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 Police arrests bus driver in Benin City for killing his 4 years old son after taking hard drugs suspected to be 'COLOS'.

 December 26, 2024 Ekpa, the self-proclaimed Prime Minister the Biafra Government In Exile, is being detained in Finland. Ngozi Ezeobika Orabueze, the Deputy Prime Minister of the Biafra Government In Exile, has said efforts are ongoing to ensure Simon Ekpa’s release from detention and the actualisation of the independent nation of Biafra. Ekpa, the self-proclaimed Prime Minister the Biafra Government In Exile, is being detained in Finland. Orabueze who made the vow in her Christmas message to the ‘people of Biafran Nation,’ said she and others were working to achieve the actualisation of the United States of Biafra and ensure Ekpa’s release.In November, SaharaReporters reported that Finland district court in Lahti had ordered that Ekpa should be remanded in prison following his arrest for suspected terrorist activities. Ekpa was accused of using social media platforms to spread separatist propaganda linked to the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), a group advocating for the ...

December 24, 2024 News The groups issued the warning while reacting to the recent suspension of the 18 local government chairmen in the state by the governor and the State House of Assembly. Civic groups under the umbrella of Civil Society Organisations Concern in Edo State have warned the state governor, Monday Okpebholo, and the State House of Assembly to desist from interfering in the administration of local government in the state. The groups issued the warning while reacting to the recent suspension of the 18 local government chairmen in the state by the governor and the State House of Assembly. Without a properly constituted local government administration accessing the FAAC allocation, therefore implies that for the next two months in Edo, local government workers would not receive their salaries, LG pensioners would not receive their salaries and contractors would not receive their salaries. This will amount to economic stagnation and hunger for the people.” The groups, theref...

 SaharaReporters learnt that the Channels TV crew members were assaulted on Tuesday morning amid an ongoing plot by the university authorities to impose the Acting VC, Prof. Aisha Maikudi, on the school as its substantive VC. The University of Abuja security personnel acting on orders from the authorities have arrested some journalists and cameramen with the Channels TV media organisation and also damaged their equipment.  SaharaReporters learnt that the Channels TV crew members were assaulted on Tuesday morning amid an ongoing plot by the university authorities to impose the Acting VC, Prof. Aisha Maikudi, on the school as its substantive VC.  SaharaReporters gathered that a crisis Senate meeting was scheduled for 9 am on Tuesday where the Governing Council sought to replace Senate members who had refused to endorse the imposition of Maikudi on the institution.  concerns over the governance of the school. The acting vice-chancellor had alleged that a series of actio...

 December 23, 2024 News This substantial increase in debt servicing costs is putting a strain on the country's finances, with debt repayments now accounting for a significant portion of the government's expenses. Nigeria's debt servicing costs have surged significantly, with a whopping N7.9 trillion spent between the first and third quarters of 2024.  Breaking it down, the government spent N2.2 trillion on debt servicing in the first quarter, from January to March, followed by N3.7 trillion in the second quarter, from April to June, and another N2 trillion in the third quarter, from July to September.  This substantial increase in debt servicing costs is putting a strain on the country's finances, with debt repayments now accounting for a significant portion of the government's expenses.  In the first half of 2024, debt servicing payments rose by 69% to N6.04 trillion, compared to N3.58 trillion in the same period in 2023. Between January and September, the governme...

 The Nigeria Police Force has described as innacurate and misleading the report released by Amnesty International on the End Bad Governance Protest in Nigeria in August 2024 At a news conference in Abuja this Sunday, the Force Public Relations Officer ACP Olumuyiwa Adejobi said evidence available to the Police indicates that certain elements infiltrated the protests with the intention of inciting violence. Adejobi insisted that detentions and prosecutions were conducted within legal frameworks. Amnesty International had on the twenty-eight of November 2024, released a report titled “Bloody August: Nigeria Government’s Violent Crackdown on #EndBadGovernance Protests,” where several allegations were made against the Nigeria Police, including the killing of at least twenty-four (24) persons in six northern states during the protests.

  Nigerians were stunned on Tuesday as social media was awash with reports of an only child, Segun Olowookere, who was sentenced to death in Osun State for stealing fowl. There were different versions of what truly transpired and why the convict was given what many considered a harsh punishment for the offence. Our correspondent, who has been following the matter since Olowookere was put into detention in 2010, noted that the complainant in the matter was a family member of the convict. He was arrested when he was barely 17 years old when the crime was committed. In an exclusive interview with Sunday PUNCH, Olowookere explained the actual circumstances of his sentencing. The facts Olowookere was arrested alongside another convict, Sunday Morakinyo, in Oyan, Odo-Otin Local Government of Osun State, in November 2010. They were accused of robbing a policeman attached to the Divisional Police Headquarters, Okuku, Tope Balogun, of two fowls and eggs. On January 30, 2013, the police arra...

 Justice Uwani Musa Aba-Aji issued the order against the former presidential candidate while dismissing his fresh suit praying for the removal of Tinubu as Nigeria’s President. By Emmanuella Ekele The Supreme Court has imposed a N5 million fine on a former presidential candidate, Ambrose Owuru, for harassing President Bola Tinubu with frivolous and vexatious suits. Owuru, who contested the 2019 presidential election against former President Muhammadu Buhari on the platform of the Hope Democratic Party (HDP), was ordered to pay N5 million to Tinubu. Justice Uwani Musa Aba-Aji issued the order against the former presidential candidate while dismissing his fresh suit praying for the removal of Tinubu as Nigeria’s President. Apart from the N5 million fine, the apex court ordered its Registry not to accept any frivolous suit-originating summons from Owuru again. At the day’s proceedings, Owuru, who claimed to be a lawyer called to the Nigerian Bar in 1984, sought to argue his case wear...

  SERAP has sued Tinubu over failure to probe alleged N57 billion theft from the Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs in 2021. The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has dragged President Bola Tinubu before the Federal High Court in Lagos for failing to order the probe of N57 billion allegedly stolen from the Federal Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Alleviation in 2021. SERAP is specifically asking the court to compel Tinubu to direct the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Lateef Fagbemi (SAN) to work with appropriate anti-corruption agencies to promptly investigate the alleged missing public funds. The organisation is also praying the court, in the suit which is yet to be assigned to a judge, to compel the president to direct the Attorney General of the Federation to collaborate with appropriate anti-graft agencies to prosecute anyone suspected of being responsible for the missing N57 billion if sufficient admissible evidence ...

 The number of Point of Sale (PoS) machines deployed by merchants and individuals across Nigeria rose to 3.04 million in July this year. The Nigeria Inter-Bank Settlement System (NIBSS) disclosed this in its latest electronic payment data. This represents a 32 per cent increase year on year when compared with the number of deployed terminals in the same period last year, which was 2.3 million. The July 2024 figure indicated that a total of 744, 533 new PoS terminals were deployed between August 2023 and July 2024.