Barring last-minute changes, the All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential candidate, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, has decided to appoint two prominent northern journalists to his media team. One of the senior journalists (Name Withheld) is a celebrated columnist and former editor at different times with the two biggest newspaper groups in Northern Nigeria. The other younger prospective appointee (Name Withheld) is an award-winning pen pusher and one of the shiny lights of investigative journalism in Nigeria. PRNigeria gathered that the two journalists have agreed in principle to quit their present engagements and join the Tinubu media team ahead of the February 25…
Author: Soffiyyah Olamide
Parents of the 11 remaining abducted female students of the Federal Government College, Yauri, in Kebbi State, have appealed to Nigerians to come to their aid financially in order to rescue their children from their abductors. In a letter addressed to all Nigerians, which PRNigeria obtained, a group known as “Committee of Parents of 11 Abducted Students of F.G.C Birnin Yauri, Kebbi State, Nigeria,” passionately solicited financial assistance towards raising the sum of N100 million as ransom to be paid terrorists, in exchange of their wards. Recalled that the 11 students were kidnapped when armed bandits invaded their school on…
An uncle of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) House of Representatives candidate for Ideato Federal Constituency in Imo State, Ikenga Ugochinyere, has been killed by unknown gunmen on Saturday, 14 January, 2023 reports thegazellenews.com. Ugochinyere is the co-Spokesman for the Coalition of United Political Parties (CUPP). He has been sending series of desperate text messages to his colleague, Comrade Mark Adebayo on the attack. The last text he sent read: “We néed help… My uncle have been killed now.. They are setting everything on fire. Pz helppppopppppp”. Earlier, Ikenga’s colleague, Comrade Mark Adebayo has raised a passionate SOS claiming that the…
In a bid to make rural roads more accessible to citizens, the Ogun State Government has commenced the grading of rural roads across the 20 Local Government Areas of the state. The state Commissioner for Works and Infrastructure, Engr. Ade Akinsanya, made this known to correspondents in Abeokuta saying that the grading was to reshape and compact the roads to reduce lumps and bumps for smooth rides. Engr. Akinsanya noted that the graded roads would link communities together in the council areas and will enhance infrastructural and socio economic development while making life meaningful to the residents and further ease…
Governor Yahaya Bello of Kogi State, on Saturday, 14 January, 2023, paid a condolence visit to the Chairman of the Nigeria Union of Journalists, Kogi State chapter, Comrade Adeiza Momohjimoh, whose wife, Zainab, passed on last Friday. The Governor, who was accompanied on the visit by his Chief of Staff, Abdulkareem Jamiu Asuku, and the Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the state, Abdullahi Bello, among others, urged the NUJ chairman to be strong for the sake of the children his late wife left behind and the entire family. He said his visit was also to pay his…
Wok For APC Candidates, a youth-based organisation within the All Progressives Congress (APC ) in Ijebu East Local Government area of Ogun State, has donated hundreds of APC-coloured brooms and exercise books, to boost the ongoing campaign of the party. This is coming on the heels of an earlier donation during Governor Dapo Abiodun’s campaign tour of Ijebu East Local Government. Presenting the gifts on Saturday afternoon, 14 January, 2023, at the APC Campaign Secretariat in Abeokuta, the group members said the gesture was based on the achievements of Governor Abiodun and the need to support him for second term…
The Kaduna State Fire Service said a fire incident which occurred in the early hours of Friday, 13 January, 2023, has resulted in the death of one Mohammadu Sani, his wife Raulatu Sani, their son Hashim Sani (8) and an infant, Fatima Sani. Mohammad Umar, Commander of the service in charge of Zaria Zone, made this known in an interview with reporters in Zaria on Friday, 13 January, 2023. Umar said the fire outbreak occurred at around 1:00 a.m. on Hajiya Maituwo St., Low Cost Area Zaria, Zaria Local Government. He added that the fire service was called after the…
An uncle of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) House of Representatives candidate for Ideato Federal Constituency in Imo State, Ikenga Ugochinyere, has been killed by unknown gunmen on Saturday, 14 January, 2023 reports thegazellenews.com. Ugochinyere is the co-Spokesman for the Coalition of United Political Parties (CUPP). He has been sending series of desperate text messages to his colleague, Comrade Mark Adebayo on the attack. The last text he sent read: “We néed help… My uncle have been killed now.. They are setting everything on fire. Pz helppppopppppp”. Earlier, Ikenga’s colleague, Comrade Mark Adebayo has raised a passionate SOS claiming that the…
In what seems the first of its kind in history, the Supreme Court, on Friday, 13 January, 2023, dethroned the Obong of Calabar, Édidem Ekpo Okon Abasi-Otu V. The action comes after years of legal tussle. The deposed monarch has been at loggerheads with some members of the traditional council over the processes leading to his installation. In the judgment written by Justice Amina Augie and read by Justice Akomaye Agim, the Apex Court upheld the judgment of the Appeal Court, Calabar, and ordered for a fresh election. The deposed Obong is still qualified to contest and this will be…