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Tragedy struck on Sunday on Olu Aboderin Street, Onipetesi, Lagos State, as one of the bullets unleashed by some Anti-cultism Squad of the Nigerian Police operatives struck a boy watching the Liverpool vs Totteham match. . . According to an eye witness account, the officers had come to the area to arrest a guy on dreadlocks. He alleged that they started shooting sporadically after the arrest, only for one of the bullets to hit the boy. The victim was subsequently rushed to the General Hospital in Ikeja, where he was confirmed dead. When contacted, the state Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Bala Elkana, said the situation was under control. He said: “We received the report and have mobilised our teams to arrest the situation. The state Commissioner of Police has ordered an investigation into the incident.”

Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), has stated that he will challenge the court order directing his arrest in the United Kingdom. Kanu, who is facing trial alongside other Biafran activists for alleged treason, had gone into hiding months after his bail only to reappear in Israel after one year. He then moved to the UK. The Federal High Court in Abuja had revoked the bail granted Kanu in 2017, after his continued absence in court. Binta Nyako, justice of the court, also issued an arrest warrant against the IPOB leader, citing the continued absence of the IPOB leader in court. Reacting, the IPOB leader tackled the federal government over his prosecution, insisting he is innocent of the accusations against him. Speaking during a broadcast on Radio Biafra, Kanu said he has instructed his lawyers to challenge the arrest warrant in a UK court. “The revocation of my bail will never ever hold; they can never convict us because we have done nothing

The Minister of Defence, Brigadier-General Mansur Dan-Ali (rtd) at the weekend attributed Nigeria's declining participation in global peace-keeping operations to the country's concentration of military assets on the war against insurgency in the North-east. The minister's position came as the Multinational Joint Taskforce (MNJTF) decimated a notorious Boko Haram commander and 15 others in ongoing clearance operations in the Lake Chad Basin. Speaking at the United Nations Peace-keeping Ministerial Meeting on Uniformed Capabilities Performance and Protection of Civilians at UN Headquarters in New York, the minister said Nigeria's participation in peacekeeping operations had declined as a result of the country's commitment to the war against insurgency. "Nigeria’s participation in UN Peacekeeping has declined significantly of recent, mainly due to her commitment to the war on insurgency in the North-eastern part of the country and    sub

*Gets North-west's backing, North-central kicks At last, after a long time of widespread speculations, the Majority Leader, House of Representatives, Hon. Femi Gbajabiamila representing Surulere I federal constituency, Lagos State on the All Progressives Congress (APC) platform, has declared interest in contesting the speakership of the 9th assembly, but there are indications that he would still need to contest against the incumbent Speaker, Hon. Yakubu Dogara, who defeated him in the 2015 race. There are however indications that just as in 2015, his 2019 ambition is still faced with antagonism from various camps among lawmakers in the assembly, particularly lawmakers from the North-Central who are protesting that they are better positioned to take the Speaker seat. Gbajabiamila, in an elaborate event held at the Lagos-Osun Hall, Transcop Hilton Hotel, Abuja, on Sunday joined the leagues of the Chairman, House Committee on Aviation, Hon. Nkeiruka Onyejeoc

The Oba-elect of Ikeja community in Lagos State, Alhaji Samsondeen Adeleye, has raised the alarm over a plot by his detractors to get him arrested and detained under a trumped-up charge so as to prevent his installation by the outgoing administration of Governor Akinwumi Ambode. The monarch-in-waiting, in a chat with journalists at the weekend, accused one of his siblings of contriving an allegation bothering on land grabbing against him, noting that apart from lands jointly sold by their royal family, he had never single-handedly sold any land to anyone. “My detractor in the family had connived with some powerful people in the police circles to get me arrested for illegally selling a land which I know nothing. “I gathered that they will at any moment invite me to the Police Criminal Investigation Department at Alagbon, Lagos, from where I will be transferred to Abuja to prevent me from becoming the Oba of Ikeja. “They said they would arrest me in respect o

A professor of Social Psychology at the University of Ibadan, Peter Olapegba, has said Nigeria and Nigerians have been victims of 'serial rape' by the political class since independence. Olapegba, who is the Secretary of Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) in the university, said the consequences of the serial rape has been mindless looting which has created abject poverty, massive unemployment, chronic under-funding of education, insurgency and terrorism. He stated this while delivering the 447th inaugural lecture of the university titled: ‘That I May Know’. The lecturer noted that the worrisome dimension of the rape of the country by the political class is the rape of the mind, stating that 'rape of minds' of Nigerians by the political class has made the victims of economic rape to be fighting one another defending their oppressors, including university professors. Olapegba then blamed Nigerians for voting based on sentiments rat

  A report by Steve Hanke, an economist from John Hopkins University in Baltimore, United States, has listed Nigeria, Venezuela, Iran, Brazil and others among the first 10 miserable countries in the world with Nigeria assuming the sixth position. According to the report, Venezuela was listed as the most miserable country in the world, saying: “Venezuela holds the inglorious title of the most miserable country in the world in 2018, as it did in 2017, 2016, and 2015.” Reacting to the recent report, the main opposition party, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), yesterday described Steve Hanke’s report as a vindication of its position all this while, adding that the country has sunk into a new low since President Muhammadu Buhari assumed power in 2015. Iran took third in the ranking while Brazil made it to the fourth position. Turkey took fifth position as the giant of Africa, Nigeria, emerged sixth. The Misery Index was calculated using economic indices, inc

