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Former Senator representing Kaduna Central Senatorial district at the National Assembly, comrade Shehu Sani, has sued the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) for unlawfully detaining him for nearly three weeks now. Shehu Sani’s legal counsel, Abdul Ibrahim disclosed that the lawsuit was filed before Justice A. B. Mohammed of the Federal High Court in […]
Continue ReadingMiyetti Allah Kautal Hore, the umbrella body for Fulani herders in the country has called for the arrest of Yoruba leaders backing Amotekun, the South-West security outfit recently launched by Governors in the region to counter insecurity. In an interview with The Sun, Bello Abdullahi Bodejo, the National President General of Miyetti Allah Kautal Hore, alleged […]
Continue ReadingDistinguished agronomist, Punch Board member, businessman, and esteemed senior citizen, Dr. Lekan Are, has passed away. A family member who confirmed his death to newsmen on Saturday said Dr. Are died at the University College Hospital (UCH), Ibadan, shortly after midnight. He was 86. Dr. Are, the longest-serving director on the board of Punch (Nigeria) […]
Continue ReadingAn academic, Professor Solomon Musa Tarfa has been arrested by the Kano State Police Command over an alleged baby factory operating in the state, according to LIB. Nineteen inmates of both sexes and various ages were rescued in a raid carried out on December 25, 2019 at the orphanage home ‘Du Mercy Children Development Ministry’ which […]
Continue ReadingAbagun Kole Omololu, National Organising Secretary of Pan Yoruba socio-political organisation, Afenifere, has been arrested and also being detained in Lagos. According to him, he was arrested by one of the police officers on the entourage of the Vice President, Prof Yemi Osinbajo. The Punch reports that it received a message from the Afenifere leader […]
Continue ReadingThe All Progressives Congress (APC) national leader, Bola Tinubu has been given 24 hours by a group, Save Lagos Group (SLG), to reveal his position on the Western Nigeria Security Network codenamed ‘Operation Amotekun’. Tinubu, who is being regarded as a prominent person in the Southwest by many, has remained mute on Operation Amotekun which […]
Continue ReadingThe Leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu has pledged support for the ‘Amotekun’ security outfit recently launched by the Southwest of Nigeria. Kanu, in a recent broadcast, pledged to give maximum support to the initiative. It will be recalled that the federal government declared the outfit ‘illegal’ citing that it was […]
Continue ReadingNational Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party PDP, Uche Secondus, alongside members of the party’s National Working Committee, has called on the Supreme court to reverse its January 14 judgment annulling the election of its candidate, Ihedioha Emeka as governor of Imo state and replacing him with APC’s Hope Uzodinma. The party chairman made the […]
Continue ReadingUnited Kingdom (UK) has launched a fresh bid to confiscate part of the £117 million worth of properties stolen by former governor of Delta state, James Ibori. Recall that in 2012, a UK court sentenced Ibori who was governor of Nigeria’s Delta State from 1999 to 2007, to prison after convicting him of fraud and […]
Continue ReadingA Lagos State High Court sitting in Ikeja has awarded N25m damages against Diamond Bank Plc, for freezing the bank account of one Mr Adetokunbo Odutola on the instruction of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission. In a judgment delivered by Justice S.O. Nwaka, the court held that a bank account could only be frozen […]
Continue ReadingChairman of the Presidential Advisory Committee Against Corruption (PACAC), Professor Itse Sagay SAN, has said that it is very sad that people of Northern extraction are never happy when Southerners want to organise themselves on regional basis. Sagay who is a staunch Pro-Buhari government official, said this while reacting to the comment made by the […]
Continue ReadingSenator Hope Uzodinma has been sworn in as the governor of Imo State according to the judgment of the Supreme Court. Uzodinma and his deputy, Professor Placid Njoku, were sworn in by the Chief Judge of the state, Justice Pascal Nnadi, in a ceremony that was held at the Imo State Government House on Wednesday […]
Continue ReadingLagos lawyer and rights activist, Femi Falana SAN, has differed with the Attorney General of the Federation, Mr Abubakar Malami SAN, on the legality of the southwestern states’ joint security outfit, code-named ‘Amotekun’. About a week after the six South-West governors jointly inaugurated Amotekun for the security of the zone, the AGF, on Tuesday, issued […]
Continue ReadingFormer Nigerian Minister of Aviation, Femi Fani-Kayode has responded to the statement by the Nigerian government to declare Amotekun, the security outfit just been set up by southwest governors, an illegal organization. The Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, said on Tuesday that Amotekun is not backed by any law […]
Continue ReadingOne Engineer Ameh Osivue Shagari, shared photos of the Borno State Governor, Babagana Umara Zulum, who flew economy from Abuja to Maiduguri on Tuesday. Another passenger, Abacha Nawaisu, who was on the same flight posted a photo of the governor walking towards his seat. Ameh Osivue Shagari wrote: “Today I was in a flight […]
Continue ReadingSpeaking on Wednesday at a press conference at his Kongi’s Harvest Art Gallery, Freedom Park, Lagos, Playwright and social critic, Prof Wole Soyinka, has advised those he said were sleeping all the while Nigerians were being killed to return to sleep, instead of tagging as illegal ‘Operation Amotekun’ initiated by the Southwest governors to tackle […]
Continue ReadingIn a statement, Atiku Abubakar, has urged aggrieved members of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Imo State not to despair over the nullification of the electoral victory of the PDP 2019 governorship candidate in Imo, Chief Emeka Ihedioha, by the Supreme Court. Nigerian Supreme Court had nullified Ihedioha’s victory and ordered that the candidate of […]
Continue ReadingFew days sequel to the inauguration of a security outfit known as “Operation Amotekun” by Southwest states, the Nigerian government has declared the paramilitary outfit as illegal as it is not backed by any known law in the land. In a statement signed by Dr Umar Gwandu, the Special Assistant on Media and Public Relations […]
Continue ReadingNigerian Supreme Court on Tuesday nullified the election of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidate, Emeka Ihedioha as the governor of Imo State. A full seven-man panel of the apex court led by the Chief Justice of Nigeria, Tanko Muhammad, unanimously declared Hope Uzodinma as the winner of the March 9, 2019, governorship election and the […]
Continue ReadingVeteran Nollywood actor, Toyosi Arigbabuwo is reportedly dead after a long battle with ill health. The actor died last night at his residence in Ile-Alli community, along Apete-Arola Road in Ibadan. The yoruba genre of the Nigerian movie industry is presently mourning this actor who died at his residence, in Apete in Ibadan, the Oyo […]
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