Author: David Great

FCT Police Command say it has found Safiyanu Amira, two days after she raised an alarm that she was abducted by men who wearing police uniforms. Amira had sent out a series of tweets alerting the public of her abduction and that of 16 others, although the police has now debunked her story. In a vague statement on Friday by Oduniyi Omotayo, deputy police spokesperson in the FCT Command, Amira is in the hospital receiving treatment. “The Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Police Command wishes to categorically debunk the viral news of the alleged kidnapping of one Safiyanu Amira and seventeen…

Nigeria’s Senate President, Ahmad Lawan has not dumped the All Progressives Congress (APC) for the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) contrary to reports on social media. In an edited video making the rounds, Lawan was purported to be making an announcement that he was leaving the APC for PDP. Chronicle NG reports that the video shared on social media was cut from an announcement made by Lawan on the defection by Senator Yahaya Abdullahi, the Senate Majority Leader three days ago. In the letter read during plenary, the Senate President said, “It is with deep sense of responsibility that I write…

American Under Secretary for Political Affairs commends VP’s role in economy, green transition Vice President Yemi Osinbajo says Nigeria and the United States should collaborate more as there is a need for more concerted efforts to effectively tackle the spread of terrorism, especially in the Sahel region. Prof. Osinbajo stated this yesterday when he received at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, the visiting Under Secretary for Political Affairs, US State Department, Victoria Nuland, alongside a US delegation including its Ambassador to Nigeria, Ambassador Mary Beth Leonard. The significance of free, fair and peaceful elections, improving security in the Sahel region, and…

The Ilorin Zonal Commander of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Michael Nzekwe, has warned hotel owners to avoid being accomplice to Yahoo Boys who check into their facilities for internet fraud and money laundering activities or risk being prosecuted and jailed. Nzekwe gave the admonition on Thursday, June 16, 2022, while addressing a stakeholders meeting of Designated Non-Financial Institutions, DNFIs, at the commission’s office along Catchment road, GRA, Ilorin. According to him, “the EFCC has observed a worrying pattern of cold complicity by hospitality entrepreneurs who appear to be hands-in-gloves with suspected fraudsters by housing them over long…

Garba Abubakar, Registrar-General of the Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC) has urged registered companies to always file returns to the commission to avoid deregistration. Abubakar, who gave the advice in an interview with newsmen in Abuja on Thursday, stressed that it was not enough that people register companies, they must equally file returns as required by law. The CAC registrar-general explained that it was through return filing by companies that the commission was able to know which companies are active and which ones were inactive. “You must do what the law says you must do, you have to file your returns,…

As the debate over a potential Muslim-Muslim ticket rage on in the All Progressives Congress (APC), informed sources say Vice President Yemi Osinbajo is counselling against it. According to the sources, ” the VP’s advice to the party is to avoid a Muslim – Muslim ticket.” The sources disclosed that the VP explained “that the logic, fairness and justice of a balanced ticket is unassailable. The argument that merit should be considered above a Muslim- Christian balance presents a false choice. It is not one or the other. You can get all the merit you want in a balanced ticket.”…

The Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria (PFN) has stressed that Christians who do not have their Permanent Voters Card (PVC) might be denied access to the church premises from June 26. PFN President, Bishop Wale Oke, also noted that they will be denied access to Holy Communion as he seeks to galvanise Christians to join the electoral process in 2023. Oke added that Pentecostal Christians will vote massively against any political party that presents a Muslim-Muslim ticket for 2023. Speaking after the National Executive Council (NEC) meeting in Lagos, Oke said PFN is against Muslim-Muslim ticket because “it is against the…

The Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria (PFN) has vowed to work against any party that presents a Muslim-Muslim ticket. PFN President, Bishop Wale Oke, said that Pentecostal Christians will vote massively against such party in 2023. Speaking after the National Executive Council (NEC) meeting in Lagos, Oke said PFN is against Muslim-Muslim ticket because “it is against the principles of fairness, balance, equity and justice.” According to him: “Muslim-Muslim ticket means over 54 per cent of the population will be marginalised and shut out. If the party doesn’t listen to us, then they will meet up at the polls.” He explained…

The Lagos State Government says it will demolish the remaining buildings on the land, where the 21-storey building collapsed on Gerrard Road, in Ikoyi. Dr Idris Salako, the Commissioner for Physical Planning and Urban Development, disclosed this at a news conference on the handing over of the complex to the contractor for deconstruction on Thursday in Lagos. Salako said that the Ikoyi buildings would take about three months or more, to be demolished, adding that the land on which the structures were situated would be taken over by the state government. He noted that the taking over of the land…

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has reiterated that the All Progressives Congress (APC) Akwa Ibom primary that produced Akanimo Udofia as a governorship candidate was not monitored by it’s officials. INEC noted similarly that the primary that produced former minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Godswill Akpabio, as APC senate candidate was also not monitored. The two botched primaries were reportedly held around midnight on May 26 and June 9, respectively. It, therefore, means the APC may not have a governorship candidate in Akwa Ibom State for the 2023 general elections, and that Akpabio is not recognised by INEC as…