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      Former Ekiti Governor Ayo Fayose has doubted the chances of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) winning the South-West and South-East in the 2023 presidential election. He said the presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP) Peter Obi could affect the chances of PDP in the 2023 polls. Fayose said this in an interview with Channels Television’s Politics Today on Thursday.       According to him: “Let me give you an analysis. In the South-West, people might not like to hear this; but I don’t see how PDP will win. Anybody deceiving us can continue to deceive us. “I don’t see how PDP will win in the South-East. South-south will be a combination of all interests. Let me come to the key states of the north. “Without deceiving ourselves, there is so much work to do in the north-central.       “PDP and APC did not pick any candidate, either presidential or vice-presidential, from the north-central. The North-East is where the vice-president...

      Presidential candidate of the ruling All Progressives Congress, (APC) Asiwaju Bola Tinubu has stated his Labour Party (LP) counterpart Peter Obi would not know the road to lead as President. He spoke on Tuesday at the APC presidential campaign flag-off at the Rawang Pam Township Stadium in Jos, Plateau State. He said: “Peter Obi, Haaa! This Obidient. He lives in Lagos not in Anambra. He doesn’t know the road. We will return him to Anambra. We will chart him a new course.”       The APC presidential candidate, who stated that the Labour Party candidate lives in Lagos, vowed that he will send Obi back to Anambra State in 2023. He said: “Hope is back, Nigeria will be well. Nigeria will not sink. We hereby reaffirm our commitment to progressive good governance.” Credit: Eagle eye Report 

Leave Soludo alone By Sam Omatseye       I don’t see why some persons are not happy with Anambra State governor for saying what he knows about one of his bumbling predecessors who does not know how to invest. The governor did not originate the question. Why accuse him for saying what he knew. Chukwuma Soludo did not even show zeal about the subject. He was dismissive in attitude. He said the investment is worth nothing. Then the usual irate mob started lobbing stones. It is like Jesus said to the Jews, “You seek to kill me for telling you the truth.” The Labour candidate’s sin is bad enough, but that is not the fellow’s worst offence against Anambra. What of the investment of Anambra money in his family business, or his offshore account, or the NEXT supermarket built while on the throne?       Soludo is a man of accountability. A former CBN governor would not and should not have done less in his interview on Channels. Failed governorship candidate Babatunde...

      Arise Television has apologised to the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu over a fake report that the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has commenced a forfeiture investigation against Tinubu. Arise TV had reported that INEC has commenced investigation into a case of criminal forfeiture against Tinubu. But in a retraction on Sunday morning, the Management of Arise TV apologised over the fake report after INEC publicly dismissed it as fake. The station said: “Of criminal forfeiture of funds, linked to narcotics, smuggling conspiracy and money laundering against the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress Bola Ahmed Tinubu, we Arise News that carried the news, which is now been denied by after the Independent National Electoral Commission INEC and we apologise most sincerely to the APC presidential candidate Bola Ahmed Tinubu for the earlier broadcast."       INEC in a s...

      The presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Peter Obi says he will quit campaigns for the 2023 general elections if anyone can prove that he accepted land gift as governor of Anambra State. The 61-year-old former governor stated this on Friday at the palace of the Oba of Benin, Oba Ewuare II, in Edo State. The LP presidential flag bearer visited the revered Benin monarch when he and his team stormed Edo for campaigns ahead of next February’s polls. Receiving the politician in his palace, Oba Ewuare II used the opportunity to clarify a viral document where Obi rejected land allocation from the Anambra State Government while he was a serving governor.       “Your Excellency, somebody show me a letter where land was given to you in your state and you politely returned it that you don’t need it; that you are there to serve and so on. Correct?” the first-class monarch asked. “Very correct,” Obi responded. “If anybody sees a piece of land allotted ...

