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Former Nigerian President, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, has debunked claims that he has thrown his weight behind the South-East part of the country to produce the next president. There were reports of the former President saying that the South-East region should produce a successor to President Muhammadu Buhari. The report stated that Obasanjo said it while receiving Mao Ohuabunwa, a presidential aspirant, in Abeokuta, Ogun State, on Thursday. According to the report, the former president stated that south easterners could bring a lot to the table if elected. But in his reaction, Obasanjo said an aspirant from the region, Mr. Mao…
At least, 12 persons reportedly got burnt to death on Saturday in an accident that occurred at Otte Village on the Ilorin-Ogbomoso highway. According to the Federal Road Safety Corps, the accident was after head-on collision between a commercial Toyota ‘Hummer’ bus and a Volvo truck. The truck was said to have been loaded with bags of cement. The accident, according to the FRSC, happened at about 7am at Otte in the Asa Local Government Area of the state. Six of the passengers were rescued alive but with varying degrees of burn. The remaining 12 passengers were burnt beyond recognition.…
*Police In Search of Parents of Stolen Baby, Culprit In what appeared another strange dimension to the cases of kidnapping and rituals in the country, a dispatch rider (yet to be identified) has been accosted in Lagos with a stolen baby. The baby was found to b crying inside the delivery box at the back of the rider’s motorbike. The incident, said to have happened Saturday morning at the Sangotedo area of Lagos, had attracted attention of many in the area. In the video sighted by the NPO Reports, the rider was seen being dealt some slaps by angry mob…
Residents in the Ukrainian city of Melitopol have come out to protest against the alleged abduction of the mayor by Russian forces. Ukrainian officials have posted video saying it shows Ivan Fedorov being led away blindfolded on Friday. In a message, President Volodymyr Zelensky accused the Russians of “moving to a new stage of terror”. Melitopol, a small city in south-eastern Ukraine, was one of the first to fall to the Russians. Russia invaded Ukraine on 24 February, arguing it felt threatened by a neighbour intent on joining Western-led organisations such as the Nato military alliance. In his message late…
When the Russian offensive started, as sirens sounded in Kyiv for the first time, some people here feared that the city might fall by the afternoon. Reports were coming in of a long convoy of armour and heavy weapons pushing down from the north-west. Military analysts had a high opinion of the Russian army. It had, they said, been professionalised, with invaluable experience of perfecting weapons and seasoning men in the war in Syria. The tactical errors I had seen the Russians commit when they tried to crush a rebellion in the republic of Chechnya in 1995 were, I was…
The Secretary of the party’s Caretaker and Extra-ordinary Convention Planning Committee (CECPC), John Akpanudoedehe, has not resigned his position as being speculated. The Director of Publicity of the All Progressives Congress, Alhaji Salisu Dambatta, who disclosed this Saturday, said this added the scribe also not sacked. In a statement on Saturday in Abuja, he debunked reports in the media that Akpanudoedehe had resigned his position following the leadership change in the party. “We wish to note that the Secretary of the APC CECPC, Akpanudoedehe never sent a resignation letter to the party to the best of its knowledge and neither…
Governor of Ekiti State, Dr. Kayode Fayemi on Saturday carefully evaded answering questions over his rumoured presidential ambition. Featuring as a keynote speaker at the 35th birthday symposium in honour of the founder of Follow The Money and a youths advocate, Mr. Hamzat Lawal, Fayemi was asked if he is running to be Nigeria’s next president. In his response, the Ekiti State Governor said his current assignment is not over yet. Pushed further to answer the same question, Fayemi said he was at the event to celebrate Lawal and not to answer questions on 2023. In his admonition to young…
The Police Command in Akwa Ibom has confirmed that a secondary school student, Samuel Archibong, of Community Secondary School, Aka Offot in Uyo has stabbed a school mate, James Elijah, to death. The Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), SP Odiko Macdon, disclosed this in a statement in Uyo on Saturday. Macdon, who said the incident occurred on March 10, called on parents to inculcate good family culture in their children to avoid such occurrence. He said the Commissioner of Police in the state, CP Andrew Amiengheme, has directed the deployment of a Special Surveillance Unit to schools to check the…
Concerned Nigerians have been showing love and prayers on actress, Kemi Afolabi after her disclosure that she has only five more years to live. The actress had on Friday, disclosed in an interview that she has an incurable ailment Lupus, which she said doctors have confirmed will terminate her life in the next four years. The actress had disclosed that the illness has cost her a lot, adding that she had to sell some of her properties. She revealed that the doctor broke the news to her a year ago and she does not know how long she has left.…
A chieftain of the Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria (IPMAN) Mr. Chinedu Anyaso, has warned that the hike in the price of Automotive Gas Oil (AGO), popularly called diesel, will worsen inflation in the country. Anyaso, who is the Chairman of IPMAN, Enugu Depot Community, while warning in Awka, described the development as unhealthy. He said the hike portended stiffer hardship for Nigerians. NAN reports that the price of the commodity went up about two weeks ago in Awka and its environs from N400 per litre to N650 per litre. Diesel is the major source of energy for articulated…