Author: Vincent Osuwo

A South Korean court will decide on Saturday whether to extend impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol’s imprisonment after investigators arrested him in connection with a failed martial law plot. Yoon, who is likely to attend the hearing, threw the country into disarray on December 3 by attempting to suspend civilian government, citing the necessity to confront threats from “anti-state elements.” Soldiers the president’s order to storm parliament failed to prevent legislators from voting against martial law just six hours after his bombshell proclamation. Yoon was later impeached by parliament and fought arrest for weeks, holed up in his guarded home…

Nigerians have described as abysmal the alleged injustice and discrimination admission-seeking students face in public universities. In a series of comments on X, commentators alleged that getting admission into public universities goes beyond one’s academic excellence. They mentioned that despite scoring high in the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, UTME, candidates with lower scores end up being admitted into these public universities. With many attributing such alleged development to the quota system in the educational sector of Nigeria, Nigerians described as ”injustice” the quota system practice where certain states are classified as educationally disadvantaged, thereby giving ”unnecessary” advantage during admission into…

The candidate of the Labour Party in the 2023 presidential election, Peter Obi, has donated the sum of N10 million to the College of Nursing Sciences, Amichi, Anambra State. Obi made the donation during his visit to the institution on Friday, January 17, 2025. Speaking on his visit to the institution in a statement on X, Obi mentioned that his donation to the school is a continuation of his ”tradition of supporting critical areas of development’ in Nigeria. The former governor of Anambra State, who came a distant third during the 2023 polls, mentioned that the academic excellence of the…

Former governor of Anambra State Peter Obi has condemned the upsurge of terrorism and kidnappings in Borno State. Obi, in a statement on his X page on Friday, lamented that the attacks in Borno State ”are a grim reminder of the persistent security challenges facing our nation.” It will be recalled that Chronicle NG reported that in a series of attacks, two worshippers were killed by suspected terrorists at Ekklesiyar Yanu’wa Church in Borno state’s Chibok Local Government Area. In a separate attack, six soldiers died in a terrorist attack on January 4, 2025, at the Nigerian Army base in…

The International Criminal Police Organisation (INTERPOL), through its Marine Security Unit, has sought partnership with the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) as part of a coordinated effort to combat transnational crime and prevent fraudulent malpractices in the marine industry. This call was made in Lagos on Friday, January 17, 2025, when Mr. Ademola Olude, Criminal Intelligence Officer from INTERPOL’s Maritime Security Unit, led a delegation of four Ghanaians on a courtesy visit to the acting Zonal Director of the EFCC’s Lagos Directorate, Assistant Commander of the EFCC, ACE1, Michael Wetkas. Olude, who praised the EFCC for its vigorous corruption-fighting…

The Gombe State Police Command has apprehended five teenagers for their alleged involvement in the death of a man following an argument during a wedding ceremony in Jauro Ali village. The suspects, identified as Jauro Babawuro (17), Yayaji Bello (16), Baffaji Adamu (16), Babangida Dotti (18), and Yaya Bapati (17), were apprehended after a report was made by Dotti Manu, the victim’s father, from Wuro Wandara village. Buhari Abdullahi, the police public relations officer, reported that the event occurred on December 21, 2024, around 10 p.m. During the wedding ceremony, a disagreement between the suspects and the victim evolved into…

President-elect Donald Trump has confirmed that his inaugural address on January 20 will be held indoors owing to the dangerously cold weather anticipated for Washington next week. The address and other speeches will henceforth take place inside the rotunda of the United States Capitol, rather than outside. The inaugural parade, as well as all three inaugural balls, will take place indoors at Washington’s Capital One Arena in downtown Washington, which is about a mile (1.6 kilometres) away. Ronald Reagan was the last president to be sworn in indoors, in 1985, when chilly weather also affected the US Capitol. In a…

The Inspector-General of Police, Kayode Egbetokun, has clarified the incident that occurred during the presentation of the Nigeria Police Force 2025 budget to the Joint Committees on Police Affairs and Police Institutions at the National Assembly Complex, Abuja, on Thursday, January 16, 2025. Egbetokun mentioned that the disruption that erupted during the session was an “unnecessary drama that could have been avoided,” according to a statement issued on Friday by the Force Public Relations Officer, ACP Olumuyiwa Adejobi, at the Force Headquarters in Abuja. Before the presentation, the police chief presented the committee members with two copies of the budget,…

A Nasarawa State High Court has ordered the remand of Timileyin Ajayi, an acclaimed gospel musician, who was captured with the severed head of Salome Adaidu, a member of the National Youth Service Corps. The remand was announced in a short statement put on the Nasarawa State Police Command’s X page on Friday. According to the statement, the suspect was arraigned while awaiting his formal arraignment. The statement read, “Timileyin Ajayi was charged to court today and remanded in prison custody pending his formal arraignment.” Chronicle NG reported on Tuesday that Ajayi was arrested by churchgoers for allegedly killing and…

The Nigeria Police Force has achieved substantial success in its continuous efforts to battle crime across the country, including the recent seizure of an illicit weapons manufacturing factory in Benue State and the arrest of a known cultist in Delta State. In a statement released Friday, Force Public Relations Officer, ACP Olumuyiwa Adejobi, highlighted the recent police operations. He stated in the statement that on January 11, 2025, police operatives in Benue State stormed a weapons manufacturing factory in the Tse Akamabe Area of Kwande LGA, detaining two suspects: Friday Aduduakambe and Iorwashima Iornyume, also known as “AK.” “Upon a…