Author: Vincent Osuwo

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has stated that President Bola Tinubu’s legal team only indicts themselves with their watermark claims. In a press statement signed by Hon. Debo Ologunagba, National Publicity Secretary of the PDP, the party stated that the “admission by the Tinubu Legal Team that it ‘scanned and watermarked’ its copy of the judgement with the inscription, ‘Tinubu Presidential Legal Team ‘TPLT’ is self-indicting and lends credence to widespread public insinuation of pre-determined manipulation by the APC.” Demanding that the All Progressive Congress (APC) come clean on the matter, the PDP demanded that “the Tinubu Legal Team explain…

Doctor Noah Kekere, who was arrested for allegedly harvesting a woman’s kidney in Jos, reportedly turned lunatic on Saturday while in police detention at the Plateau State Police Command. Chronicle NG reports that the doctor was arrested on Wednesday following a report at the Nasarawa Gwom police division accusing him of removing the right kidney of Mrs. Kehinde Kamal during a surgery in 2018. The suspect’s arrest had previously been confirmed by the state police headquarters. According to our source, Kekere was rushed to the psychiatric unit of Jos University Teaching Hospital (JUTH) after exhibiting signs of insanity in the…

Prof. Ali Pate, the Coordinating Minister of Health and Social Welfare, and Dr. Tunji Alausa, the Minister of State, have launched a four-point strategy to ensure that the sector provides better healthcare to Nigerians. Pate stated at a weekend news conference in Abuja that the ministry would increase the performance of health governance in Nigeria while minimizing political influence. The media conference followed a three-day ministerial briefing organized by the ministry on the realities in the health and social welfare sectors. The purpose of the gathering was to create a model for Nigeria’s healthcare system. According to Pate, there is…

Operatives of the Rivers State Police Command have arrested six suspects on Saturday in connection to the gruesome murder of SP Bako Angbashim. Bako, a divisional police officer of Ahoada Division in Rivers State, was killed in the line of duty while engaging cultists in a shootout. The event occurred in the late hours of Friday, following allegations of a gunfight between police officers on patrol and members of a known cult group in the Odeimude village in Ahoada East. According to sources familiar with the situation, SP Bako and his men were engaged in a fierce gun battle with…

Prof. Aminu Muhammad, the President of the Medical and Dental Consultants’ Association of Nigeria, has stated that it would take Nigeria 10 years to replace the 500 doctors who recently left Nigeria in search of greener pastures. Muhammad made the remark while speaking on Sunday against the backdrop of findings by the association from 50 out of 80 chapters, which confirmed that no fewer than 500 medical personnel including doctors have left the shores of Nigeria for the outside world. The president, who was answering questions from journalists shortly after reading the communiqué of the association’s biennial delegate meeting in…

Miss Rahab Musa, a 23-year-old female student at Gombe State University (GSU), Sambo, has been arrested by the police for allegedly killing her newborn baby. Rahab, a final-year student in the university’s Department of Public Administration, allegedly threw the newborn through a window just hours after giving birth inside a toilet in one of the female hostel blocks. According to a university source who requested anonymity, the student, who was from Filiya town in Shongom Local Government Area of Gombe State, conceived the pregnancy outside of marriage and chose to kill the newborn boy by throwing him over the window…

The Federal Government has secured a $163 million loan from the African Development Bank to support the production of wheat in the country. This was disclosed by Vice President Kashim Shettima on Sunday in Argungu, Kebbi State, while on a condolence visit to the family of the late Abubakar Giro, a sheikh. Shettima noted that the loan collected for the production of wheat in the country is part of President Bola Tinubu’s drive to improve the agricultural sector in the country. He noted that the loan, when put to judicious use, will reduce Nigeria’s dependence on wheat importation to the…

The Anambra State Police Command has secured the conviction of the two robbers arrested on the Second Niger Bridge a couple of weeks ago. This was revealed in a statement by the state police spokesman, DSP Tochukwu Ikenga, issued to journalists on Sunday. When arraigned in court, the thieves, who were apprehended on the bridge with two daggers and five SIM cards taken from their victims’ phones, pleaded guilty. Ikenga disclosed that both robbers were sentenced to five-year jail terms on each of the first two counts and three-year imprisonment for the third count, adding that the sentences, which are…

Governor Charles Chukwuma Soludo, the governor of Anambra State, praised President Bola Tinubu on Saturday for giving the South East “juicy portfolios” despite recording low votes in the region during the last presidential election. Soludo was full of praise for the president during the courtesy visit of the Minister of Works and Housing, David Umahi, to his office on Saturday. The governor acknowledged that Tinubu’s giving the Ministry of Works to the South East was huge while saying, “In politics, you don’t get what you deserve but what you bargain for with votes.” He added, “Given the totality of votes…

Germany won the Basketball World Cup for the first time on Sunday, defeating Serbia 83-77. The Germans, who had gone undefeated throughout the tournament and were playing in their first final, took the lead in the third quarter in Manila. Serbia staged a frantic fourth-quarter comeback, but Germany held them off and took home the Naismith Trophy. Dennis Schroder finished the game with 28 points, followed by Franz Wagner with 19. Germany had defeated the United States in a thrilling semi-final match. Serbia, who was attempting to win the title for the first time as an independent nation, suffered an…