Author: Safiu Kehinde
Safiu Kehinde is a Graduate of Mass Communications. He is passionate about accurate reporting and interested in investigating socio-political issues.
Agency Report The Senate on Tuesday constituted an ad-hoc committee to investigate drug distribution allegations by National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) against Sen. Oyelola Ashiru.(APC-Kwara). This followed the adoption of a point of order brought by Ashiru under Order 42 of Senate Standing Rules which entailed personal explanations. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the committee has Sen. Enyinnaya Abaribe as Chairman. Other members of the committee are: Senators Ede Dafinone, Afolabi Shaibu, Shehu Kaka and Lawal Usman. The committee, which has one week to present its report, is to invite NDLEA to speak to the allegation and…
Safiu Kehinde Nigerian First Lady, Oluremi Tinubu, has called on parents to instill good values and morale on their children in fight against the spate of cybercrime amongst youths. Oluremi made this call during an address at the National Cyber Crimes Summit organized by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Tuesday. Speaking at the event held at the Banquet Hall, Presidential Villa in Abuja, the first lady maintained that combating cybercrime requires a multi-faceted approach that involves various stakeholders including parents. She stressed on the need to instill in children hardworking culture, good values, morale, and sense of…
Safiu Kehinde Kano Pillars Football Team were, on Tuesday, involved in road crash, leaving several players injured. This was disclosed in a statement issued by the Nigerian club. According to the statement, the team’s bus conveying their under-19 players was involved in an accident on their way to Plateau state ahead of the U-19 Youth League matchday 5. However, no fatality was recorded and the inured players have been reportedly taken to hospital. The statement read in part; “It is with deep sadness that we announce that the Kano Pillars FC U-19 team bus was involved in a road accident…
Safiu Kehinde In the wake of Super Eagles’ inhuman treatment in Libya earlier this month, the Confederation of African Football (CAF) President, Patrice Motspe, has raised concern over the increase in troubling tales of similar antics played by countries and football clubs in Africa against visiting teams. Motspe raised the concern while speaking at the ongoing CAF General Assembly in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. When asked on the ordeal of the Nigeria’s national team in Libya after arriving for the return leg of the African Cup of Nation’s qualifier, Motspe reserved his comment but affirmed that investiagtion is ongoing over the…
Agency Report Sen. Musiliu Obanikoro says the proposed law to scrap the 37 Local Council Development Areas (LCDAs) in Lagos State may undermine grassroots development. Obanikoro, a former Minister of State for Defence made this known in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos. NAN reports that the bill is titled: A Bill for a Law to provide for Local Government’s System, Establishment And Administration And to Consolidate All Laws On Local Government Administration And Connected Purposes. The Speaker, Mr Mudashiru Obasa, represented by Deputy Speaker, Mrs Mojisola Meranda, during a public hearing on the bill…
Safiu Kehinde Three businessmen, Tahiru muktar, Rabiu Dahiru and Habibi Muhammed, were, on Tuesday, arraigned in Gwagwalada Magistrates’ Court for allegedly cheating their business partners of N17 million. The defendants who all reside in Phase 111 Gwagwalada, FCT, were charged with criminal conspiracy, breach of trust and cheating. The Prosecution Counsel, Dabo Yakubu told the court that the complainants, Mubarak Dan-Alkhale of Mariga in Niger state and Salihu Abdullahi of Argungu in Kebbi state reported the matter at Area Command office Gwagwalada on Oct. 3. Dabo narrated how the defendants had, sometimes in April, conspired and deceived the complainants to…
Safiu Kehinde United Nations’ Secretary-General, António Guterres, has called for probe into the killing of two opposition figures amid a dispute over elections held earlier this month. Elvino Dias, legal advisor to presidential candidate, Venâncio Mondlane, and Paulo Guambe, the legal representative of the political party PODEMOS, were gunned down in the capital, Maputo, on Friday night. PODEMOS had reject provisional results of the October 9 presidential elections which showed that the FRELIMO party, which has ruled Mozambique for nearly 50 years, was in the lead. Reacting to the development, Guterres urged the authorities to swiftly investigate the killings and…
Safiu Kehinde Federal Capital Territory Minister, Nyesom Wike, has ordered raid on beggars across the capital city. Lamenting over the rise in number of the beggars across the city, Wike made the order while speaking at the flag-off ceremony of Judges quarters’ construction project yesterday. Wike urged relatives of the beggars off the street as he announced that the raid will commence next week. He claimed that the beggars are defacing the capital city while alleging some of them are criminals in disguise as he addressed the state of insecurity in Abuja. “In terms of security, let me say it…
A former member of the House of Representatives Farouk Lawan who was convicted for bribery has been released today. Lawan was convicted in 2021 for seven years but had his sentence reduced by two years two years after after some of the charges against him were dropped. In January this year, the Supreme Court affirmed his sentence insisting he must serve his jail terms. His appeal sought to set aside the February 24, 2022 judgment of the Court of Appeal in Abuja, which sentenced him to a five-year jail term and discharged him on two out of the three counts…
Safiu Kehinde A 25-year-old security guard, Hamodu Shaibu, was, on Tuesday, brought before an Ado-Ekiti Chief Magistrates’ Court over alleged theft of N10 million cocoa beans. The defendant, whose address was not provided, pleaded not guilty when the charge was read to him. The Prosecutor, Insp Akinwale Oriyomi, told the court that the defendant and others at large committed the offence sometime between March and Oct. 14, in Ilumoba-Ekiti. According to Oriyomi, Shaibu allegedly stole the cocoa beans valued at N10 million belonging to Mr Olubodun Arinde, a cocoa merchant. The prosecutor said that the defendant, who was a security…