Eid is a time to celebrate the end of Ramadan and to spread love, peace and unity. May Allah accept our good deeds and grant us the joy and happiness of Eid al-Fitr. May we be blessed with a deeper relationship with Allah and an abundance of prosperity, good health, long life, love, joy, and success. May all our prayers be heard and our desires granted. Happy Eid Mubarak! Alh Mutiu & Nini Are.
Author: Olamide Obayemi
By Abimbola Ogunnaike The Semé Command of Nigeria Customs Service has disclosed that it intercepted 553 parcels of cannabis sativa worth N10 million, with four suspects arrested alongside. The Customs Area Controller of Seme Customs, Comptroller Dera Nnadi disclosed this in a statement issued on Friday, 21 April, 2023 in Semé.According to the controller, on April 21, at about 4:03p.m, officers of the command, while on routine patrol along the Abidjan – Lagos Corridor, intercepted a Ford Bus with registration number, EPE 622 YC at Gbatrome, Badagry.“Uponsearch of the bus, seven large sacks containing 553 parcels of cannabis sativa, also…
By Abimbola Ogunnaike A wild hippopotamus has allegedly killed a pregnant woman along the old bridge crossing point of River Benue on Tuesday in Makurdi Benue state capital, reports a Lagos based national newspaper There are two bridges on River Benue in Makurdi- the old and the new bridge.An eyewitness account told the newspaper that the victim went to the island with other traders to buy vegetables for commercial purposes when she was attacked at the shore of the river.The newspaper also gathered the woman, whose identity was not clear, was being ferried in an engine boat, which developed a…
By Abimbola Ogunnaike A lawyer, Bolanle Cole, has described how one of his pregnant clients died after being persuaded by her pastor to drop a divorce dispute against her husband in court. It was gathered that the said husband allegedly beat her to death. Cole, said on his Twitter account that a man phoned on behalf of his daughter in the UK, requesting the dissolution of her marriage. His daughter, who subsequently became a customer, contacted him, and a petition case was filed at the Ikorodu High Court. A week after the divorce lawsuit was filed, his client, husband, pastors,…
By Abimbola Ogunnaike Trace, a nonprofit, nonpartisan news organization that tracks gun violence in the United States has disclosed that at least 12,800 people have died from gun violence this year, just as its citizens purchased nearly 60 million guns between 2020 and 2022,The Hill reported on Friday,21 April, 2023. All the new weapons have fuelled a momentous surge in gun deaths, which reached record highs during the same period. “It’s a totally different type of gun ownership now,” said John Roman, a senior fellow in the Economics, Justice and Society Group at NORC, a research organization based at the University…
By Abimbola Ogunnaike Delta State Government has confirmed that a rainstorm claimed no fewer than seven lives, with others injured. The state Commissioner for Information, Mr Charles Aniagwu, who confirmed the sad disaster during a news conference in Asaba, the state capital, said the victims included a 10-year-old boy. According to Aniagwu, deaths were recorded in Oko axis of Oshimili and Okpanam, Oshimili South North Local Government Areas of the state. “The storm that greeted the downpour on Wednesday, in the Oko axis, we lost six persons as the rainstorm fell on a building and some trees and the collapsed…
A woman named Joy Oyaghiri-Fagbemi is currently enjoying encomiums and praises from members of her community for fixing their bad transformer and also paying one month worth electricity bill for the whole community. The woman who is from Omokwa Community in Abua/Odual LGA, Rivers State said her people reached out to her that they needed light as they had been cut off the grid for about a year When she got there, she also found that the transformer was bad, so she decided to fix it “I paid for the transformer to be fixed, which wasn’t cheap. I paid for…
Borno State Governor, Babagana Zulum has said his predecessor, Senator Kashim Shettima, has been in his prayers to become the Vice President of Nigeria since he succeeded him in 2019. Speaking while hosting the Vice President-elect Kashim Shettima to a Sallah lunch at the Government House in Maiduguri on Friday, 21 April, 2023 Zulum who said he will seriously miss the huge support he got from President Muhammadu Buhari, however started that he is highly relieved that the combination of Asiwaju Bola Tinubu and Senator Kashim Shettima are the ones stepping in. Zulum described the All Progressives Congress (APC)’s victory…
By Abimbola Ogunnaike President Muhammadu Buhari has appealed to people he might have hurt in the course of his duties to pardon him. He made the appeal at the ninth and final Sallah homage by residents of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) led by the minister, Mohammed Bello, at the Banquet Hall of the Presidential Villa, Abuja. The President also thanked Nigerians for tolerating him over the last seven and a half years of his administration. “Thank you for tolerating me…I consider myself lucky to have been a governor, minister and head of state and now president for two terms.…
By Abimbola Ogunnaike The police has arraigned a 36-year-old lawyer, Abasiesebanga Ikoiwak, and five others for allegedly killing her 41-year-old husband, Barrister Godwin Ikoiwak. According to information gathered, Ikoiwak, who was a native of Eket Local Government Area, had reportedly died a few days after the deceased told his friend and former classmate, Barrister Sunny Anyanwu in a phone conversation that he was having issues with his wife over infidelity. Narrating how the deceased died before an Uyo High Court, Anyanwu said that the deceased hinted him that he reported the matter to his wife’s family who invited him to…