SOME shops were razed at the Akere Spare Parts Market, Olodi-Apapa in the Ajegunle area of Lagos State following a fire outbreak in early hours of Wednesday. News Point Nigeria reports that, the Lagos State Fire Service, however, said its Ajegunle fire station has subdued the fire. According to the statement signed by the Director of the Service, Margaret Adeseye, the Service was alerted of the fire outbreak at about 03:28 on Wednesday. She said the Ajegunle Fire Station upon arrival discovered that rows of shops that traded in auto spare parts were on fire. This, she said, led the…
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THE Independent National Electoral Commission has said that information in the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System used for February 25 presidential poll is intact. The electoral commission lead counsel, Tanimu Inuwa, gave the assurance on Tuesday at the Court of Appeal in Abuja, while opposing an application filed by the Labour Party presidential candidate, Peter Obi, on BVAS deployed in the presidential poll. Opposing the application, Inuwa argued it would delay the conduct of governorship and houses of assembly elections scheduled for Saturday. Earlier, Obi, lead counsel, Dr Onyechi Ikpeazu, SAN, had argued that the essence of the application was to…
FORMER deputy senate president on trial in London for allegedly plotting to harvest a street trader’s kidney for his sick daughter told the court on Tuesday he feared he was being “scammed”. Ekweremadu, 60, his wife Beatrice, 56, daughter Sonia, 25, and a doctor, Obinna Obeta, 50, are accused of conspiring to exploit the man for his body part. Lawyers for the four previously told the trial at London’s central criminal court, also known as the Old Bailey, the alleged victim was acting “altruistically”. The kidney was allegedly intended for Sonia, who remains on dialysis with a renal condition, in…
THE Supreme Court has affirmed Akanimo Udofia as the authentic governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Akwa Ibom State, as it dismissed the suit filed by Senator Ita Enang seeking to nullify the primary that produced Udofia. Delivering judgement, Justice Kudirat Kekere-Ekun upheld the decision of the Court of Appeal Abuja, which held that the Federal High Court in Uyo acted without jurisdiction when it nullified the APC’s primary. The appellate court had upheld the primary that produced Udofia as the flag bearer of the party. Enang had prayed the court to declare him as the authentic…
THE Independent National Electoral Commission has released the full list of members-elect of the 10th Senate. The National Assembly elections were held last Saturday, February 25, 2023, alongside the presidential election. A new set of members, however, with returning familiar faces, will sit in the legislative arm of government making up the Red and Green chambers. In the recently released list however, eight names are missing, as the commission noted that supplementary elections will be held in the affected senatorial districts. The affected districts include; Enugu East, Kebbi North, Plateau Central, Sokoto East, North and South, Yobe South and Zamfara…
The Spokesperson for the Atiku-Okowa Presidential Campaign Council, Senator Dino Melaye, has claimed the Independent National Electoral Commission spent over N400billion on the presidential election he described as “a caricature show”. The spokesperson disclosed this in a video on Monday night. In the one minute 45 seconds video, the Melaye said that the whole concept of redesigning the naira was a deception. This is coming hours after the PDP leadership led by Senator Iyorchia Ayu, and other party chieftains stormed the headquarters of INEC to protest the declaration of the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Bola Tinubu, as…
NIGERIA’S secret police, the Department of State Services (DSS) on Monday formally launched its presence on various Social Media platforms. The service, in a terse statement, explained that the development became imperative to enhance engagement with citizens in the country. The statement, signed by its spokesman, Peter Afunanya, clarified that hitherto, the agency did not own or operate any social media account. According to Afunanya, the secret police’s official handles are; Twitter – @OfficialDSSNG; Facebook – OfficialDSSNG while its Instagram is also @OfficialDSSNG. Afunanya, who also made public his personal Twitter handle: @DrAfunanya_PNA, noted that all handles operated before March…
PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari has appointed the Managing Director, Access Bank PLC, Roosevelt Ogbonna, to the Presidential High-Level Advisory Council on Support to Women and Girls. This appointment comes on the heels of Access Bank PLC’s concerted contribution to women empowerment through access to adequate financing and literacy while promoting advocacy and specialised training. On his appointment, Ogbonna affirmed, “This feat signifies a more significant responsibility to ensure gender equality, equal access to opportunities and national development through purposeful long-term initiatives targeted at women. Being appointed by the Presidency signifies that we are doing something right at Access Bank and also…
TEN members of a family have died in a road accident along the Kaduna-Kachia highway while returning from a wedding in Kano State. The tragic accident happened near a village called Makyelli near Idon on their way to Kachia town around 5 pm on Sunday. Our source gathered that the victims, all male, were family members, among which were married men. It was gathered that the vehicles had a head-on collision with a lorry conveying firewood which led to their death. A resident of Kachia town who happened to know some of the victims, Isiyaku Musa Kachia told our source that…