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...
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...
Restructuring in Nigeria is something that Rev. (Dr.) Paul Ndeobi, a public analyst and social activist, supports. In this interview with NGOZI UMA, the cleric—who also serves as Senior Pastor of StraightGate International Church—discussed the recent coup in the Niger Republic as well as the response of the ECOWAS, which is headed by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu. Excerpt: What do you believe to be the driving forces that could cause the military to overthrow a...
Ekpo Barnabas, an associate professor of political science at the Nigerian Defence Academy, claims that the only way to alleviate poverty in Nigeria at the local level is to give local government authorities more autonomy or democratic rights. Ekpo pointed out that only local government employees can assist people in rural areas because they are familiar with their circumstances. He also encouraged the government to take action so that monies for environmental purposes would be...
The All Progressives Congress (APC) and the New Nigeria People’s Party (NNPP), which is in power in Kano State, yesterday exchanged barbs over an alleged effort to bribe a tribunal member by an anonymous senior lawyer for their client. The Kano State Government earlier expressed shock over the claim made by Hon. Justice Flora Ngozi Azinge, Chairman of the Kano National and State Houses of Assembly Election Petition Tribunal, that an attempt was made to...
In response to the alleged N10 million bribe that was allegedly given to Justice Flora Azinge’s legal team, the All Progressives Congress has issued a warning to the Kano State government of the New Nigeria People’s Party not to disgrace her. Malam Muhammad Garba, the Gawuna-Gari Campaign Council’s spokesman, said this in a statement on Thursday. At the same time, the Kano State Government urged security services to thoroughly investigate the claim and bring to...
A group under the aegis of the Coalition of Civil Society for Transparency in Public Offices (CCSTPO) is set to organize a massive protest at the National Assembly Complex, Abuja over allegations of corruption and financial fraud hanging on the neck of the Managing Director/CEO of the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA), Mohammed Bello Koko. The protest which is slated for Tuesday, 22nd August, 2023 will be used to draw the attention of President Bola Ahmed...
In the Riyom Local Government Area of Plateau State, bandits stormed a secondary school and killed two teachers. The victims were a newlywed couple who worked as teachers at the BECO Comprehensive Secondary school in the Kwi hamlet of the municipal region. The event, according to eyewitnesses, occurred on Monday after school at a meeting to compile student results for distribution on Friday, August 18, during their “Speech and Prize Giving Day,” in accordance with...
….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...
Meetings of the All Progressives Congress’s (APC) National Caucus and National Executive Committee (NEC) are scheduled to take place the following month. Festus Fuanter, the acting national secretary for the APC, confirmed the new development on the Twitter handle for the party on Friday evening. He stated that the meetings would take place in Abuja on August 2 and 3, respectively. Following the departure of its former national chairman, Abdullahi Adamu, and its national secretary,...
