…Describes Benue, Plateau killings As Barbaric The pan-Yoruba socio-political organisation, Afenifere, has commended President Bola Tinubu over plans to establish state police in the country. Comrade Jare Ajayi, Afenifere’s National Publicity Secretary, in a press statement on Friday, noted that the organisation’s position is that Nigeria is long overdue to have state police. The organisation also condemned the killings in Benue and Plateau States, describing them as barbaric. The statement reads, “We’re aware that President...

The United Nations earmarked June 19th, 2025 as World Sickle Cell Day. In Anambra State, the Governorship candidate of the Young Progressive Party, YPP, in the November 8, 2025, Anambra State Governorship Election, called for collective action through awareness, to combat sickle cell anemia. Paul Chukwuma, who was represented by the YPP Deputy Governorship candidate, Uzu Okagbue, at the Sickle Cell Orphanage and Underprivileged Home, Agulu, to commemorate World Sickle Cell Day, observed that a...