The Association of Christian Theologians (ACTS) on Sunday condemned the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) over its claim that its last week visit to Aso Rock Villa to congratulate President Muhammadu Buhari on his re-election, was done on behalf of Nigerian Christians. The ACTS in a statement issued by its National President, Prof. Olakunle Macaulay, declared that those who visited Aso Rock on the platform of CAN “were church leaders and not Christian leaders.” The theologians’ body stated: “CAN does not in any way represent the interest of Christianity in Nigeria. The presence of some Christian religious leaders in Aso Rock to congratulate President Buhari on his re-election at the last presidential election, on behalf of all Christians in Nigeria, was a misrepresentation. “Christianity is more than ‘churchism’. Christianity includes the ministry of the gospel of Jesus Christ, which can be found in the Bible as preaching, teaching, and help ministries. “Those present

The Kano State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has faulted the Buhari Media Organisation (BMO) over the reported violence that marred the recently-held supplementary governorship election in the state. Kano State PDP Chairman, Alhaji Rabiu Sulaiman Bichi, distanced the PDP, Kwankwaso and its governorship candidate, Abba Yusuf, from any form of violence and act that compromised the electoral process in the state. The party scribe was on Thursday  reacting to a statement credited to BMO accusing the PDP and Kwankwaso as being the perpetrators of   the violence during the highly contentious governorship poll in which Governor Abdullahi Umar Ganduje was declared winner. Bichi said it was unfortunate that BMO took sides with Ganduje and his cohorts whose sponsored thugs perpetrated massive votes buying, ballot stuffing and vote-rigging in the 279 voting points with the total number of 128,324 registered voters spread across 28 local governme

The National Leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and former Governor of Lagos State, Chief Bola Tinubu, has called on the federal government not to increase the Value Added Tax (VAT) as such action might increase hardship already ravaging the country. While speaking on Thursday during the 11th Bola Tinubu Colloquium marking his 67th birthday, at the International Conference Centre, Abuja, he said an increase in VAT will reduce the spending capacity of the people and might increase hardship. The Minister of Budget and National Planning, Senator Udo Udoma, and the Chairman of the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS), Babatunde Fowler, had said the Federal Government was considering an upward review of VAT by 50 per cent following the approval of N30,000 as minimum wage by the National Assembly. Udoma and Fowler who stated this on Tuesday when they appeared before the Senate Committee on Finance, said the increment was to, among others, enable the Federal Governmen

  An Ilorin High Court in Kwara State on Thursday sentenced a 21-year-old man, Shefiu Abubakar, to 10 years imprisonment for killing his brother, Babuga Abubakar, with burning wood. The incident happened in Dona Dogo, Edu Local Government Area of Kwara State. Abubakar committed the crime on suspicion that Babuga was having illicit affairs with his wife. In his judgment, Justice Durosinlohun Kawu stated that sometimes in 2015, the convict went to his elder brother's house after reporting at the police that he was dating his wife. The trial judge added that Abubakar called his brother out from his house and hit him on the head with a wood which resulted in his death on the spot. The court quoted the convict to have said: "I did not intend to use the stick to kill him but to defend myself." The court said the prosecutor has justified section 221 by proving his case beyond every reasonable doubt and established the case of culpable homi

  The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in Kaduna State on Thursday issued certificates of return to the re-elected Governor of the state, Mallam Nasir el-Rufai; the Deputy Governor-elect, Dr. Hadiza Balarabe, and   34 members-elect of the state House of Assembly. Speaking at the occasion which was held at the state INEC headquarters, the National Commissioner supervising Niger, Kaduna and Kaduna States and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Prof. Antonia Okoosi-Simbine, attributed the growing phenomenon of inconclusive elections in the country to deepening democracy and improving the integrity of the electoral system. She, however, decried the attitude of some political parties and candidates who engaged in violent behaviour, including the manhandling of election officials, intimidation of voters as well as Collation and Returning Officers during the 2019 elections. According to her, “Nigerian democracy was deepening incrementally

The Court of Appeal in Abuja has upheld the victory of Ekiti State Governor, Dr. Kayode Fayemi, candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the last governorship election held in the state. In a judgment on Thursday night, a three-man panel of the court dismissed the appeal by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and its candidate, Kolapo Olusola, for lacking in merit. The court upheld the January 28, 2019 judgment of the Ekiti State election tribunal, which also sat in Abuja. Details later

The Coalition of United Political Parties (CUPP) on Thursday dissociated  itself from a group that called itself the Kano State chapter of the  coalition, which on Wednesday reportedly endorsed the re-election of the state  Governor, Abdullahi Ganduje. The group, led by one Isah Nuhu Isah, during  a solidarity visit to  Ganduje, claimed that the parties that made up the coalition in the  state had dropped their plan to challenge the governor's victory at the just-concluded supplementary election, at the tribunal. The CUPP National Spokesperson, Ikenga Ugochinyere, in a statement on  Thursday, said the coalition was not meant for any state jamboree as  being witnessed in Kano. Ugochinyere noted that the CUPP is a national coalition formed to work  for the emergence of the presidential candidate of the Peoples  Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, and the protection of national interest. He stressed that the position of the CUPP remains that Ganduje is  parading a stolen m

A group, the Amalgamation of Civil Society Organisations, has said the indictment of the Nigerian Army by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) and allegations of professional misconducts against the force over its alleged role during the suspended polls in Rivers State were unnecessary and ill-fated. The groups also apologised on behalf of people of the state to the army over the unguided statements against it by some politicians in the state.  The Chancellor of International Society for Social Justice and Human Rights (ISSJHR), Dr. Jackson Omenazu, stated this in Port Harcourt on Thursday when the coalition helda solidarity walk to the 6 Division Headquarters with placards. Speaking, Omenazu said: “We are here today to console, condole and commend the 6 Division, Nigerian Army for being professional in your conduct during the polls and for the loss of your officers. “Without your presence and intervention, the election would have been characteri