The Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, has signed a memorandum of understanding with the United States Consulate and a United States-based firm, Atlanta Global Resources Inc., AGRI, to build a railway network that will connect the nine states of the Niger Delta region. The ceremony, which was a part of the one-day Public Private Partnerships Summit organized by the Commission in Lagos on Tuesday, 25 April, 2023 will provide locomotives, construct railway lines and operate same in the oil producing states of Rivers, Ondo, Edo, Delta, Bayelsa, Akwa Ibom, Cross River, Imo and Abia. The MOU was signed by the…
Author: Olamide Obayemi
One of Nigeria’s foremost Historian, Professor Obaro Ikime is dead, reports thegazellenews.com. The foremost academic died on at about 5.30 pm on Tuesday, 25 April, 2023 in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital. His death was announced by one of his protege, AM Akpieyi who described the late Ikime as his mentor, Head of House and Head of School, while they were both students of the famous Government College, Ughelli. The late Historian was survived by his wife of more than 60 years, Hannah; his sons: Mazino and Maino; and daughter, Majiro. The late Obaro Ikime was of the 1950 set…
By Wole Olujobi Nigeria should not be in a state of flux. The nation that struggled to gain independence through the blood and sweats of her prominent citizens to promote standard of governance for progress and development cannot afford to intentionally plant mines and dig trenches on her path to national redemption and salvation. But the present plot by the coalition of lawmakers-elect in the minority parties, which failed to win popular votes in the general elections, to control the parliament in the presidential system of government led by the All Progressives Congress (APC), presents a dangerous political gambling capable…
By Abimbola Ogunnaike Gunmen operating in the Nnobi area of Anambra State have reportedly kidnapped a clergyman. An eyewitness told an online medium that the incident happened on the evening of Tuesday, 25 April, 2023, but it is not yet clear if the clergyman was a Catholic or an Anglican priest. The priest was reportedly abducted at Nnobi Roundabout in Idemili South Local Government Area of of the state when he stopped to buy fruits at the popular junction. According to the source who spoke on condition of anonymity to the medium, “The man stopped at Nnobi junction, parked his…
By Abimbola Ogunnaike The Ogun State Police Command has threatened that as from now on it will start treating land grabbers terrorising the state as armed robbers and murderers. The command’s Public Relations Officer, Abimbola Oyeyemi, said land grabbers are more or less armed robbers in their mode of operations and actions. Oyeyemi, who spoke on a radio station in Abeokuta, on Tuesday, 25 April, 2023 , decried the spate of lawlessness by some acclaimed land owners who hire thugs to invade Ogun communities with arms. “Those people you call land grabbers are armed robbers. They have guns and all…
By Mohammed Adamu -a bird’s eye view.. PROLOGUE Sequel to my recent piece titled: ‘Tinubu And The ABC Of Dual Citizenship’, bellow is another ‘ABC OF’ which I wrote some 8 years ago (02/16/15) on the offense of ‘Perjury’. Now that Tinubu, like Buhari, is on the menu for perjury I thought I should serve you a rejigged version of that piece so that you have a bird’s eye view of this species of offense under Criminal Law. The piece answers the questions: when can a person be said to have committed perjury? Is it merely when he ‘lies’ under…
By Abimbola Ogunnaike A heartbroken lady has revealed how shocked she was after she discovered that her husband was having a romantic affair with her biological father whom she later discovered to be a gay. The lady said she got married to her husband at the early age of 19, not knowing that her father was gay. After she got pregnant with her husband, she found out that her husband was not only gay but had also infected her with HIV. He was also sleeping with her dad. “Imagine being 20 years old pregnant with your first baby to find…
By Abimbola Ogunnaike The Police Service Commission (PSC) has approved the deployment of new Commissioners of Police (CPs) for 11 states and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT). PSS Head of Press and Public Relations, PSC, Mr Ikechukwu Ani, announced this in a statement issued on Tuesday, 25 April, 2023 in Abuja. The CPs are: Mohammed Gumel, Kano; Haruna Garba, FCT; Tajudeen Abass, Delta; Oladimeji Olarewaju, Ogun; Taiwo Jesubiyi, Ondo; and Julius Okoro, Benue. Others are: Romokere Ibiani, Bayelsa; Mohammed Bunu, Yobe; Garba Yusuf, Kaduna; Garba Ahmed, Zamfara; Hayatu Ali, Sokoto; and Aliyu Musa, Katsina. Ani said the Chairman of PSC,…
By Abimbola Ogunnaike The Libyan coastguard recovered on Tuesday, 25 April, 2023, the bodies of 11 migrants including a child after their Europe-bound boat sank off the North African country’s coast, an AFP journalist said. The coastguard also came to the aid of at least four survivors of the shipwreck who were able to swim to shore after the sinking. Authorities in the town of Garabulli, some 50 kilometres (30 miles) east of Tripoli, were alerted to the presence of bodies floating in the water a few metres (yards) from the shore. They recovered the bodies of 10 men and…
By Abimbola Ogunnaike RnB singer, Robert Sylvester Kelly, popularly known as R. Kelly, has been moved to a correctional centre located in North Carolina, the United States of America, where he is expected to serve his 30-year prison sentence in connection with multiple sexual offences. He was moved to the Federal Correctional Institution in Butner, North Caroline Wednesday last week from the Metropolitan Correctional Center in Chicago, the US Federal Bureau of Prisons announced. R. Kelly, in February 2023, was sentenced to one additional year in prison for his Chicago conviction of federal child pornography and child enticement charges. This…