The committee set up by Governor Monday Okpebholo for the recovery of assets from the administration of his predecessor, Godwin Obaseki, has declared over 200 vehicles belonging to the Edo State Government missing. The chairman of the committee, Kelly Okungbowa who made this disclosure to newshounds on Friday, 22 November,2024 in Benin City, said three vehicles have been recovered in a private residence. Okungbowa listed the three vehicles as one Hilux van and two Toyota Hiace buses. He also disclosed that in one of the Toyota Hiace buses, the committee recovered some palliatives that were meant to have been shared…
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Tears flow like river in Nnewi, Anambra State on Friday, 22 November, 2024 as the remains of the late senator representing Anambra South, Senator Ifeanyi Ubah, was buried in his compound. Ubah’s remains first arrived his country home in Umuanuka, Otolo Nnewi in Nnewi North Local Government Area of the state, before being moved to St Peter Clever Parish Umuanuka for a funeral mass. As his body arrived his compound in Nnewi, scores of indigent people, perceived to be his dependents, who gathered at the gate of his palatial home broke into wailing. Ubah died in the United Kingdom in…
In less than 10 hours after the release of his new album titled ‘Morayo,’ famous Nigerian Afrobeats singer, Wizkid has broken records as all the songs in the album are in the top 17 positions on Apple Music, thegazellenews.com reports. The album also shattered Nigeria’s streaming records, with one of its singles amassing 1.57 million streams on Spotify on its opening day. The album, which was released on Friday, 22 November, 2024, is a tribute to his late mother, Juliana Morayo Balogun, who died in August 2023. Afrobeats singer, Wizkid has broken records as all the songs from his new…
Nollywood actress, Wumi Toriola has surpassed Toyin Abraham’s box office record. This is coming a few days after Wumi Toriola emerged as the 2024 box office champion. Thegazellenews.com recalls that the actress was awarded the box office champion by the Federal Government through the National Film and Video Censors Board, NFVCB. Toriola broke Abraham’s record with her latest movie ‘Queen Lateefah’, which has become one of the highest-grossing Nigerian film of all time. Toyin Abraham Since its release in September, the film has grossed N350 million in just two months, surpassing Abraham’s ‘Malaika’, which earned N302 million. The new achievement has placed…
The Chairman of the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC), Dr. Musa Adamu Aliyu, SAN, has disclosed that between 2023 and 2024, the Commission received 2,038 petitions, secured 31 convictions, and recovered assets/ cash worth N105.82 billion. Dr. Aliyu made this known Wednesday, 20 November, 2024, while hosting members of the House of Representatives Committee on Anti-Corruption, led by its Chairman, Honorable Prince Kayode Moshood Akiolu, who were on an oversight visit to the Commission. The Chairman stated that “the Commission received 1,187 petitions in 2023. From January to October 2024, the Commission received 851 petitions. In…
Ogun State Governor, Prince Dapo Abiodun, has said that his administration will award a contract for the construction of Alagbole-Akute and Akute-Oke-Aro-Ijoko roads in Ifo Local Government Area in the next two weeks. Governor Abiodun, who disclosed this at the commissioning of the Ojodu Abiodun-Denro-Ishasi-Akute Road on Friday, said construction would start from Akute to Oke Aro. He said: “Within the next few weeks, a maximum of three weeks, in my determination to ensure that this local government wears a new look, I will be awarding the Alagbole-Akute road. I will also be awarding the Akute-Ijoko-Oke-Aro road. “That Akute-Ijoko-Oke-Aro road…
President Bola Tinubu has stated that his administration’s renewed focus in driving international and local investments into livestock sector of the agricultural value-chain will end the crisis of farmer-herder clashes, eradicate hunger and poverty in Nigeria as well as promote economic prosperity. President Tinubu said this Thursday, 21 November, 2024, in Rio de Janeiro , Brazil at the signing of a Letter of Intent between the Nigerian Government and the JBS S.A, one of the top three largest meat processing companies globally. “What we are doing right now is that we are solving a problem that afflicted humanity in that…
The Minister of Solid Minerals Development, Dr. Dele Alake has charged Chief Executive Officers (CEOs) of mining companies to lead the way in establishing mining development banks to guarantee the needed long-term credit for sustainable development of the mining sector. Speaking at the CEO Roundtable on the sidelines of the 2024 Nigeria Mining Week, Alake encouraged the CEOs to spearhead the mining bank with the aim of making it private-sector driven to wean it off government interference and ensure its longevity and effectiveness. He assured the CEOs that the federal government is actively dismantling bottlenecks to enhance the ease of…
The death toll from two sectarian attacks in northwest Pakistan’s Kurram district has risen to 43, officials confirmed on Friday, as authorities imposed a curfew and suspended mobile services in the tense region. Gunmen targeted two separate convoys of Shiite Muslims traveling under police escort in the mountainous Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province near the Afghanistan border, an area with a history of sectarian violence. A senior administration official, Javed Ullah Mehsud, confirmed the updated death toll, noting that the victims included seven women and three children, just as he also added that 16 people were injured, 11 of whom are in critical…
A Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) chieftain, Chief Bode George has advised the former vice president, Atiku Abubakar to stop any plan of contesting in 2027. George stated that Atiku, who was the party’s presidential candidate for the 2023 general election has been contesting since 1993. While addressing newsmen in Ikoyi, on Thursday, 21 November, 2024, he urged Atiku to end his 31-year-long bid to be President and assume the position of an elder for posterity sake. In a viral video on social media, he further noted that Atiku would be 81 years old by 2027. “My advice to Atiku is…