Author: Olamide Obayemi

By Abimbola Ogunnaike As a result of the failure of candidates to get cash and the difficulty in using electronic channel to purchase ePINs, Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has extended the 2023 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) registration exercise by one week, starting from Wednesday, 15 February, 2023. The board said by the extension, the sale of ePINs would end on Monday, 20 February, 2023 while the UTME registration would end on Wednesday, 22 February, 2023. JAMB had earlier slated the closing date for the sale of both the ePINs and the 2023 UTME application documents for Tuesday, February…

In view of the tension in the state among contending political parties, the Directorate of Politics and Governance will be meeting all the political gladiators Thursday, 16 February, 2023. With the theme: “2023 Peaceful Election Stakeholders Summit and Peace Accord”, the summit is put together to douse the political tension and restore sanity to political rhetorics among contestants. The event slated for 11am at Elevation Church, Maryland according to the DPG Directorate of Media will parade INEC recognised candidates across the registered 18 political parties. The meeting which is geared towards having free, fair and peaceful election in the state…

By Abimbola Ogunnaike President Muhammadu Buhari has held a closed door meeting lasting for 40 minutes with the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. Thegazellenews.com learnt that the meeting, which agenda was not known as at the time of publishing this report was held at the President’s residence inside the Villa before the weekly Federal Executive Council (FEC) meeting. The discussions between the two leaders , thegazellenews.com gathered, centred on forthcoming polls and other germane national issues, including the naira and fuel scarcity in the country. The meeting has in attendance:…

Kogi State Government, on Wednesday, said no matter how the godfathers of the Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Abdulrasheed Bawa, tried to shield him from facing the consequences of disobeying court order, he remained a convict that must join others in the correctional centre to be purged of contempt. Responding to what it described as the EFCC’s laughable excuse for not obeying a court order that committed him to prison for contempt, which the Commission gave at a press conference in Abuja on Tuesday, the state government noted that unless his conviction was set aside or vacated…

By Abimbola Ogunnaike Nigerians have expressed concern over their failure to access the new naira notes for the past few weeks and excruciating agonies they are made to go through as a result of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Naira redesign policy. Majority of Nigerians who thegazellenews.com interviewed over the agonies they are going through as a result of Naira redesign policy of the Apex Bank, said the situation is becoming worse and worse everyday. Adebayo Adelakun, residing in Ikotun in Alimosho Local Government Area of Lagos State, lamented that the situation is deteriorating daily, saying “every day we go to banks…

By Abimbola Ogunnaike A 51-year-old cleric, Nduka Anyanwu, has been sentenced to life imprisonment by the Lagos State Sexual Offences and Domestic Violence Court in Ikeja for defiling and impregnating two biological sisters. Justice Abiola Soladoye committed the Lagos-based pastor on Tuesday, 14 February, 2023 of impregnating a 13 and a 17-year-old, both of whom have been delivered of babies. The clergymen, who was said to have defiled and impregnated the duo on the pretext of having prayer sessions with them, was arraigned before the court over an offence he committed on June 3, 2020, at Arowojobe Street in the…

Kwara State Governor, AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq has sympathised with the people of the state on the continuous scarcity of the naira as a result of the recent CBN’s currency redesign policy. In a statement on Wednesday, 15 February, 2023, the Governor appealed to the people of the state to remain calm and peaceful, and not give in to any frustrations over the naira scarcity. “I testify to the inconvenience this development has brought. We are in this together, and we are not missing any opportunity to work with the CBN and the Federal Government to bring ease to the people within…

By Kayode Oladele In December 2022, the Federal Government through Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) introduced the demonetization Policy which has necessitated the redesigning of new Naira notes to replace the old ones. The policy also set February 10, 2023 as the deadline for the phasing out of high-value naira notes, otherwise known as Naira swap throughout the country. As a result of the serious hardships caused by the “disruption to the economy, trade and business and worried by the effects the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN)’s naira redesign policy is having on the residents of their states, the State…

Governor of Oyo State, ‘Seyi Makinde, has disclosed that his administration has spent up to N40 billion on the construction and reconstruction of different roads that link Oke Ogun to other zones of the state. The governor, who stated this on Tuesday, during campaign visits to several communities in Iwajowa Local Government, also said that his administration will explore solid mineral potentials of communities in Iwajowa Local Government. A statement by the Chief Press Secretary to the Governor, Mr. Taiwo Adisa, on behalf of the Media Committee of the Governor ‘Seyi Makinde Campaign Council, indicated that the Governor met with…

Ogun State Governor, Prince Dapo Abiodun, has warned that the state government will shut any bank that refuses to accept old naira notes in the state. This is coming on the heels of an application filed at the Supreme Court, to join an ongoing suit against the Federal Government over the new naira policy implemented by the Central Bank of Nigeria. The warning is sequel to complains received from the people that some commercial banks and some filling stations are rejecting the old naira notes. Governor Abiodun gave the warning on Tuesday, 14 February, 2023, during his re-election campaign tour…

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, on Tuesday, explained why its Chairman, Abdulrasheed Bawa, did not obey a court order that committed him to prison for contempt. The Head, Media and Publicity, EFCC, Wilson Uwujaren, who spoke to the press in Abuja, said the Commission believed it was denied fair hearing and that as a law abiding institution, the EFCC had approached the appellate court, for a stay of execution. He did not say whether the stay of execution had been granted to forestall the order for the arrest of Bawa by the Inspector-General of Police. Uwujaren, however, alleged that…

