By Musbau Rasak The last General Elections in Nigeria were further confirmation of who the man Honourable Idowu Osuolale Obasa is: a committed progressive, a humanist per excellence and a man of the people. A man capable of changing a political narrative within seconds. This writer was passing through Abiodun Sobajo Street in the heart of Agidingbi, in Ikeja local government in March this year. It was few days to the Governorship and State Assembly Elections. He saw an old friend living on the street and the discussion centred on the coming Gubernatorial and state Assembly Elections in the area.…
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By Abimbola Ogunnaike A mother who hired assassins to kill her children in order to claim their inheritance has been arrested in Russia. Her arrest was confirmed by the Krasnoyarskoye Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia. The 67-year-old widow, according to Metro UK, had ordered the murder of her son and two daughters to become the sole owner of a family property. Her plot was, however, busted, and she was arrested by the police in Krasnoyarsk, Siberia’s second-largest city. The Russian woman was said to have plotted the devilish act with a friend who assisted her in finding an assassin.…
By Abimbola Ogunnaike The Senate Tuesday, 8 May, 2023 constituted a seven-man ad hoc committee to investigate the Niger Delta Development Commission (NNDC) for spending N1.4 trillion without appropriation. This followed a motion by Senator Adamu Aliero (PDP, Kebbi) during consideration of a report by the Committee on Niger Delta on NDDC’s 2021, 2022 and 2023 budgets. President Muhammadu Buhari had, earlier this year, asked the Senate to approve NDDC’s budgets for 2021, 2022 and 2023. The request for approval came after the interventionist agency had spent the funds for the 2021 and 2022 financial years, totaling N1.4 trillion. Buhari,…
By Abimbola Ogunnaike Award-winning Nigerian singer, David Adeleke, popularly known as Davido, has announced a new series on global streaming giant, Netflix. The docuseries, which is titled “David,” focuses on his life.The singer made the announcement in a recent interview with Esquire Middle East.He said the series will premiere on Netflix this December.The Omo Baba Olowo exponent said: “I have a movie coming out in December with Netflix. It’s very, very big.”This is the first time I’ve said anything about it, actually. It’s a documentary-a docu-series about my life called ‘David’. I shouldn’t be talking about this.”
By Abimbola Ogunnaike An official of the Nigerian Navy, Ibrahim Adamu, 25; and an operative of the Nigerian Correctional Service, Abdullahi Abdulwahab, 26; are now cooling off in police cell in Edo State over alleged car snatching and armed robbery. The state Police Public Relations Officer, SP Chidi Nwabuzor, while parading the suspects on Tuesday, 9 May, 2023, said they were arrested in military uniforms in Ekpoma by operatives while acting on credible information. According to Nwabuzor, the suspects attacked the driver of an unregistered C300 Mercedes Benz car in Sapele, Delta State and snatched the car from him and…
By Abimbola Ogunnaike The Minister of Interior, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola, has urged security stakeholders to safeguard Nigeria’s critical asset and infrastructure in other to ensure development of the nation. Aregbesola made the call during the Critical National Asset and Infrastructure (CNAI) and the National Protection Policy and Strategy (NPPS) 2023 Validation workshop in Abuja on Tuesday, 9 May, 2023. The Minister, who said protecting the country’s assets will ensure development of the nation, explained that because CNAI was diverse, stakeholders needed to brainstorm on the policies guiding it alongside how CNAI affected the duties of security agencies. Aregbesola said there…
By Abimbola Ogunnaike A 23-year-old assistant pastor on Tuesday, 9 May, 2023 told an Ikeja Sexual Offences and Domestic Violence Court presided over by Justice Ramon Oshodi how a bishop, Daniel Oluwafeyiropo, allegedly raped her twice. The assistant pastor (names withheld) testified for the prosecution at the bishop’s trial. She was led in evidence by Lagos State counsel, Mr Babajide Boye. She told the court that she was an assistant pastor of 1 Reign Christian Ministry founded by the Bishop and said that she met the bishop on May 28, 2018, when her friend invited her for a church programme at which…
By Abimbola Ogunnaike A Nigerian couple allegedly seeking the dissolution of their marriage caused a drama in a high court as a result of the way they chose to appear. The man and his wife arrived at the court premises rocking matching outfits which left the judge wondering if they were serious about the divorce.A photo from the court which is circulating on social media shows the couple standing beside each other while wearing the same clothes.The judge was said to have asked them if they really want to end the marriage because it looked like there was still a…
By Abimbola Ogunnaike A yet-to-be-identified middle-aged man on Friday, 5 May, 2023, was crushed to death by a moving truck along the Isheri-Igando Road in the Alimosho Local Government Area of Lagos State, an Ogun State based national newspaper reports. Eyewitness said the deceased just returned from the United States of America where his children also stay. The newspaper gathered that the accident occurred around 7pm when the deceased just returned from a trip. An eyewitness, who did not want his name in print for fear of victimisation, said he was trying to cross the road at the Diamond Estate area…