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A group, Centre for Good Governance, CGG, yesterday, urged the Nigeria Police Force to invite former Ogun State governor, Senator Ibikunle Amosun, for questioning over his claim that the 2019 governorship election in Ogun State that brought in Governor Dapo Abiodun was allegedly rigged in his (Abiodun’s) favour and that the riggers had apologised to him (Amosun).Amosun had made the allegations while receiving an award in Abeokuta, the state capital, last Friday. In a statement…

Nigerian Aviation Handling Company, NAHCO Plc has tabled N4 billion to upgrade aging ground support equipment. This is coming even as the company disclosed that it would collaborate with the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria, FAAN and other major stakeholders to address the bottlenecks in the sub-sector. NAHCO Chairman, Seinde Fadeni, disclosed this during a dinner organised for its clients and partners in Lagos State. Fadeni agreed that there are numerous challenges limiting the growth…

Reminisce, a Nigerian rapper, has been viciously dragged online by a car dealer due to outstanding debts. Ikechukwu Darry Ogbonna, a car dealer, has come out to attack the musician for his unpaid debts. He asked what went wrong with their deal on his Instagram story saying that wasn’t their agreement. Ogbonna said the musician had been treating him like an idiot. He gave him a warning, telling him to pay up or suffer his…

JERUSALEM, Aug 7 (Reuters) – Israel’s Iron Dome interceptor has shot down 97% of Palestinian rockets it has engaged during the weekend surge of Gaza fighting, the military said, an improvement in the performance of the U.S.-backed system. First fielded in 2011, Iron Dome – which launches guided missiles to hit incoming rockets and other short-range threats mid-air – was rated as 85% successful by Israeli and U.S. defence officials. That increased to 90% in…

A lecturer at the University of Uyo, Akwa Ibom State, Christiana Pam, has revealed she now sells potatoes. She says to survive the ongoing strike of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), she is now into the petty trade of selling potatoes. On February 14, ASUU embarked on a four-week warning strike. The union extended the industrial action by another two months on March 14, to allow the government to meet all of its…

The men of the Ondo State Security Network Agency, also known as Amotekun Corps, have intercepted a truck that conveyed about 151 persons who were suspected to invaders. It was gathered that the corps made the arrest while acting on intelligence on the incursion of terrorists into the South- West of Nigeria. The suspects included five women, hidden behind beans and rice bags inside the trailers. They were intercepted around the Sango area of Akure-Ado…

Some gunmen on Thursday evening kidnapped a traditional chief in Ikare Akoko, Akoko North East Local Government Area of Ondo State, High Chief Mukaila Bello. It was gathered that Bello, who was said to be the head of Iku Quarters in the ancient community, was abducted with three other persons The other victims are Mr Adeniran Adeyemo, Mr Bashiru Adekile and Chief Gbafinro. According to a source, the victims were kidnapped along Ago Panu area…

Sultan of Sokoto Alhaji Muhammad Sa’ad Abubakar has assured 2022 Batch ‘B’ Stream 11 corps members in Sokoto State that Shari’a Law is not binding on non-Muslims in the state. He, however, assured them that their safety was guaranteed despite some security challenges facing the country. Sultan gave the assurance on Thursday in his palace when the NYSC management team in the state led by the state coordinator and some selected corps members paid him…

The Gombe State government on Tuesday declared an outbreak of the Monkeypox virus in the state after three suspected cases returned positive. The Commissioner of Health, Dr Habu Dahiru, who disclosed this to newsmen, said out of 19 suspected cases reported to the state’s Ministry of Health, three samples were found to be positive. “The three cases presented to us were having fever which lasted for more than a week despite treatment for common causes…

The police have arrested a man for allegedly murdering a mum-of-four who went missing 10 years ago. 32-year-old Claire Holland who has not been seen since she went to the Seamus O’Donnell’s pub in Bristol town centre on June 6, 2012, was captured on CCTV going into the pub and then seen leaving around 11.15pm. Claire She never went back to her home in Lawrence Weston, in north-west Bristol. Though there were several appeal campaigns…

A 41-year-old man identified as Abdulfatai Olagunju has been arraigned before an Isolo magistrates’ court, Lagos, for allegedly stealing his neighbour’s goat. Olagunju was accused of carrying out the theft in darkness after feeding the goat with a substance that prevented it from crying out. The prosecutor, Inspector M. Solomon said the owner of the goat, Murphy Chinedu, noticed that his goat was missing and therefore raised the alarm which led to the arrest of…

The police have arrested six students of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) for allegedly gang-r*ping a female student. It was gathered that one Patrick Ofosu, a 19-year-old Business Administration student said to be the boyfriend of the victim (name withheld), orchestrated the crime. Police investigations reveal that the boyfriend sent a text message to the girlfriend asking her to have s3x with him and his male friends. After she refused, he…

President Muhammadu Buhari has been ordered to immediately sack the Minister of Education, Mallam Adamu Adamu. The National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) called for the immediate sack of Adamu over his role in the ongoing strike action by the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU. ASUU had on Monday, extended its industrial action embarked upon on February 14 by another four weeks as the Federal Government is yet to meet the demands. NANS President,…

Academic activities have resumed at the Kaduna State University (KASU). This comes after the Management of the school announced the resumption of second semester of the 2020/2021 academic session for its undergraduate and post-graduate students. The school has reportedly began its second semester examination which was suspended due to the strike action by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) which commenced in February this year. Acting Vice Chancellor of Kaduna state University, Professor Abdullahi…

News reaching Naijatrends has revealed that the hotel owner (Olugbenga Owolabi), his staffer (Rachael Opadele), who was a student of Ladoke Akintola University of Technology (LAUTECH), Ogbomoso, kidnapped last Thursday at Abaa in Ogbomoso have been reportedly killed after the family allegedly paid a ransom of N5m. The okada operator who conveyed the person who took the ransom there was also shot dead in anger, while the other person is at an undisclosed receiving treatment….

