Author: Platform Times Newspaper

The Nigeria Union of Teachers (NUT) has warned that it may embark on industrial action if the Federal and state governments fail to urgently halt the rising wave of attacks on schools and abductions of teachers and students across the country. The union described the repeated assaults on educational institutions as barbaric, inhuman and a grave threat to the survival of Nigeria’s education system. In a statement jointly signed by its National President, Audu Amba, and Secretary General, Clinton Ikpitibo, the Nigeria Union of Teachers lamented that schools, which should serve as safe environments for learning, have increasingly become targets…

Activist and lawyer, Dele Farotimi, has accused the administrations of former President Muhammadu Buhari and incumbent President Bola Tinubu of enabling what he described as the entrenchment of terrorist groups in Nigeria. Farotimi made the allegation on Wednesday during an interview on State Affairs, a podcast hosted by Edmund Obilo, while reacting to the worsening security situation across the country. He claimed that the handling of insecurity by successive governments under the ruling All Progressives Congress had emboldened violent actors and weakened state authority. According to him, “It is Buhari, the APC, and Tinubu’s government that enabled Fulani terrorists to…

The Federal High Court in Abuja has fixed June 5, 2026, for judgment in a suit seeking the deregistration of several political parties, including the African Democratic Congress, Accord Party, Action Alliance, Action Peoples Party (APP), and Zenith Labour Party over alleged constitutional breaches. Justice Peter Lifu fixed the date on Wednesday after dismissing applications for stay of proceedings and joinder filed by some politicians and party members seeking to be joined in the matter. Those affected by the ruling include Senator Ademola Adeleke, Oluwafemi Abayomi Arabambi of the Accord Party, and Sani Yakubu Noma of the ADC. In his…

The Chairman of Oriire Local Government Area of Oyo State, Alabi Olateju Michael, has disclosed that security operatives are tightening the noose around armed abductors who attacked three schools in the council, expressing optimism that the victims will soon regain freedom. Alabi said coordinated security operations involving multiple agencies had been ongoing since the abduction of pupils, teachers and a school principal in Ahoro-Esinele community last Friday. Gunmen had stormed Community High School, Ahoro-Esinele, alongside two nearby primary schools, moving from classroom to classroom and whisking away dozens of victims, including minors, in a brazen daylight attack that has sparked…

A 37-year-old man, Oluwafemi Lekan, was on Wednesday, remanded in a correctional centre by an Ado-Ekiti Magistrates’ Court  for allegedly raping a 12-year-old girl. PLATFORM TIMES reports that the  Magistrate, Mrs Olubunmi Bamidele, ordered the remand of the defendant pending issuance of legal advice by the Office of the Director of Public Prosecution (DPP), Ekiti State. The  plea of the defendant was, however, not taken. The Police had, through a Form K application, sought the remand of the defendant pending the legal advice from the DPP office. The prosecutor, ASP Osuolale Yomi, told the court that the defendant committed the…

The husband of the abducted principal of Community Grammar School, Esiele, Professor Wole Alamu, has urged Nigerians to exercise restraint in public commentary as security agencies intensify efforts to rescue pupils, teachers and administrators kidnapped in Oriire Local Government Area of Oyo State. Alamu, who spoke during a telephone interview on Wednesday, warned that premature disclosures and unguarded statements could compromise ongoing operations aimed at securing the safe release of the victims. “We are going to grant interviews, but not now. The work is seriously being done underneath. Anything you say now may jeopardise the rescue operations,” he said. He,…

Zainab Abioye  The Ogun State Police Command recorded a total of 2,559 criminal cases across the state between January and March 2026, with theft and stealing emerging as the most prevalent offences, according to official crime statistics obtained from the command. Data released by the Police Public Relations Department showed that 830 cases of theft and other stealing-related offences were reported within the period, placing the category at the top of the state’s crime chart for the first quarter of the year. The figures further revealed a fluctuating crime pattern across the three months under review. January recorded the highest…

Family members, colleagues, union leaders and sympathisers on Monday, converged on Adigbe, Abeokuta, Ogun State, for the 8th-day Fidau prayer held in honour of the late union chairman, Comrade Alhaji Basheer Ayobamiji Obabiyi. The prayer session, organised by the deceased’s family in collaboration with Islamic clerics, drew a large turnout of relatives, friends and labour associates who gathered to seek Allah’s forgiveness for the late unionist and pray for the continued wellbeing of his family. The gathering featured Qur’anic recitations and dua led by Islamic scholars, who prayed for the repose of his soul and asked Allah to admit him…

…Dele Momodu Fires Back As Amaechi Rejects Pressure To Step Down For Atiku Daud Olatunji Fresh tension has erupted within the opposition coalition as former Rivers State Governor and ex-Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi, has firmly rejected claims suggesting he is being considered as a vice-presidential candidate to former Vice President Atiku Abubakar ahead of the 2027 general election. Amaechi, who is among presidential aspirants under the African Democratic Congress (ADC), made the rejection during a televised interview on a TV, where he abruptly cut in after being described as a “vice-presidential candidate.” “Stop that! Stop calling me vice presidential…

Violence erupted on Monday during the All Progressives Congress (APC) primaries in Lagos State, leaving the Lagos State Commissioner for Wealth Creation and Employment, Akinyemi Bankole Ajigbotafe, hospitalised after he was allegedly attacked by suspected political thugs in Alimosho Local Government Area. The commissioner, popularly known as “AB Ajigbotafe,” was reportedly left in critical condition with severe injuries and heavy blood loss following the violent confrontation that disrupted a reconciliation meeting convened to address disputes arising from the party’s House of Representatives primary election in Lagos West. Eyewitness accounts and party sources said the crisis stemmed from lingering tensions generated…