Governor Uba Sani of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has been dismissed by the Governorship Election Petition Tribunal, which is seated in Kaduna. According to Probitasnews, the tribunal ruled the state’s 2023 governorship race to be unresolved on Thursday. The judges avoided the actual hall and the decision was made by Zoom. Isah Mohammed Ashiru, the candidate for the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), filed the petition. The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) was directed by...
With immediate effect, the heads of 21 parastatals, agencies, and government corporations under the FCT Administration have been removed of their appointments by Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Mr. Nyesom Wike. In a press conference held in Abuja on Wednesday, Mr. Anthony Ogunleye, Director of Press for the Minister’s Office, made this declaration. Ogunleye determined which agency heads were impacted and listed them as follows: 1. Chief Executive Officer and Group Managing Director, Abuja...
The Eastern Security Network at Orsumohu and Nnewi South LGA in Anambra State, as well as Osuihiteukwa in Orsu LGA, Imo State, and the camps of the Indigenous People of Biafra, have been denied by the Nigerian Air Force as having been bombed. The pro-Biafran organisation insisted that the military had misled them, citing the fact that the places were inhabited by innocent civilians, and that ESN did not have camps in any of the...
A high court presided over by Justice Efe Ikponmwonba in Benin City, Edo State, found two brothers, Ochuko Godfrey and Ochuko Prosper, guilty and sentenced them to different prison terms on Tuesday along with fourteen other defendants. The other offenders are Prosper Enahoro, Ogheneoma Udolu, Raymond Edise, Akai Philip Onochie, Osayi Kennedy Obaseki, Joshua Ngerem, Oghogho Marvellous Ekpuke, Stanley David, Jackson Shebenor, Felix Orevaoghene Emmanuel, Gideon Onaiwu, Johnson Godspower Oghenevwegba, Godspower Emmanuel Jerimaiah, and Felix...
Ifeanyi Ezenwankwo, a middle-aged man from Nanka in Anambra State’s Orumba North Local Government Area, is currently in police detention for allegedly inflicting physical injuries on his wife, Ekwutosi, and burying a newborn infant in a shallow grave. Ezenwankwo was reported to have buried the newborn baby in order to conceal his unlawful activities with a 16-year-old female whom he impregnated and bore the child for him. Ekwutosi, a local of Agbiligba Nanka community, said...
Lateef Fagbemi, the Attorney General of the Federation (AGF) and Minister of Justice, has urged organised labour to obey the National Industrial Court’s June 5 order prohibiting both the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and the Trade Union Congress (TUC) from engaging in any industrial action over the removal of fuel subsidies and other issues. In a September 26 letter to the NLC and TUC’s counsel, Femi Falana (SAN), Fagbemi stated that the decision by both...
The Labour Party has advised its followers across the country to pack their homes with essential things ahead of organised labor’s scheduled indefinite strike. According to Probitasnews, the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, and the Trade Union Congress, TUC, may shut down the country’s economy on October 3 in order to press their demands for better working conditions. The Labour Party leadership also proclaimed support for the proposed indefinite strike in a statement issued on Wednesday...
Gunmen suspected of being bandits assaulted Takanai Gora hamlet in Kaduna State’s Zangon Kataf Local Government Area, killing six civilians and injured six others. In a statement, Yabo Chris Ephraim, Special Adviser on Media and Publicity to the Chairman of Zangon Kataf, said the six slain were buried Wednesday morning in the presence of the local government chairman, Francis Sani. According to him, the chairman, who denounced the incident, also asked the community to remain...
Zakariya Saad, 19, was detained by the Adamawa State Police Command for allegedly killing Muhammed Yahaya, 17 years old. The command stated in a statement on Wednesday that Zakariya was apprehended on Tuesday from his home in Wuro Hausa, Yola South Local Government Area, on suspicion of murdering Yahaya. According to a statement signed by the state police image maker, SP Suleiman Nguroje, Zakariya was apprehended after residents of Damdu Ward in the same Yola...
Some members of the pro-Biafra Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB) have been arrested in Anambra State. According to a news release made accessible to media, the police arrested members of the organisation, including Beka Udemefuna, 66, and Mr Amauche Ode, 53. It was also claimed that the police took portraits of Biafra leader Chief Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu and group leader Chief Ralph Uwazurike. According to a press release issued...
