Author: Bala Muhammad

BANDITS have killed a villager who delivered a ransom in Kaduna, leaving the residents of Kidandan village, located in the Giwa Local Government Area of the State in shock. The victim, Abdullahi Haruna, was a member of the First Aid of Fitiyanul Islam. He volunteered to deliver the ransom to secure the release of his neighbour held by the bandits. The incident occurred on Wednesday around 2:00pm at a location known as Sabo Layi Kidandan. A vigilante member, who requested anonymity, confirmed the incident to this newspaper on Thursday. Similarly, a youth leader in the community who simply identified as…

THERE is no evidence that the Chicago State University’s academic certificates of President Bola Tinubu submitted to the Independent National Electoral Commission for the 2023 presidential election were forged, the BBC’s Global Disinformation Team reports. This newspaper had earlier reported that the university released Tinubu’s academic records, which went viral on social media but were tagged as fake by some opposition party leaders and members, especially his main rivals, Labour Party’s Peter Obi and the Peoples Democratic Party’s Atiku Abubakar. The quest to release Tinubu’s academic documents led to the case filed by Atiku at the US court, where he…

BANDITS invaded Anguwar Dandali in the Zaria Local Government Area of Kaduna State killing four people and injuring five. Confirming the incident the village head of the area, Mallam Sunusi Yusuf told our correspondent that the suspected bandits arrived around 10.30 pm on Friday night and started shooting sporadically in the air. He explained that the bandits had succeeded in shooting 9 people and abducted 5 before the arrival of security operatives who engaged them in a gun duel. “Out of the nine people shot, 4 instantly died while 5 sustained serious injuries. “Due to the superior power of the…

THE National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Abdullahi Ganduje and the party’s National Working Committee (NWC) have visited former President Muhammadu Buhari at his residence in Daura, Katsina State. The visit was, according to Ganduje, to show solidarity with the former President and to congratulate him on Nigeria’s 63rd Independence Day. Apart from paying homage, the visit was to introduce the newly reconstituted NWC of the ruling party to Buhari, Ganduje added. Ganduje, who expressed excitement with the winning degree recorded by the party in recent tribunal rulings believes the APC will also win the upcoming governorship elections…

IN Arabic, the name Najeeb means the Distinguished, the Noble or the Outstanding. The Arabic dictionary says if you’re seeking a name with inherent star power, Najeeb will make for a lovely fit. It is the masculine respelling of the Arabic favorite, Najib, which stands for the Distinguished. Yesterday, Friday, 29/09/2023, I had reason to write on one of the 21 Chief Executives at the Federal Capital Territory Administration, FCDA, that was relieved of his duty by Minister Nyesom Wike. As of the time of writing the article, I hadn’t any inkling about his name or the company he headed.…

BINTA Zubairu, Justice of the Court of Appeal, has said judges are wrongly accused of delay in dispensing justice. Speaking in Zaria, Kaduna State, during a reception organised on the occasion of her elevation as an Appeal Court judge, Zubairu said judges work in a team with the prosecutors, lawyers and others and as such should not be blamed for the delay in the dispensation of justice. “We don’t talk and nobody speaks for us; speedy dispensation of justice requires the prompt efforts of police, prosecution, assembling of exhibits and the lawyers,” she said. The justice added that sometimes, the…

PRESIDENT Bola Tinubu asserted, on Wednesday in New York, that African nations will no longer accept a situation in which human rights advocacy is used by wealthy and powerful nations to stop developing economies from dealing decisively with malign actors who illicitly siphon and smuggle out the continent’s vast mineral resources while smuggling in western-made weapons, which enrich the wealthiest economies in the world at the parasitic expense of African stability and wealth creation. The President said this while meeting with United Nations Secretary-General, António Guterres, at his UN Headquarters Office in New York City. “We are facing the great…

NIGERIA requires N21 trillion to address the country’s housing deficit, according to Vice President Kashim Shettima. He was speaking during the ground-breaking of a five-hundred-unit housing estate to be constructed by the Sokoto State government. In a statement by Olusola Abiola, the Director in the Office of the Vice President, Senator Shettima notes that Nigeria has a housing deficit of twenty-eight million houses. He, however, commended Governor Ahmed Aliyu of Sokoto State for his efforts at tackling the housing needs of his people. The project located in the Wamakko Local Government Area of the state will cost the state government…

THE Commander, Army Headquarters Garrison (AHQ Gar), Maj.-Gen Koko Isoni, on Thursday, inaugurated a General Court Martial to try 14 officers and nine soldiers alleged to have breached different provisions of the Armed Forces Act. The court-martial was convened at the Scorpion Officer’ Mess, Asokoro Abuja, pursuant to the powers conferred on him by Section 131 (2) (d) of the Armed Forces Act CAP A20 LFN, 2004 for the trial of Nigerian Army personnel alleged to have committed different offences. The Garrison Commander in his inaugural speech assured the accused persons that justice would be done to all parties concerned…

POPULAR Islamic scholar, Sheikh Abubakar Giro Argungu, under the banner of Jama’atul Izalatil Bidi’a Wa’iqamatus Sunnah (JIBWIS), is dead. The scholar died on Wednesday in Birnin Kebbi, Kebbi State capital, after a brief illness at the age of 68. His death was announced by the Izala sect leader, Sheikh Abdullahi Bala Lau, on his verified Facebook page, on Wednesday. His funeral will take place on Thursday, according to Sheikh Bala Lau.

