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…Orders INEC to recognise Apapa-led NWC governorship candidatesThe Court of Appeal in Owerri, Imo State, on Thursday, sacked Julius Abure, and recognised Lamido Apapa as the National Chairman of the Labour Party.The court also ordered the Independent National Electoral Commission to immediately recognise and publish the names of all the governorship candidates produced by the Apapa-led National Working Committee in Imo, Bayelsa, and Kogi states.The court also dismissed the gubernatorial candidature of Senator Athan Achonu of Imo state, and others belonging to the Abure-led LP faction.More details to follow…. Do you have any information you wish to share with us?…

Following the collapse of a two-storey building on the ever-busy Lagos Street in Garki II district of Abuja at about 11:45pm on Wednesday night, the FCT Minister, Nyesom Wike, has ordered the immediate arrest of the owner of the collapsed building.Wike, who gave the order when he visited the scene of the incident on Thursday morning, applauded the ongoing rescue efforts, saying that it was unfortunate that they woke up to the very disturbing news of the building collapse.“It is not what we contemplated. Let me thank the agencies, particularly NEMA and FEMA that have supported us to rescue not…

Another Isese activist, Oluwo Of Tede, Chief Ademola Olawoore, has been arrested and detained in a correctional facility in Ilorin, Kwara State.A visibly shaken Olawoore, as he is fondly called, in a video that has since circulated on social media, was charged with defamation of character.The elderly Isese activist was arrested in Ibadan on August 19 and taken to Ilorin where he has remained in a correctional facility.Baba Tede, according to reports, was arrested for allegedly insulting a Muslim cleric simply identified as Alfa Okutagidi.His arrest came a few days after the arrest of a prominent Isese activist, Adegbola Abdulazeez,…

The Lagos State Commissioner of Police, CP, Idowu Owohunwa, has described as worrisome, a noticeable trend that showed that AK-47 rifles, other firearms were being illegally manufactured in the state.Owohunwa expressed the concern at the inauguration of the state’s Complaint Response Unit (CRU) by the acting Inspector General of Police (IGP), Kayode Egbetokun held at the command’s headquarters in Ikeja.Delivering his welcome address, Owohunwa said there was an increasing local expertise in the fabrication of various types of firearms including replicas of foreign made pistols, AK47 and other assault rifles.This trend, coupled with the threat of cultism, he said, projected…

The Minister of Works, Dave Umahi, on Thursday revealed he constructed roads that would last 50 years without maintenance while he was governor of Ebonyi State.He made the revelation in relation to the quality of roads constructed in the country saying Nigeria should have roads according to her temperature.Umahi said this while featuring on Channels Television’s Sunrise Daily on Thursday.He said, “I also noticed that some of the projects, while you are still on the roads, they have gone bad,” the former Ebonyi State governor, who was also sworn in on Monday, said.“When I was on the Abuja-Lokoja Road, I…

A two-storey plaza located at Lagos street, Garki Village in the Garki District of the nation’s capital, Abuja has collapsed.It was gathered that the building collapsed late Wednesday night amid heavy downpour.So far, 37 people have been rescued, with two of them “fatally injured” injured, emergency officials said.Two fatally injured, 37 rescued as Abuja plaza collapses pic.twitter.com/hh14Rujl7b— Vanguard Newspapers (@vanguardngrnews) August 24, 2023They said rescue operations had been slow over the night as there was no immediate access to an excavator and rescue efforts were purely manual.Confirming the development, Director General of FCT Emergency Management Agency FEMA, Dr Abbas Idriss…

I Didn’t Buy N300m Bulletproof Car As FCT MinisterThe Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, on Wednesday, frowned at the dysfunctional state of the Abuja light rail and directed the permanent secretary to complete payment to the Chinese concession company in order to conclude rehabilitation of the rails within eight months.Wike gave the ultimatum during an inspection of the Abuja Metro Station in Idu and at the Airport Station on his first assignment outside the office, less than 48 hours after the swearing-in of the 45 new ministers.He further asserted that the task of restoring the Abuja…

Directors of the Department of State Services (DSS) across the six states in the North-East geopolitical zone have asked governors of the zone to prioritise the distribution of relief materials to strengthen security gains in the insurgency-ravaged area.The request was part of the communique reached at the end of the quarterly conference held at the state headquarters of the DSS in Maiduguri, the Borno State capital.The top secret police operatives had gathered in Maiduguri to discuss the zone’s security and the role of intelligence gathering in the fight against terrorism.After the meeting, the DSS directors in the zone led by…

Between July 2022 and June 2023, 3,620 people were abducted in over 582 kidnapping incidents in the country, with a reported ransom demand of at least N5billion and an actual ransom payment of over N302million, a figure that could be higher due to underreporting.An SB Morgan intelligence report released on August 23, 2023, entitled, “The Economics of Nigeria’s Kidnap Industry: Follow the Money,” disclosed these figures.The Nigeria Police Force and the military high command – the Defence Headquarters, however, have gone silent over the heart-wrenching situation, while security experts called on the Office of the National Security Adviser currently headed…

Mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin, who was feared dead Wednesday in a plane crash near Moscow, was a Kremlin confident catapulted to infamy by Russia’s offensive in Ukraine before he turned his troops on Russia’s capital.Prigozhin’s order in June that his private fighting group march on Moscow to unseat Russia’s top brass presented the most serious challenge to President Vladimir Putin’s hold on power over more than two-decades.His forces captured a key military headquarters in the city of Rostov-on-Don in southern Russian before setting their course for Moscow, where authorities beefed up security in anticipation of a showdown.“The evil that the…