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The Department of State Services (DSS) has debunked a report that its operatives arrested one of the judges of the Kano State Governorship Election Petitions Tribunal that ruled on the state’s 2023 gubernatorial election. The secret police’s refutal comes in the wake of the allegation by the Chief Press Secretary (CPS) to the Kano State Governor, Sanusi Bature, who stated that the Kano State government believed that the judges that handled the judgment of the March 18 election were intimidated and arrested by the security agencies. While speaking to PRNigeria on the phone, the spokesperson of the DSS, Dr. Peter…

The Kano state police command has lifted the 24-hour curfew it imposed on the state on Wednesday when the Governorship Election Petitions Tribunal sacked Governor Abba Kabir Yusuf of the New Nigerian People Party (NNPP) and declared All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate Yusuf Gawuna as the winner. The police swiftly imposed a 24-hour curfew in the state to stop the tension that the judgment was causing from escalating. But yesterday evening, the command’s spokesperson, SP Haruna Abdullahi Kiyawa, in a WhatsApp group for journalists and police public relations, said the curfew had been lifted. He said, “The curfew is lifted,…

The Socio-Economic Accountability Project (SERAP) has blamed oil and gas companies operating in the Niger Delta for environmental degradation in the region. The group’s position is contained in a report commissioned by SERAP titled “We are all vulnerable. How lack of transparency and accountability is fueling human rights violations in the Niger Delta’’. It called on the federal government to put in place a legal framework to ensure that oil and gas companies and other key players recognize the right of the people in the Niger Delta to a clean and healthy environment. SERAP urged the government to ensure the…

The International Criminal Police Organization, INTERPOL, has sought the collaboration of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, to tackle organized criminal groups across the West African sub-region. This request was made on Thursday, September 21, 2023, when a delegation of INTERPOL, led by the coordinator of the criminal networks sub-directorate of its organized crime unit, Pascal Progin, visited the corporate headquarters of the EFCC in Jabi, Abuja. Progin specifically sought EFCC’s collaboration in tackling what he called the “Nigerian organized crime groups”, stressing that INTERPOL needed the expertise, experience, and network of the Commission to make appreciable progress in…

A prosecution witness in the $9.6 billion Process and Industrial Development Limited (P&ID) fraud, Umar Hussein Babangida, told Justice D.O. Okorowo of a Federal High Court sitting in Abuja on Thursday, September 21, 2023, that efforts made to bring the managing director of Trinity Biotech Nigeria Limited, Patrick Nash (a.k.a. Gerald Nash), to trial failed as he had fled the country before he could be arrested. “My team visited the office of Trinity Biotech Nigeria Limited, located on the 1st floor of Oyo State House, Ralph Shodende Street, Abuja, where efforts were made to trace the managing director, whose name…

Liverpool came from behind to beat LASK Linz as they made a winning start to their Europa League campaign. LASK midfielder Florian Flecker struck a brilliant opener from the edge of the area on 19 minutes for the Austrians. Darwin Nunez equalized from the penalty spot after Luis Diaz was fouled, before Diaz himself scored the winner from debutant Ryan Gravenberch’s cross. Second-half substitute Mohamed Salah added a third goal late on for Jurgen Klopp’s side to seal victory. Klopp made 11 changes to the Liverpool team, which started against Wolves in their previous fixture. The impact of those changes…

A former presidential aide, Laolu Akande, has charged President Bola Tinubu to back his commendable and well-articulated speech at the 78th United Nations General Assembly in New York, United States, with appropriate foreign policy direction to attain desired goals. Akande, who is currently in New York, covering proceedings at the General Debate of the UN General Assembly, expressed his views while featuring as a guest analyst live on Channel TV’s morning programme, Sunrise Daily, on Thursday, September 21, 2023. The former award-winning journalist who is back on his beat said, “What the president must do now is to gather together…

The Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria (PFN) has debunked an online newspaper report that its national president, Bishop Francis Wale Oke, described the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) as an inconsequential body that is trying to polarize the Lagos chapter. It said that the leadership of the Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria was unequivocally committed to setting the records straight and hereby refuted the claims as baseless and out of context, the PFN Bureau of Publicity said in a statement. According to the bureau, the report is not only false but also damaging to the collective mission of both PFN and CAN…

Lagos State Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu has expressed sadness over the demise of Adebola Akin-Bright, the 12-year-old boy with a missing small intestine who died at the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital (LASUTH) on Tuesday. Sanwo-Olu, in a condolence message issued yesterday by his Chief Press Secretary, Mr. Gboyega Akosile, described the death of Akin-Bright as a painful loss, not only to the deceased family and friends but also to him personally and the entire state, considering the efforts made by the state government to save the young boy. Sanwo-Olu sympathized with the late Akin-Bright’s family and friends, especially his mother,…

Rafael Nadal won the French Open in 2022, but with Novak Djokovic having surpassed his impressive haul of most major wins in men’s tennis, the Spaniard admitted the Serbian is the finest player in history. Djokovic’s recent U.S. Open victory, his third Grand Slam championship this year, brought his total to 24, two more than Nadal’s. “I believe that statistics are statistics and that numbers are numbers.” In that regard, I think he (Djokovic) has higher numbers than mine, and that is undeniable, Nadal said in an interview with AS on Wednesday. “This is the reality. “The rest are tastes,…