By Abimbola Ogunnaike President Bola Tinubu, on Tuesday, 25 July, 2023 received in audience the immediate past National Chairman and Secretary of the governing All Progressives Congress,(APC) Senators Abdullahi Adamu and Iyiola Omisore, respectively, at the Aso Rock Presidential Villa, Abuja. Today’s meeting comes one week after Adamu and Omisore reportedly resigned their positions just days to the scheduled National Caucus and National Executive Council meetings earlier slated for Monday, 18 July and Tuesday, 19 July, 2023, respectively. At the time, Tinubu was away in Kenya for the Fifth Mid-Year Coordination Meeting of the African Union and have not met…
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By Abimbola Ogunnaike Three suspects in connection to the gang rape of a 15-year-old minor are now cooling off at the Adamawa state police command cell in Mayo Belwa Local government Area of the state. The suspects identified as Hassan Nasir, 25years, a resident of Sabon Pegi Ngurore, Yola South Local Government Area, Uzairu Dan Fulani, 25years, a resident of Gasabga ward Mayo belwa, Yola South local government Area and Yahaya Edward, 26, a resident of Sabon Pegi, Ngurore, Yola South Local government Area. According to the police, the suspects lured the girl who boarded a tricycle from Mayo Belwa to…
By Abimbola Ogunnaike Some aggrieved Muslim youths took to the streets of Maiduguri, the Borno State capital, to demonstrate their displeasure with popular singer, Davido who posted a video clip offensive to Islam on his Twitter page. Recall that Davido came under heavy criticisms after sharing a clip of the music video of his signee, Logos Olori’s new single ‘Jaye Lo’ which captured people praying and dancing in front of a mosque. Many prominent Nigerian Muslims including former aide to ex-president Muhammadu Buhari, Bashir Ahmad, Senator Shehu Sani, actor, Ali Nuhu, asked Davido to take down the video and apologise…
By Abimbola Ogunnaike The unthinkable happened to the family of a 30-year-old County Chief Officer, Rahab Karisa in Mnarani, Kilifi county in Kenya as she was allegedly stabbed to death by her house help after a disagreement over money spends on house expenditure. Karisa, who until her death, was the Chief Officer for Fisheries and Blue Economy, was found dead in her room on Thursday, 20 July, 2023, after reportedly quarreling with the house help. An autopsy conducted on Friday, 21 July, 2023 at the Kilifi county hospital, indicated that Karisa sustained a deep cut that pierced through the artery…
By Abimbola Ogunnaike Protest rocked the Osun State Polytechnic, Iree Chapter, on Tuesday, 25 July, 2023 over the suspension of the institution’s Rector, Dr Tajudeen Odetayo. The protesters, chanting solidarity songs, barricaded the main campus entrance in Iree which left the students writing examination stranded. The Osun State Governor, Ademola Adeleke, had suspended Odetayo as the rector of polytechnic over corruption allegations and announced Alabi Adeyemi as the acting rector of the institution. However, the Academy Staff Union of Polytechnic in the institution described the suspension as an aberration which was against the constitution of the institution. The Chairman of the union,…
By Abimbola Ogunnaike Rights groups on Tuesday, 26 July, 2023 disclosed that Singapore is set to hang two drug convicts this week, including the first woman to be sent to the gallows in nearly 20 years for drug related offence. Rights watchdog Amnesty International on Tuesday, 25 July, 2023 urged Singapore to halt the impending executions. “It is unconscionable that authorities in Singapore continue to cruelly pursue more executions in the name of drug control,” Amnesty’s death penalty expert Chiara Sangiorgio said in a statement. “There is no evidence that the death penalty has a unique deterrent effect or that…
By Abimbola Ogunnaike Former governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Godwin Emefiele, has been granted a N20 million bail. The bail condition includes producing a suretee with landed property within the jurisdiction of the court in Ikoyi, Lagos, depositing his passport and also producing a civil servant not below level 16 to perfect bail. Emefiele was docked and charged before Justice Nicholas Oweibo sitting at the Federal High Court, Lagos, on Tuesday, 25 July, 2023. The prosecution accused Emefiele of illegally having a single-barrel shotgun (JOJEFF MAGNUM 8371). The Department of State Services (DSS) brought him to Court…
By Abimbola Ogunnnaike The Nigeria Police Force(NPF) in collaboration with local vigilantes has killed two kidnap suspects terrorizing Kogi State, thegazellenews.com reports. Police Public Relations Officer, SP William Ovye Aya disclosed this in a statement issued on the evening of Monday, 24 July, 2023. Aya said the gallant officers who also rescued one kidnap victim, recovered one AK rifle with 14 rounds of live ammunition. According to Aya, the recent achievement of the command to weed Kogi State of criminal activities was in compliance with the directives of the Commissioner of Police, in Kogi State, Onuoha Bethrand to sustain the tempo on…
By Abimbola Ogunnaike The All Progressives Congress (APC) has described the petition filed by the Lagos State Governorship Candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour, against Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu and his Deputy, Dr Kadri Obafemi Hamzat, as “wishy-washy”. In its 36-page final written address to the Lagos Governorship Election Tribunal, the APC in its response to the petition of Rhodes-Vivour also submitted that no evidence had been put before the three-man panel to sway its mind that the votes cast for Gov. Babajide Sanwo-Olu and his Deputy were not lawful or that the election was not conducted in substantial…
By Abimbola Ogunnaike The Osun State Governor, Senator Ademola Adeleke, has suspended the Rector of the Osun State Polytechnic, Dr Tajudeen Odetayo, over corruption allegations levelled against him. According to a Tuesday, 11 July, 2023 memo by the Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Education, Muritala Jimoh, addressed to the Acting Registrar of the polytechnic, Odetayo is facing an investigation over “allegations of financial recklessness, corruption and misappropriation of funds and abuse of office”. The Governor also approved the appointment of Mr Alabi Kehinde Adeyemi as the acting Rector with immediate effect, “pending the time the allegations against him are properly investigated…