Senegal President Dissolves National Assembly, Fixes Date For New Elections Bassirou Faye, President of Senegal has dissolved the National Assembly and scheduled new legislative elections for Nov. 17. “After consulting the Constitutional Council on the right date, the prime minister and the president of the National Assembly on the appropriateness, I dissolve the National Assembly. “ And I announce that the legislative elections holds on Nov. 17,” Faye said in a message to the nation. Inspite winning the presidential election with 54.28 per cent of the vote in March, his party, the African Patriots of Senegal for Work, Ethics and…
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Edo: Few Days To Election Court Summons Governorship Candidate Over Age Falsification The All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate for the September 21, 2024 Edo State Governorship election, Senator Monday Okpebholo, has been summoned by Chief Magistrate Court of Federal Capital Territory in the Wuse Magisterial District over forgery and perjury charge. The charge was filed by a PDP chieftain, Chief Honesty Aginbatse, following the report of discrepancies in the birth dates provided in the nomination forms Senator Okpebholo submitted to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) for the governorship election. It was reported On July 22, that Senator Okpebholo was…
EXPOSED: How Tinubu’s Minister Freed Detained Terrorist, Provided Medical Care And N3Million Sheikh Murtala Asada, an Islamic cleric from Sokoto State, has accused the Minister of State for Defence and former governor of Zamfara State Bello Matawalle of aiding the notorious terrorist Haroo. President Bola Tinubu appoints Matawalle as Minister of State for Defence on August 2, 2023. According to Asada, in a viral video clip, Haroo, who reportedly controls over 500 guns, was at the time shot in the leg and arrested but later released due to Matawalle’s intervention. Asada alleged that Matawalle called “Lamorde”, instructing him to release…
20-year-old Undergraduate Kills Female Student For Rituals The Kogi State Police Command has arrested Paul Jeremiah, 20, for the alleged murder of Damilola, a 19-year-old first-year student at the Federal University, Lafia, Kogi State. SP William Ovie Aya, the Police Public Relations Officer, confirmed Jeremiah’s arrest on Thursday in Lokoja. According to him, investigation is underway to determine the details surrounding the incident. Damilola was reported missing on September 4, 2024. Reports indicate that Jeremiah and his accomplices initially demanded a ransom of N10 million for her release. However, after receiving N400,000 from Damilola’s family, Jeremiah, said to be a…
Drama As PDP NWC Locked In Meeting Members of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) National Working Committee (NWC) are currently meeting to discuss the state of the party and the crisis rocking the Rivers State chapter. The meeting is holding at the national headquarters of the party in Abuja ahead of preparation for the National Executive Committee (NEC) meeting, later in the month. The party leaders are said to meeting to deliberate and aggregate issues to be presented before NEC. There is also the issue of the renewed hostility between the Governor of Rivers State, Siminalayi Fubara, and the Federal…
BREAKING: Explosion Rocks Ebonyi, Kills Couple Gas explosion has killed a woman identified simply as Chioma and her husband, George, in Abakiliki, the Ebonyi state capital. The spokesperson of Ebonyi State Police Command, DSP Joshua Ukandu, disclosed this to journalists on Thursday in Abakiliki. This came following speculations in some quarters that the duo died as a result of dynamite or inverter battery explosion. Chioma was said to have died five days after the explosion while the husband succumbed to injuries sustained from the blast on Wednesday in the hospital. Ibom Focus learnt that the explosion happened a few days…
Sowore Blasts Tinubu Govt For Pursuing Him While Ignoring Wanted Yahaya Bello, Terrorists, Fixes Date To Return To Nigeria Despite Being Wanted Prominent human rights activist and convener of #RevolutionNow movement, Omoyele Sowore, has lambasted Nigeria’s secret police, Department of State Services (DSS), for issuing a directive for his arrest on his arrival in Nigeria. Sowore, a former presidential candidate of the African Action Congress (AAC), said it is unfortunate that President Bola Tinubu’s administration has demonstrated inability to track and arrest terrorists, bandits and kidnappers terrorising the country but has been effective in hunting down those calling for good…
BREAKING: Boko Haram Commanders Escape As Flood Collapses Prison Not fewer than 200 inmates have escaped after a devastating flood pulled down a prison wall in Maiduguri, the Borno State capital. An official of the Nigerian Correctional Center in Maiduguri told SaharaReporters on Tuesday that over 200 inmates escaped from the facility after a portion of the facility’s parameter fence was pulled down in the aftermath of the flood that ravaged the city on Tuesday. The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, disclosed that some Boko Haram commanders held at the Maiduguri New Prison were among those who escaped.…
JUST IN: Tinubu Makes U-turn, Introduces Fuel At N230 Per Litre In a strategic move to reduce fuel costs and provide Nigerians with an affordable alternative to petrol and diesel, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has made Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) available for vehicles at N230 per litre. This initiative offers a cheaper and cleaner alternative to petrol, which currently sells for over N900 per litre, reflecting the President’s commitment to lowering the cost of living and alleviating the pressures of fuel subsidy removal. The Presidential Compressed Natural Gas Initiative (PCNGi), launched under President Tinubu’s directive, aims to deliver wide-reaching benefits…
‘Fela Died Early For Not Minding His Business’ – Portable Blows Hot Controversial Nigerian singer, Portable has blamed the late Afrobeats pioneer and activist, Fela Anikulapo-Kuti, for his own death. Portable shaded Fela during his latest podcast with media personality, Quincy Jonze on the ‘Echoo Room’. In a now trending interview on social media, the singer insisted that Fela died early because he did not mind his business. Also, reacting to his online feud with rapper Zlatan Ibile, Portable referred to him as the devil who caused the misunderstanding between him and Davido. “According to what we were told, if…