Author: David Great

An All Progressives Congress (APC) chieftain in Rivers State, Sir Ebowei Gboru, has warned the party against giving its presidential ticket to Transport Minister Rotimi Amaechi over his unresolved N96 billion fraud case covering his activities and controversial sale of government assets as the governor of Rivers State. Trailed by series of corruption allegations since the completion of his eight-year tenure as Rivers governor in 2015, Amaechi is presently locked in a drawn out court battle with the Rivers State Government to stop the probe into his sales of valued assets and subsequent withdrawal of N96 billion from the state…

Despite its denial through a press statement dated April 19th 2022, the Tinubu campaign team has been unmasked as sponsor of the blasphemous poster campaign against Professor Yemi Osinbajo, in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT). Recall that posters carrying the VP’s picture with the inscription “the Judas who betrayed his master”, littered walls and street light poles in parts of the FCT on Friday and Saturday 15th and 16th April 2022, the Easter period, raising blasphemous dust against the sponsors and brains behind the posters. Adejuwon Babatunde, Dir. Media & Publicity, Osinbajo Support Movement noted that the poster campaign elicited…

The driver of a green Toyota Sienna vehicle, with Reg. number, FST 901 AR, knocked down and run over a LASTMA official, Jamiu O. Issa, who was later confirmed dead, this early morning on the 19th of April, 2022. The Late Issa was said to have approached and accosted the Sienna vehicle driver who was driving against the direction of flow of traffic (One-way) facing oncoming vehicles from Chevron towards the Conservation Toll Plaza. It was reported that Issa, the LASTMA patrol team leader in Ajah, who accosted the driver by standing inside the driver opened door was knocked down…

Real Madrid are confident of signing Kylian Mbappe, 23, and will go all out for the Paris St-Germain and France forward after conceding that their other main target, Erling Braut Haaland, is heading to Manchester City. (Mail) Real Madrid are keen on bringing England midfielder Jude Bellingham to the Bernabeu, but Borussia Dortmund are desperate to keep the 18-year-old. (Bild – in German) Everton are monitoring Wolves’ Spain winger Adama Traore, 26, with a view to signing him if Barcelona reject the option to make his loan move permanent. (Football Insider) Incoming Manchester United boss Erik ten Hag will have…

President Muhammadu Buhari has directed the Minister of Health, Dr Osagie Ehanire, to submit a progress report by the end of May 2022 on the indigenous production of vaccines in the country. The president gave the order on Wednesday in Abuja while receiving the leadership of the Nigeria Integrated Biopharmaceuticals Industries Consortium (NIBI), led by Mr Vilarugel Cuyas, Chairman/Chief Executive Officer of Fredlab. Buhari commended the NIBI consortium made up of European biotechnology companies Merck, Unizima, Rommelag and Fredlab, who are collaborating with the Nigerian start-up PIA BioPharma to establish a world-class Bio-Pharma Industrial Complex for the manufacture of vaccines…

President Muhammadu Buhari says Boko Haram insurgency has neither religious nor ethnic underpinning, and that with adequate education, majority of Nigerians have now known the truth. The president stated this when he received the Chief Prosecutor of International Criminal Court (ICC), Karim Ahmad Khan, at the State House, Abuja, on Wednesday. He said that with concerted public enlightenment, it had become clear to Nigerians that Boko Haram was a perversion of religion rather than an Islamic ideology. He said: “God is justice. You can’t kill innocent people and shout ‘Allah Akbar’ (God is great). It’s either you don’t know that…

Miguel Almiron scored his first club goal since February 2021 as Newcastle beat Crystal Palace to record a sixth consecutive win at St James’ Park and move on to 40 points in the Premier League. Almiron finished magnificently from Bruno Guimaraes’ lofted pass to lift Eddie Howe’s side up to 11th in the table and all but guarantee the Magpies’ place in the top flight next season. Guimaraes and Allan Saint-Maximin tested Vicente Guaita in a one-sided first half, while the impressive Joelinton sent a header looping over the crossbar not long after the interval. Palace emerged for the second…

Arsenal got their pursuit of a place in the Premier League’s top four back on track as they ended a run of three defeats with a crucial victory at Chelsea. The Gunners’ hopes of securing a place in next season’s Champions League had been significantly damaged by those losses but this win will provide renewed belief. Eddie Nketiah was selected ahead of out-of-sorts Alexandre Lacazette in Arsenal’s attack and he rewarded manager Mikel Arteta’s faith when he took advantage of Andreas Christensen’s weak back pass with a composed finish. It was the start of a chaotic first half as Timo…

Two kidnappers operating within the terrain of Ochadamu village, Ofu Local Government Area of Kogi on Wednesday, met their Waterloo in the hands of local security hunters after a gun battle. Mr Mohammed Musa, an official of the local government disclosed this to newsmen in a statement on Wednesday. Musa noted that the kidnappers were killed just a few days after attempting to kidnap innocent commuters plying the route after Easter celebration. “The criminals were initially engaged in a gun battle with men of the Nigeria Navy with two members arrested. “After discovering their hideouts in Ochadamu, the hunters ambushed…

The naira exchanged at 418.33 to the dollar at the investors and exporters window on Wednesday, representing a 0.32 per cent depreciation, compared to 417 naira to the dollar recorded on Tuesday. The open indicative rate closed at 418.25 naira to the dollar on Wednesday. An exchange rate of 444 naira to the dollar was the highest rate recorded within the day’s trading before it settled at 418.33 naira. eNaira app back on Google Play Store The naira sold for as low as 410 to the dollar within the day’s trading. A total of 151.07 million dollars was traded in…