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  The cold war at the Imo State House of Assembly, Owerri, on Thursday, took another dimension as the lawmakers impeached their majority leader, Uche Ogbuagu. Ogbuagu, who represents Ikeduru state constituency, had defected to the All Progressives Congress from Peoples Democratic Party shortly after Emeka Ihedioha was removed in January 2020 by the supreme Court as governor in order to emerge a principal officer of the house. At the Thursday’s plenary which was held under tight security, Ogbuagu was removed by a majority vote. The speaker, Paul Emezim, who was presiding the plenary announced that the majority leader of…

Oba of Lagos Rilwan Akiolu has alleged hoodlums who attacked his palace on October 21, 2020 stole $2 million and N17 million. Hoodlums attacked buildings in Lagos State a day after soldiers opened live ammunition on #EndSARS protesters at the Lekki toll plaza on October 20, 2020. They vandalised vehicles and carted away artefacts located at Iga Idugaran, Lagos Island. They also went away with the staff of office commonly referred and plundered the palace for two days. Akiolu, who spoke on Wednesday during the commissioning of the Glover Hall Memorial in Lagos, said he had avoided counting losses from…

A housewife, Maryam Muhammad, on Wednesday, prayed a Shari’a Court sitting in Magajin Gari, Kaduna to dissolve her 20-year-old marriage to her husband, Abdulhamid Yakubu. The complainant, a resident of Kontagora road in Kaduna metropolis, told the court that her husband had abandoned her sexually for almost 11 years. “He doesn’t take care of me, even when I was sick; I’m tired I want divorce,” she told the court. In his defence, Yakubu said he was also tired of the union and was no longer interested again. The Judge, Murtala Nasir, adjourned the matter till March 10 for the parties…

The leadership of Cattle and Foodstuff dealers under the aegis of Amalgamated Union of Foodstuff and Cattle Dealers of Nigeria (AUFCDN) has agreed to end the blockade of supplies to the south. They reached the agreement at an ongoing meeting with some governors in Abuja on Wednesday. Abdullahi Tom, a youth leader of the cattle dealers in Lagos, told Daily Trust Governor Yahaya Bello of Kogi State is among the leaders who appealed to them to end the industrial action. Details later…          

A pastor, Chris McDouglas Omosokpea of Peculiar Generation Assembly Church, Oshodi, Lagos, who is facing a charge for the rape of his member’s teen daughter has allegedly sold his church building and fled to an unknown place to establish another church. Omosokpea, who was arrested in June 2020 by officers of the Makinde Police Station where the family of the victim reported the matter, was granted bail on health grounds before the Lagos High Court. It was gathered that the pastor had allegedly sexually abused a 14-year-old girl for the past four years before he was arrested and charged before…

The Amalgamated Union of Foodstuff and Cattle Dealers of Nigeria (AUFCDN) has since Thursday blocked shipment of cattle and farm produce to the Southern part of the country over demands for compensation for its members affected by violence in that part of the country, Daily Trust reports. The decision might have driven up prices of the items in the South but it has also brought prices crashing in Kano as farmers and marketers suffer huge losses, as Daily Trust reports. It is an irony that as tomato and onion scarcity prevails in the South, the vegetables are flooding markets in…

The incident occurred at the departure hall of the Kenyan airways Apart of the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos was on Wednesday gutted by fire. SaharaReporters gathered that the incident occurred at the departure hall of the Kenyan airways. The cause of the fire has yet to be ascertained as at press time. “Part of the Lagos airport was earlier gutted by fire. The Kenyan airways office at departure, that was where the fire happened. “The airport staff around quenched the fire alongside some fire fighters from FAAN (Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria),” a source told SaharaReporters.