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APC crisis: Put God above your interest, Oshiomhole begs Giadom
Eniola Akinkuotu, Abuja The suspended National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, Adams Oshiomhole, has asked the Deputy National Secretary of the party, Victor Giadom, who declared himself acting national chairman, to put God first above his personal interest. Oshiomhole also asked Giadom to put the overall interest of the party above his. The embattled …
Judiciary groans as Buhari delays judges’ appointment
The handling of judicial appointments by the President, General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), leaves the judiciary with uncertainties, instability and avoidable burden, ADE ADESOMOJU reports If the drafters of the Nigerian Constitution envisaged a situation such as currently playing out regarding judicial appointments, they would perhaps have made a provision to have acting Supreme Court Justices. …
Atlanta policeman who shot black man charged with murder
An Atlanta police officer has been charged with murder for shooting a 27-year-old man in the back, justice officials announced Wednesday, in the latest case to spark anger over police killings of African Americans. Rayshard Brooks’ shooting came less than three weeks after a Minneapolis police officer’s killing of handcuffed African American George Floyd on …
American police not treated fairly – Trump
Donald Trump said Wednesday that US police have “not been treated fairly” and appeared to defend a white officer charged with the murder of a black man. Atlanta police officer Garrett Rolfe was charged with murder Wednesday for shooting African American Rayshard Brooks in the back, and aggravated the case by kicking the 27-year-old as …
Naira Marley as a metaphor
Joel Nwokeoma In the year 2020, while battling a plague that buffeted the world, Nigeria, under the superintendence of Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), decreed a set of regulations that, among others, barred interstate movement of people and vehicles as well as stopped local and international flights for travellers. For a people who relish revelling …
Trump begged China’s Xi for reelection help, says ex-aide
Donald Trump pleaded with China’s leader Xi Jinping for help to win re-election in 2020, the US president’s former national security advisor John Bolton writes in an explosive new behind-the-scenes book, according to excerpts published Wednesday. Bolton alleges in a blistering critique that Trump’s focus on winning a second term was the driving principle of …
Ibidun Ighodalo is in a better place – Adeboye
Kayode Oyero The General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, Pastor Enoch Adeboye, says Ibidunni, the late wife of Lagos-based preacher and founder of Trinity House, Pastor Ituah Ighodalo, is in a “better place”. The 78-year-old cleric said on Wednesday that the death of the former beauty queen was saddening and prayed that …
Nigerian leaders have still not learned
Abimbola Adelakun On Monday, the Governor of Osun State, Adegboyega Oyetola, rued the recent death of his Deputy Chief of Staff, Mikhail Jare Adebisi. In eulogising the deceased, the governor said, “We would have flown out Adebisi for treatment, but for the COVID-19 pandemic.” The startling lack of irony with which the tone-deaf governor declared …
Court sentences man to death for killing banker
Chukwudi Akasike A Rivers State High Court in Port Harcourt has sentenced one Joseph Udoh to death by hanging, for killing a banker, Pascal Nnorom. The convict, who committed the crime on May 13, 2017, along MTN Link Road in the Obio/Akpor Local Government Area of the state, was charged with murder in Suit No. …
Lagos task force arrests miscreants, cultists, impound motorcycles
Oluwatosin Omojuyigbe The Lagos State Task Force on the Environment and Special Offences (Enforcement) Unit has arrested 21 suspected miscreants and cultists and impounded 78 commercial motorcycles for engaging in illegal activities. The suspects were arrested at their hideouts in the Ogudu and Ajah areas of the state during an operation carried out by the …
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