By Abimbola Ogunnaike Tragedy occurred in Ngala Local Government Area of Borno State as Boko Haram militants shot dead no fewer than 35 people, who went on a fishing expedition. It was gathered that a dozen militants opened fire on the fishermen outside Guggo village, 18 kilometres (12 miles) from the town of Dikwa. “We recovered 37 bodies last night along the river bank and nearby bushes. The figure is not exhaustive and the search for more bodies is ongoing in surrounding bushes,” one of the eye witnesses, who gave his name as Babakura Kolo, said. Another eyewitness, who identified himself…
Author: Soffiyyah Olamide
By Abimbola Ogunnaike Xi Jinping was unanimously elected Chinese president on Friday, 10 March, 2023, at the ongoing session of China’s national legislature, leading the country of 1.4 billion people onto a new journey toward modernisation. He was also elected chairman of the Central Military Commission (CMC) of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) by a unanimous vote. A total of 2,952 deputies were present at the third plenary meeting of the first session of the 14th National People’s Congress (NPC) on Friday morning, to exercise their constitutional right to elect China’s state leadership. The voting was anonymous. Thunderous applause…
By Abimbola Ogunnaike President Muhammadu Buhari has commiserated with the families of victims of the tragedy resulting from a collision between a moving train and a transit bus conveying government workers in Lagos State. A total of 85 passengers were reportedly being conveyed on the bus, most of whom sustained injuries of varying degrees, while six were confirmed dead. The President, in a statement issued by his Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, on Friday, 10 March, 2023, expressed sympathy over the accident involving a train and Lagos State BRT staff bus Thursday in Shogunle area of…
Wife of Nigeria’s President-elect, Senator Oluremi Tinubu! and the First Lady of Lagos State, Dr. Ibijoke Sanwo-Olu on Friday, 10 March, 2023, visited victims of Thursday, 9 March, 2023 train accident involving a staff bus of the State Government at the various health facilities where they are being treated. Tinubu and Sanwo-Olu were accompanied by the Wife of the Deputy Governor, Mrs. Oluremi Hamzat, and other senior officials of the state government, where they empathized with the victims and assessed their ongoing treatment at the health facilities. The hospitals visited include the General Hospital, Gbagada; Lagos State Accident and Emergency…
Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babajide Sanwo-Olu, on Friday, 10 March, 2023, paid condolence visit to families of the Lagos State Government staff, who were involved in the train accident that claimed six lives on Thursday. Governor Sanwo-Olu was accompanied by the state Head of Service, Mr. Hakeem Muri-Okunola, and some members of the State Executive Council to sympathise with the bereaved families. A Lagos State Government Staff Bus with Number 33, carrying civil servants and some dependants from Isolo to Alausa had a head-on collision with a commercial train at PWD Bus-Stop, along Agege Motor Road, in the State on Thursday,…
(Published in The PUNCH, on Friday, March 10, 2023) Bitter, sweet and curious creature, the honeybee. When the honeybee stings, its abdomen tears up, its mouth opens and closes, hitting the ground in a final kiss of death. That is the fate of the honeybee and its stinger – a weapon it uses for protection and the harbinger of its ultimate death. Hey, the next time you see a dead bee on the ground, you probably need to stoop, if you can’t pick it up, to see if it ‘bled’ to death in the abdomen. Science has shown that when…
The Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Interior – Dr. Shuaib Belgore has assured that Nigeria now has a competent electronic border security architecture to effectively secure the country. The Permanent Secretary gave this assurance on Thursday, 9 March, 2023 in Abuja, while exchanging view with a delegation from United Arab Emirate National Defence College, (UAE NDC) who are on a field study visit to the Ministry as part of their course work. The Permanent Secretary who represented the Minister used the opportunity to inform his August visitors that Nigerian Immigration Service is now better equipped with advanced technology to curtail any…
The Senator-elect for Lagos Central Senatorial District, Rt Hon Wasiu Eshilokun Sanni has sympathised with the Lagos State Government, civil servants and victims of the Ikeja train/ accident which occurred on Thursday, 9 March, 2023. Officially, three civil servants lost their lives in the crash while many others were injured. Commenting on the sad incident, Eshilokun-Sanni prayed that God accept the souls of the dead and grant their families the fortitude to bear the irreparable loss; while wishing the injured speedy recovery. The Deputy Speaker of the Lagos State House of Assembly urged restraint and patience particularly on the part…
Our attention has been drawn to an attempt by one, Lloyd Ukwu, a United States-based Nigerian claiming to be the Executive Director of the National Democratic Coalition (NADECO) to organise a press conference specifically intended to disparage and cast aspersions on the credibility of the 2023 Presidential Election freely and fairly won by the President-elect, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu. It must be stated emphatically and without any ambiguity that Ukwu is an impostor, hellbent on hoodwinking unsuspecting Nigerians in the diaspora and the international community to further a sinister agenda on behalf of the Presidential Candidate of the Labour Party…
Oyo State Governor, ‘Seyi Makinde, on Thursday, 9 March, 2023, commissioned the new Ojoo Divisional Police Headquarters, Ibadan, which was constructed by the state government following its destruction during the #EndSARS protest, which engulfed the country in 2021. The Governor, while speaking at the commissioning ceremony held at the Ojoo Roundabout, said that his administration will continue to maintain cordial relationship with the Police and other security agencies. A statement by the Chief Press Secretary to the governor, Mr. Taiwo Adisa, indicated that the Governor equally handed over 74 vehicles to Divisional Police Stations across the state, commending Police officers…