Drama occurred on Wednesday, 29 January, 2025 t the headquarters of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Abuja as fight broke out during the meeting of the party’s Board of Trustees, BoT. The altercation began when Sunday Ude-Okoye, a party chieftain, was ejected from the meeting. Samuel Anyanwu and Ude-Okoye are fighting over for the position of National Secretary of the party. Ude-Okoye had arrived the venue of the meeting before Anyanwu and acting National Chairman, Ambassador Iliya Damagum. But, when Anyanwu arrived, Ude-Okoye was forced out of the meeting by suspected thugs, a situation that led to an altercation.…
Author: Abimbola Ogunaike
Nigerian workers have fixed Tuesday, 4 February, 2025, as the date to embark on a nationwide protest against the 50 percent telecommunications service tariff hike in the country. The Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC), made this disclosure in a statement issued on Wednesday, 29 January, 2025. This comes as the Nigerian Communications Commission on Monday, 20 January, 2025, announced the approval for telecom companies to hike services tariffs by 50 percent. The approval has sparked a wide tide of rejection by Nigerians, including the NLC. In an update to press home their opposition against the telecom tariff hike, the NLC vowed…
A Shari’a court sitting in Magajin Gari, Kaduna, presided over by Malam Kabir Muhammad has sentenced a 19-year-old man, Dahiru Usman, to one month in a correctional facility for assaulting a sex worker, Zainab Idris. Delivering the judgment, judge Muhammad, gave Usman an option to pay a N7,000 fine, just as he also ordered him to pay N70,000 in compensation to Idris or face a 12-month prison term. The prosecutor, ASP Luka Sadau, told the court that Idris, a resident of Kigo Road, filed a report at Sabon Gari Police Station on Wednesday, 15 January, 2025. “On that day, around…
Operatives of the Adamawa State Police Command have arrested a young woman named Jamila Ishiaku, for allegedly inducing labour by pouring boiling water on her pregnant sister-in-law, saying that her act was an expression of anger that went farther than she intended. The victim received serious burns, especially in her back region, and is currently on hospital admission receiving treatment. The 20-year-old Ishiaku, a resident of Dubeli, a community in Yola North Local Government Area of the state, said she acted in blind anger in the course of a heated argument between her and the victim. “I didn’t think it…
The trial of a former Kogi State governor, Yahya Adoza Bello, alongside Umar Shuaibu Oricha and Abdulsalami Hudu continued on Wednesday, 29 January, 2025, before Justice Maryanne Anenih of the Federal Capital Territory High Court with the First Prosecution Witness, (PW1), Fabian Nwaora informing the court, that Yahya Bello’s accomplice, Shehu Bello, opted for a refund from EFAB Property Limited, the sum of N 550 million he paid for a property when he learned that the said property has come under the investigation of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC and linked to Yahaya Bello. The witness, Chairman of EFAB Property Limited, further disclosed that the property Shehu Bello bought was located at No.1 Ikogosi Street, Maitama, Abuja. Led in evidence by prosecution counsel, Kemi Pinheiro, SAN, he narrated…
Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babajide Sanwo-Olu, on Wednesday, 30 January, 2025, said his administration will continuously partner with France in agriculture, public transportation, and other areas of interest. He said Lagos will continue to do whatever it requires to improve the mutually beneficial relationship it has with France. Governor Sanwo-Olu spoke during a visit by the Ambassador of France to Nigeria, Marc Fonbaustier, at the Lagos House, Marina, on Wednesday, 30 January, 2025. He said: “We have had extensive, tremendous support and a very wonderful relationship with the French Government, the French Embassy, and the Consul-General in my almost six years…
The Head of Chambers, Legal Section of the Nigeria Police Force, Deputy Commissioner of Police Simon Lough has denied the allegation of backdating his police records to delay his retirement levelled against him by a civil society group, The Integrity Youth Alliance. Lough, subsequently demanded a retraction of the libellous report published by Trojan Insight News and Sahara Reporters Media Group. This was contained in a letter dated January 24, 2025, written by his lawyer, Adeleke Agboola, SAN, and addressed to The Integrity Youth Alliance, Trojan Insight News and Sahara Reporters. The letter partly read, “We are instructed by DCP…
The First Lady of Nigeria, Senator Oluremi Tinubu has commissioned the National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA) Community ICT Centre, established in collaboration with the Renewed Hope Initiative (RHI). At the commissioning of the ICT centre built at the Kwara State College of Education, the First Lady commended the Director-General (DG) of NITDA, Malam Kashifu Abdullahi and his team for working closely with RHI to bridge the digital gap nationwide. She said the construction and equipment provided at the center were in furtherance of President Bola Tinubu’s Renewed Hope Agenda, which seeks to accelerate economic diversification through industrialization and digitalization.…
The First Lady of Nigeria, Senator Oluremi Tinubu, has said that the demands of the health profession transcends skill and compassion, noting that the right tools and infrastructure are also needed. She stated this at the flag off of the distribution of professional kits to midwives by the Renewed Hope Initiative at an event that took place in Ilorin, the Kwara State capital. According to Senator Oluremi Tinubu, the efforts of midwives and health professionals continue to be pivotal to attaining the reduction of maternal and child mortality in Nigeria. “This is to complement the ongoing Federal Government retraining exercise…
The Debt Management Office (DMO), on Monday, 27 January dismissed a report claiming that Nigeria’s public debt rose from N21 trillion to N142 trillion under President Bola Tinubu. In a video report of the office’s press conference, the Director General of DMO, Patience Oniha, was seen giving a breakdown of the total debt. She said debt would likely increase in December due to the $2.2 billion eurobound issued in 2024. Providing clarifications in the statement, the DMO described the report as “inaccurate”. The office said when Tinubu assumed office, the country’s debt was N87 trillion and not N21 trillion as claimed by the…