Author: Vincent Osuwo

Members of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) have expressed their disapproval of the Federal Government’s persistent failure to implement the payment of the N77,000 allowance. The federal government has approved a raise in the monthly payment for corps members from N33,000 to N77,000, beginning July 2024. In the same year, NYSC Director-General Brig. Gen. Yushau Ahmed indicated that the new allowance was implemented due to money not being released. The DG later declared that corps members will begin getting N77,000 in February 2025. Despite the formal declaration, it was gathered that the NYSC has yet to initiate payment of…

No fewer than thirty-three world leaders have declared support for President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky, following a tense meeting between him and United States President Donald Trump. The world leaders also criticized Russia’s actions in Ukraine. The meeting between Zelensky and Trump in the Oval Office on Friday, which also included US Vice President JD Vance, ended in a deadlock. The meeting’s discussions turned heated as the two leaders debated the future of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Tensions escalated when the leaders clashed over a minerals deal that would grant the US extensive access to Ukraine’s rare earth resources in…

Human rights activist and lawyer, Dele Farotimi, has stated that despite the withdrawal of criminal charges against him, he is still weighing his options over his 21-day incarceration and legal battles. Farotimi, who spoke on The Duke Rants podcast published to YouTube on Saturday, was asked what he would say if he met Chief Afe Babalola today. He said, “Like a good Yoruba boy, I’ll give him his salutations. It doesn’t change the fact that I’m still considering my options as regards what to do about what I went through.” Questioned on what options he was considering, he replied, “Oh,…

Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan, the senator representing Kogi Central in the Senate, has urged Mrs. Unoma Akpabio, wife of Senate President Godswill Akpabio, to remain out of the claims of sexual harassment and intimidation against her husband. The dispute between Akpoti-Uduaghan and Akpabio occurred when she refused to sit in an assigned seat during a Senate session, citing Order 10 of the Senate Standing Rules. Tensions rose further when she appeared on Arise News on Friday, accusing Akpabio of obstructing her motions, maligning her, and frightening her after she allegedly rebuffed his sexual approaches. In response, Mrs. Akpabio attended a press conference…

Phrank Shaibu, a media adviser of the Peoples Democratic Party’s 2023 presidential candidate Atiku Abubakar, has chastised Unoma Akpabio, wife of Senate President Godswill Akpabio, for her remarks about her husband’s sexual harassment charges. Chronicle NG reports that Sen. Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan, a lawmaker from Kogi Central Senatorial District, accused Akpabio of sexual harassment during an appearance on Arise TV on Friday. She claimed that the Senate President had made sexual passes towards her on two occasions and that the seating arrangement was part of a plot to impede legislative tasks. The Kogi legislator compared her situation to a student failing…

A roaring fire that devoured sections of a storey building containing Ago Medical Centre off Ago Palace Way in Okota has been successfully extinguished, according to the Lagos State Emergency Management Agency, LASEMA. Dr. Olufemi Oke-Osanyintolu, LASEMA’s Permanent Secretary, confirmed this in a statement issued early Saturday morning. Oke-Osanyintolu stated that the agency activated the state’s emergency response plan and response team from Oshodi after receiving distress calls on its 767/112 Emergency Toll-Free Lines at 18.29 hrs on Friday. “Upon arrival at 18.50 hrs, LASEMA’s Eagle Response Team discovered that sections of a storey building that housed a hospital were…

President Bola Tinubu on Friday played host to Moro Ojomo, the Nigerian-born American football player who won Super Bowl LIX, at the State House in Abuja. Ojomo, who plays for the Philadelphia Eagles, paid Tinubu a visit alongside his father, Ololade; mother, Bimbo; and sister, Modele. The 23-year-old Lagos-born athlete landed in Nigeria on Wednesday. He was seven years old when his family moved to the United States. Ojomo’s visit comes only weeks after his club won the National Football League (NFL) title, defeating the Kansas City Chiefs 40-22. Upon his arrival in Lagos, Ojomo attributed his NFL success to…

Lanre Issa-Onilu, the Director-General of the National Orientation Agency (NOA), has called on Nigerian Muslims to pray for peace, unity, and national development of the country in the month of Ramadan. Onilu made the charge in a statement issued on Saturday by the agency’s Deputy Director, Media and Communication, Paul Odenyi. He enjoined Muslims to use the month of Ramadan for spiritual reflections, increased devotion, and acts of charity that align with the teachings and tenets of Islam. While making the charge as part of his 2025 Ramadan message to the nation, the NOA boss said, “For the development of…

Legal practitioners, on Friday, demanded an urgent investigation of the allegation of sexual harassment that was raised against the Senate President, Godswill Akpabio by the female lawmaker representing Kogi Central Senatorial District, Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan. In separate interviews, the lawyers, termed as substantial and grave, the female lawmaker’s accusation that she was being victimised for denying sexual advances from Akpabio. Warning that the problem should not be pushed under the carpet, the legal practitioners nonetheless emphasized that the law placed the burden of prove on the Kogi state lawmaker. According to Chief Chukwuma Nwachukwu, an Abuja-based human rights lawyer: “It…

Unoma Akpabio, wife of Senate President Godswill Akpabio, has filed two lawsuits against Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan at the Federal Capital Territory High Court in Abuja, alleging defamation and violation of fundamental human rights. The legal action follows recent assertions by Akpoti-Uduaghan, who represents Kogi Central, that her Senate issues began with her refusal to have a sexual connection with the Senate President. Mrs Akpabio accused the senator of making false and scandalous statements that caused emotional pain for her and her children, putting them in danger. She requested that the court deem the utterances a breach of her right to…