Simon Ekpa, the self-proclaimed spokesperson of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, says plans are underway to activate sit-at-home in Lagos state. Disclosing this in a tweet on Tuesday, the controversial IPOB activist said the sit-at-home was in reaction to the recent attacks on Igbos of the South East region in Lagos. His tweet reads, “I have just watched another Igbo Biafran market in Lagos being burnt down in Balogun, Lagos today, and I am...

Habeeb Okikiola, the Nigerian singer known as Portable, trended on social media yesterday over his encounter with some police officers who stormed his ‘office’ to arrest him. The incident, captured live on Portable’s Instagram page, saw him challenging the authority of the policemen as they invaded his bar in Ogun state and attempted to take him away. The singer rebuffed the efforts of the police to arrest him, claiming that he works for the ruling...

Supporters of Bola Tinubu, the candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in the last presidential election, staged a peaceful protest in Abuja, the nation’s capital on Monday to defend the mandate of the president-elect. The declaration of Tinubu as the winner of the election held on February 25 has continued to spark controversies with the candidates of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and Labour Party, LP, Atiku Abubakar and Peter Obi, respectively, discrediting the...