Author: Vincent Osuwo

Terrorists launched a fresh attack on the Dogon-noma community in Kajuru Local Government Area, Kaduna State, early Saturday morning. The attack occurred just three days after one person was killed and eight women were kidnapped in the Banono Angwaku village of the same local government. Cafra Caino, the former chairman of the local government, confirmed the latest attack to our correspondent on Saturday. According to him, the terrorists stormed the village at 5.45 a.m. on Saturday and opened fire indiscriminately. Caino said, “We are yet to get the number of casualties because the locals ran for their lives at the…

The General Overseer of the Mountain of Holy Ghost Intervention and Deliverance Ministry, Chukwuemeka Cyril Ohanaemere, popularly called Odumeje, has been accused of using demonic chants.  Also popularly known as idaboski bahose, Some of his powers chants include, but are not limited to, abido-shaker, citadel, ribidu, sepere, ramade, ganduga-gandusa, refase-farel, palenbonskentele, and dabusskhabash. Speaking on the self appointed cleric, Solomon Buchi, a social media influencer, asked in a statement on X, “Have you ever thought that all the seemingly funny, unintelligible words and phrases Odumeje says could be demonic spells?” Responding to his question, Moradeyo berated Odumeje for allegedly making…

Prominent Nigerian lawyers have condemned in totality the three-month suspension of Bauchi Central legislator Abdul Ningi by the 10th Senate leadership due to charges of budget padding. Chronicle NG reports that Ningi stated in an interview with the British Broadcasting Corporation (Hausa Service) that the National Assembly placed N3.7 trillion into the 2024 budget without any verifiable projects to back it up. During a raucous session during Tuesday’s plenary, Ningi stayed firm, saying that he was misquoted in some sections of the interview. However, after a lengthy debate, the lawmakers slapped Ningi with a three-month suspension when he failed to…

In the past month, Akwa Ibom police have rescued four kidnapping victims. One of them is a woman who staged her own abduction. They also arrested 52 people for a variety of crimes. Mr. Waheed Ayilara, Commissioner of Police in the state, told journalists in Uyo on Friday that some of the crimes included murder, kidnapping, armed robbery, child trafficking, cultism, and fraud. He said that one of the kidnapped “victims,” a female from Nung Oku village in Akwa Ibom’s Ibesikpo Asutan Local Government Area, planned her own kidnapping. She then demanded an N4 million ransom but was apprehended by…

The Northern Elders Forum has backed Kaduna-based Muslim cleric Sheikh Ahmad Gumi’s proposal to engage in negotiation with the bandits who kidnapped approximately 287 pupils from Kuriga Government Secondary and LEA Primary Schools in Kaduna State’s Chikun LGA. It suggested that Gumi might be able to obtain their release and avoid further kidnapping. Recently, insecurity has increased in the northern area, particularly in Kaduna and Borno states. In less than 24 hours, rebels abducted 200 internally displaced women in Borno, as well as 287 students and staff from two Kaduna schools. The militants reportedly attacked Kuriga, shooting at their objectives…

Reno Omokri, a former aide to ex-president Goodluck Jonathan, has berated the constant blaming of President Bola Tinubu over the economic hardship in Nigeria. Omokri, in a statement on his verified X page on Friday, noted that while the economic woes in the country persist, Tinubu has doubled the federal allocation to state governments in a bid to ameliorate the hardship at state levels. Omokri also disclosed that while Tinubu is accused of doing nothing to help Nigerians combat the rising prices of commodities in the country, “there is no federal civil servant on minimum wage who is not collecting…

A woman’s call urging the Federal Government to ban the conduct of DNA paternity tests all over the country has sent social media agog.  Simply identified as Benita, the woman, in a statement of X, urged the Federal Government to stop the conduct of DNA paternity testing, alleging it has done “more harm than good.” Recounting the case of her neighbor, she noted that he found out his daughter was not biologically his after conducting a random DNA paternity test. Benita’s statement reads, “Nigerian government should please cancel the conduct of DNA tests that shit has done a whole lot…

Hon. Kanmi Ajibola, the member representing Oriade State Constituency in the Osun State House of Assembly, has written to the leadership of the National Assembly, requesting that the death sentence be used as a punishment for corruption. Ajibola, in a five-page letter to Senate President Godswill Akpabio and Speaker of the House of Representatives Tajudeen Abbas, copies of which were obtained in Osogbo on Friday, stated that the country’s level of corruption necessitates the inclusion of capital punishment in Nigeria’s anti-graft laws. The former Chairman of the Nigerian Bar Association, Ilesa Branch, decried the massive resources the country has lost…

The donation of cartons of Erisco tomato paste and seasoning cubes to the good people of Abia State by Erisco Foods Limited has been met with severe criticism by Nigerians. Chronicle NG reports that Erisco Foods donated cartons of Erisco tomato paste and seasoning cubes to Abia State. This was announced in a statement on the company’s official X page on Friday. According to the statement, the donation is part of the company’s corporate responsibility to help cushion the effects of the rising prices of commodities in Nigeria. Delivering the donations to the Abia State Governor, Dr. Alex Otti, and…

Erisco Foods Limited has donated cartons of Erisco tomato paste and seasoning cubes to the good people of Abia State. This was announced in a statement on the company’s official X page on Friday. According to the statement, the donation is part of the company’s corporate responsibility to help cushion the effects of the rising prices of commodities in the state. Delivering the donations to the Abia State Governor, Dr. Alex Otti, the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Erisco Foods Limited, Chief Eric Umeofia, thanked the governor and the good people of Abia State for their “unwavering support” of…