Sen Akanbi admits, Tinubu has all it takes Senator Rilwan Adesoji Akanbi, has warned some political elements feeling threatened by the person of Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu to stop whipping up sentiments about his age. Akanbi, a former Senator representing Oyo South Senatorial District, argued that antecedent and capacity should be the yard stick to measure an aspirant’s suitability for the 2023 presidential seat. Sen. Rilwan Adesoji Akanbi, made the disclosure in Badagry, Lagos state, during the on-going tour of the state by South West Agenda for Asiwaju (SWAGA) 2023, He suggested that the youth population should rather root for…
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Boko Haram insurgents are coercing residents of Shiroro Local Government Area of Niger State to marry off their daughters at the age of 12 years. Residents of affected communities said the insurgents have ordered them not to recognise any constituted authority. A resident of the area, and Co-Convener of Concerned Shiroro Youths, Bello Ibrahim, told our correspondent that, “At a time, they were in Kawure, the village of former Senator Representing Niger East, David Umaru. “But there was operation to dislodge them by the joint military task force. “Fortunately they were dispatched but after a while, since military base is…
Organisers of Big Brother Naija, BBNaija season 6 has revealed how much it cost to host the show. CEO of DSTV in Nigeria said it cost N4.3 billion to make the show happen this year. He said this at the season 6 winner’s prize presentation. “We employed 12,000 persons for this show, it cost us N4,3billiom to air this show this year “We use BBNaija to enrich lives and contribute positively to society. We hope to continue to do so.” The organisers also revealed that one billion votes were recorded this year from the viewers. Ebuka also announced that during…
President Muhammadu Buhari and cabinet members may be unable to communicate with the regime’s supporters following today’s Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp shutdown. The regime enforced Twitter ban on June 5, 2021 after President Buhari’s violence-inciting tweet was deleted. Although the federal government has been in talks with the social app executives, the discussions have so far been fruitless as the ban is yet to be lifted. Ever since Twitter ban, Buhari’s supporters and other government agencies have relied heavily on Facebook, adopting it as their major communication channel. Political figures such as Femi Adesina, Garba Shehu,…
The private and personal information of over 1.5 billion Facebook users is being sold on a hackers forum. This breach of privacy comes amid the global downtime being experienced by all Facebook-owned social media apps. Privacy Affairs reports that data put up for sale includes the Facebook users’ names, emails, location, gender, phone number, user identification and other personal information. The report noted that the hackers said the data was gotten by scraping instead of hacking or compromising individual users’ accounts. Scraping is done when publicly available data is collected and organized into databases. As a result, hackers can make…
Gunmen suspected to be kidnappers have abducted a lecturer with Adekunle Ajasin University Akungba Akoko, (AAUA) Ondo state, Mayowa David Adinlewa. The young lecturer was said to be travelling to Ikere-Ekiti in Ekiti State to see his family when he was kidnapped along the Akure-Ikere Ekiti road on Friday, October 1. It was gathered that the victim’s vehicle which was spotted on the road unlocked attracted some residents of the community who raised the alarm over the development. The elder brother of the victim, Toyin Adinlewa, who confirmed the abduction disclosed that his abductors have contacted the family, demanding…
chool owners under at the aegis of Association of Private School Owners of Nigeria (APSON) in Enugu have called for a ban on tutorial centres, otherwise known as ‘miracle centre’, saying it constitutes “a serious threat” to basic education in the state. The chairman of association in Enugu, Emeka Grahams, said that the migration of students to these centres from Senior Secondary one (SS1) had forced many to abandon their Senior Secondary two and three to write external exams. He explained that many students, in collaboration with their parents, now engage these centres to pass their West African Examination Council’s…
The Air Force says there will be firing of live heavy weapons at the air range and asked residents not to panic. igeria Air Force has asked residents of Kwarnev community in Benue to keep off its shooting range as it begins a four-day air firing exercise. The Tactical Air Command (TAC) of the Nigerian Air Force (NAF) based in Makurdi will hold a routine air firing exercise from October 4 to October 7. The spokesperson of the Tactical Air Command, Wing Commander Chris Erondu, said the exercise will hold between October 4 and 7 in a statement he issued…
President Muhammadu Buhari is scheduled to leave Abuja for Addis Ababa, for the second term inauguration of the Ethiopian Prime Minister, Abiy Ahmed, scheduled to hold on Monday. This was disclosed in a statement issued by his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Mr Femi Adesina, on Saturday in Abuja. The President, who will depart Abuja for the Ethiopian capital on Sunday (today), is scheduled to deliver a goodwill message at the inauguration ceremony, after which he will attend a State Banquet in honour of visiting Heads of State and Government. President Buhari will be accompanied by the Minister of…
Lagos and Ondo state governments have said they would defend the anti-opening grazing law in court should the Miyetti Allah Kautal Hore Fulani Socio-cultural Association make good its threat to drag states before the courts. Some southern states, including Ondo, Oyo, Osun, Ekiti, Abia, Bayelsa, Rivers, Akwa Ibom, Enugu, and just recently, Delta and Ogun states, had signed the anti-open grazing bills into law and vowed to implement the laws to the letter. In Ogun, for instance, the herders are given a six-month period of grace before it becomes illegal for cattle herders to occupy unapproved public areas and private…