Author: Chronicle Editor

Judgment will be delivered on 9 June by a South African court on the bail application by Nigerian Pastor Tim Omotosho, charged with human trafficking and sexual assault. The Port Elizabeth Magistrate’s court fixed the judgement day after listening to arguments and counter arguments for Omotosho’s bail. The lawyer to the 58 year-old pastor had tried on Tuesday to poke holes in the testimony of an immigration officer that the pastor was in the country illegally. Alfonso Hatting, for the pastor, pointed at what he refers to as mistakes appearing in the pastor’s passport pages and tried to find loopholes…

A South Africa-based Ghanaian pastor, Nana Poku, is trending on social media after a short video emerged which caught him kissing a female member of his congregation during a so-called healing session. The video which was posted on Facebook by a South African Musa Mathebula on Wednesday had gotten over 23,000 views and ignited hundreds of derisive commentaries. Mathebula said the video was shown on a local TV station Tswane TV live. The pastor, who some reports described as a Nigerian, has his church at 98 Thabo Mbeki Drive Rustenburg in South Africa. In the video, two women are seen…

Governor Udom Emmanuel of Akwa Ibom on Wednesday inaugurated a Coconut Refinery in Mkpat-Enin in continuation of activities to mark his second year in office. Mr. Emmanuel, who performed the exercise at the Ikot Abasi/Mkpat Enin/Eastern Obolo axis of the state, said that coconut was created by God with over 360 uses. The governor, who projected 18 months for the completion of the refinery, promised to bring in more foreign investors who had declared interest in the project. He lamented that some youths were out to frustrate the efforts of his administration and warned that those who destroyed the seedlings…

Former President Goodluck Jonathan has criticised the Niger Delta Development Commission, saying the agency has failed to provide the needed infrastructural development in the region. Speaking at the occasion of the Rivers State 50th year anniversary in Port Harcourt, Wednesday, Mr. Jonathan said fiscal federalism was the system that would work better to facilitate development in the country. “This will allow states to assume control of the exploitation of their natural resources and mandate them to pay adequate taxes to the Federal Government,” said Mr. Jonathan. “My conviction that fiscal federalism will initiate faster development is born out of a…

A 27-year-old Nigerian, Godwin Benson has won an engineering award given by UK’s Royal Academy of Engineering for the tutoring app developed by him. According to the BBC, Benson, a systems engineer, beat 16 participants to clinch the £25,000 ($32,000) prize money. At the awards ceremony in Nairobi, Kenya on 23 May 2017, the four finalists delivered presentations, before Africa Prize judges and a live audience voted for the most promising engineering innovation. The app called Tuteria provides a platform that links qualified tutors to students in their area and within their budget. Benson said he developed the platform based…

Manchester United claimed their second trophy of the season and secured Champions League football as they overcame Ajax to win the Europa League final in Stockholm. On an emotional night following the attack which killed 22 people at Ariana Grande’s concert at the Manchester Arena on Monday, United’s fans were allowed a measure of celebration as Jose Mourinho’s side won in comfort. Paul Pogba’s deflected shot put them ahead in the 19th minute and Henrikh Mkhitaryan’s sixth Europa League goal of the campaign, flicked in from Marouane Fellaini’s header at a corner, confirmed they would add to the EFL Cup…

APC chairman in Lagos, Chief Henry Ajomale on Wednesday said the party was stepping up arrangements to welcome former Minister of State, Senator Musiliu Obanikoro into its fold in a matter of weeks. And that he is not coming alone. The Peoples Democratic Party in Lagos State may be heading for extinction with many members set to dump it to join the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC). Ajomale said Obanikoro would defect with other bigwigs of the state PDP. He said Wednesday’s defection of PDP bigwig, Prince Lukman Ajose was the precursor for the expected flood gate of defections from…

The Chief of Army Staff, Lt-Gen Tukur Buratai, on Wednesday inaugurated the Army forward operation base in Kafanchan, Kaduna State. The base was established to tackle ethno-religious crisis, banditry and cattle rustling in southern Kaduna. Buratai said the base was designed to serve as a critical staging area for effective conduct of operation by troops in the Kafanchan general area. ”We intend to consolidate on the efforts so far achieved in curtailing cattle rustling, clashes between farmers and herdsmen, banditry, ethno-religious crisis and other criminalities in the general area. “It is our hope this facility would serve as a firm…

Nigeria’s Federal Executive Council chaired by Acting President Yemi Osinbajo has approved a 29-member National Minimum Wage Committee to negotiate with labour unions and work out a new minimum wage. Labour Minister, Dr. Chris Ngige announced this at the end of the meeting in Abuja, and said members will be drawn from the Nigerian Governors’ Forum, Manufacturers Association of Nigeria and the Organised Private Sector and the Nigerian Labour Congress and Trade Union Congress. Labour has tabled a minimum wage of N50,000, almost three times more than the present N18,000, being paid with difficulties by many states. On Friday, Ngige…

The veteran Northern-Nigeria Musician, Zakky Azzay, has pleaded with Innocent Idibia, a.k.a 2Baba to settle his former Plantashun Boiz partner, Blackface, even if it has to be done openly. He said this in an interview with Hiptv while responding to the long time rift between them. He said, “If I am 2face, this is the way I will handle the situation. “I will call Blackface, once and for all with witnesses present and allow him to table his grievances and after that discussion, I will look for something and settle him with it.” He explained that 2Baba was far too…