Author: Gloria Lamar Johnson

AHEAD of the All Progressives Congress (APC) governorship primary in Kogi State scheduled for Friday, the Deputy Governor, Edward Onoja; and the Chief of Staff to Governor Yahaya Bello, Mohammed Asuku have withdrawn from the race. This was announced at a stakeholders’ meeting held on Thursday at the party secretariat in Lokoja, the state capital. The meeting was hosted by Governor Yahaya Bello, who unveiled his preferred candidate in the person of the Auditor General of the state, Ahmed Ododo. Meanwhile, Onoja and Asuku announced their withdrawal from the governorship race via their respective verified Facebook pages shortly after the…

AT least 13 people have been reportedly killed nad many others abducted in a fresh attack by bandits on Atak’Njei community in Zango Kataf Local Government Area of Kaduna State. News Point Nigeria reports that, the latest attack is coming some weeks after a similar incident claimed ten lives at Langson community in the same local government area. Atak’Njei is the community is where the Palace of the Paramount ruler of Agwatyap Chiefdom is located. The police authorities are yet to comment on the incident, but the President of Atyap Community Development Association, Sam Timbuwak told News Point Nigeria via…

JUSTICE James Omotosho of the Federal High Court in Abuja, has nullified and set aside the Ward and Local Government congresses purportedly conducted on February 7 by the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Kogi State. News Point Nigeria reporta that, the congresses were for the purpose of nominating APC’s Governorship Candidate for the November gubernatorial polls. The court voided the two congresses on the grounds that they were not conducted in compliance with the Electoral Act 2022, and the Constitution of the APC. Delivering Judgment, Justice Omotosho also barred the Independent National Electoral commission, from according recognition the unlawful delegates…

THE traditional ruler of Oghara in Kabba Bunu Local Government Area of Kogi State, has been abducted. Our correspondent learnt that gunmen invaded his palace in the early hours of Tuesday. It was gathered that a female domestic worker identified as Toyin Onare was shot dead during the attack. Also, two other Chiefs, (Pa.) David Obadofin, and one Temidayo Elewa, were abducted. The Kogi state police command’s spokesman, SP William Aya, confirmed the incident, saying the hoodlums arrived at the palace around 3am and shot sporadically before gaining access to the palace. Aya added that Chief Obadofin who was a…

PERSONNEL of Plateau State Police Command have continued to occupy the State Assembly entrance, stopping lawmakers from gaining access to the hallow chambers in order to prevent security breeches leading to breakdown of law and order. The commissioner of police in the state, Bartholomey Onyeka during a press conference at the police state headquarters in Jos explained that threats to lives and property based on intelligence report informed the continuous sealing of the state house of assembly. Crisis rocking the Plateau State House of Assembly resurfaced following the judgment of a Plateau State High Court ordering the reinstatement of Abok…

THE Benue State Police Command has confirmed another attack on one of the Internal Displaced Persons (IDP) camps at Agan in the Makurdi Local Government Area of Benue with over 20 persons killed by suspected bandits mostly women and children. The police spokesperson, DSP Sewuese Anene in a telephone conversation with  News Point Nigeria, Saturday morning, confirmed last night attack which she said claimed many women and children at the IDP camps but the casualty figure is yet to be determined but so far the count has exceeded 20. DSP Sewuese further added that the commissioner of police, Wale Abasse…

A SENIOR retired officer of the Nigerian Immigration Service, Jacob Agada, has been killed by gunmen suspected to be kidnappers in Lafia, the capital of Nasarawa State. Agada was found dead a few hours after he was kidnapped by the gunmen who mounted roadblocks around Ombi II, Lafia on Thursday night and whisked him away. The victim was reportedly returning to his house at about 9 pm when the hoodlums abducted him and later dumped his lifeless body in the area on Friday morning. A family source, while lamenting the rising spate of insecurity in the area, called on the…

AT least 46 people have been reportedly killed in Umogidi village of Entekpa-Adoka district in Otukpo Local Government Area of Benue State. The same village suffered invasion by armed invaders on Tuesday during which three people were killed. Chairman of Otukpo LGA, Bako Eje, whose son was also killed in the latest attack, told our correspondent on the telephone that the armed men surrounded the village again Wednesday evening barely 24-hours after the first attack and opened gunfire on the inhabitants. Eje said so far, this afternoon (Thursday), 46 corpses have been recovered while many people are still missing. The…

ANOTHER paramount and first class traditional ruler has been kidnapped from his palace in Plateau State by unknown gunmen. The kidnapped monarch, His Royal Highness Sunday Dajep, is the district head of Chip community inhabited by the Mhiship ethnic group of Pankshin Local Government Area of the state. According to our source, the district head was kidnapped at about 11pm on Wednesday when the gunmen forced their way into his palace in Chip community along Mangu-Shendam road. The Police Public Relations Officer of the Plateau State Police Command, DSP Alfred Alabo, said the command was aware of the abduction. Alubo…

A RESIDENT pastor of Living Faith Church, Aloko- Oganenigwu in Dekina LGA of Kogi State, Jacob Wodi Hulobu, was reportedly killed by the gunmen, who invaded the town on Sunday. The pastor was said to have escaped with some of his members to a safer area when they struck during the early morning service. According to one of his members, Samuel, the pastor went back to check the state of the church after the attack when the invaders shot and killed him. “He escaped during church service in the morning. He thought everything was calm and went back to check…

