Author: Olamide Obayemi

The management of the Federal University, Dutse, Jigawa State has appealed to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, to partner with it in developing and deepening the teaching and learning of cyber security in the institution. This appeal was made in Abuja on Wednesday, January 25, 2023 by the Vice Chancellor of the University, Professor Abdulkarim Sabo Mohammed while on a Courtesy Visit to the Executive Chairman of the EFCC, Mr. Abdulrasheed Bawa at the Corporate Headquarters of the Commission. Mohammed commended the EFCC for its advancing pace in tackling internet- related crimes. He disclosed that his University is running courses in Cyber Crime and Criminology “…

By Olawale Osifeso The election petition tribunal sitting in Osun has declared Mr Adegboyega Oyetola of the All Progressives Congress (APC) as winner of the Saturday, 16 July, 2021 gubernatorial election held in the state. In the ruling delivered on Friday, 27 January, 2023, the Tribunal ruled in favour of Oyetola having established cases of over voting in some of the polling units in the election. The Tribunal chaired by Justice Tertese Kume held that indeed there was over voting in 749 polling units during the election. The Tribunal having deducted the unlawful votes from the lawful votes, ruled that…

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has arraigned a former General Manager and Head of Legal Services of the Nigeria Social Insurance Trust Fund, NSITF, Sir Adebayo Adebowale Aderibigbe and one Ogundele Mura Yisa-Yemi before Justice O.A Musa of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, High Court, Jabi, Abuja. Aderibigbe, Yisa-Yemi, a principal partner at M.Y. Ogundele & Co Legal Practitioners, were arraigned on three-count charges bordering on conspiracy and obtaining the sum N60, 400, 00 ( Sixty Million our Four Hundred Thousand Naira) by false pretence. One of the counts reads “ That you, Ogundele Mura Yisa-Yemi (Principal Partner, M.Y. Ogundele & Co Legal Practitioners)…

Justice Fadima Murtala Aminu of the Federal High Court sitting in Damaturu, Yobe State, has adjourned the trial of a former Minister of Science and Technology, Dr. Abdul Bulama till March 21, 2023 for continuation of trial. The Maiduguri Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, is prosecuting Bulama on a seven count charge of criminal conspiracy and money laundering to the tune of N450 Million (Four Hundred and Fifty Million Naira). Bulama was re-arraigned on Monday, November 8, 2021 alongside Hon. Mohammed Kadai, a former Commissioner for Integrated and Rural Development in Yobe State, Abba Gana Tata, Muhammad…

More details have emerged on the cause of the reported aerial attack that killed some cattle rearers in the Kwatiri community of Doma Local Government Area of Nasarawa State. PRNigeria gathered from a reliable source that the airstrike was ordered after the Military High Command received credible intelligence that some terrorists moved into some communities around the boundary between Nasarawa and Benue states. A joint operation involving the military, security and intelligence components was then mobilized to go and take out the terrorists only for a particular state government official (name withheld) to give the team a wrong location, leading…

The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) has re-arrested the former Registrar of the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB), Prof. Adedibu Ojerinde, on Thursday, 26 January, 2023, in Abuja. Prof. Ojerinde’s re-arrest followed a warrant issued by the Federal High Court, Abuja. He is expected to face a team of investigators over new evidence uncovered in relation to his ongoing trial for diversion of funds while he was a public officer. ICPC operatives uncovered two accounts opened in the names of Trillium Learning Centre Ltd and Sapati International Schools Ltd into which funds were diverted using…

The Chairman of the Lagos State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Pastor Cornellius Oyefolu Ojelabi, has urged market men and women in the state to ensure that they collect their PVCs so that they can vote massively for all the candidates of the party, particularly its Presidential Candidate, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu; and Governorship Candidate in the state, Babajide Sanwo-Olu in the coming general elections. Pastor Ojelabi stated this on Thursday, 26 January, 2023 in Ikeja during the voters’ sensitisation exercise organised by the Directorate of Mobilization of the Lagos APC Campaign Council. Pastor Ojelabi stated that there…

The Federal Government has revealed that the coming general elections will be conducted under a peaceful and secure atmosphere. This assurance was given by the Minister of Interior, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola, on Thursday, 26 January, 2023, at a State House Press Briefing Series, highlighting the achievements of President Muhammadu Buhari in the Ministry. According to the Minister, “peace and security are necessary conditions for election. All the security agencies in the country, including the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), are therefore on top of their game. They will leave no stone unturned to provide adequate security for the…

Nigerians should no longer be in doubt about those working in cahoots with fifth columnists in the system to inflict avoidable pains on our hapless people for political end. No sooner Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu empathised with the Nigerian people facing the dual crises of fuel and new Naira notes scarcity, than the opposition PDP and the Atiku camp issued a knee-jerk response, derailing from the issues, distorting Asiwaju’s statement and trying, in vain, to create a wedge between our presidential candidate and President Muhammadu Buhari. When the guilty are afraid of being uncovered, they try to push back with…