       The National Chairman of the ruling  All Progressives Congress (APC), Senator Abdullahi Adamu on Thursday told the party's presidential candidate Asíwájú Bola Ahmed Tinubu to get ready for governance from 29 May 2023.  Adamu, who spoke emphatically at the town hall meeting in Lafia between the APC presidential candidate and stakeholders in the mining sector, said he was merely echoing President Muhammadu Buhari’s statement.        A statement in Abuja by the Director of Media and Publicity of the APC Campaign Council, Bayo Onanuga quoted Adamu as saying: "Except God, President Buhari is the highest authority in Nigeria today. Buhari has said it and it shall come to pass.''  Urging Tinubu to stand and the audience to join him, Adamu declared the APC candidate will be the next president.  He urged Nigerians to vote massively for the party and its candidate.  He urged Tinubu to get ready for the task to shoulder the de...

2023: You Will Win If You Stay Away From Women, Avoid Strong Drink - Amaechi Tells Rivers APC       Immediate past Minister of Transportation and former Rivers State governor, Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi, has cautioned members of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Rivers State against illicit acts that could distance them from God. He therefore, urged the APC members to be more dedicated to God in prayer and abstain from all appearances of immorality, including fornication, adultery and strong drinks if they actually wanted to hear from God. Amaechi, who spoke yesterday, during the unveiling of manifesto and inauguration of the campaign council of Mr Tonye Cole and Dr. Innocent Barikor’s joint governorship ticket in Port Harcourt, Rivers State capital, said their victory in the 2023 general election was assured if they adhered to the advice.       Recalling his political struggle in 2006, which compelled him to flee the country to Ghana, Amaechi encouraged ...

       The All Progressives Congress, APC, presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu, has said he won't be forced to attend national debates.   This comes after the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Atiku Abubakar and Labour Party, LP, Peter Obi among other parties faulted his absence at the Ariste TV town hall meeting in Abuja.   Tinubu said Atiku’s camp could not force him to appear or send representatives to national debates.   He berated Atiku’s camp for following his absence at national debates.   Recall that a spokesman of the Atiku/Okowa presidential campaign team said Tinubu was afraid of being exposed; hence his refusal to attend national debates.         However, the APC presidential candidate said he would not be “railroaded” into appearing for media debates.   Tinubu disclosed this through his Director of Media and Publicity, Bayo Onanuga.   A statement by Onanuga read partly: “The more absurd of the two positions ...

You must pay for taking my wife away from me, killing our baby and exterminating my generation - Johnny De Goodman My wife was pregnant, Her due date was 29th October. She has passed her EDD as she was 40 weeks plus 3 days due. She went for her routine check up and did scan last week Tuesday, 1st November 2022. The scan results confirmed that baby mother and child were all in perfect condition. The doctor told her if she does not go into natural labour between that Tuesday till the end of the week, she should come with her bags the following week so as to be manually induced into labour. So on Sunday night 6th November 2022 at about past 11pm she started having stomach pains. Then we proceeded to the hospital. We got to the hospital by 12 midnight and the doctor available told her she was 5 cm dilated and was already in labour. They said she would need to get to 10cm dilated before she will be taking to delivery room. By 2am, the doctor came to observe her and burst her water bag. At a...

Can a barely educated and ill-bred peasant like Dino Melaye ever rise above a well educated & enlightened Prince like me? It is like comparing a lion and a mongrel. It is like comparing a well-bred and well-trained racehorse with pure bloodlines to a farmhouse donkey. If not for politics where would this creature and I meet? Even if the peasant becomes President or has all the money in the world this can never be so. He can never be on top. He will always be below. I will always be the Head and he will always be the tail.  I will always be the master and he will always be the slave.  He will always know something in him is inadequate and lacking and he will always have a big chip on his shoulder.  An ill-bred peasant is an ill-peasant and he shall remain so his entire life. He shall remain so from generation to generation because that is what God has ordained him to be. That is the will of God for him & his. The problem with street urchins & gutter snipes like...

