Sola, June 17th is a day that we both hold dear. It’s your birthday! My dear love, I thank Almighty Allah for His mercy and blessings over your life and our family. You are not just a wife, but also a mother. Through thick and thin, you have remained a reliable confidant, a strong pillar of support, and a wonderful mother to our three lovely children. For close to three decades of our union, our marital bliss has never waned even for a day because you are an exemplary and virtuous woman. I am grateful to have you as my…
Author: Khadijah Olowode
Some anti-corruption crusaders have urged Nigerians to reject the bill passed by the Senate to whittle down the power of the Chairman of Independent Corrupt Practices and other offences Commission (ICPC), Professor Bolaji Owasanoye. They also urged President Bola Tinubu to withhold assent on the amended bill. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the senate had on June 4, passed a bill to amend the law establishing the ICPC, which steeply cuts down on the power of the commission’s chairperson. Speaking in separate interviews, with NAN, they posited that signing the bill into law would undermine the war…
For over two decades, the issue of Illicit Financial Flows (IFFs) has been a major concern for the Africa as assets and funds running into billions of dollars continue to find its way out of the continent as a result of corrupt public servants and multinational corporations. Their destination is the Western and European countries. Though stakeholders including the African Union Member-States have played significant roles in the international efforts to combat these opaque and destabilizing transfers of capital, such efforts have not yielded the desired goal. Tackling corruption, particularly IFFs, has become a matter of survival for Africa’s development…
By Abimbola Ogunnaike A 26 -year-old man, Nuhu Mohammed arrested alongside Sani Usman, 22, of Izom town, Gurara Local Government Area of Niger State has confessed to the police why they killed a 14-year-old secondary school student identified as Ubaida Surajo. In his confession, Mohammed said the deceased mother in the early hours of the day of the incident, accused him of stealing her N90,000 saying that the accusation got him angry, and he decided to kill the girl. He stated that he thus invited his friend, the second suspect, to partake in the heinous crime. The state Police Public Relations…
A High Court of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyanya Judicial Division, has struck out a defamation suit instituted by a Senatorial Candidate of the People’s Democratic Party in Kogi State, Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan, against Governor Yahaya Bello. In a ruling delivered on Friday, 16 June, 2023, by Justice Idris Mua’wiya, the Court struck out the defamation suit marked “CV/412/2022” for being incompetent. The suit, filed on behalf of Akpoti-Uduaghan by the Chambers of Femi Falana, SAN, was struck out upon the objection challenging the competence of the suit by Counsel to Kogi State Governor, Abdulwahab Muhammed, SAN. Counsel to the plaintiff…
A Chieftain of the All Progressives Congress and Kogi State Commissioner for Information and Communications, Hon. Kingsley Fanwo has expressed confidence that the party will win the Saturday, 11 November, 2023 poll, “massively”. Fanwo who made this known while speaking with journalists in Lokoja said the pedigree of the party in the state is such that the opposition will “continue to struggle”, saying the aspiration of Alh. Usman Ododo is a “movement of a united Kogi people”. His words: “Our candidate, Alh. Usman Ahmed Ododo has met virtually all key stakeholders in Kogi State. He is still meeting more people…
By Abimbola Ogunnaike A veteran Nigerian politician and elder statesman, Tanko Yakassai, said President Bola Ahmed Tinubu is best for Nigeria at this time and moment. Yakassai’s statement countered former President Olusegun Obasanjo’s recent comment that Peter Obi the Labour Party(LP) presidential candidate remained a better presidential candidate Nigeria needed. Yakasai, after meeting with President Tinubu recently, said that what Nigeria required at this time was a man with a track record of good governance and a well-versed politician to get it out of the woods. The elderstateman added that with the precedent set in Lagos State when Tinubu was the…
By Abimbola Ogunnaike French Police authourities on Friday,16 June, 2023 has disclosed that man confessed to the killing of his wife who has been missing for two and a half months in western France and has led investigators to the bush where he buried her Karine Esquivillon, 54, a mother-of-five, disappeared on March 27 without a trace from her home in the Pays de la Loire region of western France. Her cell phone, missing a SIM card but enclosed with a photo of one of her daughters, was discovered two weeks later in a ditch by a car park by…
By Abimbola Ogunnaike The Editor of Vanguard newspaper , Eze Anaba, on Friday, 16 June, 2023, was elected as the new President of the Nigerian Guild of Editors (NGE) to pilot the affairs of the body for the next two years. Anaba and others emerged victorious at the 2023 NGE’s Biennial Convention which took place in Owerri, Imo State. He polled 250 votes to defeat his rival, Bolaji Adebiyi of THISDAY newspaper who got 81 votes. Dr Iyobosa Uwugiaren was returned as General Secretary, while Steve Nwosu also retained his seat as Treasurer. Over 300 editors from all parts of…
By Abimbola Ogunnaike Militants linked to Islamic State killed 25 people in a terrorist attack on a school in western Uganda near the border with the Democratic Republic of Congo, Ugandan police said on Saturday, 17 June, 2023. “So far 25 bodies have been recovered from the school and transferred to Bwera Hospital. Also recovered are eight victims, who remain in critical condition at Bwera Hospital,” Ugandan police said on Twitter but did not say how many of the dead were school children. Soldiers were pursuing the attackers who fled towards Virunga National Park in the Democratic Republic of Congo, police…