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By Halimah Olamide The Cross River House of Assembly, on Wednesday, impeached the Speaker, Mr Elvert Anyambem, over issues of gross misconduct and high-handedness. The speaker’s impeachment was carried out during a sitting of the house in which he was presiding. The impeachment followed a motion moved by the member representing Calabar South 1, Mr Effiong Ekarika, which was seconded by Mr Charles Omang, representing the Bekwara constituency. The motion was thereafter unanimously supported by other members of the house present at the sitting. Moving his motion, Ekarika stated that Anyambem had grossly indulged in administrative misconduct, high-handedness and financial…

By Halimah Olamide Former Commander of the Force Intelligence Unit of the Nigeria Police Force, Mr. Abba Kyari, has been granted bail to attend his mother’s funeral. The bail, said to be for two weeks comes ahead of his bail application ruling which was scheduled for May 31. Kyari has been detention for 27 months after his arrest over aiding and abeting drugs trafficking. The embattled Deputy Commissioner of Police was granted the two week bail by an Abuja Federal High Court. The case involving drug-related charges was brought forth by the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency. Kyari became a…

By Halimah Olamide Any attack on him is an attack on the state. And so any Nigerian of goodwill must condemn such act The Ex-Chief of Defence Staff, General Lucky Irabor, has described the recent attack on Army personnel as an attack on the state. Recall that some army personnel were mobbed at the popular Banex Plaza Abuja last week prompting a closure of the business premises. Irabor stated this during an interview session on Arise TV disclosing his support for the closure of the Plaza until the perpetrators are brought to book. According to him, such acts of hitting…

By Felix Oboagwina I care little for former Rivers State’s Governor Nyesom Wike and the 25 pro-Wike lawmakers in the State House of Assembly. However, in their current quarrel with the incumbent Governor Simi Fubara (the godson who succeeded Wike), only one factor works against Wike in the court of public opinion: In the 2023 elections, the Rivers strongman worked for the emergence of Bola Ahmed Tinubu as President; and Tinubu has today raised Nigerians’ pain and poverty to record proportions! President Tinubu’s failures solely win for Fubara massive support in this lingering faceoff with Wike, his erstwhile godfather, predecessor…

Passengers on a Singapore Airlines flight hit by severe turbulence on Tuesday described a sudden, dramatic drop as “all hell broke loose” on board the Boeing airliner carrying 229 passengers and crew. Flight SQ321 was cruising at 37,000 feet from London to Singapore when flight tracking data shows the plane rapidly plunged before climbing several hundred feet, then repeated the dip and ascent, for about 90 seconds. At first, “the flight was perfectly normal,” said passenger Andrew Davies, who was traveling to New Zealand for business. He described the flight as “quite smooth … I don’t remember any turbulence at…

The head of Singapore Airlines has apologised after a flight on Tuesday was hit by “severe extreme turbulence”, killing one person and injuring dozens. Goh Choon Phong said the airline was “very sorry for the traumatic experience” for those onboard flight SQ321 from London to Singapore. The flight was forced to make an emergency landing in the Thai capital Bangkok. Some 79 passengers and six crew members are still in Bangkok – where they are receiving medical treatment for injuries. A relief flight carrying the remaining passengers and crew members arrived in Singapore early on Wednesday. The plane, which had…

By Halimah Olamide Gov. Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos State has described Mr Gboyega Soyannwo, his late Deputy Chief of Staff , as a rare gem, who contributed immensely to governance and the development of the state. Sanwo-Olu spoke at the”Night of Tributes”,a programme organised by the state government on Tuesday in Ikeja, to honour Soyannwo ,who died on May 15 at 55. In attendance were Sanwo-Olu’s deputy, Dr Obafemi Hamzat, members of the State Executive Council, and Pastor Cornelius Ojelabi,Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the state. Sanwo-Olu said his late aide was a team player par excellence,…

By Halimah Olamide No fewer than nine persons have been killed, with six houses destroyed in Zurak and Dakai communuties in Wase of Local Government Area of Plateau by bandits. A statement by Mr Alfred Alabo, the Public Relations Officer (PPRO) of the Police Command in the state has, however, indicated that the bandits met an “aggressive onslaught” by a combined team of security operatives. “Some of the bandits were killed and one arrested at the Bangalala forest in Wase which is a border between Plateau, Bauchi and Taraba States,” he said. According to him, other bandits who fled during…

By Halimah Olamide Lagos team wheelchair Basketball on Tuesday defeated Oyo 43-33 to win the maiden edition of the 2024 Betking Wheelchair Basketball League fantastic final four. In the final match played at the Moshood Abiola stadium in Abuja, Lagos team won all the quarters of the final match. They beat Oyo in the first quarter 15-13, and a diffrence of five points in the second quarter 25-20. While in the third quarter, they defeated Oyo 33-26 and in last quarter 43-33. Speaking after the match, Micheal Owoyele,the coach of Lagos team said their target was to win the league.…

By Halimah Olamide A contractor, Olugbenga Obadina, has admitted to receiving the sum of N2.17b from the office of the National Security Adviser (NSA), for no power project at all. This was contained in the statement released by the EFCC on Tuesday. Obadina is being prosecuted by the EFCC on an eight-count charge bordering on conspiracy, official corruption and money laundering to the tune of N2,17,190,000 (Two Billion, Seventeen Million, One Hundred and Ninety Thousand Naira). The payment was received from the Office of the National Security Adviser under Colonel Sambo Dasuki (Rtd) on November 28, 2015, for doing nothing,…