Author: Vincent Osuwo

Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger’s military administrations have declared their immediate withdrawal from the Economic Community of West African States, ECOWAS. On Sunday, the leaders of the three Sahel nations signed a statement claiming it was a “sovereign decision” to leave ECOWAS “without delay.”. The regimes, which are struggling with Islamist violence and poverty, have had contentious relations with ECOWAS since coups occurred in Niger last July, Burkina Faso in 2022, and Mali in 2020. All three were suspended from the regional body, with Niger and Mali facing severe sanctions. In recent months, they have strengthened their views and formed…

Super Eagles goalie Stanley Nwabali has disclosed that he is in great pain following the injury he suffered in Nigeria’s 2-0 win over Cameroon on Saturday. The Super Eagles defeated their archrivals with two goals from Ademola Lookman, advancing to the quarterfinals against Angola. The Atalanta attacker scored in the 36th minute after Victor Osimhen found him inside the box. Lookman ultimately clinched the 2-0 victory for the three-time champs. Nwabali was replaced in the 80th minute by Francis Uzoho after colliding with Georges-Kevin N’Koudou, who injured him. Speaking to the media after the game, the Chippa United goaltender stated…

Jose Peseiro, the coach of the Super Eagles of Nigeria, has stated that he and his team are aware that the AFCON quarter-final encounter against Angola will be more difficult than the Cameroon game. Ademola Lookman scored both goals as the Super Eagles defeated old rivals Cameroon 2-0 on Saturday, advancing to the Africa Cup of Nations quarterfinals. The Super Eagles will face Angola in the quarterfinals on February 2, hoping to win their fourth continental title after victories in 1980, 1994, and 2013. While speaking on the 2-0 AFCON round-of-16 triumph at the Félix Houphouët-Boigny Stadium, Abidjan, Peseiro complimented…

Police operatives attached to the Tafa Divisional Headquarters of Kaduna State have arrested a suspected kidnapper who confessed to being part of the gang that kidnapped Nabeeha and her sisters. This was disclosed in a statement issued on Sunday by ACP Olumuyiwa Adejobi, Force Public Relations Officer. According to the police, Bello Mohammed was arrested after the operatives of the force stormed a hotel in the Tafa area of Kaduna State. The suspect, according to the police, confessed to being part of the gang that killed Nabeeha Alkadriyar, one of the daughters of a legal practitioner who was kidnapped in…

Vice President Kashim Shettima has denied allegations that the President Bola Tinubu-led government intends to move some government agencies and institutions from the FCT to Lagos State. Shettima discussed this while speaking through his political adviser, Dr. Hakeem Baba-Ahmed, at the 10th Ahmadu Bello Annual Memorial Lecture in Maduguri on Saturday, January 27. His comments come on the heels of the planned relocation of the corporate offices of the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, and the Federal Airport Authority of Nigeria, FAAN, from Abuja to Lagos State. The planned relocation of these offices has attracted criticism from Arewa groups, who…

The executive governor of Plateau State, Caleb Mutfwang, has urged the residents of the state to overwhelmingly re-elect sacked lawmakers in the state’s re-run election. The Peoples Democratic Party in Plateau State launched an open campaign on Saturday for the upcoming Plateau North Senatorial and Jos North/Bassa Federal Constituency rerun elections. On Saturday, Mutfwang began the campaigns along Jos’ Langfield-Rayfield axis. The Court of Appeal ordered the two re-run elections after nullifying the elections of Simon Mwadkwon and Musa Agah, who were previously declared winners by the Independent National Electoral Commission in the 2023 general elections. The Appeal Court overturned…

Three mobile police officers from PMF 51, Oghara, have reportedly been kidnapped by suspected herders in the Ohoror community on the East-West Road in Delta State’s Ughelli North Local Government Area. According to reports, the kidnappers also took the police officers’ duty AK-47 guns and ammunition as they were marched into the woods. It was discovered that the kidnapped officers were members of a group of six mobile police officers assigned to the Ughelli-Patani Road pinching point. It was also discovered that the news of the abduction caused panic in the neighborhood. A p source said the officers were whisked…

Tobi Amusan has set a new African women’s 60-meter hurdles indoor record with a time of 7.77 seconds. The race took place on Saturday at the Astana Indoor Meet in Kazakhstan. Amusan broke fellow Nigerian Gloria Alozie’s long-standing continental record of 7.82 seconds, set in 1999. The 26-year-old dominated the 60-meter hurdles final, defeating American Nia Ali and Ireland’s Sarah Lavin. It was Nigeria’s first race of the 2023 sports season, following Amusan’s tumultuous finish last year. She was provisionally suspended prior to the World Championships due to missed drug tests, but was eventually cleared. The Nigerian then failed to…

The Akwa Ibom State Police Command has arrested ten suspected kidnappers who were allegedly preparing to kidnap an expatriate working on the state’s Calabar-Itu Highway building project. Following a tip-off, police operatives of the Ibiono Ibom division raided the hideouts of the suspects in the Ibiaku Ikot Oku community woodland and detained them. The arrest was announced on Friday by Olatoye Durosinmi, the state’s Commissioner of Police, at the command’s headquarters in Ikot-Akpanabia, Uyo, the state capital, while the suspects and 69 others apprehended for various offenses in the state were paraded. The police chief stated that four of the…

Nigerian singer Oyinkansola Sarah Aderibigbe, popularly known as Ayra Starr, has apologized to music icon Sunny Ade for reportedly “disrespecting” him during the Afrozons-Heineken Pre-Grammy party in Lagos. In a viral video, the 21-year-old was seen welcoming Burna Boy’s mother, Bose Ogulu, and shaking hands with King Sunny Ade, which many people deemed “disrespectful and inappropriate.”. This elicited a variety of reactions, with some Nigerians criticizing Ayra Starr for her disrespectful behavior. Reacting to the now viral video, the ‘Rush’ crooner, on her verified X handle on Saturday, said, “I’m so sorry. I had just walked in, and all the…