The Akwa Ibom State Commissioner for Information, Aniekan Umanah, has denied the reports that Governor Umo Eno has dumped the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), for the ruling All Progressives Congress(APC). Eno was alleged to be planning to defect to the APC amid his recent endorsement of President Bola Tinubu for a second term. However, Umanah said the Governor’s remarks of Tinubu and Senate President, Godswill Akpabio were aimed at attracting Federal presence to the state. Speaking in Uyo, Umanah said: “Governor Umo Eno’s support for President Bola Tinubu and Senate President Godswill Akpabio, is a strategic act of enlightened state…
Author: Abimbola Ogunaike
The Delta State Governor, Sheriff Oborevwori, has officially defected from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), to the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC). The announcement was made following a closed-door meeting at the Government House in Asaba, the state capital on Wednesday, 23 April, 2025. The Governor’s Chief Press Secretary, Sir Festus Ahon, who confirmed the decision said the decision was reached after “wide consultations with political stakeholders and in the interest of Delta’s long-term development.” Oborevwori, who emerged victorious in the 2023 gubernatorial election under the PDP platform, was received by senior APC officials in what political analysts are already…
Justice Akintayo Aluko of the Federal High Court sitting in Ikoyi, Lagos, on Tuesday, April 22, 2025, convicted and sentenced one Tobor Efeturi Godspower to eight years imprisonment for impersonation. Godspower was arraigned by the Lagos Zonal Directorate 2 of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on a two-count charge bordering on fraudulent impersonation and possession of fraudulent documents. One of the counts reads; “That you, Tobor Efeturi Godspower, on or about the 24th day of October, 2024 in Lagos, within the jurisdiction of this Honourable Court, fraudulently impersonated one ‘Stephen Townsend’, purporting to be a military man stationed in…
The Lagos State Government, through the Office of Sustainable Development Goals, has empowered another set of 100 women with financial literacy in the underserved area of Oko-Agbon, a riverine community in the Agboiyi-Ketu Local Council Development Area (LCDA). The training of the 100 women is an addition to the 1,100 women earlier trained on financial literacy and inclusion in 11 different hard-to-reach communities in the five divisions of Lagos State. Speaking on Tuesday, 22 April, 2025, at the Grand Finale of Human Capital Development in Lagos State through the Women’s Financial Inclusion Initiative, held at Oko-Agbon in Agboyi-Ketu, the Special…
By Gbenga Nicholas, Abuja The Chairman of the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC), Dr. Musa Adamu Aliyu, SAN, has emphasized the transformative potential of technology in promoting transparency and accountability across Nigeria’s public sector. Speaking through the Commission’s Spokesperson, Mr. Demola Bakare, at the 3-Day National Anti-Corruption Conference (TAC’25) in Abuja on Tuesday, Dr. Aliyu called for innovative and collaborative approaches in the fight against corruption. The event, organized by the House of Representatives Committee on Anti-Corruption, is themed “Fostering Collaboration in Enhancing Transparency Within MDAs.” Dr. Aliyu stressed that the use of digital platforms to…
Gold reached $3,500 an ounce for the first time Tuesday, 22 April. 2025 as United States President Donald Trump’s tariffs and verbal attack against the Federal Reserve sent investors snapping up the safe haven asset. The precious metal reached an all-time high $3,500.10 an ounce before pulling back to $3,467.87. Price action meanwhile is cooling off a bit towards the US trading session, and Gold dips back to around $3,450 at the time of writing, due to some profit taking at the psychological level. Several markets across the globe are returning to normal trading regimes after the holiday-infused Easter price action,…
After confirming the death of Mrs Shimitte Love, Special Adviser to Governor Sheriff Oborevwori on Trade and Export, the Delta State Police Command has commenced investigation to unravel the circumstances leading to her death. Though the circumstances leading to her death are still unknown at the time of filing this report, there are fingers pointing to her husband, Pastor Love, as being behind Shimitte’s death. The Delta State Police Command Public Relations Officer, SP Bright Edafe, confirmed Shimitte’s death, adding that she was confirmed dead at a hospital she was taken to. Odafe said her husband was not arrested but…
Iconic Nigerian musician, Ebenezer Obey-Fabiyi, has dismissed rumours of his death, affirming that he is alive, strong and healthy. In a video on the morning of Tuesday, 22 April, 2025, Obey-Fabiyi refuted the claim with a spirited performance. Singing in Yoruba, English and Pidgin, he described the news as false. In the video, Obey-Fabiyi sang, “Hello, my name is Professor Ebenezer Obey-Fabiyi.Satan, you don lose o, Satan, you don lose o, you don pafuka. Na lie lie you dey talk, you don pafuka.” The legendary musician, then added, “It is fake news that started a few hours ago claiming that…
Despite aggressive monetary tightening by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), which raised the Cash Reserve Ratio to an unprecedented 50 per cent, Nigeria’s broad money supply rose to N114.22 trillion in March 2025. The latest money and credit statistics released by the apex bank show that the March figure represents a 24 per cent increase when compared to N92.19 trillion recorded in the same month of 2024. On a month-on-month basis, the figure also rose by 3.2 per cent from N110.71 trillion in February. The increase was largely driven by a sharp rise in net foreign assets, which rose…
The Alaafin of Oyo, Oba Akeem Owoade, on Tuesday, 21 April, 2025 called on members of the public to ignore an online publication that he is in a royal supremacy battle with another traditional ruler, adding that “I’m not in supremacy battle with any monarch.” Owoade made this clarification in a statement issued by his Director of Media and Publicity, Bode Durojaiye, in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital. The monarch described the anchor of the viral video as not only a pathological liar, but should be confined to the dungeon of eternity for being heartless in dishing out such lies, just…