No fewer than three policemen were said to have been abducted in broad daylight by some unknown gunmen in Ogun State. It was gathered that the police officers were abducted on Thursday at Wasinmi, in Ewekoro Local Government Area of Ogun State. The cops were the State from Zone 2, Onikan, Lagos State, for an investigation. They were said to have been duly booked at the police division in Wasinmi, before they left for their place of primary assignment. A reliable source told our correspondent that the officers, led by Inspector Oladipo Olayemi, were captured on the road by…
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Bukayo Saka has been voted England’s Player of the Year, ahead of Declan Rice and Harry Kane. Saka has established himself as one of the most exciting English talents around in the past 12 months, getting 11 goals and seven assists for Arsenal in the Premier League last season and playing in every single match. His performances at club level have also secured him his place in the England squad, with the 21-year-old playing nine times since last September, scoring three goals and getting two assists in that time. He has now been rewarded for his impressive…
Nyesom Wike, governor of Rivers, says Iyorchia Ayu, national chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), threatened to resign if he won the presidential primary election. The governor said this during a media chat on Friday. He said Ayu also asked other hopefuls to withdraw for Atiku Abubakar, the former vice-president. “There was nothing Ayu didn’t do. Manipulation of delegates list,” he said. “A whole national chairman threatened some of the presidential aspirants at that time that if Wike wins, he was going to resign. “In fact, he was calling aspirants to withdraw for Atiku Abubakar.”…
Rivers State Governor Nyesom Wike has challenged the National Executive Committee of the Peoples Democratic Party to suspend him from the party. This follows talks from within the party that no one can be bigger than the party, and that he may be suspended. The governor has remained vocal against some party leaders following calls for the resignation of the National Chairman, Iyorchia Ayu. He recently led some leaders of the party to pull out from the presidential campaign council of the PDP, insisting that Ayu must go. Speaking during a live media chat in Port Harcourt…
The Federal Government says the pronouncement by former Vice President Atiku Abubakar that the future of the country’s economy is ‘bleak’ is sheer scaremongering. Atiku, opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)’s presidential candidate in the forthcoming 2023 general elections made the pronouncement, while presenting his Economic Blueprint to the public recently. The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, at a media briefing on Thursday in Abuja, however, said while Nigeria may be facing economic challenges, its future is not hopeless. “The country’s economic outlook is not bleak. Instead, the economy has been resilient, having recovered from…
Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, has said he and other aggrieved members of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), will remain in the party and “fight for inclusivity”. It was reported how party members, especially those in Wike’s camp, demanded Iyorchia Ayu’s resignation as a condition for resolving the crisis. The call for Ayu’s resignation is said to be on the grounds that the national chairman and the presidential candidate cannot be from the same region. But Ayu is unyielding to the demand. Speaking on Thursday during the Rivers State PDP stakeholders meeting at Government House, Port Harcourt,…
Alhaji Abdullahi Ibrahim, a human resource expert, has appealed to the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) to obey the judgment of the National Industrial Court at once. Ibrahim also urged the union not to appeal the judgment but to return to the classrooms in line with the democratic process and as patriotic intellectuals. He made the appeal in a statement he issued in Abuja on Thursday. Ibrahim called on the Federal Government not to proceed further with the suit filed in the National Industrial Court but to withdraw the case. He said…
Nigeria’s defence headquarters says troops of operation Hadin Kai has rescued 130 civilians from terrorists in an offensive where 36 terrorists were killed and another 46 arrested in a two-week period. The director defence media operations, major-general Musa Danmadami who disclosed the result at a biweekly update on the Armed Forces of Nigeria operations between 8 – 22 September 2022. He said 368 Boko Haram terrorists/Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) also surrendered. He said two key Boko Haram and ISWAP terrorist commanders: Abu Asiya and Abu Ubaida (A Qaid) were killed at Parisu and Sheruri general area in…
Rotimi Akeredolu, governor of Ondo, says the state will procure arms for operatives of the Western Nigeria Security Network, codenamed Amotekun. The senior advocate of Nigeria (SAN) said if the federal government can allow a security outfit in Katsina to carry arms, then Amotekun should be granted the same right. “The video making the rounds showing the equivalent of the Western Nigeria Security Network (Amotekun Corps) in Katsina, obtaining the approval of the Federal Govt. to bear arms is fraught with great dangers,” he said. “Denying Amotekun the urgently needed rights, to legitimately bear arms is a…
Members of the House of Representatives were divided on Thursday over a move to place an embargo on the introduction and passage of bills seeking to establish more universities in Nigeria. The move suffered a setback, forcing the Speaker, Femi Gbajabiamila, to tell the lawmakers to bring “as many as possible.” While some lawmakers decried the proliferation of universities, others blamed proposals for the establishment of higher academic institutions on the pressure being mounted by constituents. According to Gbajabiamila, it has become necessary to check the proliferation of universities, especially now when the Federal Government can’t adequately…