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The Police Command in Lagos State has confirmed the arrest of four middle-aged persons, including three women, over an alleged attempt to abduct a 10-year-old girl. The command’s spokesman, SP Benjamin Hundeyin, confirmed the arrest on his verified twitter handle monitored by the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Friday. Hundeyin said the Divisional Police officer in charge of Ketu in Kosofe Local Government Area of Lagos, got a report about the attempted abduction on Wednesday at about 3.00 p.m. He said the report revealed that three women who were between the ages of 45 and 64, and a 61-year-old…
The Supreme Court on Thursday affirmed the Osun Governor elect, Ademola Adeleke as the right candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party for the July 16 poll. The hope of his challenger Dotun Babayemi of quashing Adeleke’s victory vanished as the Apex court ruled that Adeleke was the correct candidate of the party. Details later…
The late Queen’s death certificate is signed by her daughter the Princess Royal, who was with her in her final 24 hours Queen Elizabeth II died of “old age” at 3.10pm on September 8, her death certificate has confirmed. The entry in the National Records of Scotland, published today, is signed by her daughter the Princess Royal, who was with her in her final 24 hours. The late Queen’s death was registered in Aberdeenshire on September 16th 2022, and is now a matter of public record. The certificate confirms that some of the Queen’s close family were still in the air en…
Russia’s Vladimir Putin will hold a signing ceremony on Friday formally annexing four more areas of Ukraine after self-styled referendums condemned by Ukraine and the West as a sham. Russian-backed officials had earlier claimed the five-day exercise secured almost total popular support. So-called votes were held in Luhansk and Donetsk in the east, and in Zaporizhzhia and Kherson in the south. The Russian president will make a major speech at the Kremlin. A stage has already been set up in Moscow’s Red Square, with billboards proclaiming the four regions as part of Russia and a concert planned for the evening.…
President Muhammadu Buhari has said that the spread of fake news takes a lot away from issues-based campaigns. The President stated this just as he welcomed the initiative undertaken by the National Peace Committee to commit all political actors to issue-based campaigns devoid of incitement, personal insults and attacks. In a video-message to the signing of the 2023 election Peace Accord by the presidential candidates, organised by the National Peace Committee, on Thursday in Abuja, the President warned that the rise of fake news and misinformation have continued to pose a significant threat to democracy in Nigeria. The President said…
Faced with no other option, Nigeria’s Senate President Ahmed Lawan accepts defeat after court rules him out of contest to return to the National Assembly next year. Senate President Ahmed Lawan on Thursday said he has accepted the decision of the court to rule him out of an opportunity to seek a return to the National Assembly from his state. NPO reported the judgement of Justice Fadima Murtala at a Damaturu Federal High Court on Wednesday ordered the All Progressives Congress to forward the name of Machina to the Independent National Electoral Commission as the authentic winner of the primary,…
The All Progressive Congress has disowned a letter purportedly written by the National Chairman of the party Adamu Abdulahi rejecting the composition of the presidential campaign council. A letter had surfaced earlier today detailing Adamu’s alleged vituperations against the composition of the council as approved by the presidential candidate Bola Tinubu. The letter allegedly written by Adamu accused the presidential candidate of the party,Bola Tinubu of running a one man show. “It is against this background that the NWC received with astonishment and regret, the press release by the PCC on 23rd September, 2022, in which a purported…
The candidate of the All Progressive Congress Bola Tinubu was absent on Thursday as candidates for the 2023 presidential election signed agreement over peaceful campaigns. Tinubu was represented by his running mate Kashim Shettima. Others at the event include the Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party Atiku Abubakar, that of Labour Party, Peter Obi. Details later…
Hurricane Ian, which peaked at a category four storm, is bringing severe flooding, high winds and storm surges to Florida It is now losing power as it moves inland, and has been downgraded to a category one system But more than two million people in Florida have no electricity, and cities have been left submerged by flood water The hurricane made landfall on Wednesday near the city of Fort Myers Florida Governor Ron DeSantis warns people to get ready for “a nasty, nasty” couple of days Dan Allers is a councillor in Fort Myers Beach, south-west Florida – one of…
Russia’s Vladimir Putin will hold a signing ceremony on Friday formally annexing four more areas of Ukraine after self-styled referendums condemned by Ukraine and the West as a sham. Russian-backed officials had earlier claimed the five-day exercise secured almost total popular support. So-called votes were held in Luhansk and Donetsk in the east, and in Zaporizhzhia and Kherson in the south. The Russian president will make a major speech at the Kremlin. A stage has already been set up in Moscow’s Red Square, with billboards proclaiming the four regions as part of Russia and a concert planned for the evening.…