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Justice Morenike Ogunomijo of the Court of Appeal sitting in Benin on Thursday authorized the All Progressives Congress (APC) to proceed with its primary election in Edo State using its preferred mode in a ruling delivered by the lead Justice. Setting aside the previous ruling of the Federal High Court restraining the All Progressives Congress from conducting its primary election pending the determination of the suit filed by the allies of the embattled Governor Godwin Obaseki contesting the primaries of the party in the state, the Appeal Court upheld the power of political parties to set, hold, and determine its…

Nigerian most-wanted hacker, Ramoni Igbalode, alias Ray Hushpuppi, recently arrested by the International Police (Interpol) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), has considerable cases of cyber crimes being investigated by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). The Commission is familiar with grisly details of his money laundering transactions, involving many high-profile cyber criminals facing trial in Nigeria. The Commission is engaging with the FBI in tracing victims of his fraudulent transactions and other fraudsters having direct involvement with him. UAE to extradite Hushpuppi to Nigeria Local cyber criminals with money laundering networks with him, are also being investigated.…

Some members of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Kwara state have exonerated Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq from the internecine internal crisis rocking the party. The executive council members led by APC Deputy Chairman Abdullahi Samari on Thursday held a COVID-19 protocol- compliant parley in Ilorin, the state capital. The parley was chaired by the Secretary to the State Government Prof Mamman Saba Jibril on behalf of the governor, who reassured the party leadership of his support as well as his commitment to the overall good of the state. State chairman of APC Hon Bashir O. Bolarinwa was conspicuously absent at…

The US Supreme Court has ruled against President Donald Trump’s bid to end a major programme that protects young immigrants from deportation. The justices upheld lower court rulings that found his move to rescind Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (Daca) was “unlawful”. It protects “Dreamers”, about 650,000 young people who entered the US without documents as children. The Trump administration has sought to end the Obama-era policy since 2017. The Supreme Court took up the case after lower courts ruled that the Trump administration did not adequately explain why it was ending the programme, criticising the White House’s “capricious” explanations.…

Facebook says it has removed adverts for US President Donald Trump’s re-election campaign that featured a symbol used in Nazi Germany. The company said the offending ad contained an inverted red triangle similar to that used by the Nazis to label opponents such as communists. Mr Trump’s campaign team said they were aimed at the far-left activist group antifa, which it said uses the symbol. Facebook said the ads violated its policy against organised hate. “We don’t allow symbols that represent hateful organisations or hateful ideologies unless they are put up with context or condemnation,” the social network’s head of…

Karim Benzema became Real Madrid’s fifth all-time leading goalscorer with a double in a victory over Valencia, which closed the gap on league leaders Barcelona to two points. Benzema, 32, has now netted 243 goals in all competitions for Real, overtaking Ferenc Puskas’ tally. Ex-Chelsea forward Eden Hazard set up his first goal on the hour before Benzema scored a stunning late volley. Substitute Marco Asensio scored Real’s second with his first touch. Benzema’s second goal, which came deep into the second half, was a superb piece of skill, involving a flick and volley which caused manager Zinedine Zidane to…

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has announced Nigeria’s single highest one-day coronavirus cases in the country on Thursday with 745 cases. The 745 cases announced by the Centre for Disease Control takes the total number of confirmed cases to 18480. The NCDC also announced the discharge of 344 patients from isolation centers across the country with five new deaths reported. Lagos state, the epicentre of the virus in Nigeria topped the number of confirmed cases with 280 new cases taking the total number of confirmed cases in Lagos alone to 7896. Nigeria announces 490 new coronavirus cases Oyo…

The presidency of Donald Trump has already generated a long reading list, but the latest offering from former National Security Adviser John Bolton has attracted more attention than most, given the author’s high-ranking status and the nature of his claims. His work – The Room Where It Happened – portrays a president ignorant of basic geopolitical facts and whose decisions were frequently driven by a desire for re-election. Critics of Mr Trump have asked why Mr Bolton did not speak up during impeachment hearings, while the president himself has called his former top adviser on security matters “incompetent” and a…

Bolaji Tunji, the media aide to Senator Abiola Ajimobi has dismissed rumours that the former Oyo state governor has died from COVID-19 complications. Mr Tunji’s reaction comes after some little known blogs and social media was awash with the news of his death on Thursday. They claimed the former governor who has been battling COVID-19 is not dead despite his worsening medical condition. APC names Ajimobi acting national chairman Ajimobi who is the deputy national chairman South was recently appointed as acting national chairman of the All Progressives Congress by the National Working Committee of the party on Wednesday. He…

Justice Omolara Adeyemi of the Oyo State High Court, Ibadan on Thursday convicted and sentenced one Femi Rufus Oginni to seven months community service for impersonation and obtaining money by false pretences. The 24-year-old, who claimed to be a student of Business Administration in The Polytechnic, Ibadan, was prosecuted by the Ibadan Zonal Office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC on two-count charges of obtaining money and impersonation. Specifically, he falsely represented himself as a woman in need of love and luring two American men, Donni Robert and James Collins into paying him money on several occasions in…