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Commercial motorcyclists popularly known as Okada riders clashed with Lagos State Government (LASG) taskforce officials at Second Rainbow along Apapa-Oshodi Expressway. According to eyewitnesses, violence broke out in the early hours of Tuesday as Okada rider clashed with men of Lagos task force, who had seized some motorcycles. An eyewitness said that vehicular movement was disrupted, as the rioters set up bonfires on the Expressway, forcing commuters to trek. According to a commercial driver vehicles were damaged. “Some commercial vehicles were damaged when they tried to force their way through the melee. “What we did was update each other on…

Governor David Umahi of Ebonyi State has said that he has no regrets moving to the All Progressives Congress (APC) from the PDP. He stated this in Abakaliki while speaking to journalists on the issue of his defection which has generated ripples in the country. The governor said he moved to the APC because of injustice meted out to the Southeast by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). Gov Umahi to join APC this week He also said that he has no deal with the APC or any member of the party with regards to zoning of the presidential position to…

Tired of being denied sex by his wife allegedly on the instructions of her prophet, a man has decided to forgo his conjugal rights by divorcing her. Claver Simoonga told the court that his wife, Maureen Macha, 38, of Kabanana in Zambia, has been denying him his conjugal rights from July. He told the court that a prophet instructed her not to have sex with him because she was pregnant by the ‘Holy Spirit’. The couple got married in 1990 and has two children together. Father Nwosu laments high rate of divorce among young couples “Problems in our marriage started…

The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia said it is offering 424 scholarship slots for Nigerian students to study various courses in Saudi universities. A statement by the Royal Embassy in Abuja, on Monday, said the slots are part of the 6,597 scholarship that the kingdom distributes annually to African students. According to the statement, 150 slots are also given to students from the Republic of Benin annually. “For the links and conditions to apply for the scholarship, students are advised to seek information from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Ministry of Education in their countries. Buhari orders payment of NDDC…

President Muhammadu Buhari has assured Nigerians that his administration would do everything to prevent a repeat of the recent #EndSARS protest. The President gave the assurance during the National Security Council (NSC) meeting held at the Aso Rock Presidential Villa in Abuja on Tuesday. Briefing State House Correspondents on the proceedings from the meeting, the Minister of Police Affairs, Muhammad Dingyadi, said President Buhari also stated that Nigerians, especially the youth, would be carried along by the administration in issues concerning maintenance of peace in the country. He said the Council expressed concerns over the deplorable security situation in the…

The federal government on Tuesday lifted ban placed on Lufthansa, Air France/KLM against operating international flights into Nigeria. Minister of Aviation, Hadi Sirika, made the disclosure in a tweet on Tuesday. The minister also added that Qatar Airways has been granted approval to resume flights to Abuja. Sirika hinted at the possibility of the Mallam Aminu Kano International Airport, Port Harcourt International Airport and Enugu Airport accommodating foreign travellers before year end. COVID-19: FG approves N4bn bailout for airlines “We are working with Ministry of Health, CACOVID & The PTF to open Kano, Port Harcourt & possibly Enugu airports before…

The Southern Kaduna Peace Practitioners Network has condemned the killing of the District Head of Gidan Zaki Village in Zangon Kataf Local Government Area of Kaduna State, Mr Haruna Kuyet, and his son by some criminal elements in the early hours of Tuesday. In a statement on Tuesday, SOKIPEP lamented that the killers also left life-threatening injuries on Kuyet’s wife following a severe machete attack on her. The group, through its National Coordinator, Reverend Dauda Fadia, described the latest development as “callous, insensitive and reprehensible.” The military under the auspices of Operation Safe Haven informed the State government of the…

There was wild jubilation on Tuesday at the Yaba Magistrates Court, Lagos after a judge granted N1 million bail to detained #EndSARS protester, Eromosele Adene. The magistrate ruled against an application filed by the policemen attached to the State Criminal Investigation Department seeking to remand Adene for an extra 30 days. Adene’s lawyer, Tunde Jinadu, said his client has been granted bail. Jinadu had approached the court to grant his client bail on medical ground. EFCC docks Promise Ekpo for obstruction of justice It would be recalled that the police had last week arrested Adene in Ikeja and taken him…

The Uyo Zonal Office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), on Monday, November 16, 2020, arraigned one Promise Ben Ekpo before Justice Agatha Okeke of the Federal High Court, Uyo, Akwa Ibom State, on one-count charge of obstruction of justice. Ekpo had in December 2018, stood as surety for one Awesome Ememobong, who is facing prosecution by the Uyo Zonal Office of the EFCC for alleged fraud and upon securing her bail, allegedly aided her to be on the run and has not been able to produce her in court, two years on. The charge read, “That you…

Justice Ijeoma Ojukwu of the Federal High Court Abuja, on Monday, November 16, 2020 adjourned the trial of former President Goodluck Jonathan’s Senior Special Assistant on Public Affairs, Doyin Okupe till February 8 and 9, 2021. Okupe is being prosecuted by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC alongside his two companies: Value Trust Investments and Abrahams Telecoms on a 59-count charge, bordering on money laundering and criminal diversion of funds to the tune of N702,000,000 (seven hundred and two million naira). The judge at today’s sitting renewed the order, permitting Okupe to travel to the United Kingdom for medical…