Author: Vincent Osuwo

The Lagos State Police Command disclosed on Thursday that the apprehended self-proclaimed “Obi of Lagos,” Chibuike Azubike, admitted that the planned installation was a ruse to deceive unsuspecting members of the public. The command’s Deputy Public Relations Officer, Babaseyi Oluseyi, confirmed this in a statement on Thursday. Chronicle NG reported that 65-year-old Azubike was arrested while posing as the “Obi of Lagos.” He was detained on Wednesday alongside three accused accomplices while preparing for an illegal unveiling event. According to the police, the organization intended to launch a prototype of the alleged N1.5 billion “Palace of Obi of Lagos State”…

Dangote Petroleum Refinery has said that its employees’ membership in trade unions is voluntary and not mandatory, in accordance with the Nigerian Constitution and International Labour Organisation standards. The business announced this in a press release on Wednesday, in response to what it called “distortions of facts” by the Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers over its trade dealings with workers. The refinery stated that it does not interfere with or limit employees’ ability to freely join legally recognized unions. “It is therefore misplaced to attribute responsibility to Dangote Petroleum Refinery for the personal choices made by drivers…

The truce between the Nigerian Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers (NUPENG) and the $20bn Dangote Petroleum Refinery has collapsed, igniting a fierce industrial dispute that threatens fuel supply stability and tests the Federal Government’s ability to enforce labor agreements. The encounter follows NUPENG’s charges that the Dangote Group violated a Memorandum of Understanding inked earlier this week, in which the refinery committed to allow tanker drivers and other workers to freely unionize. On Thursday, NUPENG’s National President, Williams Akporeha, accused Sayyu Aliu Dantata, Aliko Dangote’s cousin and a key actor in the refinery’s transportation operations, of violating the…

US President Donald Trump and other authorities paid tribute to dead right-wing activist Charlie Kirk on Thursday, as the country commemorated the 24th anniversary of the September 11, 2001, attacks. Kirk was a “giant of his generation” and a “champion of liberty,” Trump said at the start of his remarks at a 9/11 ceremony at the Pentagon, which was one of the targets of the Al-Qaeda attacks that launched two decades of deadly conflict. The US president stated that Kirk would be posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the country’s highest civilian honor. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth declared at…

The Minister for Interior, Dr. Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo, has denied social media reports that he and the Ondo State Governor, Lucky Aiyedatiwa, are at loggerheads. Various allegations on social media from the duo’s admirers stated that its principals were in a cold war. Tunji-Ojo, who spoke on Thursday at a free medical outreach in Ikare Akoko, the capital of the state’s Akoko North-East Local Government Area, dismissed the accusations as bogus social media conjecture. The minister, who was represented by one of his aides, Mr. Bode Obanla, at the activity organized for residents of the Ondo North Senatorial District, remarked that…

The Delta State Government has reviewed the dress code for civil servants, warning that inappropriate attire in the public sector will no longer be allowed. The circular, signed by the Office of the Head of Service and distributed by the Governor’s New Media Office on Thursday, stated that the action was intended to “uphold decency in the appearance of public servants across the State.” It recalled that the old dress code was contained in a circular of March 12, 2009, but emphasized that “in an effort to address the unpleasant practice of improper dressing that has become commonplace in the…

South Africa’s top court has ruled that men can take their wives’ surnames, overturning a statute that prohibited them from doing so. In a victory for the two couples who filed the case, the Constitutional Court declared that the law was a “colonial import” that constituted gender discrimination. Henry van der Merwe was denied the opportunity to use his wife Jana Jordaan’s surname, while Andreas Nicolas Bornman was unable to hyphenate his surname to add Donnelly, his wife’s surname, according to the national broadcaster SABC. Parliament must now change the Births and Deaths Registration Act, along with its rules, for…

A manhunt was launched Thursday after conservative activist Charlie Kirk was shot to death at a university in Utah, raising concerns about rising political violence in the United States. After Kirk’s shooting, President Donald Trump lashed out at the “radical left” and threatened to crack down on those guilty for what he termed as “a dark moment for America.” “For years those on the radical left have compared wonderful Americans like Charlie to Nazis and the world’s worst mass murderers and criminals,” a somber-looking Trump said in a video message from the Oval Office just hours after Kirk’s death. “This…

The Lagos State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) states that borrowing under the administration of President Bola Tinubu is intended to fund development through the construction of critical infrastructure. The APC Spokesman, Mr. Seye Oladejo, in a statement titled “Peter Obi’s Borrowing Hypocrisy: Physician, Heal Thyself” on Thursday criticized the 2023 Labour Party’s (LP) Presidential Candidate’s criticism of Tinubu’s borrowings. Chronicle NG reports that the former Anambra governor has called on accountants to confront the Tinubu-Federal Government over what he calls “reckless borrowings.” Oladejo encouraged Obi to play to his political skills, “as topics bordering on finance, economy,…

The Cross River State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has dismissed the Peoples Democratic Party’s (PDP) claim that it would reclaim power in the state during the 2027 general elections, describing it as an “empty boast and political comedy.” The conflict between the APC and the PDP in Cross River reflects a larger national struggle between Nigeria’s two main political parties. The party controlled Cross River continuously from 1999 until 2015, when fissures began to surface, culminating in former Governor Ben Ayade’s switch to the APC in 2021. This move drastically tilted the political balance in favor of…