Day: August 25, 2022

Kenyan Tribes Sue Britain £168bn For Colonial Era Rape, Torture

Ganiyu Amodu

Two tribes in Kenya have filed a law case against the United Kingdom at the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) over alleged abuses in the final decades of British colonial rule. According to BBC, the Kenyan tribes – the Talai and Kipsigis demanded £168 billion and an apology for crimes linked to a ‘land grab’ in Kericho, a western area of Kenya which grows tea for some of the world’s biggest producers. British colonial administrators are reported to have overseen the forced eviction of the clans from fertile ancestral…

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23 Year-Old Mother Sells Her 3 Week-Old Baby For ₦600,000

Abibat Babalola

How We discovered, Arrested Suspect With Accomplice – Ogun Police A 23 years old lady, Mary Olatayo has been arrested by the operatives of Ogun state Police Command for selling her three weeks old baby at the rate of six hundred thousand naira. The suspect, as confirmed by the Command spokesperson, SP Abimbola Oyeyemi was arrested on 18th of August, 2022 following a complaint from the father of the baby, who reported at Mowe divisional headquarters that, he met Mary Olatayo sometimes ago and they started dating each other. The…

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BREAKING: Wike Meets Atiku in London Hours After Talks With Tinubu

Damilola Olonade

    Ayu must go, Ministerial slots, no corruption trial, Succesor’s electoral success; long list of demands by Rivers Governor who has decided to go with highest bidder   Presidential candidate of the Nigeria’s opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, has met with the governor of Rivers state, Nyesom Wike,  in London about 24 hours after the later met with Bola Ahmed Tinubu. Tinubu, the candidate of All Progressives Congress (APC), Platforms Africa reports, is in a make or mar contest with Atiku for the number ine seat in…

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Marginal Field, Discretional Oil Blocks Allocation Era Gone – NNPC, NUPRC

ADEOLA YUSUF

Kyari appraises NNPC’s PSCs renewal deals with Shell, Chevron , ExxonMobil   The oil sector regulator and government operator on Thursday officially declared the era of marginal fields and discretional oil blocks allocation gone in Nigeria. The Chief Executive, Nigeria Upstream Petroleum Regulatory Commission (NUPRC), Gbenga Komolafe, and the Chief Executive Officer of the NIgerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPC), Mallam Mele Kyari, unanimously said this at the 2022 Strategic International Annual Conference organised by the National Associaton of Energy Correspondents (NAEC) in Lagos. READ ALSO: Nigeria Eyes $500bn, Renews…

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Babangida, Abdulsalami, Dogara, Babachir Meet over Tinubu-Shettima Ticket

Aliyu Aliyu

Former Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, and immediate past Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Babachir Lawal, have met with former Military President, General Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida, and former Head of State, General Abdusalami Abubakar, in Minna, Niger State. The duo, accompanied by former Deputy Governor of Kogi State, Simon Achuba, met separately with the two former military leaders on Monday. The meeting was in continuation of their consultation with key national and political leaders on their rejection of the Muslim-Muslim presidential and vice presidential ticket…

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Female Pastor, 10 Others Arrested For Murder of Oro Worshipper In Lagos

Gbenga Adeoti

Police spokesman confirms arrest, gives details of Christians, Oro worshippers clash in Nigeria’s commercial capital A female cleric was among 10 persons that were arrested at the scene of a clash between Oro worshippers and Christians in Lagos for alleged murder and disturbance of public peace. One person was killed, while 10 were seriously injured at Oko-Oba area of Lagos State Tuesday when some traditional “Oro’’ worshipers and some faithful of another doctrine clashed. Lagos State Police Command spokesman, SP Benjamin Hundeyin, who confirmed the incident on Wednesday, stated that…

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Atiku Frets, Off to London to Meet Wike, Counter Tinubu

Precious Ibekwe

Ayu’s camp Jittery, Believes PDP National Chairman May be Sacrificed Atiku Abubakar presidential candidate of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), seems to have chosen reality over pride, believed to have stood in his way to reaching a truce with Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike over the issues relating to the 2023 presidential election. The former Vice President, would be meeting with the governor in a matter of hours this Thursday, to counter a move by his All Progressives Congress (APC) counterpart, Asiwaju Ahmed Bola Tinubu to recruit Wike into his fold.…

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BREAKING: Niger Delta ex-Amnesty Boss, Charles Dokubo, Is Dead

Efe Wellington

Charles Dokubo, 70, former Chairman of the Presidential Amnesty Programme (PAP), has died, two years after he was fired by President Muhammadu Buhari from his job. Details of the incident is still sketchy, but the former Amnesty boss, was born in Abonnema, Akuku Toru Local Government Area of Rivers State on the 23rd of March 1952, who was fired in August 2020, over a burning controversy in the agency, was said to have died after a brief illness on Wednesday evening. Dokubo, who had his primary and Secondary School education in Abonnema,…

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Angola’s Ruling Party In Early Lead To Extend 47-Year Rule

ADEOLA YUSUF

Opposition kicks over results coming in for the MPLA, a party in power since Angola gained independence from Portugal in 1975   Ballot counting was underway in Angola on Thursday in a tense atmosphere after provisional results from a parliamentary election gave the ruling former Marxist party a strong lead and the opposition dismissed them as unreliable. Election officials said in the early hours of Thursday that preliminary results from Wednesday’s election showed the People’s Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA), in power for nearly five decades, had garnered…

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ASUU Floats Indefinite Strike, Varsity Resumption Date Now ‘Uncertain’

Efe Wellington

“None of the [ASUU] branches, including the University of Abuja, voted for anything other than an indefinite strike.”   Most of the 123 branches of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) have completed their congresses and the proposal for an indefinite strike would be ratified and adopted at ASUU National Executive Council (NEC) meeting on 28 August. The Lagos-based The Nation newspaper, which reported this quoted sources in ASUU to have confirmed this. READ ALSO: ASUU Has Been On Strike for 1,744 Days in 16 Years — Report ASUU NEC Decides…

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