that the prosecution had presented “uncontroverted evidence” showing that Kanu made multiple broadcasts inciting violence and killings in pursuit of his separatist agitation for Biafra.

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News

Enugu North Senator, Okechukwu Ezea, dies at 61

Enugu North Senator Okechukwu Ezea has passed away. His passing was confirmed on Wednesday by his colleague, Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan of Kogi Central, in a post on her verified Facebook page.

Senator Akpoti-Uduaghan described Ezea as “a good man — wise and gentle” whose prayers and support strengthened her during some of her most difficult moments in public life.

She wrote: “Rest in peace, Distinguished Senator Okey Ezea. You were a good man! Wise and gentle. Your prayers kept me going through my darkest moments, and I will miss you in chambers.

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Politics

PDP hails Nigerians for resisting ‘anti-democratic’ attack on party secretariat

The newly elected National Working Committee (NWC) of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), led by National Chairman Kabiru Tanimu Turaki, has commended Nigerians and party members for what it described as overwhelming solidarity in resisting an alleged attempt by “anti-democratic forces” to take over the party’s National Secretariat on Monday.

In a statement signed by the National Publicity Secretary, Comrade Ini Ememobong, on Tuesday, 18 November 2025,  the party said the courage shown by Nigerians during the confrontation “further reaffirms the PDP as the party of choice” as it prepares for the 2027 general elections.

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