Author: David Great

An Ikeja Chief Magistrates’ Court on Wednesday remanded a 21- year-old tricyclist, Micheal Sude, at Kirikiri Correctional Centre for allegedly raping a teenage girl. The defendant, a tricyclist, who resides at 2, Akinola Awofeso Street, Bariga, Lagos State, is facing a one-count charge of rape. The Chief Magistrate, Mrs Bola Osunsanmi, who refused to take the defendant’s plea ordered him to be remanded at Kirikiri Correctional Centre. Osunsanmi adjourned the case until Oct. 18 pending the advice of the Director of Public Prosecution (DPP). Gay Wedding: Nigeria court frees 69 on bail The Police Prosecutor, SPL Raji Akeem, told the…

The son of Ali Bongo Ondimba and several allies of the ousted Gabon president have been charged with high treason and corruption and placed in custody, the state prosecutor told AFP Wednesday. Bongo’s eldest son Noureddin Bongo Valentin and former presidential spokesman Jessye Ella Ekogha, as well as four others close to the deposed leader, “have been charged and placed in provisional detention,” said Libreville prosecutor Andre-Patrick Roponat. The 64-year old deposed president, who had ruled the oil-rich central African country since 2009, was ousted by military leaders on August 30, moments after being proclaimed the winner in a presidential…

Rwandan President Paul Kagame has said for the first time that he plans to run for a fourth term in elections due to be held next year. “Yes, I am indeed a candidate,” Kagame, who has ruled over the country with an iron fist for decades, told Jeune Afrique, a French-language news magazine, in an interview published online on Tuesday. “I am pleased with the confidence that Rwandans have placed in me. I will always serve them, as long as I can,” the 65-year-old was quoted as saying. The Rwandan government in March decided to synchronise the dates for its…

A policy group in Nigeria has rejected claims that the law license of Femi Gbajabiamila, the Chief of Staff to President Bola Tinubu was suspended by the State of Georgia because of fraud. The Conference of Civil Society for Transparency and Accountability (COCTA) in a statement signed by Comrade Haruna Okatahi, Director of Strategic Communications, on Wednesday, noted that Gbajabiamila stopped practising law in Georgia because he returned to Nigeria to serve his constituency and the country. The group added that the allegation against the former Speaker of the House of Representatives was a figment of the imagination of those…

US President Joe Biden appealed to the United Nations Tuesday to stop Russia’s “naked aggression” in Ukraine, warning other states would be at risk if the world appeases Moscow. “We must stand up to this naked aggression today to deter other would-be aggressors tomorrow,” Biden told the UN General Assembly in New York, attended by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky — but not Russia’s Vladimir Putin. Biden’s words on Ukraine won applause in the hall, but he was speaking to an audience missing numerous key leaders, including those from France and US allies Britain and France. He warned that the UN’s…

A Nigerian court on Tuesday released on bail 69 persons who were arrested last month in connection with an alleged gay wedding, which is banned in the African country, their lawyer said. In Nigeria, like in most parts of Africa, homosexuality is generally viewed as immoral on cultural and religious grounds, and the country implemented an anti-gay law in 2014 despite international condemnation. A court sitting in southern oil-producing Delta state ruled that the suspects would be released from prison detention after posting 500,000 naira ($645) bail each to the court, lawyer Ochuko Ohimor said. The suspects, who did not…

Abubakar Atiku, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential candidate, has filed an appeal with the Supreme Court, seeking to overturn the decision of the Presidential Election Petitions Court, which affirmed President Bola Tinubu’s declaration as the winner of the 2023 elections. In a notice of appeal based on 35 grounds, Atiku claimed that the tribunal made a grave error and miscarriage of justice in its findings and conclusion in its suit contesting Tinubu’s election as President. The notice of appeal also asks the Supreme Court to overturn the Tribunal’s findings and conclusions, claiming that they do not accurately reflect the…

Ogun State Governor, Prince Dapo Abiodun, has stated that he is prepared to defend himself against the impeached Chairman of Ijebu East Local Government, Mr. Wale Adedayo, on the charge of cash diversion. Governor Abiodun made this known during a meeting with APC leaders in Ijebu East Local Government, led by Chief Segun Osibote, a former member of the House of Representatives who represented Ijebu North, Ijebu-East, and Ogun Waterside between 2007 and 2011. At the meeting, Governor Abiodun underlined the importance of instilling party discipline inside the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) to guarantee that party members are held…

Youths in Ogun state on Tuesday, protested peacefully in Abeokuta, the State capital, demanding justice for the late Nigerian singer, Ilerioluwa Aloba, also known as Mohbad. Mohbad died on Tuesday, aged 27, in an undetermined manner, prompting many Nigerians to urge an in-depth investigation. The youngsters, dressed in black T-shirts, began the rally in the state capital’s popular Panseke market area and marched through Oke-Ilewo and other sites. Daddy Showkey gets death threats over comments on Mohbad’s death They brandished posters that read, “Justice for Mohbad,” and demanded that the “government arrest Naira Marley and Sam Larry,” among other things.…

Senator Adamu Bulkachuwa’s lawsuit, filed in an effort to prevent the ICPC from looking into a remark he made during the 9th National Assembly’s valedictory session, was dismissed by an Abuja Federal High Court on Tuesday. The lawsuit should be dismissed because it lacks validity, according to Justice Inyang Ekwo’s ruling. As a legislator, Bulkachuwa, according to Justice Ekwo, should be aware of the implications of the statement he made on the Senate floor. He contends that the plaintiff (Bulkachuwa) does not benefit from the legislative immunity that he asserts in this instance. “It is the duty of every law-abiding…