Author: Vincent Osuwo

Troops of the Joint Security Task Force acting in the Alkaleri Local Government Area of Bauchi State freed 33 people who had been kidnapped. They were kidnapped a few days ago by gunmen who took them into the wilderness and held them hostage until their family paid a ransom. However, on the orders of Bauchi State Governor Bala Mohammed, who is from the LGA, the joint security taskforce engaged the bandits and achieved the safe release of all 33 kidnapped victims. Bala Mahmoud, the caretaker chairman of Alkaleri LGA, received the 33 kidnapped victims on Friday night from security personnel…

An inspired Tottenham team came from behind to defeat newly promoted Sheffield United in the fifth match of the English Premier League. In the pulsating encounter, Tottenham Hotspur were clearly the better side, but they could not convert their shots on target in the first half of the game, which ended in goalless parity. A goal from Gustavo Hamer in the 73rd minute put the visitors in the lead. However, Ange Postecoglou’s side restored parity in the 8th minute of added time with a goal from Brazilian international Richarlison. The Londoners sealed their victory two minutes later with a goal…

Caleb Mutfwang, Governor of Plateau State, has approved the appointment of 136 special assistants with specific tasks to allow him to keep his promises of service delivery to the people. The appointees were picked from the state’s 17 local government areas, or LGAs, with eight from each LGA. According to a statement made in Jos by the Governor’s Director of Press and Public Affairs, Gyang Bere, their designations will be notified to them at their respective local government councils. He said, “The appointees, whose names are listed below, are the first batch. They will assume their roles and responsibilities immediately.…

Peter Obi, the presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP) in the February 25th presidential election, has condemned in totality the gruesome murder and beheading of a chieftain of the Labour Party, Zachary Maduka, in Abia State. Obi, who stated that he was away in Bangladesh when the “despicable” act occurred, in a condolence message to the bereaved family on X, called on the Governor of Abia State, Gov. Alex Otti, “to rid Abia of all forms of criminality to ensure that this type of hateful, dastardly act does not go unpunished.” Furthermore, he pledged his support for the bereaved…

Professor Florence Bisong, the Vice Chancellor (VC) of the University of Calabar, UNICAL, has expressed concern about threats made by the Minister of Women Affairs, Uju Ohaneye, to female students at the university who were appearing before a panel probing charges of sexual harassment against the Dean of the university’s Faculty of Law, Professor Cyril Ndifon. The UNICAL Vice-Chancellor (VC) described as alarming the minister’s leaked audio message that went public in which she threatened one of the female students with jail and asked her to stay out of the case. In a leaked phone call with one of the…

The President of France, Emmanuel Macron, said on Friday that the country’s ambassador to Niger is being held captive at the French embassy and that military governors are preventing food deliveries to the mission. The envoy is living off “military rations”, Macron told reporters in the French town of Semur-en-Auxois. “As we speak, we have an ambassador and diplomatic staff who are literally being held hostage in the French embassy.” “They are preventing food deliveries,” he said, in an apparent reference to Niger’s new military rulers. “He is eating military rations.” After overthrowing President Mohamed Bazoum on July 26, Niger’s…

Tobi Amusan, the world 100m hurdles record holder, has slid eight places from 25th to 33rd in World Athletics’ women’s overall weekly rankings issued ahead of this weekend’s Diamond League final in Eugene, Oregon, USA. The Nigerian, who was rated sixth in the world at the start of the year and first in her event after winning the World Athletics Championships last year, has also dropped from second to third in the hurdles. The 26-year-old, who lost her world title last month in Budapest, Hungary, will look to make history this weekend in the Wanda Diamond League. Amusan will thus…

A truck carrying a container that collapsed in the early hours of Friday at Odumodu Junction Nteje, Oyi Local Government Area, along Awka Road, Anambra State, led to the deaths of five women and injured four others. A Mitsubishi L300 bus with the registration number XE245AWK and a commercial Daf/Leyland truck with the number plate T-19094LA which was carrying the container, were involved in the accident. The drivers of the two vehicles were not named, but the accident occurred around 7.30 a.m. on Friday, and the cause of the container which collapsed was attributed to a failed section of the…

The federal government intends to produce at least 24,000 passports every day in order to eliminate the delays that residents face in acquiring their passports. The production would begin as soon as the 200,000 passport backlogs were eliminated. Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo, Minister of Interior, said this in Abuja on Friday during a visit by a group from the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crimes. According to Ajibola Afonja, the Ministry’s Director of Press, approximately 97,000 of the 200,000 backlogs of passports had been cleared. The statement partly read, “The Minister averred that the President is interested in the country’s development;…

Kano State Governor Abba Kabir Yusuf has fired the commissioner who threatened judges presiding over the state’s governorship election petition tribunal. In a now viral video making the rounds on social media, Commissioner of Land and Physical Planning, Adamu Kibiya, was heard asking the judges to choose between their lives and their work while delivering the judgement. Speaking during a protest organised by members of the ruling New Nigeria People’s Party (NNPP) in the state, he said, “People voted for us, and some people are attempting to do injustice. We want to tell the judges that we will not accept…