      Ahead of the 2023 general elections, Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue State has said he cannot abandon his Rivers State counterpart, Nyesom Wike because he has proved to be a trusted and dependable ally. Ortom stated this at a banquet in honour of governors Wike, Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi, Seyi Makinde and Okezie Ikpeazu on Sunday in Makurdi. According to him, when bandits suspected to be Fulani herdsmen attacked him, Wike was the first person to condemn it. “When Benue was under siege, he donated N250million and he subsequently spent over N700million to support the State to tackle the humanitarian crisis occasioned by the unwarranted attacks,” Ortom said. “He didn’t stop at that. He convinced Governor Emmanuel Udom of Akwa Ibom to also assist the State and he donated N200million to us. “Is he not a worthy friend? He’s a worthy friend and we’re working together to liberate the country,” he added.       Ortom said that he wouldn’t support the Presidential candida...

     The joy of every government in the world is to crack down  criminals and prosecute them, but in Nigeria everything is political👌 I am beginning to see  EFCC as part of our problem in Nigeria...Don't be monkeys!! In May 2022, Senator Ike Ekweremadu and his wife were arrested in the Uk for allegedly Organ Harvest...This case is still ongoing in the UK court and we trust London, United Kingdom government to serve Justice... Boom Yesterday!!  the 10 November 2022  #EFCC flooded our timeline with pictures of 40 properties linked to corrupt politicians, as there was an order to size the property...Very fast to act!! which as a person I am okay with... In July 2021, A US court ordered the arrest of Deputy Commissioner Of Police  Abba kyari, as he was linked to a criminal syndicate, that dumped countries Billions of dollars across the globe,   Which one of these gang member or will I say his boss in the criminal world  Hushpuppy was s...

      Our Purpose Are Aimed At Achieving Two Separate Nation Set; One for Yoruba people and the other for Biafra. Moreover, as the record abundantly and clearly show the past of our two struggle has been different. Inevitably, the two struggles will continue to operate along different but pharrell lines yet with humility before God, we recognize and acknowledge that the two struggles has the same purpose which is the liberation of our two peoples and their separate nations from enslavement in Nigeria. To liberate them from Nigeria poverty generating direction, from endless suffering, marginalization and oppression. We will henceforth, we the two nations seeking for self determination will henceforth work together as two brotherly nations seeking freedom, progress and prosperity. We are confident that by doing this, we shall make each of our struggle stronger and we shall precipitate faster attainment of our goals. This is the major statement of today.      ...

      The Federal Operations Unit, Zone A of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) on Wednesday said its men discovered 3,116 cutlasses kept in an abandoned hut inside a bush in Oja-Odan area of Idiroko, Ogun State. Addressing journalists in Lagos on Wednesday, acting Controller, Federal Operations Unit, Zone A, Hussein Ejibunu, also said that aside from the cutlasses, his men also intercepted 7,403 bags of 50kg of foreign parboiled rice, 53,759 liters of petroleum motor spirit, 121 cartons of frozen poultry product amongst others all in the month of October.       According to acting Controller Ejibunu, “Let me remind you that smuggling in whatever guise or form, is an illegal activity that constitutes a crime against Customs extant laws. Primarily among other effects; smuggling compromises national security, robs the nation of her revenue, which consequently affects the provision of basic amenities and social services to the citizens, and it can also destroy ...

      He was sentenced to five years’ imprisonment by Justice Nicholas Oweibo of the Federal High Court in Lagos for cocaine trafficking.  The judgement was handed down after Emmanuel pleaded guilty to the charge of trafficking in the banned substance made against him by the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA).  The former footballer, according to the prosecutor, Augustine Nwagu, was arrested with 1.4 kilograms of cocaine on his arrival from Brazil on September 26,2022, at the arrival hall of the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Ikeja, Lagos.  Nwagu told the court that the offence committed by the convict, contravened section 11(a) of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency Act Cap N30 Laws of the Federation of Nigeria, 2004 and punishable under the same Act.        Following his plea of guilty, the prosecutor asked the court to sentence him in accordance with the section of the law he was charged with.  But his law...

