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By Kamil Opeyemi The presidential candidate of the Labour Party in the last general election, Mr. Peter Obi, has congratulated his “Elder Brother” Alhaji Atiku Abubakar on his 77th birthday. Obi, in a tweet on Saturday, described Atiku, who was the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party in the same election. “Your Excellency, My Very dear Respected Elder Brother and leader, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, Waziri Adamawa, I rejoice with you as you mark your 77th birthday today,” Obi wrote on his X handle on Saturday. Continuing, Obi said Atiku had contributed immensely to the overall growth of the country.…
Troops of Operation Safe Haven (OPSH) of the Nigerian Army have arrested a suspected killer of a couple in Kwi Community, Riyom Local Government Area (LGA) of Plateau Lt.-Col. Ishaku Takwa, the Acting Deputy Dircetor, Army Public Relations of the 3 Division of the Nigerian Army, Rukuba, near Jos, disclosed this at a news conference on Saturday in Jos. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) recalled that on Aug. 14, suspected gunmen killed a newly married couple, one Rwang Danladi, 37 and his wife, Sandra, 28. The couple, both teachers of BECO Comprehensive Secondary School, Kwi, were killed when gunmen…
The Air Component of Operation Hadin Kai, have eliminated a key Boko Haram terrorist leader, Abu Asad and several others in air strikes on their hideout at Tagoshe on Mandara Mountains in Borno. The Director, Public Relations and Information, Nigerian Air Force (NAF), Air Commodore Edward Gabkwet, made this known in a statement on Saturday in Abuja. Gabkwet said the air strikes which was conducted on Friday, was one of the most successful strikes undertaken by the air component of Operation Hadin Kai in recent time. He said the NAF discovered a massing of terrorists in an isolated location consisting…
The Governorship Election Petition Tribunal in Kogi has given INEC 48 hours to issue certified copies of electoral materials on the Nov. 11 off-cycle election in the state to the Social Democratic Party (SDP). It also ordered INEC to allow SDP’s forensic experts to examine some electoral materials. The materials include Bimodal Voter Accreditation System and result sheets for Adavi, Okene, Okehi, Ogori-Magongo, Ajaokuta, Lokoja, Kogi and Bassa Local Government Areas. The tribunal ruled on Saturday in Lokoja that the SDP requested the materials to prove its case in the petition it filed against the victory of the All Progressives…
Eight persons died in an auto crash at Oke-Onigbin on the Omu-Aran-Ilorin Highway in Irepodun Local Government Area of Kwara on Friday. An articulated vehicle and a bus were involved in the accident. Sector Commander of the Federal Road Safety Corps in Kwara, Mr Stephen Dawulung, said in a statement issued by its spokesman, Mr Busari Basambo on Saturday in Ilorin that the accident happened in the night. “Preliminary investigations showed that the Ilorin-bound Mitsubishi bus was overtaking another bus when it had head-on collision with the articulated vehicle. “The collision resulted to the death of eight persons on the…
By Halimah Olamide Wife of Davido’s aide, Israel Afeare popularly called Israel DMW, Sheila has opened up on the controversy over their marriage. NPO Reported earlier on Saturday that Israeli had accused his wife of changing immediately after their marriage and accused him of being a slave to the singer’s aide. This is following an exposé published by Israel in the early hours of Saturday morning, where he released details on what led to their separation. Recall that NPO Reports reported that Israel gave details as to how he met Sheila in very poverty-stricken conditions and elevated her with his…
More than 50 people have died in Ethiopia’s northern Tigray and Amhara regions amid drought and an aid freeze, local officials have told the BBC. The Horn of Africa has had five failed rainy seasons since 2019, according to the UN. The US and UN suspended aid earlier this year after allegations of theft, worsening the humanitarian crisis. Tigray is recovering from a two-year civil war which ended a year ago, while a conflict has erupted in Amhara. About 46 people died in the town of Yechila in Tigray, while six died in the neighbouring Amhara region of Wag Hemra,…
The group, which includes young children and elderly women, are now back in Israel after being brought by the Red Cross from Gaza into Egypt. Soon after, 39 Palestinian detainees were released across the Beitunia checkpoint in the West Bank. Ten Thai nationals and one Filipino were also released by Hamas, in a deal separate to the one mediated by Qatar. Under the terms of the Qatar deal, a total of 50 Israeli hostages and 150 Palestinian detainees are meant to be released over four days during a temporary pause in the fighting. The hostages released by Hamas on Friday…
By Kamil Opeyemi Ailing Governor of Ondo State, Arakunrin Rotimi Akeredolu is to continue as Governor of the state while his Deputy, Lucky Ayedatiwa will remain his deputy. President Bola Tinubu, after a meeting with parties in the crisis on Friday, extracted commitments from the Deputy Governor, Lucky Ayedatiwa and the leadership of the House of Assembly in the state, led by the Speaker, Oladiji Olamide to maintain peace and allow all past crisis to be halted. At the meeting held at the presidential villa was also the National Chairman of the All Progressive Congress, Abdulahi Ganduje. The President was…
By Halimah Olamide Former President of the Nigerian Bar Association, Olumide Akpata, has called on the President of the Appeal Court to provide explanation on issues that led to the controversies over the verdict of the Appeal Tribunal that ruled over the Kano governorship election tussle. Akpata said there are insinuations that the judgment had been intercepted by interested parties adding that the least the President of the Court of Appeal, Justice Monica Dongbam Mensem, can do is to clarify the issues. Akpata, in a statement on Friday, said the Kano controversy has placed the Nigerian Judiciary in the spotlight…