By Abimbola Ogunnaike An advocacy group, Palestinian Prisoners’ Society (PPS) announced on Friday, 10 February, 2023,that Palestinian prisoner, Ahmed Badr Abdullah Abu Ali, has died from medical complications he sustained during his time in Israeli detention centers. The PPS in a statement said that Abu Ali, a resident of Yatta city in the south of the occupied West Bank city of al-Khalil, died at Soroka Medical Center on Friday morning, 10 February, 2023. The 48-year-old Abu Ali, whose family said was suffering from chronic heart health failure, diabetes and obesity, was admitted to hospital after his health condition sharply deteriorated. He was detained…
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By Abimbola Ogunnaike The Kano State Government has instituted a lawsuit against the Federal Government at the Supreme Court over the naira redesign by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN). In the lawsuit filed on Thursday, 9 February, 2023, the Kano State Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice through his lawyer, Sunusi Musa, maintained that President Muhammadu Buhari cannot direct the CBN to recall the old N200, N500 and N1,000 banknotes without first consulting the Federal Executive Council and the National Economic Council. The state government is also asking the court order to reverse the Federal Government’s policy of…
By Wole Olujobi Dear Nigerians, I write as a responsible and patriotic Nigerian to advert your minds to the implications of your conducts in the February 25 presidential election. As a witness to the Nigerian political history in the last 40 years, I see my initiative as part of the civil responsibilities I share with several fellow patriotic Nigerians, to gird our loins as we go to polls on February 25, 2023 to elect the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. The election is basically between APC and PDP. Even though there is no angel in this world, the…
By Wole Olujobi After emerging from the humiliating rains of defeats in his political journeys that landed him in obscurity, he is back again to the temple of the PDP cult he had earlier desecrated, for relevance. That is Prince Olagunsoye Oyinlola, former Governor of Osun State and member of the PDP and its hybrid nPDP led by Dr Abubakar Kawu Baraje before hopping to APC bed to reap the benefits he never worked for. Oyinlola fought lost battles at the state and Federal levels of PDP, losing as Osun State Governor as well as the National Secretary of PDP,…
By Abimbola Ogunnaike An officer of the Nigerian Security and Civil Defense Corps, Niger State Command, Anthony Damisa, has been arraigned before Justice M. E. Anenih of the Federal Capital Territory High Court, Maitama, Abuja, over alleged forgery and making of false statements. The ICPC spokesperson, Mrs Azuka Ogugua, in a statement on Thursday, 9 February, 2023, a copy of which was obtained by thegazellenews.com said that Damisa was arraigned in a Charge No: CR/348/2022 filed before the trial court. Ogugua alleged that the accused person used a forged Bachelor of Science (BSc) Degree in Public Administration from Enugu State…
By Abimbola Ogunnaike The Director General, Campaign Council of the People Democratic Party (PDP) in River State, Dr. Abiye Sekibo, on Thursday, 9 February, 2023, escaped assassination attempt. Thegazellenews.com gathered that some unidentified gunmen said to be political thugs, dressed in police uniform, opened fire on the campaign DG’s Land Cruiser bulletproof jeep at Rainbow Town in Port Harcourt on Thursday night. Sekibo was on his way to the proposed venue of the party’s presidential rally when the gunmen attacked his vehicle. Sekibo,who confirmed the development to newsmen on Friday, 10 February, 2023, during press briefing, said his car was…
By Abimbola Ogunnaike The Court of Appeal sitting in Kano State on Friday set aside the judgment of a High Court that recognised Muhammad Abacha as the gubernatorial candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Kano State. The court ordered the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to withdraw certificate of Abacha and give Sadiq Wali because he remain the lawful gubernatorial candidate of the party in the state. In a consensus judgment of the three-man panel read by Justice Usman Musale, the appellate court held that the law is clear, adding that the National Executive Committee (NEC) of the PDP…
By Abimbola Ogunnaike The world’s football governing body, FIFA on Friday, 10 February, 2023, on its Twitter handle announced three finalists for the Puskás Award 2022. The Puskas award is presented to the scorer of the most outstanding goal in a calendar year. The three nominees for the Puskás Award 2022 are: 1. Richarlison – Brazil v Serbia – 24/11/2022 2. Marcin Oleksy – Warta Poznan v Stal Rzeszow – 06/11/2022 3. Dimitri Payet – Olympique Marseille v PAOK Thessaloniki – 07/04/2022 The winner will be selected by an international jury comprising a panel of FIFA Legends and registered fans…
The Inspector-General of Police, Usman Alkali Baba, in his effort to achieve maximum impact of community-based and strategic policing on the society, has ordered the provisional posting of CP Afolabi Babatola Adeniyi to the Adamawa State Police Command as its new Commissioner of Police pending approval of the Police Service Commission while the posting of CP Adebola A. Hamzat, has been varied to Commissioner of Police in charge of the Border Patrol Force, Force Headquarters, Abuja. The new postings were announced via a press statement by the Force Public Relations Officer, CSP Olumuyiwa Adejobi on Friday, 10 February, 2023,…
Over 40 anti-corruption Civil Society Organisations gathered in Lagos on Friday, 10 February, 2023, to protest what they described as the incessant disobedience of court orders by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission under Abdulrasheed Bawa and the seeming politicisation of the agency’s activities. The anti-corruption CSOs alleged that the EFCC, under Bawa, had chosen to become an institution known for brazenly disobeying orders of courts in such a manner that does not only undermine the institutions of Nigeria’s democracy, but also indicates a contradiction to the anti-corruption agenda of the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari, and came to a…