2023: 'I Wish Peter Obi Was Not An Igbo Man'       ▪Sometimes I just wish that Peter Obi was from another Tribe but not Igbo so I can campaign for him without anyone thinking I'm doing so because he's Igbo or people rejecting the best candidate just because of his tribe.  It's difficult being black... Even more difficult being Nigerian and most difficult being Igbo.        ▪Yesterday, someone told me that Peter Obi is a good leader but because of IPOB and their Biafra agitation, he won't vote for him. I  asked him what he thinks about Boko Haram and Shettima... He kept quiet so I told him that his Problem is not IPOB or even Peter but his HATRED for the Igbos which he never realised existed. I asked him if he would vote for Peter Obi if he wasn't an Igbo man. He kept quiet. I then asked him to start seeing Peter Obi as "Peter Ahmed Doyin". We laughed but deep down, I wished that Peter Obi wasn't an Igbo man or at least, that Nigerians are not...

Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar has said he will defeat his opponents in the 2023 general elections the way Arsenal triumphed over Chelsea in the English Premier League. Arsenal returned to the top of the Premier League table with a 1-0 win over Chelsea at Stamford Bridge on Sunday courtesy of a Gabriel goal. While congratulating the Gunners, the former Vice President who is also an Arsenal fan promised to do the same for Nigerians in the February 2023 presidential election He wrote on his official Twitter handle "Great win, Arsenal, even after a goalless first half. As Arsenal did in this game for we, the fans, we will also Recover Nigeria for Nigerians".

Any US Dollar Notes Below Year 2021 Will Not Be Acceptable From January 2023 - US Govt Sequel to the just concluded extraordinary meeting held in Washington DC on Nov. 2nd 2022 between the United States Federal Reserve Bank, Office of the Comptroller of Currency, IMF, World-Bank and Governors of Africa's Central Banks, the United States Govt has set date for restriction on acceptable legal tender note of US Dollar which will commence on Jan. 31st 2023. The restriction implies that any US Dollar note below 2021 printed date will no longer be accepted or be a legal tender anywhere in the world... This effort is to curb billions of illegal monies in dollar bills warehoused around African continent emanating from drug related, terrorism, kidnapping and money from corrupt politicians. As part of the enforcement of the strict action plan, African central banks will be assigned with a special agent from the Office of the Comptroller of Currency, Administrator of National bank United State...

The Academic Staff Union of Universities is set to summon an emergency meeting of the National Executive Council following the decision of the Federal Government to pay the lecturers half salaries for the month of October, 2022, The PUNCH reliably gathered. Though no date has been fixed yet, our correspondent gathered that the decision to convene a meeting followed the drama which erupted when members of the union received half salaries in their accounts. A source who spoke to our correspondent in Abuja noted that half salaries were paid, “I was shocked when I received an alert from my bank and I noticed that I got half salary; they didn’t even talk about the backlog of the eight months of the strike. Another source said, “It is true, I received half, In fact, some professors received salaries of N121,000; this is the fact, we are waiting for the decision of the national body, our members are very angry right now.” Speaking with our correspondent in Abuja, ASUU National President, Prof...

Nigerian Pastor Buys New Cars For His Workers, Gives Scholarships To Members Of His Church (Photos)  A renowned Nigerian Pastor of Life Of Faith Gospel Assembly, aka City Of Transformation  Pastor Sam Obiorah has gifted some of his workers with brand cars in Anambra State. Pastor Obiora who is well known for his philanthropic work also awarded scholarships to over 10 persons of his church members. Speaking to our reporter, one of the beneficiaries of his kind gesture, Engr Udoka Udeagha described Pastor Obiora as a kind-hearted man who has touched the lives of many people. According to him, "I have known Pastor Obiora for years now, this is not the first time he is touching the lives of people." "We are happy for his good gesture towards his workers and members of his church". "We pray for good health so that he will continue touching the lives of people ," he said. Another member of the church and a beneficiary of his car gift,  Pastor Joshua Okumefuna If...

