A man identified as Issa Naigheti has been arrested by Kwara state police command for allegedly kidnapping his father and collecting a ransom of N2.5 million. Ajayi Okasanmi, spokesman of the command, said the suspect was arrested around Kambi area of Ilorin by officers attached to the anti-kidnapping team of the Kwara police command. Naigheti has reportedly confessed to the crime. Okasanmi said, “the suspect confessed under interrogation to having conspired with two others to kidnap his father, Bature Naigboho in Igboho/Igbeti area of Oyo State and collected N2.5 million ransom”. Okasanmi further revealed that the case would be transferred…
Author: Soffiyyah Olamide
Kwara State Governor, AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq on Thursday, 5 January, 2023, swore-in Justice Abiodun Ayodele Adebara as the Acting Chief Judge of Kwara State, some hours after Justice Suleiman Durosinlorun Kawu OFR bowed out of the bench in great honours. The development reaffirmed the administration’s absolute respect for separation of powers and rule of law, the Governor said. “It is on record that this government has since assumption of office in 2019 shown absolute respect for separation of powers and rule of law. It is in this regard that the most senior Judge on the High Court bench is being sworn-in…
The Chairman of the Governing Board of the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, Mrs. Lauretta Onochie, has assured that the new leadership in the Commission will work to impact positively on the lives of the people of the Niger Delta region. Speaking at a meeting with management and staff of the Commission at the NDDC headquarters in Port Harcourt, Onochie noted that “it is imperative to chart a new course for the NDDC, different from what obtained in the past.” She declared: “We are here to do things differently. We have to work with new ideas to be able to achieve the objective…
The Minister of Niger-Delta Affairs, Chief Umana Okon Umana, has charged members of the Governing Board of the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, to be faithful in the implementation of the recommendations of the report of the Commission’s Forensic Audit. Umana gave the directive while inaugurating the new board of the Commission yesterday in Abuja, urging the board members to immediately hit the ground running. The new board has as Chairman former aide to President Muhammadu Buhari, Mrs. Lauretta Onochie and Chief Dr. Samuel Ogbuku as Managing Director. The Minister stressed the need for the board and the management to…
A Superintendent of Police, Muhammed Abubakar, has threatened to deal with Mr. Abdullahi Haruna Haruspice, the publisher of an Abuja-based magazine, World Entourage Magazine. The lawyer to the journalist, one Anayo Okelue Esq, revealed this in a petition against SP Abubakar, which he wrote to the Assistant Commissioner of Police, Compliant Response Unit, at the Force Headquarters. In the petition obtained by PRNigeria, Okelue, said their petition was necessitated by the threat of SP Abubakar to unlawfully detain their client. “The crux of the matter is that while our client who is a journalist was building up narrative and also…
After evading several onslaughts of the Nigerian military, a notorious Boko Haram warlord, Abou Hurairah, has met his waterloo. PRNigeria gathered that Abou Hurairah, was eliminated alongside some other Boko Haram Commanders. It was during an aggressive bombardment’s operation by the Air Task Force, ATF, of Operation Hadin Kai, using two alpha jets of the Nigerian Air Force, NAF. Abou Hurairah, and the other eliminated Boko Haram kingpins, were behind the series of attacks in Monguno axis of Borno State, recently. A defence intelligence source told PRNigeria that Abou Hurairah, and other terrorist commanders have been the ones coordinating and…
The immediate past Osun Governor, Adegboyega Oyetola on Thursday, 5 January, 2023, inaugurated the Osun Tinubu/Shettima Presidential Campaign Council (PCC), in Osogbo. Oyetola who is the State Coordinator, Tinubu/Shettima Presidential Campaign Council tasked the newly-inaugurated members of the PCC to begin to intensify efforts towards ensuring all round victory for the All Progressives Congress (APC) Presidential Candidate and his running mate, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu and Alhaji Kashim Shettima and all APC candidates in the forthcoming general elections. This is even as Oyetola reiterated that Osun State would ensure the delivery of over a million votes for the party’s flag-bearer…
All Progressives Congress Presidential Candidate, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, said former President Olusegun Obasanjo is not qualified to recommend or endorse anyone as President of Nigeria because of his failures. While speaking on Thursday, 5 January, 2023 at the APC Presidential Campaign rally held at the University of Benin Sports Complex, Ugbowo Campus, Benin, the APC flagbearer said Obasanjo failed to develop the country when he had the opportunity, but rather was fighting his then Vice President, Atiku Abubakar, while accusing each other of spending the country’s money for their personal comfort. Tinubu noted that after spending $16billion on electricity,…
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, secured a total of 3,785 convictions across all its Commands in 2022. The figure, which emerged from a review of the Commission’s performance in the outgone year, shows a 70.5% improvement over its record for 2021 (2220). It also represents a 98.93% success rate in prosecution given that the Commission lost only 41 cases, representing 1.07% within the period As it was in 2021, the Lagos Command of the Agency recorded the most convictions-765, closely followed by the Ibadan Command with 573 convictions and the Port Harcourt Zonal Command- 567, while the headquarters recorded 314 convictions. The conviction secured by…