THE Plateau State government alongside 12 members of the state House of Assembly have appealed the Judgement of Justice Nafisat Musa who reinstated Ayuba Abok as the Speaker of the Plateau state house of Assembly, 18 Months after he was impeached. Chairman House Committee on Information Daniel Na’anlong, who stated this while addressing Newsmen in Jos, said they are approaching the appeal Court to seek a stay of execution. Ayuba Abok resumed office on Tuesday as Speaker of the Plateau State House of Assembly and even Presided Over a sitting following a Judgment that declared his impeachment on 28th October…

RIVERS State Governor, Nyesom Wike has hailed his Benue State counterpart, Samuel Ortom for backing the return of power to the southern region of Nigeria at the expense of his senatorial ambition. Wike spoke on Tuesday during the commissioning of the Government Secondary School Kpor in the Gokana Local Government Area of Rivers State. Ortom is one of the aggrieved governors of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) who, in the buildup to the 2023 general elections, demanded that presidency rotate to the southern part of the country from the north. Other G5 governors are Wike, Seyi Makinde (Oyo), Okezie Ikpeazu…

THERE is disquiet in Jos Area of Plateau State as one person has died after being shot by a police stray bullet. The incident took place on Monday when police personnel from the ‘C’ Division operational area of the Plateau State Police Command were on a routine check at the busy Ahmadu Bello Way in the Terminus Area of the capital. They confiscated some commercial motorcycles for illegal operation within the metropolis to enforce a ban on “Okadas”. But the security personnel met resistance from the operators which led to pandemonium in the area. The death of the teenager led…

THE All Progressives Congress, APC on Monday denied the expulsion of the Deputy Senate President Ovie Omo-Agege from the party. News Point Nigeria had reported that an expulsion letter dated March 31st and signed by the Chairman, Ulebor Isaac on behalf of the State Executive Committee of the Delta APC said Omo-Agege was expelled for alleged anti-party activities and other unnamed offences. A faction of APC in the State loyal to the Deputy Senate President, has dismissed his purported expulsion from the party describing it as absolute “ruse”. A statement jointly signed by Elder Omeni Sobotie and Peter Akarogbe, State…

THE All Progressives Congress in Delta State has expelled the Deputy President of the Senate, Ovie Omo-Agege, from being a member of the APC for alleged for anti-party activities and other unnamed offences. The Delta APC announced Omo-Agage’s expulsion in a letter dated March 31, 2023, obtained by this newspaper on Monday. Recall News Point Nigeria reported how Omo-Agege, the governorship candidate of the APC in the Delta State lost to the Governor-elect a candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Sheriff Oborevwori. Omo-Agege who scored 240,229 votes was 120,005 votes behind his contender and the returned Governor-elect of the PDP,…

GUNSHOTS were heard on Monday when members of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Rivers State clashed in Port Harcourt, the state capital over the inspection of electoral materials. Trouble started when the APC Governorship Candidate in the March 18 poll, Tonye Cole and members of his party arrived the office of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in the state capital to inspection of materials used in the last election in the state. However, Cole was forced to turn back by members of PDP who were already on ground at the INEC office…

UNKNOWN gunmen in the early hours of Sunday reportedly invaded the Christians Pentecostal Church located at Akenawe, Tswarev in Ukemberagya/Tswarev Council Ward of Logo Local Government Area, LGA, of Benue State where they killed a worshipper and abducted the pastor of the church and other worshippers. The attackers also injured several of the victims among them the traditional ruler of the community, Zaki Tyokase Ingyutu. It was gathered that the invaders stormed the church during a night vigil when a healing service was being conducted by the Resident Pastor, Rev. Gwadue Kwaghtyo A community leader and President, Gaambe-Tiev Youth Association,…

THE Nigeria Governors’ Forum (NGF) has condemned in strong terms, the alleged plot to install an interim government, other than the recently elected executives waiting to be sworn in on May 29th this year. A statement signed by the Chairmen of the forum, Governor Aminu Tambuwal notes that the governors will do all they can to defend the country’s democracy, as the forum will not support any unconstitutional regime change. The governors also condemned the continued delay in refunding the backlog of monies from stamp duties to states, as it promises to explore every available means of getting the refunds…

THE camp of the President-elect, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, has disclosed that they were officially served on Tuesday with copies of the petitions filed at the election tribunal by Labour Party presidential candidate, Peter Obi and his counterpart in the Peoples Democratic Party, Atiku Abubakar. The development is coming one week after Obi and Atiku formally filed their petitions to the elections tribunal to protest the outcome of the February 25 poll. Their petitions came four weeks after the contentious presidential and National Assembly elections that produced the President-elect. Both the PDP and LP candidates had accused Tinubu of deliberately avoiding…

THE Federal Government has blamed the ongoing deforestation in the country on powerful interests at the subnational who protect loggers in the business of charcoal production. News Point Nigeria reports that, the Minister of Environment, Mohammed Abdullahi, apportioned the blame today during the 69th weekly Ministerial weekly briefing at the state house. Mr Abdullahi said the task force set up to apprehend the protracted menace of tree feeling for charcoal have faced difficulties in enforcement, disclosing that they constantly experience a push back at the subnational level on the grounds that the trees belong to the states. The UK Government…