Author: David Great

Top academics and professionals across Nigeria’s leading universities have endorsed the candidature of Vice President Yemi Osinbajo ahead of the APC primaries in May. The academics on Wednesday paid a visit to the Vice President and they were led by 13 professors who came to endorse and support his presidential aspiration (with representation from the six geo-political zones) under the aegis of the Progressive Intellectuals Advisory Group. While receiving them, Prof. Osinbajo called on academics and members of other professional bodies to participate actively in the task of making Nigeria a better place for all. According to Prof. Osinbajo, “these days,…

The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) says it apprehended 69 suspected oil thieves in Akwa Ibom between January and March. The NSCDC Commandant in Akwa Ibom, Mr Abidemi Majekodunmi, said this in an interactive session with newsmen in Uyo on Thursday. Majekodunmi said the corps had the mandate to protect government critical infrastructure and ensure that economic saboteurs were brought to justice. He said that the suspects had been charged to court for prosecution and those found guilty would face the full wrath of the law. According to him, in the first quarter of the year, the agency…

The Maiduguri Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has secured the conviction and sentencing of the quartet of Allen Abel, Jerry Shugaba, Ramat Bukar and Buba Hamidu before Justice Umaru Fadawu of the Borno State High Court, Maiduguri on separate charges bordering on obtaining by false pretence, personation and cheating to the tune of Five Million Three Hundred and Eighty Three Thousand Naira (N5.383, 000.00). The charge against Abel reads: “That you, Allen Abel sometime in April, 2020 in Maiduguri Borno State, within the jurisdiction of this honourable court fraudulently induced one Alhassan Sanusi to deliver…

An Ikeja Magistrates’ Court in Lagos State on Thursday ordered that a 50-year-old man, Chidi Eze, be remanded in Kirikiri Correctional Centre for allegedly raping his friend’s sister. The police charged Eze, who resides in Iyana Ipaja area of Lagos, with rape. Magistrate Ejiro Kubeinje, gave the order following a motion moved by the prosecution counsel, DSP Kehinde Ajayi that the matter be referred to the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) for legal advice. Kubeinje, who did not take the plea of Eze, directed the prosecutor to duplicate the case file and send to the DPP for advice. The magistrate…

Former Kano governor, Kabiru Gaya, on Thursday emerged as the chairman of Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo Support Groups. Gaya, a serving senator representing Kano South Senatorial District resumed office as the chairman of the The Progressive Project (TPP). On his resumption as chairman of the TPP he said that he was not the chairman of the Campaign Council, noting that, for Osinbajo this race is not about personal ambition but about a positive response to populist call from a citizen-driven mobilization. “On behalf of all the members of various support groups, eminent political leaders and citizens too numerous to…

Manchester United have appointed Ajax coach Erik ten Hag as their next manager on a three-year deal which can be extended by a year. The Dutchman, 52, will take over from interim boss Ralf Rangnick at the end of this season. ???? Erik. Ten. Hag. ????#MUFC || #WelcomeErik pic.twitter.com/x6YF75C0gB — Manchester United (@ManUtd) April 21, 2022 Rangnick, who replaced the sacked Ole Gunnar Solskjaer in November, is set to move into a consultancy role. Ten Hag will become United’s fifth permanent manager since Sir Alex Ferguson retired in 2013. “It is a great honour to be appointed manager of Manchester…

The Presidency has dismissed claims that the presidential pardon granted to former governors of Plateau State, Joshua Dariye, and Taraba State, Jolly Nyame who are serving jail terms for corruption will derail President Muhammadu Buhari’s anti-corruption war. The Presidency also stressed that the action by President Buhari is backed by the Nigerian constitution. “The Presidency wishes to throw light on the recent note presented to the Council of State, on the report of the Presidential Advisory Committee on the Prerogative of Mercy, PACPM as a culmination of a process begun by the convicts & others concerned in line with the…

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…