Author: Vincent Osuwo

Veteran Nollywood actor Ganiu Nafiu, also known as Alapini, has expressed sorrow for supporting President Bola Tinubu in the 2023 presidential election. He regretted that he and other Yoruba cinema actors who supported the Renewed Hope campaign have been disregarded since the election. Alapini expressed his dissatisfaction during an interview on the YouTube channel ‘Behind the Fame – African A-List TV’, where he discussed his acting career, health concerns, family issues, and his role in Tinubu’s campaign. Alapini, speaking in Yoruba, expressed frustration that the hope they had during the campaign season had now turned into disappointment. “We were campaigning…

Omoyele Sowore, a human rights activist and former presidential candidate, claims that all opposition parties in Nigeria, with the exception of his African Action Congress, are influenced and controlled by the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC. Sowore alleged on Channels Television’s Rubbin’ Minds talk show on Sunday that the APC purposefully founded or co-opted the majority of Nigeria’s opposition groups as “special-purpose vehicles” for political convenience. According to him, the AAC, which he created in 2018, is the only legitimate opposition among the country’s 18 registered political parties. Sowore said, ”What we found out in our little research is that…

The Independent Marketers Association of Nigeria, IPMAN, South-West Zone, has directed its members to boycott the Lekki-Epe corridor from Monday to avoid embarrassment. The zone’s IPMAN chairman, Chief Oyewole Akanni, directed in a statement sent to the News Agency of Nigeria in Ibadan on Sunday. According to the chairman, the national office had previously advised its members not to deploy trucks to fill petroleum products along the Lekki-Epe route beginning Monday. Akanni added that this was due to the anticipated intimidation and harassment that would result from the Lagos State Ministry of Transportation’s adoption of the E-Call-up policy. He pointed…

No fewer than five guns, including two AK-47s, one G3, one pumping machine rifle, one PKT gun, and two AK-47 magazines, were said to be submitted during a peace truce with ten bandit leaders terrorising Katsina State who surrendered to government officials on Saturday. The peace agreement was reached in Katsina State’s DanMusa Local Government Area, with the bandits voluntarily surrendering their rifles and releasing kidnapped victims, including a 7-month pregnant woman. According to a source who verified to our correspondent in Katsina, the development is part of the Nigerian army’s continuing arms surrender and disengagement plan, which is being…

Two people have died after an iron bridge collapsed in western India, triggering a major rescue operation. Officials disclosed that six others have been seriously injured, and people rescued from the Indrayani River which runs underneath the bridge in Maharashtra’s Pune district. According to Witnesses, a large group of people were crossing the bridge when it gave way on Sunday at about 15:30 local time (11:00 BST). Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis stated that India’s National Disaster Response Force had been deployed, adding that “relief work has been immediately accelerated”. “I was deeply saddened to hear the news of the…

Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) at Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos, arrested an Italy-bound passenger, Edobor Ambrose Ali, for attempting to smuggle 14,410 tramadol pills concealed in winter jackets. The statement added, “Similarly, NDLEA operatives at Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA), Ikeja, Lagos, in the early hours of Saturday, June 14, intercepted an Italy-bound passenger, Edobor Ambrose Ali, on an Air France flight. According to a statement released by NDLEA spokesperson Femi Babafemi on Sunday, the operatives discovered drug consignments hidden in the suspect’s luggage during baggage scanning at the tarmac. The statement reads, “Similarly, NDLEA…

The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has arrested a businessman, Ezemokwe Chukwuebuka Christian, for ingesting 53 wraps of cocaine while attempting to board a flight to Iran from Port Harcourt International Airport. Ezemokwe, 44, was arrested on Saturday, June 7, while boarding Qatar Airways flight QR1434 to Tehran Khomeini via Doha. Following a body scan that revealed narcotics use, he was placed under monitoring and expelled the illicit drugs in six batches. The drugs weighed a total of 1.172 kg. According to NDLEA spokesperson Femi Babafemi’s statement on Sunday, the suspect admitted to being involved in drug trafficking between…

The Lagos State Government stated that the increased traffic from articulated vehicles on the Lekki-Epe corridor has necessitated the implementation of a technology-based electronic call-up system. Mr Oluwaseun Osiyemi, the Lagos State Commissioner for Transportation, confirmed this on Sunday in a statement issued by Mrs Bolanle Ogunlola, Deputy Director of Public Affairs, Ministry of Transportation. Osiyemi disclosed that the e-call-up system will be implemented starting Monday, June 16, to regulate truck movement in the impacted area. According to the News Agency of Nigeria, important investments in the Lekki-Epe axis in Lagos, include the Dangote Refinery, the Lekki Deep Sea Port,…

Tanker drivers in Lagos State said they would cease loading petroleum goods on Monday because they cannot pay the Lekki-Epe Corridor’s E-Call Up system, which costs N12,500 per truck. Obafemi Hamzat, the Lagos Deputy Governor, recently stated that the E-Call Up system was designed to govern the movement of articulated vehicles and tankers accessing the corridor, fostering orderly traffic flow and averting the bottleneck that occurred in the Apapa area. However, tanker drivers representing the National Association of Road Transport Owners In an interview on Sunday, NARTO President Yusuf Othman stated that the association was still in talks with the…

Peter Obi, Labour Party’s 2023 presidential candidate, has condemned the recent mass killings in Benue State, describing the gruesome massacre by suspected armed herdsmen as a direct consequence of leadership failure in Nigeria. In a statement posted on X on Sunday, Obi expressed heartbreak over the attacks, which claimed the lives of women, children, soldiers, and displaced persons. He called for an urgent national response, warning against the growing normalisation of mass killings in the country. “My heart is heavy as I learn of yet another horrific series of killings in Benue of women, children, soldiers, and displaced persons, all…