Author: Vincent Osuwo

The Labour Party (LP) on Sunday welcomed the offer by the New Nigeria People’s Party (NNPP) presidential candidate in the 2023 election, Senator Rabiu Kwankwaso, to be running mate to LP’s Peter Obi in the 2027 presidential election. In a recent viral tweet, Kwankwaso expressed his desire to serve as the previous Labour Party presidential flagbearer’s running mate, just two years after talks between the two parties failed. According to reports, the LP and the NNPP discussed merging ahead of the 2023 general elections, but the failure of either Obi or Kwankwaso to yield leadership derailed the heightened move. Kwankwaso…

Richard Adamu Tallen, the son of former Minister of Women Affairs and the ex-deputy governor of Plateau state Pauline Tallen, is dead. According to reports, Richard, the only son of the minister, was admitted to the intensive care unit at Cedar Crest Hospital in Abuja on Friday evening for treatment of an undisclosed illness and was receiving oxygen support before his demise. Richard graduated from St. Joseph’s College Aka Collegium Sancti Joseph (CSJ) VOM, a premier Catholic missionary school offering comprehensive secondary education to boys in Plateau State. Endurance Gunat, 25-year-old woman dies seven months after wedding His set coordinator…

South African police have arrested three people in connection with the gruesome murder of 18 relatives that took place in a remote town last week following a manhunt. Police Minister Senzo Mchunu revealed the arrests during a memorial service for the 18 deceased on Sunday in Lusikisiki, Eastern Cape, where the killings took place. He stated that the arrest of a fourth suspect would be reported shortly. Gunmen opened fire on two homes in South Africa, killing fifteen women and three men, causing shockwaves throughout the country. Several were shot in the head. The victims ranged in age from 14…

Ildar Dadin, a well-known Russian opposition activist fighting in Ukraine on Kiev’s side, was killed in action, according to the party that recruited him.  A spokesman for that group, the Civic Council, told the BBC that Dadin had died, adding that “he was, and remains, a hero.” The activist-turned-fighter was slain when men from his volunteer battalion, the Freedom of Russia Legion, were targeted by Russian artillery in the Kharkiv region of northeastern Ukraine. Russian strike kills seven in Ukraine For the time being, no additional information is available, and the Legion will not comment while a military action is…

The Rivers State Commissioner of Police, Bala Mustapha, has issued an order to open the secretariats of the state’s 23 local government areas immediately. This is in accordance with a direction issued by Inspector General of Police Kayode Egbetokun. Grace Iringe-Koko, spokesperson for the State Police Command, stated on Monday that the decision was made in accordance with the IGP’s directions. Rivers: Wike camp heads for court as Fubara swears in LG chairmen The opening of the secretariats comes just 24 hours after Governor Siminalayi Fubara swore in the newly elected chairmen from Saturday’s local government elections. It is worth…

The mayor of a city in southern Mexico was assassinated less than a week after entering office, officials said on Sunday, the latest in a string of attacks on politicians in the violence-plagued Latin American country.  The shooting of Chilpancingo Mayor Alejandro Arcos “fills us with indignation,” Guerrero State Governor Evelyn Salgado posted on social media without providing any other information about the circumstances. Local media reported Arcos’ decapitation, but there has been no official confirmation. Arcos was elected in June, representing an opposition coalition that included the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), which condemned his assassination as a “cowardly crime”…

The Prime Minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, on Sunday vowed to achieve victory and said his country’s military “completely transformed reality” in the year since Hamas’s October 7 attack, which has left the country fighting two wars. Netanyahu promised troops that Israel “will win” as it battles militants in the Gaza Strip and Lebanon and prepares to strike Iran, nearly a year after Palestinian Hamas militants launched an unprecedented onslaught that triggered the Gaza war. Israel’s army chief, Lieutenant General Herzi Halevi, stated that, one year on, “we have defeated the military wing of Hamas.” Netanyahu had vowed to “crush……

Umo Eno, Governor of Akwa Ibom State, has criticised a media report that said his first daughter, Mrs. Helen Obareki, had been selected as the state’s first lady.  Chronicle NG reported that the governor’s wife, Mrs. Patience Umo Eno, died in a hospital on September 26, 2024, accompanied by family members. During a condolence visit by the President’s wife, Mrs. Oluremi Tinubu, the governor stated that his daughter, as Special Assistant to his late wife, was in an ideal position to oversee the First Lady’s Office. Eno appoints daughter as Akwa Ibom acting First Lady after wife’s death Speaking on…

Adrienne Munju, a 41-year-old Canadian woman arrested by National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) operatives at Lagos’ Murtala Muhammed International Airport for importing a large consignment of a strong strain of synthetic cannabis known as ‘Canadian Loud’, has explained why she committed the crime.  Munju was arrested during the inward clearance of passengers on a KLM Airline flight from Canada at Terminal 1 of the Lagos airport on Thursday, October 3, 2024. According to a statement issued on Sunday by the agency’s spokesperson, Femi Babafemi, Adrienne, who was visiting Nigeria for the first time, was discovered with 74 packets of…

The Rivers State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Sunday rejected the conduct and outcome of the local government election, stating that no election was held in the state on Saturday. The Rivers PDP, which is loyal to the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike, denounced the poll as a futile exercise and promised to fight it in court. The Wike camp made this statement when Rivers State Governor Siminalayi Fubara swore in the newly elected council chairmen of the state’s 23 local government areas. The exercise was done on Sunday at the Executive Council Chamber…