Author: Vincent Osuwo

Kwara State Governor and chairman of Nigeria’s Governors Forum, AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq, has issued a strong statement in support of injured Nigerian and Nottingham forward, Taiwo Awoniyi. Nottingham Forest striker is currently recovering in an induced coma following a serious abdominal injury sustained during a Premier League clash with Leicester City on May 11, 2025. In a heartfelt prayer over the forward’s injury, the governor of Kwara State prayed for the quick recovery of the Super Eagles striker. “Awoniyi is more than just a footballer — he is a proud son of Kwara State who continues to give back generously to…

The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has denied any involvement in the murder of a former presidential aide and a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Ahmed Gulak. In a statement on Tuesday by IPOB’s Media and Publicity Secretary, Comrade Emma Powerful, the group disputed charges linking the Biafra group to Gulak’s killing. In response to the claims, Powerful stated that Gulak was slain on Sunday, May 30, 2021, while the sit-at-home observance declared for the annual May 30th Remembrance Day in 2021 took place on Monday, May 31. While denying the reports as inaccurate and misleading, the IPOB…

Dr. Tunji Alausa, Minister of Education, said on Wednesday that there was no evidence of fraud in the Nigerian Education Loan Fund (NELFUND). Alausa made this announcement following a meeting with vice chancellors, officials from the National Universities Commission, the Nigerian Education Loan Fund, and the Federal Ministry of Education. Alausa also labelled the statement put out by the Independent and Corrupt Practices Commission and other connected charges as wrong. “Let me start by saying that there is no fraud in NELFUND. ICPC reported that the information was not correct. There is no fraud in NELFUND; what we have are…

Opesusi Faith Timilehin a 19-year-old girl, tragically committed suicide on Monday after apparently getting 190 in the recently conducted Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) administered by the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB). Timilehin, originally from Abeokuta, Ogun State, was living with her older sister in Odogunyan, Ikorodu, Lagos State, at the time of the incident. It was gathered that Timilehin ingested ‘Push Out’, a rodenticide, shortly before visiting her sister’s office, where she asked for palm oil to relieve the pain she was experiencing. Her strange behaviour raised no alarms until she fainted, causing her sister to seek assistance.…

The Rivers State Government has closed down a health facility in the state over unprofessional practices. The state’s Anti-Quackery Committee, directed by Dr Vincent Wachukwu, sealed the clinic on Monday in response to media allegations of Mrs Victoria Paris’s death following a caesarean section in the institution reportedly performed by unlicensed health staff. The committee, which paid an unplanned visit to the hospital, observed that the facility was a subpar maternity converted to a clinic that was not equipped to do caesarean sections. The hospital, which is housed in a three-bedroom flat converted into a six-bed maternity unit and owned…

Senator Opeyemi Bamidele has exonerated President Bola Tinubu from recent defections from the opposition political parties, especially the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), saying that he is not forcing any member of the opposition to the ruling party, contrary to public criticism. Bamidele, in justifying the defection of Senator Adamu Aliero, Senator Yahaya Abdullahi, and Senator Garba Maidoki from the Kebbi Central, North, and South Senatorial districts to the APC, stated that the ruling party “is now running a government of national unity.” Bamidele made the clarification yesterday at the Senate Chamber of the National…

Senator Adams Oshiomhole has described former Vice President Atiku Abubakar as the most prominent political defector in Nigeria’s history, urging him to write a book on the subject. Speaking during an interview on Politics Today on Channels Television on Tuesday, Oshiomhole cited Atiku’s long history of defection as evidence of his deep experience in political realignment. “But let me remind you that those who started defection – the most popular one in the history of Nigeria – is His Excellency Atiku Abubakar,” Oshiomhole said. “When, as a sitting vice president of Nigeria, he decamped from PDP to ACN, which is…

Justice Binta Nyako of the Federal High Court sitting in Abuja has set June 27 to give a final verdict in the case filed by suspended Kogi Central senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan. Natasha is challenging her suspension from the Senate. She took the matter to court after the Senate, led by Senate President Godswill Akpabio, suspended her over alleged misconduct. She believed that her suspension was unfair and influenced by bias. In her case, she added the National Assembly, the Senate, the Senate President, and Senator Neda Imasuem, who chairs the Senate Committee on Ethics, Privileges, and Code of Conduct, as…

The manager of Century Home Hotel in Owehlogbo, Isoko North Local Government Area, Delta State, has admitted to the murder of Onoriode Bethel, a 22-year-old Point-of-Sale operator who was reported missing in December 2024. The defendant, named as Iboirode, admits to luring Bethel inside the hotel under the pretence of resolving a financial disagreement, killing her, and covertly burying her body within the hotel premises. SP Bright Edafe, spokesperson for the Delta State Police Command, confirmed the horrific development in Delta on Tuesday, May 13, 2025. “The suspect murdered Bethel and buried her body on the hotel premises,” Edafe said.…

The three Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) senators from Kebbi, on Tuesday, defected to the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC). Chronicle NG gathered that their letters of defection were read separately on the floor of the chamber by Deputy Senate President Jibrin Barau, who presided over the plenary. The senators are Adamu Aliero (Kebbi Central), Yahaya Abdullahi (Kebbi North) and Garba Maidoki (Kebbi South). Abdullahi Ganduje, the National Chairman of the APC, had earlier stated that the senators from Kebbi State who were elected on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) are ready to defect to the party. Ganduje…