THE immediate past Chief of Staff to Governor Okezie Ikpeazu, Okey Ahaiwe, has been elected as the governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party in Abia State. He polled a total number of 469 to defeat his closest rivals, the deputy governor of the state, Ude Oko-chukwu and Mr Lucky Igbokwe who scored 12 votes each. Others who participated in the process were a former chairman of the party, Senator Emma Nwaka, who had no vote, and a former House of Assembly member, Sampson Orji, who polled 11 votes. A total number of 516 votes were cast during the special…
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USANI Usani, former Minister of Niger Delta Affairs and Governorship candidate of the Peoples Redemption Party (PRP) in Cross River, narrowly escaped being killed by suspected kidnappers along the Calabar-Ikom highway. Two unidentified persons were, however, not lucky as they were killed by the gunmen who shot at their vehicles in a bid to abduct them. Usani was said to be on his way to his home town in Nko, Yakurr Local Government Area, alongside the deputy Governorship candidate and others when they are attacked. The State Commissioner of Police, Sule Balarabe, who confirmed the news, said it occurred between…
GUNMEN have attacked a police station at Abagana, Njikoka Local Government Area of Anambra State, killing two members of the state vigilante service in the process. The reason for the attack had yet to be ascertained but sources said the incident happened late on Friday. According to sources in the area, the assailants were on their way to attack the police station when they met the vigilante operatives on patrol and immediately opened fire on them, killing two of them instantly. Although there were conflicting figures as to the number of the vigilante operatives that were killed, while some sources…
GUNMEN on Thursday night attacked the convoy of the governorship candidate of the All Progressives Grand Alliance in Ebonyi State, Bernard Odo. His media aide, Charles Otu, who confirmed the incident to News Point Nigeria via telephone Friday afternoon, said the candidate was returning from a campaign rally when they ran into an ambush at the Rest House area along the Enugu/Abakaliki expressway. It was gathered that the gunmen opened fire and shot at the driver of the Sienna conveying Odo and two others driving behind them in a mini jeep. Details later…
GUNMEN on Thursday murdered Nnaemeka Ugboma, the chairman of Ejemekwuru Customary Court in the Oguta Local Government Area of Imo State. Ugboma was shot dead by the gunmen while presiding a court session, News Point Nigeria was told by close sources. The incident brought the court sitting to an abrupt end as lawyers, court staff and litigants fled. The killing of the jurist who News Point Nigeria gathered hailed from Nnebukwu community in Oguta LGA caused panic in Ejemekwuru community as natives and residents alike fled their homes. One of the sources said,” The jurist was a law graduate of…
LABOUR Party (LP) and the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) on Wednesday said their presidential candidates would not step down for their counterpart in the Peoples Democratic Party, Atiku Abubakar. The two opposition parties said this as the All Progressives Congress Presidential Campaign Council advised the LP standard bearer, Peter Obi and his NNPP counterpart, Rabiu Kwankwaso, not to trust Atiku. The PCC warning was a sequel to claims by the PDP presidential candidate that he was in talks with Obi and Kwankwaso ahead of the February 25 poll. Atiku in an interview with the BBC Hausa disclosed that talks…
THE Court of Appeal, Abuja, has set aside the judgment of a lower court barring the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission from initiating either civil or criminal proceedings against a former Accountant General of the Federation, Jonah Otunla. According to the EFCC, a three-member panel of the Court of Appeal, in a judgment, marked CA/A/657/2021, on Monday, January 30, 2023, held that Otunla failed to prove that there was actually a non-prosecution agreement between him and the EFCC. The spokesperson for the anti-graft agency, Wilson Uwujaren, revealed this in a statement obtained by our correspondent on Wednesday night. Uwujaren noted…
GUNMEN in the early hours of Wednesday killed a 16-year-old boy when they attacked a police station and residential buildings inside the station in Nnobi, Idemili South Local Government Area of Anambra State. New Point Nigeria gathered that, the gunmen also reportedly shot a 15-year-old girl within the vicinity. The gunmen then proceeded to bomb the Independent National Electoral Commission, (INEC) office in Ojoto in the same LGA. The murdered boy was a relative of a serving policeman in the station. A source told News Point Nigeria that, the hoodlums bombed the commission’s headquarters in the area, using improvised explosive…
THE Divisional Police Officer (DPO) in charge of Naka, the headquarters of the Gwer West Local Government Area of Benue State, Superintendent of Police Mamud Abubakar has been killed in an ambush by unknown gunmen operating in the area. Abubakar was responding to a distress call from road users along the Naka-Makurdi Road with his team when the gunmen ambushed them and killed him in the process. The Naka-Makurdi Road has become impassable for road users for fear of gunmen on the one hand and on the other hand, the deplorable condition of the Ankpa-Adoka-Naka to Makurdi federal road which…
NIGERIA has fallen four places from 154 out of 180 countries and territories in the latest ranking of the 2022 Corruption Perceptions Index released by Transparency International on Tuesday. Although the country maintained its previous score of 24 out of 100 points in 2022, it fell to 150. According to the Civil Society Legislative Advocacy Centre, which aggregated data from eight different, the latest ranking on the level of corruption in the public sector, indicates that the CPI index for the country has remained consistently low in the last 10 years, while the lack of transparency in Nigeria’s security sector…
