By Mohammed Adamu. PREAMBLE When the prospect of an Obi-Kwankwaso Labor ticket was still on the bunsen burner, Obi’s supporters were at their Obidiotic best praising the governance credentials of Kwankwaso to high heavens and saying that like Obi, the former Kano State governor was a Saint Vitus too -infallibly umblemished. A ticket of the duo of Obi and he they said would be DA BOMB! But when Kwankwaso mocked the idea of running behind a ‘weightless’ Obi, he suffered the ‘fall’ of Lucifer, -from the grace of unmerited approbation to the obloquy of their bitterest condemnation. How dared he…
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By Abimbola Ogunnaike Mwafor Emmanuel, a Senior Secondary School 2 student of Owena Community Grammar School, Owena, Ondo East Local Government Area of Ondo State, has been found dead in a river. A school teacher in the school, who preferred anonymity, told newsmen that the 19-year-old student drowned in a river behind his school. “The incident happened after school hours. Other students had gone to their houses when the boy decided to go and swim alone. He removed his uniform and sandals before jumping into the river. He must have drowned when he went deeper inside the river. “Unfortunately, he…
By Abimbola Ogunnaike At least 8,000 Lagos State residents have benefitted from a free medical outreach sponsored by Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu. The Senior Special Assistant to the Governor on Health, Dr Oreoluwa Finnih, made this disclosure in a statement signed by Tunbosun Ogunbanwo, Director, Public Affairs, in the state’s Ministry of Health. The statement obtained by thegazellenews.com, Finnih said the free medical programme organised was to improve access to quality and efficient healthcare delivery at the grassroots aimed at achieving universal health coverage, particularly in communities with less significant health coverage. According to Finnih , 30,000 people residing…
By Abimbola Ogunnaike The Lagos State Domestic and Sexual Violence Agency (DSVA) has hailed a court verdict for committing a 41-year-old teacher, Chukwu Ndubuisi, to life imprisonment for defiling his six-year-old pupil. The Executive Secretary of DSVA, Mrs Titilola Vivour-Adeniyi, commended the judgment in a statement issued on Thursday, 16 February, 2023. In the statement obtained by thegazellenews.com, Vivour-Adeniyi said that the defilement case, which involved a pupil of a private school, was prosecuted at the Lagos State High Court presided over by Justice Sodetan Ogunsanya. The DSVA boss, who commended Ogunsanya and the Directorate of Public Prosecution (DPP) for…
A member of the Security and Intelligence Committee of the Tinubu/Shettima Presidential Campaign Council, PCC, Ambassador Abayomi Nurain Mumuni, has expressed displeasure on the president’s national broadcast, saying it portrays him (Buhari) as absent-minded on the current issues and challenges affecting the general wellbeing of the majority of Nigerians. The 2011 gubernatorial candidate of the defunct Congress for Progressives Change (CPC) in Lagos State stated this in a statement made available to journalists on Friday, 17 February, 2023, by his media aide, Rasheed Abubakar. Thegazellenews.com gathered that President Muhammadu Buhari had in the early hours of Thursday addressed Nigerians over…
A group, United Area Club of Ikorodu (UAC), has endorsed the re-election bid of Sen. Tokunbo Abiru for Lagos East Senatorial District and other candidates of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the forthcoming general elections. The group, made up of numerous clubs in Ikorodu division, endorsed the candidate at a ceremony held at Ita-elewa mini-stadium, on Thursday, 16 February, 2023, in Ikorodu, Lagos State. The Co-ordinator, Mr Olanrewaju Olabinjo, who applauded the leadership of the ruling party in the state and division, said Abiru deserved to be returned to the National Assembly. “We will rally round and ensure that…
By Abimbola Ogunnaike A man, Chris Nnaji, has been sentenced to two years’ imprisonment by an Ikeja Special Offence Court for possession of false document. Justice Olubumni Abike-Fadipe sentenced Nnaji to Ikoyi Correctional Centre following the review of his plea bargain agreement. Abike-Fadipe sentenced him to one year on count one and also one year on count two but ordered that the sentencing should run concurrently. The judge, who gave the convict an option of N1 million fine with 100 hours community service, added that “Items recovered from him are hereby forfeited to the Federal Government of Nigeria.” Earlier, the Economic…
By Abimbola Ogunnaike Saudi Arabia has imprisoned no fewer than 47 tribesmen of the Howeitat tribe in the northwest of the country for their resistance against displacement aimed at developing the Neom megacity Human rights organization Alqst disclosed this in a report released on Thursday, 16 February, 2023, titled “The Dark Side of Neom,” providing details about those who have been detained or disappeared for voicing protest to the $500-billion project as well as related human rights abuses. According to the report, 15 members of the tribe have received sentences between 15 and 50 years and five others have been…
By Abimbola Ogunnaike Riots broke out in Ikorodu part of Lagos State and its environs on Friday morning, 17 February, 2023, spreading to Mile 12, a popular international foodstuff market along Ikorodu Road, allegedly over scarcity of naira. Thegazellenews.com gathered that there was shooting as many civil servants and those going outside Ikorodu had to make a U-turn for fear of being hit by missiles or gunshot. An eyewitness, who wrote on twitter via the LagosTrafficReports, said: “Government buses conveying civil servants all turned and returned to Ikorodu Itowolo is also not safe. Agric, Ikorodu was (sic) unrest a couple of minutes…
By Abimbola Ogunnaike President of the Senate, Ahmad Ibrahim Lawan has called on people of Yobe State to give All Progressive Congress (APC) at least 1.2 million votes in the 2023 elections. Lawan made the call at a fund raising ceremony organized by Yobe State APC Campaign Council in Damaturu, the state capital on Thursday, 16 January, 2023, adding that the state is known to be a guaranteed vote basket for the APC. “We want to compete with every State in this country as far as votes for the APC is concerned. We have the people. We have the will…