By Abimbola Ogunnaike The National Women Leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Dr Beta Edu has assured that the party would mobilise APC women with door-to-door packages to woo voters as part of a strategy to deliver the presidential candidate of the party, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu. Edu stated this at the APC Northern Female Stakeholders Strategy Session, with the theme, “Progressive Northern Women Playing a Pivotal Role Towards 2023 Election Victory” on Sunday, 12 February, 2023, in Abuja, the nation’s capital. The APC Women Leader, who called on APC women to do everything legally possible to ensure they deliver…

By Abimbola Ogunnaike The ambition of the Presidential Candidate of the All Progressive Congress(APC), Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu received a major boost on Monday, September 13, 2023 after leaders of Labour Party (LP) and party members in the Southwest defected en mass to the ruling party. The LP chieftains who were received into the APC by the National Chairman of South West Agenda For Asiwaju Tinubu (SWAGA) 2023, Dayo Adeyeye, were led by the Southwest Chairman of the party, Banji Omotosho. Omotosho, who said they decided to decamp to APC after realising that LP is not viable and lacked the…

By Abimbola Ogunnaike The presiding pastor of House on The Rock in Abuja, Pastor Uche Aigbe is now in police net in Abuja for allegedly carrying an AK-47 to the pulpit. Thegazellenews.com gathered from a reliable source that the Intelligence Response Team, IRT, under the Force Intelligence Bureau(FIB) whisked the pastor away from his church. The cleric is seen preaching in church on Sunday, 12 February, 2023, while carrying the rifle on his left shoulder. This medium also gathered that one Inspector Musa Audu allegedly handed his service weapon to Aigbe. The officer is expected to face an orderly room…

Kwara State Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq has earned our trust and a right to serve more for the next four years on account of his performance, his respect for traditional institution, and his uncommon care for the people, Etsu Patigi Alhaji Ibrahim Umar Bologi II said on Monday. The Etsu said he would continue to speak to “our people to reward your good nature with another term of four years”. The monarch spoke in Patigi, the capital city of Patigi local government, as the Governor, Senator Sadiq Umar and other APC candidates from the axis arrived on a campaign stop to…

A mammoth crowd of party supporters and other residents on Monday, 13 February, 2023, thronged the All Progressives Congress campaign rally in Gombe where the presidential candidate of the party, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, unveiled his plans for the state and canvassed support for his aspiration. Tinubu, who landed at the Gombe International Airport around 12:30pm, was received by his running mate, Senator Kashim Shettima; APC National Chairman, Senator Abdullahi Adamu; the host-Governor, Alhaji Muhammad Inuwa Yahaya, among other party chieftains. Hundreds of party faithful joined in the reception party at the airport, creating a long convoy of vehicles. The…

By Quadri Adeniyi Olorunfunmi Who is a vandal? A vandal is someone who deliberately damages things especially public property. In general, vandalism may be motivated by malicious greed, the wish to draw attention to a particular condition, a political ideology, the desire for revenge on a particular person, frustration, or misguided playfulness. Is vandalism in Nigeria? In November 2013, a data gathered by NOIPolls Limited indicated a general level of apathy towards public property in Nigeria. The poll conducted on the issue of public property vandalism in Nigeria indicated that about 6 in 10 Nigerians (61 per cent) believe that…

Lagos Business Community got a message of reassurance from the Number One citizen of the State on Monday, 13 February, 2023. Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu reiterated the commitment of his administration to sustain strategic investment in infrastructure to bolster productivity, energise business growth and protect private investments. The Governor had an interactive meeting with the Organised Private Sector at Oriental Hotels, where he spoke of the State’s economic redistribution plans aimed at expanding the Lagos business district to suburbs in the western and eastern parts of the State. The dialogue was part of the strategic stakeholder engagements initiated to keep business…

The Lagos Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Monday, February 13, 2023, arraigned an actress, Oluwadarasimi Omoseyin, before Justice Chukwujekwu Aneke of the Federal High Court sitting in Ikoyi, Lagos on a two-count charge bordering on tampering with the redesigned Naira notes. One of the count reads: “That you, Oluwadarasimi Omoseyin, on the 28n day of January, 2023, at Monarch Event Centre Lekki, within the jurisdiction of this Honourable Court, whilst dancing during a social occasion, tampered with the sum of N100, 000.00 (One Hundred Thousand Naira) issued by the Central Bank of Nigeria by…

Justice Abdul Dogo of the Federal High Court sitting in Makurdi, Benue State on Monday, 13 February, 2023, convicted and sentenced one Abah Stephen to two year imprisonment for fraud. Stephen was arraigned on one count charge by the Makurdi Zonal Command of the EFCC for fraudulent impersonation. The charge reads: “That you, Abah Stephen, sometime in 2022, at Makurdi, within the jurisdiction of this Honourable Court, by deceit pretended to be Johnscot, an American Military Doctor on peacekeeping mission for the United Nations at Kabul, Afghanistan, by use of an email account – alexanderscot99@gmail.com induced and defrauded one Jana Bilkara…