Author: Vincent Osuwo

The co-chair of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Bill Gates, has stated that Nigeria’s tax collection rates are poor, causing issues for financing important sectors such as health and education.  Gates made these remarks on Tuesday at Nutrivision 2024, a Pan-African youth nutrition dialogue in Abuja. According to The Cable, Gates replied in response to a query about prospective financing channels for large-scale public health projects. “Over time, there are plans for Nigeria to fund the government more than it does today. The actual tax collection in Nigeria is actually pretty low. “If citizens want the education and the…

The Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) has offered free legal representation to the #EndBadGovernanceInNigeria protesters with court cases across the country. The NBA president, Mazi Afam Osigwe, who announced this on his X handle on Wednesday, also directed NBA branches to monitor the legal proceedings across the country. He said, “I have directed the branches of the Nigerian Bar Association (@NigBarAssoc) to monitor the trials of the #EndBadGovernance protesters. Additionally, I have launched a pro-bono support initiative for protesters who lack legal representation. “The Nigerian Bar Association Citizens’ Liberties Committee (NBA-CLC) has been tasked with liaising closely with the Chairmen and…

No fewer than eight persons have been confirmed dead on Wednesday after two separate attacks carried out by gunmen in the Congo and Zarap communities in the Bokkos Local Government Area of Plateau State. It was discovered that one of the victims was Kenneth Kadish, a member of the Community Peace Service in Bokkos LGA, Plateau state. It was also discovered that one of the attacks occurred at 7 p.m. near the Congo community’s market, shortly after the market had closed for the day. While six people perished quickly in the Congo village, two died in the nearby Zarap community.…

Investigative journalist David Hundeyin has revealed the reason the Nigeria Police Force declared him an accomplice in the trial of whistleblower Isaac Tamunobifiri, aka PIDOM.  Hundeyin, speaking in an interview with News Central Television on Wednesday, said it was not unrelated to truth-telling in an administration that regards it as an affront, frantic attempts to involve him in a criminal investigation to discredit his international refugee status, and placing him on an Interpol notice list, among other things. The writer further alleged that in 2023, the National Intelligence Agency made many attempts to abduct him from outside for exposing the…

Chaos broke out in Ilisan Remo in Ikenne Local Government, Ogun state on Tuesday as a detachment of soldiers and police clashed with a mob of Hausa youths over their insistence on killing an army officer alleged to have been part of a two-man gang who had attacked one of them and wanted to disappear with his motorcycle. Our correspondent, who was present at the scene, reported that one of the putative thieves was clubbed and burnt to death, while the other young man, who was allegedly dressed in an army uniform, ran inside one of the buildings after being…

Four people, including a final-year Summit University student from Offa, Adebayo Happiness, were charged with the alleged murder of Awesu Mojisola, a 21-year-old graduate of the state College of Health Technology, on Tuesday at a Kwara State Chief Magistrate Court in Ilorin. Happiness allegedly murdered Mojisola on August 10, 2024, inside a room at the Whitefield Hotel in Ilorin, the capital of Kwara State, after tricking her into attending a bungled post-graduation party. Happiness was charged alongside his parents, Adebayo Adeniyi (51) and Bukola Adeniyi (49), as well as an accomplice, 24-year-old Timileyin Kolawole. They were accused in court with…

Gunmen on Tuesday night brutally murdered two vigilante members guarding the headquarters of the Isiala-Mbano Local Government Area of Imo State. Chronicle NG gathered that the gunmen also set cars parked at the council headquarters ablaze. According to an eyewitness, the gunmen stormed the secretariat around 8.30pm and shot sporadically, killing two vigilante members on duty and setting part of the council building on fire. Another eyewitness mentioned, “Two security men at Isiala-Mbano council headquarters have been shot dead. The hoodlums also set ablaze a larger portion of the council building and several vehicles parked in the premises. Many others…

Pope Francis on Wednesday called for religious unity to mitigate extremism and intolerance, as the longest tour of the 87-year-old’s papacy got into full swing in Muslim-majority Indonesia. On the first full day of his four-nation trip to the Asia-Pacific, the Pope zeroed in on the role all faiths can play on flashpoint security issues. “To foster a peaceful and fruitful harmony that ensures peace… the Church desires to strengthen interreligious dialogue. “(Extremists) through the distortion of religion attempt to impose their views by using deception and violence,” the pope said in a speech after meeting President Joko Widodo. The…

Idara Bassey, a Lagos State medical doctor who was declared wanted in connection with a 36-year-old woman’s death during a buttock augmentation procedure at a clinic in Lekki Phase 1, is currently in police custody. On Tuesday, our reporter gathered from the state police public relations officer, Benjamin Hundeyin, that Bassey is currently under investigation at the State Criminal Investigation Department in Panti. Bassey had earlier left after Abiola died from a buttock augmentation surgery at her clinic on August 26, 2024. The Brazilian Butt Lift is a cosmetic surgery technique in which fat is removed from other places of…

The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has described President Bola Tinubu as a betrayer following the astronomical hike in the pump price of petrol. The NLC and other stakeholders lambasted the Tinubu-led Federal Government in response to the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation Limited’s new pump price regime for Premium Motor Spirit, which went into effect on Tuesday. This came as key opposition parties in the country pushed President Bola Tinubu to fire the NNPCL’s management. Petrol: Labour demands reversal of hike in price, set to meet Nigerians awoke on Tuesday to find that pump prices had risen from roughly N600 to…