THE Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) has approved an upwards price increase in the price of pre paid electricity meters in the country. In a circular signed and dated 5 September 2023 by the commission’s Chairman and Commissioner Legal, Licencing and compliance, Sanusi Garba and Dafe Akpeneye, respectively, it stated that a single phase pre paid meter would now cost N81,975.16k from the N58,661.69k while three phase pre paid meters is increased to N143,836.10k from N109,684.36k. The circular said the new price was to ensure a fair and reasonable pricing of meters to both MAPs and end-use customers. “Ensure MAP’s…

THE Inspector-General of Police, Olukayode Adeolu Egbetokun has ordered the posting and redeployment of seven (7) Deputy Inspectors General of Police to various departments following the promotion of the senior officers to the rank of DIGs by the Police Service Commission. News Point Nigeria reports that, consequently, DIG Bala Ciroma has been redeployed to head the Department of Finance and Administration, DIG Frank Emeka Mba to the Department of Training and Development, and DIG Habu A. Sani to head the Force Intelligence Bureau. Others are DIG Usman D. Nagogo to Department of Logistics and Supply, DIG Daniel Sokari-Pedro to Department…

ONE of the factions of the New Nigeria Peoples Party under the leadership of Major Agbo has announced that it will investigate the presidential candidate of the party, Senator Rabiu Kwankwaso, and some of his loyalists over an alleged misappropriation of over N1 billion generated from the sale of nomination forms. This was even as the faction accused a chieftain of the NNPP, Buba Galadima, of favouring and imposing certain party candidates ahead of other aspirants. The allegations were made in a statement released on Sunday by NNPP factional National Publicity Secretary made available to News Point Nigeria, Abdulsalam Abdulrasaq,…

NATIONAL Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Dr Umar Ganduje, has tasked the citizens of Kogi State to give the party nothing less than 99 per cent support and victory in the state’s forthcoming November 11, governorship election. Ganduje gave the charge yesterday while addressing party members and supporters at the inauguration of the party’s national and state campaign councils for the election. He said, “Today we are officially inaugurating the state campaign committee that will join hands with the national campaign committee and the LGAs’ campaign committees to ensure victory at the polls. “You have tested good governance…

DANIEL Bwala, a former spokesperson for the Atiku Abubakar Presidential Campaign Council in the 2023 presidential poll, says the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, will be expelled from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) at the appropriate time. Bwala spoke on Channels Television’s Politics Today programme on Thursday night a day after Wike monitored by News Point Nigeria, a former Rivers State governor, dared the PDP leadership to suspend or expel him from the party for supporting the election of President Bola Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and ultimately working in his cabinet as minister.…

THE Police Service Commission (PSC) has ordered four Deputy Inspector-Generals of Police to immediately proceed on compulsory retirement. The affected senior police officers include Dan-Mallam Mohammed, Moses Ambakina Jitiboh, Hafiz Mohammed Inuwa and Adeleke Adeyinka Bode. Ikechukwu Ani, spokesman of the commission, who disclosed this to journalists in Abuja on Monday, said the commission gave the order in the exercise of its statutory powers. According to him, the powers is in pursuant to the Third Schedule, Part 1 M, para A&B of the 1999 Constitution, reinforced with Section 6 of the Commissions (Establisment) Act 2001, para a, c, d, e,…

THE National Working Committee (NWC) of the New Nigerian Peoples Party (NNPP) has announced the suspension of a founding member of the party, Boniface Aniebonam and its National Publicity Secretary, Agbo Major. According to the NWC, the suspension of the duo was with immediate effect pending the outcome of investigations by the Disciplinary Committee of the party. The party in a statement signed by the Acting National Chairman, Mallam Abba Kawu Alli, said the suspension was as a result of unruly activities of the founding chairman of the party whom he alleged felt the political platform was his personal estate.…

THE Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) has arrested 13 suspected railway vandals with large quantities of long rails and sleepers worth N800m. They were nabbed around the Manchock area of Kaura LGA, the Zonkwa area in Zango Kataf LGA, and the Kaffanchan area in Jama’a LGA of Kaduna State, according to a Tuesday statement from NSCDC’s spokesman Babawale Afolabi. He said the suspects were arrested by the Commandant General’s Special Intelligence Squad (CGs SIS). The suspects were paraded alongside five trucks conveying the large quantities of vandalised rails and sleepers at the NSCDC Headquarters, Abuja on Tuesday. “The…

THE only surviving member of the old People’s Democratic Party PDP in Sokoto state and former Minister of Water Resources, Barrister Mukhtar Shehu Shagari has formally dumped the party for the All Progressives Congress (APC). Shagari, who was a former Minister of Water Resources in the administration of former President Olusegun Obasanjo formally received APC membership card from the party secretary, Abubakar Yabo in the company of other state APC executives. Shagari, who was a founding member of the PDP and has been in the party for over 25 years until August this year, when he decided to move to…

THE President of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Joe Ajaero, says the N5 billion approved for each state and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) to cushion the impact of fuel subsidy removal is inadequate to impact on the people. Ajaero, who was a guest on Channels Television’s Politics Today on Friday monitored by News Point Nigeria, said that if calculated, the N5bn will not amount to N1,500 per person. According to him, it is unclear whether the money is a loan or a palliative to the states or to Nigerians. “But whichever might be the case, let’s assume that it…