Day: July 23, 2021

By Bolaji Ogundele, Abuja President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday charged contractors who have enjoyed government patronage as well as other privileged citizens to use their resources to support less privileged members of society. President Buhari gave the charge when he paid a visit to the Emir of Daura, Dr Umar Faruk Umar. He said passing…

Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has opposed claims by the Nigeria Communications Commission (NCC) that Nigeria does not have enough network coverage to guarantee the electronic transmission of election results in 2023. Besides, the electoral body revealed that the NCC was aware since 2018 that the commission has the capacity and capability to transmit results…

Man burns church over alleged failed prophecies in Lagos An Ejigbo Magistrates Court has ordered that a 28-year-old, Oluwatosin Adegoke who razed a church over failed prophecies, be remanded in a correctional centre at Kirikiri town in Lagos.   An eyewitness who claimed anonymity disclosed that Adegoke doused the God of Truth Covenant Evangelical Church…

A man in Adamawa State has been arrested for allegedly beating his wife to death. The state Police Command said it arrested 41-year-old Usman Hammawa on Thursday, July 22, for beating his 36-year-old wife, Rabiyatu Usman, till she died. The state Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), Suleiman Nguroje, said in a statement on Friday morning,…

An associate of Senator representing Delta South, James Manager, has explained why he was seen kneeling before a former Governor, James Ibori, in a picture that has gone viral. The source familiar with the matter disclosed told The PUNCH on Friday that it was just a sign of respect in Urhobo culture. He confirmed the…

  The Senior Pastor of the Commonwealth of Zion Assembly, Biodun Fatoyinbo, has backed Bishop David Oyedepo of the Living Faith Church International aka Winners’ Chapel on the sack of pastors from the church. The news of the sacking of pastors from the Winners Chapel broke the internet earlier this week when one Pastor Godwin,…

  The Southern Kaduna Peoples Union has carpeted the Federal Government over the arrest and detention of activists across the country. The umbrella body of the Southern Kaduna people urged the government to deploy the same tactics adopted in the arrest of the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu, and Yoruba Nation…

The Federal High Court sitting in Abuja on Friday has granted the applications of the 12 detained aides of Sunday Adeyemo, also known as Sunday Igboho. Justice Obiora Egwuatu in his ruling on the ex parte application before the court ordered that the Department of State Service should produce the detained aides of Sunday Igboho…

  Ibrahim David Salami, the counsel for Yoruba Nation agitator, Sunday Adeyemo, popularly known as Sunday Igboho, in Benin Republic, has said that the rights activist was arrested with Nigerian and German passports. This is contrary to claims that Igboho was tried for possessing a Beninise passport despite not being a citizen of the country.…

The Nigerian government has not come up with charges that could lead to the extradition of Yoruba Nation agitator, Sunday Adeyemo, popularly known as Sunday Igboho, currently detained in Benin Republic. Lawyers to Sunday Igboho made this known after the Yoruba rights activist appeared at Cour D’Appel De Cotonou on Thursday. According to Igboho’s lawyers,…