Rivers Teachers Decry Hardship, Demand Six-year Unpaid Salaries Primary and Secondary teachers of Rivers State owned tertiary institutions have cried out over their six years unpaid salaries and called on the Governor of the state, Nyesom Wike, to consider their plight. The teachers at a joint media briefing with the civil society organisation in Port Harcourt said they have been experiencing untold hardship and are unable to pay their rent and children feels. They claimed they are teachers from  the Ignatius Ajuru University of Education Demonstration Secondary School, Ndele, Seashell Model Primary School, Port Harcourt, Rivers State University International Secondary and Staff Schools, Port Harcourt and Ken Saro-Wiwa Polytechnic Comprehensive Secondary School, Bori, all in the state. One of the teachers, Olu Ikulghan, lamented that he and his wife, who are both teachers in the same school, can no longer take care of their children needs. He explained sadly that his children in hi...

      The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed says his political structure in Kwara remains intact and cannot be successfully attacked and sunk. The minister said this in his hometown Oro near Ilorin at the traditional marriage of his grand daughter, Dr Toyosi to an Engineer, Gbolahan Sambo. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the marriage which took place in the minister’s compound was attended by his political allies and supporters who thronged the venue in their hundreds. Reacting to a question from newsmen on the presence of the political associates and supporters in their numbers at the ceremony, Mohammed said he had never lost touch with them. “I am glad you noticed that I have here today the same people I have been working with in the last 20 years politically in Kwara.       “Though they tried to pluck me away from them, we interact regularly and we have almost become a family. “I am not surprised even though I am deli...

      The Nigerian Immigration Service (NIS) has described as worrisome the alarming rate at which Nigerians are leaving the country in search of greener pastures abroad.   Speaking at a sensitization campaign on the scourge of Smuggling of Migrants (SOM) for stakeholders in Enugu State on Thursday, November 3, The NIS boss in Enugu state Joachim Olumba said       “Indeed, this program couldn’t have been held at a more appropriate time, considering the alarming rate at which, not only the youth, but older generation of Nigerians exhibit interest to leave the country. This is creating a worrisome phenomenon which has come to be popularly known in local parlance as “Japa” The Immigration boss stated that the appetite to jet out of the country was usually driven largely by social, economic, and security concerns. He mentioned that Nigerians, especially the youth, were leaving the shores of the country in their droves.       “To many, what i...

      The All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu, has asked leaders of the party in local governments to reach out to all aggrieved members at the grassroots and bring them back into the progressives fold, in order for the party to approach 2023 general election as a united group and not disunited. Aside from reuniting with aggrieved members, Tinubu, who is the party’s national leader, asked that they should also bring more people into the fold, so as to increase the APC membership base before the upcoming poll in the country. He made the recommendation on Wednesday when he returned to his political base, Lagos APC, for the first time after winning the party’s presidential ticket in fiercely contested primaries. Activities in the area were brought to a halt, as Lagos APC leaders, Governor’s Advisory Council (GAC) members, and thousands of party faithful received the presidential candidate.       Tinubu, who was at Lagos APC secr...

      Justice Inyang Ekwo of the Federal High Court Abuja, has ordered an interim forfeiture of 40 landed properties belonging to a former Deputy Senate President, Senator Ike Ekweremadu, who is currently in custody in the United Kingdom. Justice Ekwo made the order following an ex-parte motion by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). In a short ruling on the motion, the Judge ordered the anti-graft agency to publish the interim forfeiture order of the properties in a national daily within seven days from the date the order was given. Justice Ekwo specifically asked anybody interested in the properties covered by the interim forfeiture order to indicate within 14 days of the publication of the interim forfeiture order of the court. Justice Ekwo subsequently adjourned  till December 5, 2022 for a report, if there is any objection from any member of the public regarding the properties.       The interim forfeiture order covers 10 of  ...

