Author: Npo_report
Hundreds of people including some patients left Gaza City’s main hospital on Saturday. Some medical staff said they had been told to leave but Israel disputes this. Many were seen walking along rubble-strewn streets as gunfire rang out. Separately Hamas health officials said two explosions in Jabalia in northern Gaza together killed 80 people. Israel told the BBC it could not confirm it struck a UN school-turned-shelter but was investigating. BBC Verify has geolocated footage to al-Fakhoura school in Jabalia that shows many people – including women and children – with severe injuries or lying motionless on the floor in…
By Halimah Olamide The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), has stated that the Nigerian Air Force (NAF) personnel arrested on Friday in Kaduna State, would be charged in court at the conclusion of the investigation. It was gathered that military personnel stormed the Kaduna Command of the EFCC on Friday in an attempt to free some arrested fraudsters. Meanwhile, operatives of the two security agencies had clashed at the command, leading to the arrest and detention of the NAF officers. Although they were released on administrative bail, the EFCC Head of Media and Publicity, Dele Oyewale, disclosed in a…
Police in Bayelsa have nabbed one of the suspected killers of SP Bako Angbashim, former Divisional Police Officer of Ahoada Division in Rivers. Police spokesman in Bayelsa, CSP Asinim Butswat, stated on Saturday that the suspect, Onyekachi Ikowa (43), the second-in-command to TuBaba, leader of the dreaded “Icelander’’ cult group in Rivers, was arrested on Nov. 18. “Based on intelligence report that Ikowa was hibernating in Yenagoa after the callous murder of Late SP Angbashim in September, Commissioner of Police in Bayelsa, Mr Francis Iduh, charged that he be fished out. “The suspect has been handed over to the police…
By Kamil Opeyemi One of Nigeria’s advocacy organizations Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project on Saturday threatened Governor Ademola Adeleke of Osun state with legal action should the Governor fail to reverse his decision to suspend the Chief Judge of the state, Justice Adepele Ojo. SERAP said the vicious cycle of alleged illegalities must end if Nigeria must enjoy democracy. “Osun State Governor Ademola Adeleke must immediately reverse his apparently unlawful removal of Adepele Ojo as the Chief Judge of Osun state. “This vicious cycle of authoritarian attacks on the rule of law must stop. We’ll see in court if this…
A former Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Ibrahim Magu, was on Saturday conferred highest honour of doctoral fellowship of the Institute for Governance and Leadership Studies in Africa (IGLSA). The Director-General of the Institute, Dr Lanre Adebayo, said Magu’s selection for the honour was not unconnected with his role that gave Nigeria a landmark victory at the Commercial Court of England and Wales. According to him, the EFCC under Magu’s leadership was able to stop the enforcement of an 11.5 billion dollars P&ID Limited arbitration award against Nigeria. “The commission challenged the arbitration award against the…
Gov. Yahaya Bello of Kogi says election has gone beyond ethnic sentiment in the state, saying that the All Progressives Congress (APC) won the Nov.11 poll because it presented a popular candidate and not based on tribe or ethnicity. Bello said this at a stakeholders meeting of the APC held at the Glasshouse of the Government House, Lokoja on Saturday. “Kogi must develop as one united state, under no illusion must any tribe think it could vote for itself and become governor without the support of other tribes. “The Nov. 11 governorship election has shown that unity is the watchword.…
By Kamil Opeyemi The Governor of Kano state, Abba Kabir Yusuff on Saturday said he haas decided to seek justice at the Supreme Court after the Appeal tribunal sacked him on Friday. Yusuff, in a statement posted on his X handle on Saturday, the decision was taken after careful consideration of all the issues involved. “We are optimistic that the Supreme Court will, by the grace of Allahu SWT, set aside these miscarriages of justice by the Tribunal and the Appeal Court, and reaffirm our mandate, as given by the good people of Kano State,” he said Calling on the…
By Halimah Olamide The Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) has said Governor Ademola Adeleke of Osun state has declared war on the judiciary with his removal of the Chief Judge of the state, Justice Adepele Ojo. The NBA said the removal of Ojo in spite of an order of the National Industrial Court is a clear manifestation that Adeleke has no regards for law adding that the association would go the whole hug to redress the removal. In a statement made available to the NPO Reports, NBA’s National Publicity Secretary, Habeeb Akorede, said the NBA is aware of what he called…
Liberian President George Weah has called his challenger in the presidential race, Joseph Boakai, to congratulate him on his victory. In an address to the nation he said “the Liberian people have spoken and we have heard their voice”. The opposition candidate holds an unassailable lead of 28,000 votes with nearly all ballots counted. A former football star, President Weah has been in power since 2018. He will step down in January. He came into the job on a wave of enthusiasm, especially from younger voters, having won that election – also against Mr Boakai – by a large margin.…
By Kamil Opeyemi The New Nigeria People’s Party (NNPP), in Kano State, has said the decision of the Appeal Tribunal which sacked Governor Abba Yusuf on Friday is a signal that democracy is coming to an end in Nigeria. State Chairman of the party, Alhaji Hashimu Dungurawa, described the judgment of the Appeal Court as a threat to the survival to democracy. Dungurawa who spoke to journalists in Kano said “This judgment poses a great threat to our nation’s democracy because the electorate elected Yusuf through the electoral process, in a free, fair contest. “The judgment is very unexpected. We…