Gunmen on Saturday,23 November, 2024 kidnapped a prominent businessman, Samuel Ekerenam, owner of Hephzibah Mall, in Eket LGA of Akwa Ibom State. It was gathered that the hoodlums arrived the victim’s shopping complex and started shooting sporadically to scare people away. A witness to the incident, Udobong Asuquo, narrated that the man’s driver was killed in the process while the police officer attached to him was severely injured. The eyewitness said, “The incident occurred at about 10:00 pm on Saturday, claimed the life of the driver, while the Police officer attached to the kidnapped proprietor of the Mall was injured.”…
Author: Abimbola Ogunaike
The National Women Leader of the Labour Party (LP), Mrs Dudu Manuga, has advised Nigerians against labelling female politicians as prostitutes and promiscuous. Manuga, who confirmed that violence against women have become prevalent, also described as alarming the level of cyber stalking and intimidation some women face in Nigeria. She spoke during the commemoration of the 2024 International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women and Girls in Abuja. The LP chieftain charged women who are involved in politics not to be intimidated by the emotional and psychological violence perpetrated against them by their male counterparts just to frustrate…
Former Big Brother Naija housemate, Tacha, has made public of her plan to relocate abroad. She revealed on Monday, 25 November, 2026 that she would be moving to the United Kingdom. On her X handle, she wrote, “Relocating to the UK. So help me God.” In recent years, the number of Nigerian celebrities moving abroad has significantly increased. Notable figures such as Wizkid, Eldee, Dr. Sid, Genevieve Nnaji, Omotola Jalade Ekeinde, Rita Dominic, Uche Jombo, Emeka Ike, and many others have relocated from the country within the past decade. Recently, singer Banky W announced that he has relocated to the…
A man named Enediong Bassey has been arrested by the operatives of the Anambra State police Command over possession of a gun wrapped in a bag of rice. The Anambra State Command Public Relations Officer, SP Tochukwu Ikenga, made this known in a statement issued on Tuesday, 26 November, 2024 in Awka, the state capital. Ikenga said Bassey ‘M’ 25yrs a native of Ikono LGA of Akwa Ibom State was arrested after he confessed to being a member of a local vigilante group. According to him, the police operatives attached to 3.3 Police Divisional headquarters led by CSP Emeka Obi acting…
In a deft move against pro-Wike rivers lawmakers, the Acting National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Umar Damagun, has asked the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, to conduct a bye election in Rivers States to fill up their seats, following their defection to the All Progressives Congress(APC). Damagun’s request was contained in a letter he addressed to INEC. The Certified True Copy of the letter is dated 13 November, 2024. The spokesperson of the Opposition Lawmakers Coalition, Ikenga Ugochinyere made the letter available to newsmen at a press conference in Akokwa, Imo State, on Sunday, 24 November, 2024.…
Nigeria’s petroleum marketers said that the Premium Motor Spirit (Petrol) price may be reduced to between N900 and 1000 per litre by this year’s Yuletide with the intervention of Dangote Refinery. The President of the Petroleum Products Retail Outlet Owners Association, PETROAN, Billy Gillis-Harry, and the spokesperson of the Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria, Chinedu Ukadike, disclosed this in separate interviews with an online medium on Monday. This comes as Dangote Refinery on Sunday, 24 November, 2024 reduced its ex-depot petrol price by N20 to N970 from N990 per litre. The company had explained that the move was to appreciate…
Former Labour Party’s 2023 presidential campaign spokesperson, Doyin Okupe, has said the naira would have been N17,000 per dollar at foreign exchange and the price of fuel N4000 per litre without President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s reforms. Okupe, who was the spokesperson to ex-presidents Goodluck Jonathan and Olusegun Obasanjo, disclosed this in a recent Arise Television interview. This comes as Nigerians buy petrol at between N1060 and N1,115 per litre across filling stations nationwide compared to an average price of N254.06 in May last year before fuel subsidy removal. Also, the country’s foreign exchange rate rose to N1675.62 per dollar on…
President Bola Tinubu has forwarded the name of Lieutenant General, Olufemui Oluyede to the House of Representatives for confirmation as the Chief of Army Staff. This request was contained in a letter addressed to the House and read by Speaker Abbas Tajudeen on Tuesday, 26 November, 2024 during plenary. Thegazellenews.com recalls that Mr Oluyede was appointed by President Tinubu as the Acting Chief of Staff following the illness of Taoreed Lagbaja, who later passed away. .The President said the letter is in compliance with Section 218 of the 1999 constitution. “The powers conferred on the President by subsection (1) of…
The Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babajide Sanwo-Olu, on Tuesday, 26 November, 2024 performed the groundbreaking ceremony for the new ultramodern Alaba Rago Transnational Market in the Iba Local Council Development Area (LCDA) of the State, saying the development was in line with its administration’s market transformation moves of the THEMES+ development agenda. The new Alaba Rago Transnational Market, when completed in the next two years, will comprise of over 5,000 shops, an event hall, banks, a hotel, a fire station, an abattoir, a place of worship, a sewage treatment plant, a police post, a recreation center and a parking arena,…
Governor of Ebonyi State, Rt Hon Francis Ogbonna Nwifuru, has suspended the state Commissioner for Health, Dr. Moses Ekuma and his Housing and Urban Development counterpart, Francis Ori. Their suspension was announced on Monday, 25 November, 2024 during the weekly state Executive Council meeting held at the centenary city, New government House, Abakaliki. A statement issued by the state Commissioner for Information and State Orientation on Tuesday, 26 November, 2024 Jude Okpor, which was made available to newsmen read, “Following cases of gross misconduct and dereliction of duties by some government officials and matters related thereto, the Chairman of the…