Month: February 2023

Enugu East Senatorial Candidate Assassinated 72 Hrs To Election

ADEOLA YUSUF

Labour Party chairman gives blow-by-blow account of how the gunmen struck, killed and burnt corpse of the politician   The Labour Party (LP), Enugu State chapter, has confirmed the gruesome murder of Oyibo Chukwu, the Senatorial candidate of the party for Enugu East Senatirial district. Mr Casmir Agbo, State Chairman of the party, confirmed this on Thursday in a telephone interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Enugu. “It’s true my brother. Just yesterday evening. It’s a terrible situation,” he said. READ ALSO: BREAKING: Biafra Separatist Leader, Simon…

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BREAKING: Biafra Separatist Leader, Simon Ekpa, Arrested

ADEOLA YUSUF

How threats of no elections in Nigeria landed Ekpa in trouble in Finland   The Finnish Police has arrested Biafra Separatist Leader, Simon Ekpa over his threats of no elections in Nigeria. Ekpa has threatened that any person in the South-Eastern Part of the Nigeria that tries to participate or vote in the 2023 General Elections scheduled to hold on Saturday Feb. 25th will be ruthlessly dealt with. READ ALSO: Minister, NUPRC Boss Divided Over Nigeria’s Oil Revenue Losses Kanu Released Not Acquitted, Nigerian Govt On Court Order About IPOB…

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Minister, NUPRC Boss Divided Over Nigeria’s Oil Revenue Losses

ADEOLA YUSUF

… Theft, pipeline vandalism responsible for volumes of crude oil losses – Sylva … No, metering error is responsible for Nigeria’s huge oil revenue losses – Komolafe   Nigeria’s minister of state for petroleum Resources, Timipre Sylva, and chief executive of the Nigerian Upstream Regulatory Commission (NUPRC), Gbenga Komolafe, have sharply divided over major factor responsible for crude losses in the country. Komolafe in a document presented at one of major industry events in Nigeria said that measurement inaccuracies is a major factor for huge looses suffered by Nigeria in…

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Buhari performs Groundbreaking of Oloibiri Museum, as Industry stakeholders power project

ADEOLA YUSUF

The groundbreaking of Oloibiri Museum and Research Centre (OMRC) was performed on Tuesday by President Muhammadu Buhari, an event that attracted leaders of the Nigerian oil and industry who made firm commitments to the execution and sustenance of the project. President Buhari was represented by the Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Chief Timipre and was accompanied by the Group Chief Executive Officer (GCEO) of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited, Mr. Mele Kolo Kyari, the Executive Secretary of the Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB), Engr. Simbi Kesiye…

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EFCC. Nigeria’s corruption headquarters under convicted Chairman – Kogi

ADEOLA YUSUF

The Kogi State Government has called the Nigerian public’s attention to what it described as the ridicule the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has made of the fight against corruption in Nigeria with its “disgraceful fixation on the State in the pursuit of desperate political interests of its Chairman, Abdulrasheed Bawa and his godfathers.” The Commissioner for Information and Communications in the state, Kingsley Fanwo, said in a statement on Wednesday that Bawa had shown, like many honourable Civil Society Organisations had pointed out, that his mandate at the EFCC…

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We Are Comfortable With Adebule – CAN At Meeting With Lagos West Candidate

ADEOLA YUSUF

God will deliver Nigeria, give us greater Lagos – CAN Chairman   Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) has declared that it was comfortable with the candidature of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Senatorial candidate for Lagos West, Dr. Idiat Oluranti Adebule. CAN Chairman for Lagos State, Bishop Stephen Adegbite, who said this at a meeting between Adebule and Christian community on Monday, declared that the former deputy governor of Lagos was the only candidate for West Senatorial District that has sought and had an audience with the body of Christ…

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Supreme Court Fixes March 3 For Judgement On Naira Swap Suit

ADEOLA YUSUF

The Supreme Court has fixed March 3, 2023, for judgement in the naira redesign suit filed by Zamfara, Kogi and Kaduna state governments. Dissatisfied with the decision of the Federal Government to phase out N500 and N1000 notes, some governors had headed for the apex court, which restrained the Federal Government from implementing the February 10 deadline for swapping the old naira notes with the new ones. However, the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) governor, Godwin Emefiele, said there was no need to shift the deadline. President Muhammadu Buhari had…

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Another 6.4-Magnitude Earthquake Hits Southern Turkey

ADEOLA YUSUF

A 6.4-magnitude earthquake was recorded on Monday in Turkey’s southern province of Hatay, the hardest hit by a February 6 tremor which left more than 41,000 dead in the country, the disaster response agency AFAD said. The quake hit the town of Defne at 8:04 pm (1704 GMT) and was strongly felt by AFP teams in Antakya and Adana, 200 kilometres (300 miles) to the north. An AFP journalist reported scenes of panic, adding that the new tremors raised clouds of dust in the devastated town. The walls of badly…

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Fundraiser Launched By Newcastle Fans To Construct School In Ghana As Tribute To Christian Atsu

ADEOLA YUSUF

ENGLISH Premier League club Newcastle United (Magpies) fans have started a fundraiser in honour of the late Christian Atsu – with a supporters group hoping to finish the former winger’s project of building a new school in Ghana. The former Magpies and Chelsea winger, 31, was confirmed to have died under the rubble of the devastating earthquake that has hit Turkey and Syria – with tributes pouring in from his old clubs. Newcastle observed a minute’s silence for Atsu before their 2-0 defeat to Liverpool on Saturday at an emotionally…

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