The Nigeria Data Protection Bureau (NDPB) has commenced an investigation into allegations of data breach against Guarantee Trust Bank (GTBank) and Zenith Bank. Mr Babatunde Bamigboye, Head, Legal Enforcement and Regulations of NDPB said this in a statement issued and made available to News Point Nigeria in Abuja Bamigboye said the investigations were triggered by allegations of unlawful disclosure of banking records to a third party, unlawful access and processing of personal data. National Commissioner of NDPB, Dr Vincent Olatunji in the statement said the investigation would cover the data governance practice of the banks in all their branches in…
THE Tinubu Shettima Network (TSN), has attacked the Conference of Nigeria Political Parties (CNPP) for calling on President Muhammadu Buhari to purge the National Nigerian Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL) of an alleged corrupt management team. According to the National Coordinator, Kailani Muhammad, the CNPP comment on the NNPCL is a ‘cheap blackmail’. According to Muhammad, the major issues of fuel scarcity and failure to meet up with OPEC quota advanced by CNPP in a recent press statement were nothing, but a clear attempt to, “give a dog a bad name in order to hang it”. “We expected CNPP to blame the…
FORMER Minister of Petroleum Resources, Mrs Diezani Alison-Madueke, has prayed a Federal High Court, Abuja to vacate an order granted to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) for final forfeiture of her seized assets. News Point Nigeria gathered that, Alison-Madueke, in an originating motion, sought an order extending the time within which to seek leave to apply to the court for an order to set aside the EFCC’s public notice issued to conduct public sale on her property. The anti-corruption agency had planned to conduct a public sale of all assets seized from Alison-Madueke beginning from Jan. 9 as…
THE Federal Government has lost about N116.8m since the suspension of the Abuja/Kaduna and Warri-Itakpe train services this month. Investigations showed that the Federal Government has lost about N28.8m in terms of revenue in the last two days on the Abuja-Kaduna route and N88m on the Warri-Itakpe route in the last eight days. The coaches in the train which operate on the Abuja-Kaduna rail line have the passenger capacity of about 900/1000 passengers per trip. According to findings, the Abuja/Kaduna rail services record four trips per day while the Warri-Itakpe records two per day. Before the suspension of the train…
GUNMEN have killed three policemen during an attack at the border checkpoint along the Enugu/Abakaliki Expressway. News Point Nigeria gathered that the gunmen, who drove in two Sienna buses, struck the checkpoint late Saturday. The Police Public Relations Officer in Ebonyi State, Chris Anyanwu, confirmed the incident to News Point Nigeria via a text message, Sunday morning. Although he didn’t give further details about what transpired, the attack left another officer injured. The victim who was shot in the leg is said to be receiving treatment at an undisclosed medical facility in Abakaliki, the state capital. Gunmen have been unleashing…
A YOUNG footballer, identified as Segun Idowu, slumped on the field during one of the matches in the ongoing Kogi FA Chairman’s Cup at the Confluence Stadium, Lokoja on Friday, January 27, 2023. Segun played for Barnet FC before his demise. A statement from the Chairman, Kogi State Football Association, Alhaji Suleiman Umar, made available to News Point Nigeria, Saturday, confirmed the incident. “Who are we to question our maker who gives and takes when he so wishes,” the Chairman said, while describing the death of Idowu as shocking and painful. The statement reads in part: “We were shocked this…
EDO State has recorded 10 new cases of Lassa Fever, raising the total number of confirmed cases in the state to 107. The Edo State Commissioner for Health, Prof. Obehi Akoria, who disclosed this to journalists in Benin City on Friday, said the state also confirmed three more deaths from the disease, raising the fatality figure to 13. “We have confirmed 10 more cases of Lassa fever in Edo with three new deaths, raising the number of confirmed cases in the state to 107 and fatalities to 13,” she stated,” she added. “With the steady rise in the number of…
THE spokesperson of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Mister Festus Keyamo, is seeking an order of the Federal High Court, Abuja, to effect service of the originating summons and all subsequent processes, in the suit instituted against the presidential candidate of the Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, by substituted means. In a suit no marked FHC/ABJ/CS/84/2023, Mister Keyamo is praying that the order be granted as the itinerary of Atiku Abubakar, is unpredictable at this period of campaigns and it would be difficult to locate him for the purpose of personal service. He added that the retinue of security…
THE Edo State government has said that churches, mosques, event centres, clubs, lounges, and other public spaces that do not meet the state’s guidelines on noise pollution, including installation of soundproof materials will be sealed by March 31. A joint task force comprising officials of Edo State Ministry of Physical Planning, Housing, Urban and Regional Development and the Ministry of Environment and Sustainability has been serving notices to the facilities, intimating them that a 90-day grace period has been granted for those affected to install soundproof materials in their facilities. The move is sequel to a stakeholders’ meeting between government…
THE Speaker of the House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila, has declared his readiness to issue a warrant of arrest on the Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Godwin Emefiele if he fails to appear before its committee. News Point Nigeria gathered that, Speaker Gbajabiamila said instead of the House adjourning plenary till February 28 for the elections as planned, the lawmakers would reconvene on Tuesday to take an action against Emefiele and other bank chiefs who fail to show up. The Speaker, who noted that Emefiele is his friend, pointed out that he would not hesitate to demand the…