      The presiding Pastor of Salvation Ministries  , Pastor David Ibiyeomie  has advised the Nigerian government on what to do to put an end to the regular flooding in the country especially in the Niger Delta region. David Ibiyeomie gave the advice in the Day two of Salvation Ministries ongoing program the November Week of Spiritual Empowerment holding at the church's headquarters, in G.R.A Port Harcourt.       He said a canal should be built in the Niger Delta and channeled to the desert in the north of Nigeria where it can be used to facilitate farming, he said the canal can store water as well, and be released when needed in the desert areas. The man of God stated that if crude oil can be channeled to the north, water can also be channeled to the north for farming.  The program is expected to end today in all Salvation Ministries churches and online. PentecostalBulletin

We are yet to receive Atiku donation~~~ Bayelsa Government The State commissioner for environment who doubles as Chairman on Flood Mitigation and Management Committee stated this on Saturday while speaking in a Yenagoa based radio programme Rhythm FM 94.7  According to him the committee is yet to receive the donation made by the former Vice President of Nigeria Atiku Abubakar  Recall a few days ago, the Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, has donated the sum of N55 million to flood victims in Bayelsa State. Speaking at the Government House, Yenagoa, during a sympathy visit on Tuesday, Alhaji Abubakar said the donation was his token to support the recovery process of those affected by the flood.  Describing the disaster as disheartening, he lamented its effect on the lives and economy of people of the state and called on the Federal Government and public-spirited individuals and organizations to support Bayelsa in this diffi...

*Osinbajo presides over National Council on Skills meeting           To effectively close the skills gap in Nigeria, the Federal Government will collaborate more with the private sector, especially in the relevant policy formation process and the management of skills centres in the country.   Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, SAN, stated this Monday at the meeting of the National Council on Skills, where it was resolved to give more roles to the Organized Private Sector (OPS) as a means to closing the skills gap in the country.   Based on the approval of the Council, the organized private sector represented by the Nigerian Economic Summit Group (NESG), Manufacturers Association of Nigeria (MAN), National Association of Chambers of Commerce, Industry, Mines and Agriculture (NACCIMA), the Nigerian Association of Small and Medium Scale Enterprises, among other groups, will be integrated in the activities of the NCS. The meeting chaired by the VP also resolved...

John Udoedehe and the changing Narrative of Akwa Ibom 2023 Guber Poll. *They can copy but none can explain JJA proposals to defeat Poverty,Create employment and reduce inequality. New Nigeria Peoples Party, NNPP and her governorship candidate, the enigmatic Senator John Udoedehe has succeeded to RESET the standard of political communication and engagement in Akwa Ibom State. No Governorship Candidate ever in the history of Akwa Ibom State has contemplated a campaign beyond the Local Government level. None except the homegrown, affable, very social and down to earth brave and courageous Akpanudoedehe can meet the Karl Marxist's proletariat at wards and Village level to organise them to vote against the bourgeoisies that have used governance and politics to intentionally keep them in servitude. From August 9 2022, Sen John Udoedehe has been on the roads to engage the masses what NNPP shall do differently in their best interest if elected in 2023.  Yesterday, Wednesday, 2nd November 2...

