Author: David Great

Ibrahim Idriss Garba, the Borno State Commissioner of Rehabilitation, Reconstruction, and Resettlement, has been confirmed two months after being sworn in. According to reports, the Commissioner died in his private guest house at the 777 Housing Estate on the outskirts of Maiduguri, the Borno State capital. The Commissioner was transported to the University of Maiduguri Teaching Hospital, where he was pronounced dead, according to reports outside the government residence. In September, the Commissioner was injured in an accident involving the Governor’s convoy while returning from a working tour to Southern Borno. According to a statement issued by Isah Gusau, Special…

A Borno Man Adamu Ibrahim has been arrested as the prime suspect in the murder of his 24-year-old wife, Fatima Alhaji-Bukar, in their residence in Dikechiri, Bayan Gidan Dambe area of Maiduguri, the state capital. Ibrahim was arrested alongside one Bukar Diya, his friend after both of them took the corpse of Fatima to the Gwange Division of the police to report her murder on 18 October. The husband had told the police that she found his wife lying in a pool of her own blood after she returned from work at about 5:00 p.m. According to a statement signed…

The first of 20 trucks carrying humanitarian aid entered the war-torn and besieged Gaza Strip on Saturday through the Rafah border crossing with Egypt, said AFP correspondents on both sides. UN humanitarian chief Martin Griffiths said he was “confident that this delivery will be the start of a sustainable effort to provide essential supplies… to the people of Gaza” and warned that “this first convoy must not be the last”. The border crossing was closed again after the passage of trucks from the Egyptian Red Crescent, which is responsible for delivering aid from various UN agencies. It was the first…

Awulu Friday Ayegba, a relationship manager with a new generation bank, was arrested by operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) for allegedly withdrawing N14,850,000.00 from one of the bank’s customers’ accounts. Dele Oyewale, the spokesperson for the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, confirmed the arrest of Ayegba in a statement on Thursday. According to the EFCC statement, Ayegba fraudulently withdrawn N14.8 million from a customer’s account between June 7 and July 21, 2023. EFCC debunks issuing arrest warrants on loan defaulters He allegedly impersonated Henry Olowo and Terseer Shibiam by using fake passport photographs, national identification numbers,…

FIFA on Friday suspended a former youth coach in the Democratic Republic of Congo from football for 20 years for sexually abusing a youth player. The governing body of world football said in a statement that Jonathan Bukabakwa had been “found guilty of sexually abusing a minor football player”. It said the adjudicatory chamber had also fined Bukabakwa 100,000 Swiss francs (112,000 dollars). The case, according to the statement, followed allegations on several media platforms of the sexual abuse of minors by coaches in different regions and leagues in DR Congo. Napoli hint on selling Osimhen before end of contract…

Belgium Justice Minister Vincent Van Quickenborne announced his resignation Friday, four days after a Tunisian migrant living illegally in the country killed two Swedish football fans in Brussels. He told a news conference that Tunisia had in August last year sought the extradition of Abdesalem Lassoued, but it had not been followed up. “It’s an individual, monumental, and unacceptable error,” he said, according to the Belga news agency. “The magistrate in question did not follow up on this demand, and the dossier was not treated,” he said. “I am not looking for any excuses. I think it’s my duty” to…

Prof. Ibrahim Gambari, a diplomat and former Chief of Staff to the ex-President Muhammadu Buhari, has recounted how ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo lost the contest to become Secretary-General of the United Nations in 1991. According to Gambari, countries with veto power could not choose Obasanjo because of his military background. He made the remarks on Wednesday during the public presentation of the biography of the late Boutros Boutros-Ghali, the first African UN Secretary-General, who took office in 1991 but lasted only one term until 1996. Prof. Adekeye Adebajo wrote the first historical biography of the Egyptian diplomat in English, titled Boutros…

President Bola Tinubu has confirmed Adewale Adeniyi’s appointment as Comptroller-General of the Nigeria Customs Service. Willie Bassey, Director of Information, Office of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, made the announcement on Friday. He stated that Adeniyi’s confirmation would be effective on Thursday, October 19, 2023. Tinubu fires FRCN, NBC, VON bosses, names new NAN MD “His Excellency President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, GCFR, has approved the confirmation of the appointment of Adewale Adeniyi (MFR) as the Comptroller-General of the Nigeria Customs Service,” the announcement went on to say. “The appointment takes effect from 19th October, 2023 and his…

Stock markets slid and oil prices jumped Friday on worries that an expected ground invasion of Gaza by Israel would spark a wider conflict in the crude-rich Middle East. Risk aversion was compounded by US Federal Reserve boss Jerome Powell, who indicated a pause in interest rates at the bank’s next meeting but left open the prospect of a later hike. That helped boost the dollar, which was close to topping 150 yen after surpassing the psychological level at the start of October for the first time in a year. The pound dropped on weak UK economic data. Gold, a…

Preliminary investigations into the death of Master Adebola Akin-Bright, a 12-year-old boy with a missing intestine who died at Lagos State University Teaching Hospital (LASUTH), began on Friday before the coroner, Magistrate Bola Folarin-Williams, sitting at Magistrate Court 4, Botanical Gardens, Ebute-Metta, Lagos. During the proceedings, counsel for the Lagos State Government, Ola Akinde, informed the court that essential tests and examinations on the corpse had been completed and that a post-mortem report was available. He further stated that the State Attorney General’s office is aware of letters from solicitors to the deceased’s father requesting that the corpse be preserved,…