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Global President of One Love Foundation, Chief Patrick Osagie Eholor has lambasted Governor Godwin Obaseki over the sorry state of major streets in Benin City. Eholor stated this in an interview with journalists while reacting to photographs and video of residents either swimming or stuck in water or struggling to wade through water as the rains turns Benin City into a lagoon. According to him, the sorry state of Benin City is largely due to the leadership failure of Governor Godwin Obaseki. He said; "Benin City under Obaseki is submerged with flood anytime it rains and becomes submerged with filth…

The IGP IRT unit, Head of Legal Department has again been ordered to oney court order and free Miss Glory Okolie. The IGP IRT unit, Head of Legal Departmenton had on 31st August 2021, allegedly approached the FCT High Court sitting at Maitama, Abuja presided over by Justice C Origi to upturn all interim orders made on Glory Okolie on the 27th August 2021. Our correspondent reports that the above information was made available by an individual who would not want his name mentioned in public. According to the information, the court presided over by Justice Origi once again implored…

Ejike Mbaka, spiritual director of Adoration Ministries, Enugu, Nigeria (AMEN), says the attack on the Nigerian Defence Academy (NDA) shows that Nigeria is sinking. Mbaka said this while delivering his sermon on Sunday. The cleric warned that the attack is “just the beginning of the trouble”, adding that “the main trouble is coming”. He also called for the release of Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), saying his detention is not the solution to the country’s problems. “Did you not hear that yesterday (Saturday), bandits entered into our most secured place in this country, Nigerian Defence…

Elder Statesman and former Minister of Steel in the Second Republic, Wantaregh Paul Unongo has cautioned those castigating Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue state for speaking out against the herdsmen attacks in his state and worsening insecurity in the country to refrain from their actions. The former Chairman of Northern Elders’ Forum, NEF, said the Benue Governor has not done anything outside his constitutional duties and has not descended to inciting crisis in the country as being alleged by the presidency. Unongo who spoke, Monday, at the Benue stakeholders meeting held in Makurdi put together by the State Government in…

President Muhammadu Buhari has expressed sadness over the killing of Captain Abdulkareem Na’Allah, the son of the Senator representing Kebbi South, Bala Na’Allah. The Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, in a statement today said Buhari, however, reassured Nigerians of his commitment to protect lives and property. “The death of Abdulkareem is another tragic chapter in our current security challenges, but I reassure Nigerians that my commitment to protect the lives and property of all Nigerians remains unwavering,” the President stated. “I’m saddened by the tragic loss of Abdulkareem and other victims of violence…

The home where Abdulkarim Bala Na’Allah was found dead on Sunday had been burgled two months before his murder, a friend and classmate of the deceased told Daily Trust on Monday. Na’Allah, the son of Senator Bala Ibn Na’Allah, who represents Kebbi south, was found tied and strangled on Sunday in his Malali home in Kaduna. Kaduna State Police command said the assailants had escaped with the deceased’s Lexus SUV. The deceased former classmate at Police Secondary School Minna, told Daily Trust that they had chatted briefly on video call on Friday evening before the civilian pilot told her he…

The Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN) and Chairman of the National Judicial Council, (NJC), Justice Tanko Muhammad has summoned the Chief Judges of Rivers, Kebbi, Cross River, Anambra, Jigawa and Imo State to an emergency meeting. This is part of efforts to stem the recent wave of embarrassing and conflicting exparte orders emanating from judges in their jurisdictions. In a letter of invitation dated 30th of August, 2021 and sighted by our judiciary correspondent, the CJN summoned the head of the concerned courts to the emergency meeting to brief him on the incessant granting of the conflicting orders on suits…

The Nigerian government, Attorney General of Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami and the Department of State Services (DSS) on Monday lost another application seeking vacation of order by the Oyo State High Court retraining the government from arresting, intimidating, harassing Yoruba Nation agitator, Sunday Adeyemo, aka Sunday Igboho. The court had also restrained the government from freezing the bank account of Igboho. Justice Ladiran Akintola said the application by the AGF is against fair hearing and the fundamental human rights of the applicant because it has to do with his free movement. Counsel for the AGF, Enock Simeon…

Senator Bala Ibn Na'Allah, representing Kebbi South Senatorial District has disclosed that the killers of his son, Abdulkareem were not armed. He noted that they simply gained access to his house through the roof and strangled him. This was made known in a statement released on Monday and signed by Senator Bala Na'Allah. In the statement, he described his late son as one of the finest ambassadors of his family, saying he did the family proud in his lifetime. The statement reads: "Let me on behalf of Na'Allah's family specifically confirm the death of Abdulkareem Na'Allah Snr who was attacked…