Presidential Candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu has accused the Peoples Democratic Party of sabotaging fuel supply in the country to blackmail the Federal Government for illicit political advantage. Speaking in Markurdi, Benue State capital, to a crowd of party supporters that graced the APC presidential campaign rally, Asiwaju Tinubu said that while in power, PDP administration gave fuel retail licenses to their supporters and sympathisers who are now hoarding fuel to create long queues across the country and making Nigerians suffer, adding that the party of his main challenger, Atiku Abubakar, is a Poverty…

The All Progressives Congress (APC) Candidate for Lagos West Senatorial District, Dr Idiat Adebule on Thursday, 26 January, 2023, urged women and youths to vote en masse for all APC candidates in the forthcoming election. She spoke during a stakeholders’ meeting with non-indigenes, artisans, traders and youths in Ajeromi-Ifelodun Local Government and Ifelodun Local Council Development Area. She promised to take the developmental programmes up from where the outgoing Senator representing the district, Solomon Olamilekan, stops. According to her, more empowerment programmes would be introduced for the women to make them self-sustained. She solicited their support for women politicians to…

By Ali Precious Lydia Not all parents are ready to be a parent. In Nigeria, according to the National Population Commission, 23 per cent of girls aged 15 to 19 years have started childbearing. Based on studies, about 400,000 unplanned births occur annually in Nigeria and half of these births are to teenage girls between the ages of 15 and 19 years. (Alan Guttmacher Institute, 1996). Adolescent childbearing is more common in developing countries where about one in every six births is to women under twenty. Young girls in this situation have a high tendency of leaving their babies with…

By Olawale Osifeso The Presidential Candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the forthcoming elections, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, has again received another boost to his campaign train. Northern Muslim clerics under the aegis of Al-Amaanah Global Islamic Foundation rose from a meeting on Tuesday, 24 January, 2023, and announced that it was giving its support and backing to the former Governor of Lagos in the upcoming elections. The body said its decision was based on the record of the APC Candidate while in office between 1999 to 2007 as Governor of Lagos State. It said the transformative prowess…

By Olawale Osifeso Kannywood Actor, Zaharadden Sani popularly known as Sarkin Yakin Atiku Abubakar,who before now, was a staunch supporter of Atiku Abubakar, has dumped the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Presidential Candidate for Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress (APC). It is a move widely seen as a plus for the APC in the northern part of the country, especially on the entertainment front, considering the wide acceptance of Zaharadden Sani in the Kannywood industry. His sobriquet “Sarkin Yakin Atiku Abubakar means Atiku Abubakar’s chief campaigner in the Kannywood Industry. Guess he would now be called “Sarkin…

The Presidential Candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Senator Bola Ahmed Tinubu, on Wednesday, 25 January, 2023, revealed that the scarcity of fuel currently being witnessed across the country as well as the unavailability of the new naira notes are a ploy to scuttle the February 25 and March 11 general elections. Tinubu made this revelation in Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital, during his ongoing presidential campaign tour while assuring that he will win despite the attempt to sabotage the election, noting that his administration would put an end to the issue of strikes in the university system, if elected.…

The All Progressives Congress (APC), Ojo Federal Constituency Campaign Council remained consistent in its engagement and interaction with relevant stakeholders in its bid to showcase its candidates for the February 25 and March 11 elections. On Tuesday, 24 January, 2023, the Campaign Council met with the leadership of Lagos State Council of Tradesman and Artisans (LASCOTA) in Ojo Local Government Area Chapter, as well as party stakeholders in Ajangbadi (Ward C). Ojo Multipurpose Hall, venue of the meeting with LASCOTA was filled to the brim, while Hon. Rosulu Olusola Idowu, Director General, of the Campaign Council expressed happiness at the…

It is another bloc of support in the bag for the foremost Presidential Candidate of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu as traditional leaders and worshipers in Lagos State declared their support for the party. The event was presided over by Chief Oyinlomo Danmole, Director General of Lagos Religion Committee of APC-PCC. They also declared their commitment to the victory of the state Governor, Mr. Babajide Sanwo-Olu and other candidates of the party at the engagement session organized by the Directorate of Religion Affairs of the state Presidential Campaign Council (PCC). The event held at the…

French Ambassador to Nigeria Emmanuelle Blatmann has said she is impressed by the clear vision of Kwara State Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq and his deep understanding of contemporary issues of sustainable development and governance. Speaking during a courtesy visit to Government House in Ilorin on Tuesday evening, 24 January, 2023, Blatmann said the governor’s focus on agribusiness, garment production, tourism, ICT, renewable energy, and entertainment shows he is a visionary who truly understands the direction he is headed as a chief executive. Blatmann said the French government is open to immediate partnership with Kwara under him, beginning in February with a…

The Presidential Candidate of the All Progressives Congress Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu has promised to end the perennial fuel scarcity in the country if elected president. Tinubu made the promise while addressing party faithful who thronged the MKO Abiola International Stadium, Kuto, Abeokuta for the Ogun State APC presidential rally. The APC candidate was led into the waiting arms of the joyous party supporters who had waited several hours, dressed in various party attires and carrying support banners by Ogun State Governor Dapo Abiodun. Tinubu in his speech, praised the party supporters for coming in their large numbers to receive…