Author: Kwara Reporters

• Says PDP reconciliation committee can’t go farFormer Deputy National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Chief Olabode George,said yesterday that there were chances that party’s presidential flag bearer in the 2023 election,Alhaji Atiku Abubakar would have failed as president if he had won at the polls.He said Atiku’s emergence as president in 2023 would have created many problems for the country including unstable polity.Fielding questions on Arise Television, George said the PDP is crisis ridden today because of the choice of Atiku as its presidential candidate at a time the party also had its chairman (Iyorchia Ayu) from…

The Supreme Court has upheld the election of Douye Diri, Ahmed Usman Ododo and Hope Uzodimma as the validly elected governors of Bayelsa, Kogi and Imo states, respectively.The apex court in separate judgments yesterday in Abuja dismissed the appeals brought before it by their opponents.In Bayelsa State, the governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress APC, Timipre Sylvia, and his party lost their appeal against Diri.In the lead judgment delivered by Justice Garba Lawal, the apex court held that Sylvia and APC’s appeal was not only lacking merit but also a gross abuse of court process.The unanimous decision of the…

President Bola Tinubu has vowed to invoke his constitutional powers to continue to equip, arm and empower the Nigerian military.He acknowledged “the importance of strategic leadership in addressing the complex security and development challenges” confronting Nigeria.According to a statement signed by the Senior Special Assistant to The President on Media & Communications (Office of The Vice President), Stanley Nkwocha, on Friday, President Tinubu made the vow on Friday during the graduation ceremony of the Course 32 participants at the National Defence College Abuja.Represented by Vice President Kashim Shettima at the event, the President decried the state of infrastructure at the…

President Bola Ahmed Tinubu yesterday swore in Justice Kudirat Kekere-Ekun as the acting Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN) with a charge to always strive to defend the independence of the judiciary. The president who described Kekere-Ekun as a “beacon of hope for young women that are aspiring to break the glass ceiling and make meaning impact on our society”, noted that the Supreme Court was key to the evolution of the country’s constitutional democracy. Tinubu said this shortly after performing the swearing-in ceremony of Kekere-Ekun as the Acting Chief Justice of Nigeria pending her confirmation by the Senate. The president said, “I encourage…

Security sources say 20 medical students who were kidnapped in Benue State have just been rescued.The operation was coordinated by the office of the National Security Adviser.Security agencies – the police, DSS and military personnel and equipment were involved in the operation, with the support of the Benue State government.Though the student have regained their freedom according to security sources, details of the rescue operation are still sketchy at the moment.News of the abduction of the students hit the media space last Friday, attracting reactions from Nigerians who condemned the rising rate of kidnapping in the country.The victims were said…

The Federal Government has insisted that it would continue construction of the 700km Lagos-Calabar Coastal Highway despite ongoing court cases filed by aggrieved persons against the project.The Minister of Works, David Umahi, stated this at a press briefing on Thursday in Abuja while addressing serious concerns about the project’s procurement process that led to court proceedings by landowners.He stated that the N15.36tn coastal highway, which will be built on concrete pavement, received all necessary legal and procedural requirements before it commenced construction.The coastal highway has been a subject of public scrutiny and controversies since the government commenced construction in March…

The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has seized three petrol tankers used to convey edible vegetable oil in Lagos State. In a post on X on Wednesday, the agency said the oil had reportedly been trans-loaded into the tankers from an edible oil depot.“Concerned about the potential health risks due to chemical contamination from the tankers’ previous use for transporting petrol, NAFDAC officials escorted the tankers to a processing facility in Sango-Ota.“The crude soy oil was then handed over to the Southwest Zonal Office of NAFDAC for further regulatory action,” the agency stated.In an attached video…

The Zhongshang Fucheng Industrial Investment Ltd, a Chinese firm involved in the controversial seizure of three Nigerians aircrafts in France and other assets in some other countries, has seized another Nigeria’s jet in Canada.This is coming on the heels of seizure of three presidential aircraft by a French court in favour of Zhongshan Fucheng, over a dispute with the Ogun State Government.The company later said that it had decided to release one of the three aircraft as a gesture of goodwill, especially on a scheduled meeting between President Bola Tinubu and his French counterpart, Emmanuel Macron. Tinubu, on Monday, travelled to…

Activist lawyer, Madubuachi Idam, on Thursday said Nigerian laws frown at a woman getting 50 percent of her husband’s properties during divorce.Idam warned that women who push their husbands into court marriage with the intent of sharing his properties during divorce should know that such is alien to the Nigerian law.In a chat with the press, the lawyer noted that the spouse would be made to provide evidence of contributing towards the acquisition of such a property.According to Idam: “The law that awards 50% or any percentage of a man’s property to his wife during divorce is strange to the…

A Coroner’s Court in the Ikorodu area of Lagos State has ordered substituted service on key witnesses in the ongoing inquest into the death of singer Ilerioluwa Aloba, aka MohbadThese include Azeez Fashola aka Naira Marley; Samson Eletu aka Sam Larry; Mohbad’s sister-in-law, Karimot Ogunbayo; Boluwatife Adeyemo aka Darosha and Mohbad’s lawyer, Oluwasanmi Falade.The nurse who was said to have treated the deceased during the period, Feyisayo Ogedengbe, and the driver who drove him to the hospital, Fidelis Esanbor, were also on the list.Magistrate T. A. Sotobi granted the application by Mohbad’s father, Joseph Aloba, to serve a witness summons…