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By Kamil Opeyemi The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) says the Labour Party (LP) has no ground to call for the sack of its Chairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, over the outcome of the 2023 general election. The Chief Press Secretary to INEC Chairman, Mr Rotimi Oyekanmi stated this when he spoke with newsmen on Thursday in Abuja. “The reasons adduced by the LP in making the latest and familiar demand are not only illogical, but also ridiculous,” he said. He said that election observers, both local and international, were accredited by INEC to observe elections under specific rules and regulations.…
By Kamil Opeyemi A Federal High Court, Abuja, on Thursday, restrained Gov. Yahaya Bello of Kogi and the acting Inspector-General (I-G) of Police, Olukayode Egbetokun, from arresting or detaining Alhaji Murtala Ajaka, the Social Democratic Party (SDP)’s candidate for the Nov. 11 governorship election in the state. Justice Inyang Ekwo, in a ruling, also stopped the commissioner of police in Kogi, the Department of State Services (DSS) and its director-general, among others from arresting or threatening Ajaka’s life pending the hearing and determination of the substantive suit. Justice Ekwo also made an interim order compelling the I-G, the DSS…
By Kamil Opeyemi The management of the Osun State University, Osogbo, has suspended a 100-Level student of the institution, Victory Ehiremen, indefinitely. 17-year-old Ehiremen was suspended following her arrest by men of the Osun State Police Command in connection with a case of armed robbery in Ikire. NPO Reports learnt that Ehiremen and her boyfriend, Ayobami, allegedly lured the victim said to be based in Lagos State, who she met via WhatsApp to Ikire, Osun State, where he was assaulted and a sum of N1. 5m was transferred from his account. When paraded by the state Commissioner of Police,…
France has posthumously awarded its highest honour to an AFP video journalist killed in Ukraine. Arman Soldin, 32, who died in a rocket attack close to Bakhmut in May, was made a knight of the Legion of Honour. French President Emmanuel Macron hailed Soldin’s “bravery” in a letter sent to the Agence France-Presse news agency. Soldin is one of at least 17 journalists killed in Ukraine since Russia’s invasion, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists. He was given the honour by a presidential decree on Thursday. In his earlier letter to the news agency, Mr Macron praised Soldin’s “strength…
Maalim is traumatised by what he saw in Sudan’s western region of Darfur, before he fled across the border to Chad. “If the people who I worked with know I have shown you these photos and videos, or even that I filmed them, I am a dead man,” he tells me as he whips out his phone to show me harrowing pictures of scattered corpses in the city of El Geneina. We have changed his name for his own safety. Before leaving the country, he was part of a group of people tasked with removing corpses from the streets and…
By Kamil Opeyemi The Ilorin Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) says it has arrested 13 Chinese nationals for allegedly engaging in illegal mining activities in the state. Mr Wilson Uwujaren, spokesperson of the commission, disclosed this in a statement in Ilorin on Thursday. The suspects comprise of a female and 12 male and they were arrested on Wednesday at the Government Reserved Area of Ilorin. Uwujaren listed the suspects to include: Guo Ya Wang, 36, Lizli Hui, 42, Guo Jian Rong, 36, Lizh Shen Xianian, 37, Lishow Wu, 26, Guo Pan, 38, and Lia…
A Hollywood mega-strike involving writers and performers is likely to grind to a halt the production of most movies and many popular television shows. The last time members of the Screen Actors Guild – American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA) walked out was in July 1980. Back then, part of the row between members and entertainment giants was about profits from the sale of shows and movies made for cable television and videotapes, the New York Times reported at the time. Forty-three years later, the new walkout – which joins an existing strike by writers – centres on…
TOKYO, July 14 (Reuters) – The United States and its allies need to speed up the delivery of weapons to Taiwan in the coming years to help the island defend itself, the top U.S. general said on Friday. The United States is Taiwan’s most important arms supplier. Beijing has repeatedly demanded the sale of U.S. weapons to Taiwan stop, viewing them as unwarranted support for the democratically governed island that Beijing claims. “The speed at which we, the United States, or other countries assist Taiwan in improving (their) defensive capabilities, I think that probably needs to be accelerated in the…
By Kamil Opeyemi The Department of State Security on Thursday charged the suspended Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria Godwin Emefiele to court. In a statement on Thursday, Peter Afunanya, spokesperson of the DSS, said the decision to charge Emefiele was in compliance with the order of the federal capital territory high court. NPO Reported earlier that a Federal High Court in Abuja had give the security agency one week within which to charge Emefiele to court or release him. The court had decided in a suit filed by Emefiele challenging alleged violations of his constitutional rights. “Sequel to…
President Bola Tinubu has announced the Federal Government’s plan to provide financial assistance to 12 million low-income households in Nigeria over a span of six months. This information was conveyed in a letter read by Senate President Godswill Akpabio during plenary Thursday, asked the 10th Senate to approve the borrowing request of $800 million. The letter in part reads, “you may further wish to note that under the conditional cash transfer window of the programme, the federal government of Nigeria will transfer the sum of N8,000 per month to 12 million poor and low-income households for a period of…