WHO IS ME TO ADVICE NIGERIA POLITICAL NIGHTMARE       Take it or leave it, like him or hate him,  the executive governor of Rivers State, His Excellency, Chief Barr Nyesom Ezenwo Wike has turned himself to one of the most fiercest, dreaded most consulted, media friendly and political nightmare in today Nigeria Politics but if it is for the good side of it, himself and Nigerian will know better soon as to every action, there's equal opposite reaction The most widely talked about sitting governor of NIGERIA, Gov Wike has made political gladiators to palpitate and he not resting or having any rethink about his  constant vituperation, tirades, tantrums, and venoms he oozed out. No doubt, Gov Nyesom Wike may be fighting a just course but too much of everything they say, is bad. Many of those praising him today shall run away when the going rough, he can ask his brother, Rotimi Amaechi My worries stemmed from the fact that, considering his numerous anti people's actio...

      Mohammed Damina, a former Commissioner of Information in Bauchi State, have been arrested by the police in the state for allegedly k#lling his bestie while trying to woo his (bestie’s) daughter. The 68-year-old traditional title holder of Galadiman Dass k#lled his bestie and neighbour, Adamu Babanta, 67, in fatal motor acc#dent on Sunday evening, October 30, at Yelwan Lebra area of the state. It was gathered that trouble started when Babanta caught Damina with his 18-year-old daughter, Khadija, on that fateful evening.       Narrating the incident to journalists, Khadija, a senior secondary school student, said that the ex-commissioner got her number from her friend and had been asking her out on several occasions but she declined. “Yesterday (Sunday) evening, Galadima called me while I was in the shop and asked me to meet him around the Yelwan Tundu market. So, I informed my father, his friend about it and he asked me to go. I was in a Keke while my ...

      Mohammed Damina, a former Commissioner of Information in Bauchi State, have been arrested by the police in the state for allegedly k#lling his bestie while trying to woo his (bestie’s) daughter. The 68-year-old traditional title holder of Galadiman Dass k#lled his bestie and neighbour, Adamu Babanta, 67, in fatal motor acc#dent on Sunday evening, October 30, at Yelwan Lebra area of the state. It was gathered that trouble started when Babanta caught Damina with his 18-year-old daughter, Khadija, on that fateful evening.       Narrating the incident to journalists, Khadija, a senior secondary school student, said that the ex-commissioner got her number from her friend and had been asking her out on several occasions but she declined. “Yesterday (Sunday) evening, Galadima called me while I was in the shop and asked me to meet him around the Yelwan Tundu market. So, I informed my father, his friend about it and he asked me to go. I was in a Keke while my ...

      The Edo State Government has pledged to unravel the cause of death of ten persons whose corpses were discovered in Ibillo/Lampese, Akoko-Edo Local Government Area of Edo State. The Edo State Commissioner for Communication and Orientation, Chris Nehikhare gave the assurance while briefing journalists after the weekly Executive Council (EXCO) meeting chaired by Governor Obaseki, at the Government House in Benin City. Describing the incident as saddening, the Commissioner said the government has ordered that an autopsy be carried out on the corpses to unravel circumstances surrounding the mysterious deaths. He said, “The collaboration between the vigilante group, the hunters and the police led to the discovery of corpses of 10 young men, aged probably between 23 and 25, along a bush path. “They were killed and there were no identifying marks to identify them or even know the cause of death of these young men as there are no signs of trauma or anything to determine how ...

      Vice Presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Kashim Shettima, says 2023 election is payback time by the north to Tinubu, for his past support to the region. Shettima said this when he visited the Hausa community in Alaba-Rago, in Iba Local Council Development Area (LCDA), on Wednesday in Lagos. He urged them to vote for the party’s presidential candidate, Sen. Bola Tinubu. Shettima was accompanied by Gov. Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos State, Gov. Abdullah Ganduje of Kano State, Lagos APC Chairman, Cornelius Ojelabi, and all Arewa leaders in Lagos. He said that Tinubu made President Muhamadu Buhari President in 2015 by giving him bloc votes from the South-West, a feat he repeated in 2019.       Shettima further said that Tinubu provided the platform for Atiku to contest presidential election when Atiku was chased out of PDP, same thing he did for Nuhu Ribadu. ”We are people of honour, we should honour our pledge and promise. This i...