How Lagosians Voted In The 2019 Presidential Election 2019 presidential election in Lagos State with voting population of 6.5 million, with crises witnessed in some parts of Lagos then, 2023 the new electoral law and awareness among youths the result will shock many. Lagosians voted for APC 580,825 and PDP 448,015 difference 132,810.  

The information is according to the latest voter statistics released by the Independent National Electoral Commission. The Independent National Electoral Commission has revealed the number of registered voters in Nigeria. It was revealed that the total number of registered voters in Nigeria may have risen from 84 million to 96.2 million. Statistics released by the Independent National Electoral Commission states that 12.2 million voters registered in the Continuous voter registration that ended on Sunday. According…

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, (JAMB), has stated that it does not decide on the uniform cut-off mark for the national Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, UTME. JAMB said cut-off marks are decided during a policy meeting constituted by all the Heads of the Institutions in attendance and chaired by the Hon. Minister of Education. Fabian Benjamin, the Head, Public Affairs and Protocol of JAMB, disclosed that institutions deliberate upon the admission guidelines from individual…

LASU vice-chancellor Prof. Ibiyemi Olatunji-Bello announced burial plans in a statement on Monday. Prof. Lateef Hussain, the late former vice-chancellor of Lagos State University (LASU) will be laid to rest on Monday at Atan Cemetery, the varsity announced on Monday. The professor of physics died on Sunday evening after a brief illness. LASU vice-chancellor Prof. Ibiyemi Olatunji-Bello announced burial plans in a statement on Monday. The statement read, “Prof. Hussein a professor of Physics was…

The restriction in other Local Government Areas, especially the frontline areas, remained from 6am to 6am. The ban placed on the movements of okada riders popularly known as motorcycles from 10pm to 6am within the city by the Kaduna state government will be reinforced by police operatives. This was contained in a statement by the command’s spokesman, Gambo Isa, on Monday in Katsina. He added that the restriction in other Local Government Areas, especially the…

  Recall that ASUU and other university based unions went on strike over alleged federal government’s failure to honour their agreements. According to DailySun, the National Executive Council, NEC, of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has held a meeting on Sunday to find a way to end the ongoing strike. The meeting in Abuja was held to decide the next line of action on its industrial action that has entered 167th day. Recall…

The lifeless bodies of four police officers who were missing after a surveillance boat conveying them was crushed by a gunboat in the state’s waterways on July 25 have been discovered. The Bayelsa State Police Command on Sunday confirmed this while stating that it is yet to establish the circumstances surrounding the unfortunate incident. The four bodies of the slain policemen were deposited at the mortuary of the Federal Medical Centre (FMC), Yenagoa. The operations…

Some primary school pupils in Osun state today July 25, staged a protest in front of the Obafemi Awolowo University campus in Ile-Ife, demanding an end to the lingering ASUU strike. Members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities ASUU have been on strike since February 14, 2022. The lecturers are demanding better funding for universities among other things. The protesting pupils carried different placards which read ”Don’t borrow our future away”, ”I am the…

President Muhammadu Buhari and Governor Seyi Makinde of Oyo State have been petitioned by the students of the Ladoke Akintola University of Technology (LAUTECH), Ogbomoso, over the kidnap of one of their colleagues. The students said that they are in pain over the abduction of one of their colleagues identified as Opadele Rachael Abiola. The students of LAUTECH, in a petition addressed to Buhari and Makinde said that Miss Abiola, a final year student of…

President of the Actors Guild of Nigeria, Emeka Rollas, has released update on the alleged kidnap of it’s two members, Cynthia Okereke and Clemson Cornel. According to Rollas, abductors of the veteran actors have requested for a ransom of $100,000. “They have made contact and they are demanding for the sum of $100,000 in ransom”, he stated. Recall that in a statement signed by the Director of Communications of the AGN, Monalisa Chinda-Coker, it was…

  Gunmen suspected to be kidnappers invaded Abaa, a community near the Ladoke Akintola University of Technology, Ogbomoso and abducted two persons. Our correspondent gathered that the gunmen stormed the community located in the Surulere Local Government Area of Oyo State on Thursday night and whisked away the victims; a hotelier and a female worker. A source identified the female worker, Rachael Opadele, as a final year student of LAUTECH. Some LAUTECH workers and students…

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A viral voice note allegedly from one of the soldiers in the Presidential Guards Brigade who were ambushed by terrorists has explained how some officers and men of the Brigade were killed by Boko Haram insurgents in the operation at Bwari/Kubwa road in Abuja. But Defence Headquarters in a swift reaction yesterday, debunked the voice note, disclosing also that the military killed at least 30 of the terrorists that launched the attack. The voice note…