By Abimbola Ogunnaike The membership drive of the All Progressives Congress(APC) Ebonyi State received a major boost as Some members of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and Labour Party, LP, have defected to the party Ndufu Alike ward in Ikwo Local Government Area of the state. Receiving the defectors at Ndufu Alike junction, the member representing Ikwo/Ezza-South Federal Constituency at the National Assembly, Chinedu Ogah, commended their move into the ruling party. He appreciated the leaders of the party in the ward for their roles and commitment in the party. The lawmaker assured the defectors of inclusiveness and urged the people…
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By Abimbola Ogunnaike The Independent National Electoral Commission(INEC) has announced the final list of candidates for the forthcoming Edo State Governorship Election. This is even as the Commission said that the political parties are permitted to start campaign in public from Wednesday 24th April 2024. The campaigns will end at midnight on Thursday 19th September 2024. The National Commissioner & Chairman, Information and Voter Education Committee of the commission Sam Olumekun, made this disclosure in statement issued on Monday, 22 April, 2024 . Olumekun disclosed that 17 political parties have fielded candidates for the election out of which 16 are male…
By Abimbola Ogunnaike Gunmen numbering eight on the night of Friday, 19 April, 2024 at Ajadeh Event Centre on Sagamu Road in the Iperu area of Ogun State shot dead Yinka Olomojobi, a professor of law at Babcock University, Ilishan Remo in the state . Two other persons were abducted by the gunmen Police Public Relations Officer in Ogun State, Omolola Odutola, who confirmed the incident, said the assailants shot the scholar on the chest for resisting the abduction. “A report from the Iperu Division indicates that a kidnapping and murder incident occurred on the 19th of April, 2024, at about 9:20 p.m.,”…
By Abimbola Ogunnnaike The crisis rocking Rivers State is not yet over as the Martin Amaewhule-led Rivers State House of Assembly on Monday, 22 April, 2024 passed the Rivers State Local Government (Amendment) Bill into law, overriding the assent of Governor Siminialayi Fubara. According to the parliament, two-thirds majority of House members voted to override the governor and pass the Bill into law. Recall that on the 13th of March, the House passed the Local Government (Amendment) Bill and forwarded same to Fubara for assent but the governor declined assent to the bill. In a related development, the House also…
By Abimbola Ogunnaike The Appeal Committee set up for the All Progressives Congress, (APC), governorship primary in Ondo State has confirmed that it has received three petitions from aspirants who participated in the exercise. The Chairman of the five-member Appeal Committee, Mohammed Abubakar, made this disclosure at a briefing with newsmen in Akure, the state capital. Abubakar, former Governor of Bauchi State, said the petitions were received from Olugbenga Edema, Jimi Odimayo and Adewale Akinterinwa. He explained that the three aggrieved aspirants complained that the primary did not hold in their various wards and the process was marred by irregularities. “So…
By Abimbola Ogunnaike Inspector-General of Police, Kayode Egbetokun, has kicked against creation mof state police, insisting that Nigeria is not “mature” for state police. Egbetokun said this at a national dialogue on state police organised by the House of Representatives in Abuja, on Monday, 22 April, 2024. The theme of the dialogue is ‘Pathways to Peace: Reimagining Policing in Nigeria”. The IGP, who was represented by Ben Okolo, an Assistant Inspector-General of Police, said the leadership of the force has resolved that country is yet to be ripe for that. According to him, since the force has made a stand,…
By Abimbola Ogunnaike Anambra State capital, Awka, seems to under the siege of cultists and bloodletting as at least 15 residents have been murdered in cold blood within the last two weeks, including some victims who cannot be identified as cultists, promoting the belief that what is happening could be targeted assassinations. It was gathered that the major cause seems to be a struggle for the control of revenue windows, especially collection of taxes from bus drivers and commercial tricyclists. Findings reveal that at least 15 persons have been gunned down in just two weeks in the city. The bloodletting,…
By Abimbola Ogunnaike A data from Beacon Security and Intelligence Limited, a security risk management and intelligence company based in Abuja, has shown that at least 2,583 people were killed and 2,164 kidnapped in the first quarter of this year. The data, which recorded the number of killings and abductions across the country from January to March, showed that 80 percent of the killings and 94 percent of the abductions occurred in the North. This report, however, conflicts with the position espoused by the National Security Adviser (NSA), Nuhu Ribadu, who said that the casualty figures were going down. The…
By Abimbola Ogunnaike Troops of Operation Lake Sanity III, under Operation Hadin Kai, have reportedly discovery an Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) terrorist bread production factory hidden within their den in Maisani, Timbuktu Triangle, Damboa Local Government Area of Borno State. According to intelligence sources quoted by security analyst and counter-insurgency expert, Zagazola Makama, on Monday,22 April, 2024, the Combined troops of 199 Special Forces Battalion, in conjunction with Hybrid Forces and Civilian JTF (Joint Task Force), stumbled upon the bread factory during an exploitation mission into the terrorists’ hideout on Sunday. “The sources said that the factory was…
By Abimbola Ogunnaike The Court of Appeal in Abuja on Monday, 22 April, 2024 did not sit to hear the appeal lodged by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), against the order of a Kogi High Court which restrained the anti-graft agency from arresting the immediate-past governor, Yahaya Bello. Recall that Kogi court, in a ruling on April 17, barred the EFCC from arresting, detaining and prosecuting Bello. The judge, I.A Jamil, gave the order in a two-hour judgment delivered in suit no HCL/68/M/2020 in Lokoja, the Kogi State capital, on Wednesday. The judgment coincided with the invasion of…