Author: Vincent Osuwo

The wife and daughter of Nollywood comic actor John Okafor, popularly called Mr Ibu, are at loggerheads over money donated for his surgery. Mr Ibu is currently dealing with an internal problem after his wife, Stella Maris Okafor, claims that his adoptive daughter, Jazmine, has stolen money from well-meaning Nigerians. Stella made the charges on Monday on Instagram in response to allegations that she sought money to buy a car using funds donated for Mr Ibu’s care. She also stated that she does not have access to the ailing actor’s main bank account. She wrote: “Recently, there have been some…

The Federal Government has vowed to build 80,000 houses over the next eight years as part of its efforts to address Nigeria’s housing deficit. Mr. Mahmuda Mamman, Permanent Secretary, Federal Ministry of Housing and Urban Development, said this in an interview with newsmen on Monday in Kaduna at the National Council on Lands, Housing, and Urban Development’s 12th meeting. Mamman stated that President Bola Tinubu’s Renewed Hope Agenda was keen on doing things differently and that the ministry had produced a memorandum that had been approved by the president, notably on the social housing programme. He said, “This is a…

Senator Douye Diri, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidate in the off-cycle Bayelsa State governorship election, has emerge winner of the Saturday, November 11, 2023, poll. Diri’s overwhelming victory became clear following the consolidation of election results from the state’s eight local government units on Monday afternoon. Prof. Faruq Kuta, the state’s returning officer, announced that the exercise had come to an end at about 12:42 p.m. on Monday, about 48 hours after the election held in the oil-rich South-South State, as he was expected to formally announce the winner of the election thereafter. The incumbent Governor Diri won the…

The Katsina Police Command prevented a suspected kidnapping attempt in Gogalo village, Jibia local government area, and rescued three abducted people. This was disclosed by ASP Aliyu Abubakar-Sadiq, the command’s spokesman, on Monday in Katsina. He said, “On Nov. 11, at about 10:46 pm, information was received at the Jibia divisional police station that armed bandits wielding dangerous weapons such as the AK-47 rifle, shooting sporadically, attacked the village and kidnapped three persons.” He further added that, “Upon receiving this report, the Divisional Police Officer (DPO) Jibia promptly mobilized a search and rescue team to the scene. “The team continued…

Aisha Yesufu, a sociopolitical activist, has warned of a more damaging protest than the 2020 statewide ‘End SARS’ demonstration. Chronicle NG reports that EndSARS was a decentralized social movement and a series of mass protests against police brutality in the country. The slogan demanded that the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS), a notorious squad of the Nigeria Police, be disbanded. The protest, which began on X, ended in enormous rallies in Nigeria’s main cities as well as violence, which resulted in the deaths of many young Nigerians. Yesufu, one of the campaigners at the heart of the demonstration, believes Nigerians may…

US Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin left open the potential for additional strikes on Iran-linked militants if attacks on American forces in Iraq and Syria continue, hours after the United States air strikes in Syria overnight. Late Sunday, the United States military launched its third air strike in Syria in as many weeks, targeting a training site near Albu Kamal and a safe house near Mayadeen. The strikes come after at least 40 attacks by Iran-backed militants against the United States and coalition soldiers in Iraq and Syria in recent weeks, as regional tensions rise over the Israel-Hamas conflict. At least…

The US carried out two air strikes in Syria on Sunday, targeting Iran and its allied groups, according to the Pentagon, in the latest reaction to a string of attacks on American personnel in Syria and Iraq. US Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin said in a statement that the strikes targeted a training site in Albu Kamal and a safe house near Mayadeen. He said that President Joe Biden directed the strikes. The strikes were aimed at a training site in Albu Kamal and a safe house near Mayadeen. He said that President Joe Biden directed the strikes. The strike is…

Hajia Fatima Aliko-Dangote, Executive Director, Commercial Operations at Dangote Group, has reaffirmed the company’s commitment to eradicating the country’s high youth unemployment. She, who made this statement at the recently concluded Lagos International Trade Fair during “Dangote Day,” stated that since its creation, the President of the Group has always wanted to assist the country’s three tiers of government in eradicating poverty. According to her, the best way for the company to accomplish this is to help eradicate youth unemployment in the country. She stated that the company was the largest employer of labour in Nigeria outside of the Federal Government…

Sen. Dino Melaye, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidate in Kogi, has asked the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to cancel the state’s off-cycle poll. Melaye addressed a press conference in Lokoja, the state capital, on Sunday. He said that result sheets appeared even before the start of voter registration on Saturday. “Yesterday, in the five local governments of the central senatorial district in Kogi State, there was no election. In the end, surprisingly, accreditation was done manually; the BVAS was not used,” Melaye said. “Prepared sheets manifested even before accreditation, and evidence is all over the media. “INEC, as…

The Oyo State Police command, at the weekend, paraded a 45-year-old suspected ritualist, Hassan Kolawole, with a fresh human head in Ibadan, the state capital. Kolawole was paraded at the command’s headquarters in Eleyele, Ibadan. He was paraded by the state commissioner of police, Adebola Hamzat, through the police public relations officer (PPRO), Adewale Osifeso. He said the suspected ritualist was arrested at Ogbere-ti-o-ya in Ona Ara Local Government Area of the state. He stated that the alleged ritualist was apprehended in Ogbere-ti-o-ya, in the state’s Ona Ara Local Government Area. Speaking to journalists, the suspect admitted to the crime,…