Ooni Is Not My Father – Son Makes U-Turn A middle-aged man who claimed in a viral video that he is a son of the Ooni of Ife, Oba Enitan Ogunwusi, has finally apologised to the foremost traditional ruler. In the first video, the man claimed the monarch hid him with his mother with an instruction that he should stay discreet. “Oba Enitan Ogunwunsi is my father. He hid me with my mother with a clear instruction that I must not reveal myself,” the man dressed in a white Agbada had claimed in Yoruba. He further claimed that the monarch’s…
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Enough Is Enough, APC Sends Strong Warning To Governor Fubara Over Rivers Crisis The All Progressives Congress (APC) has stated that Governor Siminalayi Fubara of Rivers State was wrong to declare the state House of Assembly as nonexistent. In a press statement dated May 10, 2024 issued by Felix Morka, the party’s national publicity secretary said was the governor’s argument that the 27 state lawmakers who defected from Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to APC had lost the seats did not conform with constitutional provision. The statement reads: “Confounded by the disturbing missteps of its Governor in Rivers state, the Peoples…
JUST IN: Armed Policemen Take Over Rivers House Of Assembly Quarters Operatives of the Nigeria Police Force on Friday took over some quarters of the Rivers State House of Assembly amid the unrest between the state governor, Siminalayi Fubara, and the 27 lawmakers loyal to the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike. It was gathered that the police took over all the entrances to the House of Assembly quarters located along the Aba Road, Port Harcourt, the state capital. According, It was found that both the first and second gates to the lawmakers’ estate were safeguarded by about…
BREAKING: Fresh Crisis Looms As Gov Fubara Issues Executive Order Relocating Rivers Assembly To Govt House Rivers State Governor, Siminalayi Fubara has issued an executive order to temporarily relocate the sitting of the State House of Assembly to the Auditorium of the Administrative section of Government House, Port Harcourt. The governor hinged the relocation on the burning of the hallowed chambers of the State Assembly last year by suspected hoodlums. Ibom Focus had reported that a high court sitting in Port Harcourt, on Friday restrained 25 members of Rivers State House of Assembly from parading themselves as lawmakers. Justice Charles…
Kidnappers Who Killed 6-Year-old Boy After Demanding N10m Arrested Two suspected kidnappers, Mukhtar Mohammed, 20, and Husseini Suleiman, 20, have been arrested for allegedly kidnapping and killing a six-year-old victim in Adamawa State. Mohammed and Suleiman allegedly kidnapped the kid, Ebuka Edwin at Tudun Wada village in the Ganye local government area of the state and killed him after collecting N152,000 for his feeding, according to a statement by the police. The spokesperson for the Adamawa State command, SP Suleiman Nguroje confirmed the incident in a statement on Friday in Yola, the state capital. “Adamawa State Police Command, On 08/05/2024…
BREAKING: Watch: Many Causalities As Detained Soldiers Break Out Of ‘Cells’ To Protest Poor Feeding, Others A soldier identified as Lcpl Charles Ekefure with 17NA/76/1660 has been reportedly shot following complaints by some detained soldiers who broke out of their cells (guardrooms) in Sokoto State. The incident occurred on Thursday at the 8 Division of the Nigerian Army in Sokoto amid the soldiers’ clamour for better food and improved living conditions. It was learnt that the soldiers had demanded to speak to Major General Mutkut Godwin, the GOC 8 Division, Nigerian Army. A source said on Friday that over 100…
BREAKING: Rivers Crisis: Court Bars Amaewhule, Others From Parading As Lawmakers A Rivers State High Court, sitting in Port Harcourt, on Friday, stopped Hon. Martin Chike Amaewhule from parading himself as Speaker of the Rivers State House of Assembly. The court gave the order after considering a motion to the effect that his seat had been declared vacant. The presiding Judge of High Court 19, His Lordship, Hon. Justice Charles N. Wali, while ruling on a motion ex parte brought before it by the new factional Speaker of the House, Hon. Victor Oko Jumbo and 2 others, also barred 24…
Wanted Yahaya Bello Finally Agrees With EFCC Former governor of Kogi State, Yahaya Bello, on Friday, finally agreed to submit himself to the Federal High Court in Abuja for arraignment on June 13 in the corruption charges against him. Bello’s lead counsel, Abdulwahab Mohammed gave the undertaking to Justice Emeka Nwite on Friday shortly after the request for suspension of trial by the defendant was rejected by the court. The senior lawyer claimed that the former governor was not afraid of arraignment but safety of his life in the hands of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, in Abuja.…
Nigerian Govt Deploys Hunters Into Forests As Bandits Flee With Abducted Students The Kogi State Government on Friday deployed hundreds of local hunters into the bush on the trail of bandits that invaded and abducted university students on Thursday night. The invaders had abducted an unspecified number of students of Confluence University of Science and Technology (CUSTEC), Osara, Okene after storming the institution and trapping the students in their classes. Nine students were abducted in the invasion. Mr Kingsley Fanwo, the State Commissioner for Information, told newsmen in Lokoja that the combined effort is to rescue the abducted students. He…
BREAKING: Court Blasts Wanted Yahaya Bello, Refuses To Vacate Arrest Warrant Against Ex-Governor Justice Emeka Nwite of the Federal High Court in Abuja has refused to set aside the order of warrant of arrest issued on April 17, against Kogi State’s former governor, Yahaya Bello. Justice Nwite gave the order on Friday while ruling on an application by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) that the court should not hear any preliminary objection by the former governor until he appears in court to take a plea on 19 counts of fraud filed against him. Bello had also filed an…