Day: November 3, 2024

Champion Newspapers’ First Female Editor, Ngozi Anyaegbunam, Is Dead

Precious Ibekwe

“How female print journalist-interviewer of two sitting Presidents of Nigeria died,” son gives details of the last moment of the late author of the book Waziri Ibrahim: Politics Without Bitterness   The first female editor of the Champion newspapers, Dr Ngozi Fidelia Anyaegbunam, is dead. His son, Mr. Rocky C Agbese, who confirmed this in a statement to Platforms Africa, maintained that Anyaegbunam died after a brief illness. ‘No River? No Palaver,’ 10 Countries With No Single River ‘No Plane? No Problem,’ 5 Countries Without Airport And How To Reach Them…

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Group Gives Tinubu 48 Hours To Release ‘Hungry, Malnourished Children’, Others

Ganiyu Amodu

The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project has urged President Bola Tinubu to use his “leadership position and good offices to direct the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice Mr Lateef Fagbemi, SAN to take urgent steps to ensure the immediate and unconditional release of all the #EndBadGovernance protesters including the 32 hungry and malnourished children”. The group made the demand in an open letter dated November 2, 2024 and signed by its Deputy Director, Kolawole Oluwadare. The open letter, made available to the media on Sunday and…

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Court Jails Female ‘Professor’ For Impersonating Daughter During UTME

Ganiyu Amodu

Chief Magistrate Court in Wuse Zone 2, Abuja, has sentenced ‘Professor’ Jide Josiah Jisos to six months in prison for impersonation during the 2019 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination ,UTME. The convict was apprehended by officials of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board ,JAMB,while monitoring the 2019 UTME at Brix Academy in Abuja. The board which confirmed this in a statement, Sunday, by its spokesman, Fabian Benjamin, said ‘Prof.’ Jisos had presented himself to JAMB examination officials as a representative of a non-governmental Organisation,NGO, claiming he was there to oversee the…

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NNPCL Truck Driver Arrested For Diverting 10,000 Litres Of Petrol

Ganiyu Amodu

The operatives of the Osun State Command of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) have arrested a Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL) truck driver, Afeez Adegbola, for allegedly diverting 10,000 litres of petrol belonging to the company. The State Commandant of the NSCDC, Igbalawole Sotiyo, disclosed this while parading the suspect and his two motor boys in Osogbo, the Osun State capital, on Saturday, November 2, 2024. Sotiyo said the suspects were arrested with the NNPCL truck at about 8:21 p.m. on Friday. The NSCDC commandant revealed…

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‘No River? No Palaver,’ 10 Countries With No Single River

ADEOLA YUSUF

Citizens of countries with abundance of river water flock to these nations that have none in a way that may have rendered useless the principle of water for development. Here is the miracle of 10 and how they cope with ‘riverlessness’! Call them riverless and you won’t be wrong. Countries like Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, and Vatican function, relying on alternative sources of water supply. Here are 10 countries without rivers from around the WORLD and how they source for alternatives to make up for their lack of even…

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The Next Of Kin, By Funke Egbemode

Ganiyu Amodu

Rose is one of the women who suddenly became a widow as a result of the November 1996 crash of an ADC aircraft that plunged into the Ejirin swamps on its way from Port Harcourt. She was in her late 20s then and had a three-year-old son in the kindergarten. Two years after the unfortunate accident that made her a widow, Rose found herself alone, with an almost uncertain future. Even though her husband died while returning from an official assignment, his employers could not hand over his entitlements to…

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Presidency Speaks As Nepotism Allegation Rocks Tinubu’s Appointment

Abibat Babalola

The Presidency has denied the allegation that the current administration is favouring the South West at the expense of other regions in terms of appointments in the security sector. After the appointment of Major General Olufemi Oluyede as Acting Chief of Army Staff, many persons, especially on Social Media, accused President Bola Tinubu of “Yorubanisation”, a term which losely interprets as favouring the Yoruba. Oluyede was appointed to stand in for General Tahoreed Lagbaja, Chief of Army Staff, who has been away from the country treating an undisclosed ailment. Some…

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Libya Begins Mass Arrest Of Nigerians After CAF Verdict

Abibat Babalola

Following the verdict delivered by the Confederation of African Football in response to the complaint lodged by the Nigeria Football Federation over the recent inhumane treatment meted out to the Super Eagles in Libya, members of the Nigerian community have reported mass arrests and fines in the country. The Nigerian football team was held at the Al-Abraq Airport in eastern Libya for over 20 hours upon arrival for the second leg of the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations qualifier between the Super Eagles and Libya’s national team. The contingent was…

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‘Rumble In The Jungle,’ Tale of Ali Vs Foreman Cracker That ‘Brought Kinshasha On World Map’ 

Ganiyu Amodu

‘Role Mobutu Sese Seko played,’ How D.R. Congo commemorated 50th anniversary of the greatest sporting event of the 20th century in Africa watched by millions of viewers worldwide on October 30, 1974.   Judex Tshipanda, 71, sits on a wall outside this Kinshasa’s Tata Raphaël Stadium, recalling the day that has gone down as one of the most memorable in this central African country’s history. On Oct. 30, 1974, Muhammad Ali fought heavyweight boxing champion George Foreman in an eight-round match — and emerged victorious after he knocked his opponent…

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Ex-Delta Deputy Governor, Amos Utuama, Dies At 77

Ganiyu Amodu

Former deputy governor of Delta State, Professor Amos Utuama, has died at the age of 77. Utuama, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN) who was born on June 5, 1947, died early Saturday in Lagos. Utuama was deputy to former governor Emmanuel Uduaghan. Before that, he was the Commissioner for Justice and Attorney-General of Delta State under the administration of former governor James Ibori. Before his foray into politics, Prof. Utuama was a well-respected lecturer at the Faculty of Law, University of Lagos. Post-Election Violence Looms In US EPL: How…

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