According to Nyesom Wike, the minister of the Federal Capital Territory, street vendors in Abuja, including those selling maize, are a major cause of crime and unrest in the city. In a meeting with the management staff of the Federal Capital Territory Administration and Federal Capital Development Authority, the former governor of Rivers State made this declaration and urged them to put doing what is right first. “The most crucial thing we must do is...
A woman in the United Kingdom has become the recipient of the world’s first successful womb transplant, which was performed by a team of surgeons. It turned out that the woman’s sister was the one who donated her living womb. The unnamed recipient, who is 34 years old and married and is from England, reportedly went through a transplant procedure that lasted for nine hours, as reported by The Guardian on Wednesday. The married woman...
The hearing of Adegbola Abdulazeez’s bail application has been postponed in Kwara State’s Chief Magistrate Court. Talolorun, an activist and practitioner of Isese (traditional religion), filed the application. A war in the city was allegedly planned to be started by the Isese practitioner by “inviting other traditional and idol worshippers to assemble in Ilorin on the 20th of August, 2023.” The Isese practitioner was remanded in prison last week. Additionally, he was charged with insulting...
Brigadier General I. M. Ahmadu, a senior officer in the Nigerian Army, passed away while running in the second annual physical training test for 2023. Ahmadu worked for the Army Headquarters Department of Special Services and Programmes as an artillery officer. A top military source confirmed to SaharaReporters on Monday night that the general who was rushed to the hospital after collapsing while running. The source claims that the General was interred on Monday night...
The ECOWAS protocol expressly forbids the overthrow of democratic governments through force. As a matter of fact, it adamantly maintains that “every accession to power must be made through free, fair, and transparent elections.” Additionally, it exudes “zero tolerance for power obtained or maintained by unconstitutional means”. In light of the aforementioned and in accordance with the authority vested in him as the Chairman of the ECOWAS Authority of Heads of State, President Bola Ahmed...
According to a report from the Nigeria Electronic Fraud Forum, the banking sector in Nigeria lost over N9.5 billion to electronic fraud between 2019 and Q1 2023. Thus, in order to stop the upward trend, the forum has called for new policies and greater cooperation. The forum, presided over by the Central Bank of Nigeria, focused on “New Strategies for Combating e-Fraud in a Cashless Environment” at its general meeting held in Lagos for the...
Mrs. Blessing Ajiboye, the wife of a pastor of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, has been abducted; her captors have demanded N100 million from her family as ransom to free her. That Blessing, the wife of Senior Pastor Johnson Ajiboye of the RCCG, was kidnapped at around 9 p.m. on Thursday in her supply store in Elerinjare, a sleepy town in the Ifelodun local government area of Kwara state. About seven unidentified gunmen invaded...
A number of anti-corruption civil society organisations, or CSOs, have raised the stakes in what appears to be a new effort to address corruption in public procurement. Procurement Observation and Advocacy Initiative (PRADIN), in partnership with the Civil Society Legislative Advocacy Centre (CISLAC), the Africa Network for Environment and Economic Justice (ANEEJ), and the Human and Environmental Development Agenda (HEDA), is facilitating the group, which is made up of four prominent CSOs. A 2010 study...
The leadership of Summit Oil International Limited has praised Inspector General of Police Kayode Egbetokun for defying the seductive offer of purported financial gain made by Platform Capital’s founder, Akindele Akintoye. They also praised his insistence on upholding the law regardless of the parties involved. Recall that Akintoye was charged with bribery for allegedly paying the FIB (Force Intelligence Bureau) of the Nigerian Police Force N50 million in exchange for a promise to pay another...
….CSO alleges a gang up ….dismisses call for protests …passes vote of confidence in Tinubu, DSS Leadership A Civil Society Organization, Save Nigerian Movement (SNM) has insisted that the recent call for the sack of the Director General of the Department of State Security (DGSS) Mr. Yusuf Magagi Bichi is the handiwork of high profile criminal suspects who are currently undergoing trial for various crimes of multiple dimensions. Describing such calls as a desperate bid...
