IN a significant legal victory for road users across Nigeria, the Court of Appeal sitting in Owerri, Imo State, has declared that the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) has no legal authority to confiscate a driver’s licence, vehicle, or any related document without due legal process. News Point Nigeria reports that the appellate court also affirmed the violation of fundamental rights of a Nigerian motorist, Dr. Emmanuel Ugochukwu Shebbs, by FRSC officials during an encounter in 2020, awarding him ₦10 million in damages for the unlawful seizure and harassment. The court delivered its ruling in Appeal No: CA/OW/199/2022 between FRSC,…
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THE African Democratic Congress (ADC) is facing an internal crisis barely two years before the 2027 general election, as key political actors within the coalition party are reportedly threatening to withdraw over former Vice President Atiku Abubakar’s insistence on clinching the presidential ticket. News Point Nigeria gathered from reliable sources that top stakeholders including former Kaduna State Governor, Nasir El-Rufai and Peter Obi, the Labour Party’s presidential flagbearer in 2023 are becoming increasingly uneasy with what they perceive as Atiku’s “personalised agenda” within the coalition. While Atiku has not formally declared his candidacy, his strategic positioning within the ADC and…
YUSUF Datti Baba-Ahmed, who ran alongside Peter Obi in the 2023 presidential election under the Labour Party (LP), has publicly acknowledged Julius Abure as the party’s National Chairman, a move that distances him from Obi’s current faction. News Point Nigeria report that appearing on a national television programme on Wednesday, Baba-Ahmed cited the Supreme Court ruling and the Independent National Electoral Commission’s (INEC) recognition of Abure as the basis for his stance. His comments followed his attendance at the Abure-led LP National Executive Committee (NEC) meeting in Abuja on Monday. Although he previously participated in the factional NEC meeting held…
PRESSURE is mounting in Akwa Ibom State as public sector workers, including university lecturers, teachers, and civil servants, have embarked on a strike to protest the nonpayment of their salaries for the months of May and June. News Point Nigeria reports that the backlash comes just one month after Governor Umo Eno defected from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to the All Progressives Congress (APC) in a widely publicised event in Uyo. His political switch was justified at the time as a strategic move to “unite the state” and “secure federal support” for key developmental projects, such as the long-delayed…
THE Labour Party has disclosed plans to expel its former presidential candidate, Peter Obi, over his involvement in an opposition coalition to unseat President Bola Tinubu. The party’s National Publicity Secretary, Abayomi Arabambi, during a live appearance on Channels Television’s The Morning Brief on Tuesday monitored by News Point Nigeria, said Obi’s continued engagement with the coalition while still identifying as a Labour Party member was “unconstitutional” and “unacceptable.” “Let me make it very clear: we are convening a NEC [National Executive Council] meeting where he [Obi] will be expelled. It is unconstitutional for you to belong to two political…
OPPOSITION arrowhead Peter Obi says he will contest for the office of the President in 2027, dismissing rumours that he will be running mate for Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). “I’m going to contest for the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, and I believe I am qualified for it,” Obi, the Labour Party’s 2023 presidential candidate, said on Sunday Politics programme monitored by News Point Nigeria. When asked whether he was considering becoming the running mate to Atiku, in the 2027 election, Obi said, “This is not in play; nobody has ever discussed that. People…
A HIGH Court of Kenya sitting in Nairobi, the East African country, has declared the detention and transfer of the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, from Kenya to Nigeria in June 2021 as unlawful and illegal. The court also awarded compensatory damages of 10 million Kenyan shillings against the Kenyan Government for gross violations of Kanu’s fundamental rights. Delivering judgment, the presiding judge, Justice E. Mwita, faulted both the Nigerian and Kenyan governments for a rendition of Kanu in gross violations of his rights as guaranteed by the constitutions of the respective countries. Justice Nwita…
THE Anambra State Police Command has confirmed the killing of two persons and the abduction of two others during a cult-related shooting in Oko, in the Orumba North Local Government Area of the state. The town is home to the Federal Polytechnic, Oko. In a statement on Friday, the Public Relations Officer of the Command, Tochukwu Ikenga, said that two other persons, including a female, were rescued from the scene of the shooting and are currently receiving treatment in a hospital. The statement added that a joint security force has taken over the scene and police operatives are already acting…
THE Anambra State Police Command has confirmed the death of a police inspector, Okolie Amechi, who was accidentally shot by his 10-year-old son. It said that the incident occurred on Sunday evening. It explained that the son, who was unaware of the state of the AK 47 assigned to Amechi, pulled the trigger and struck his father in the back. The Command also said the the inspector’s second child was struck in the hand due to the accidental discharge. “The Anambra State Police Command expressed sadness over the unfortunate incident that resulted in the death of Police Inspector Okolie Amechi…
THE Labour Party’s 2023 presidential candidate, Peter Obi, has warned that Nigeria will keep facing failed leadership if citizens continue to vote along tribal lines rather than based on competence and capacity. Obi maintained that where competence, capacity, character and compassion are non-existent, there is no magic one can do to improve the leadership of any nation. The former Anambra State governor, who said this in a post on his official X handle on Monday, noted that Nigerians have seen what leadership without these qualities has done to the country. “Leadership of a nation is such that it’s either succeeding…
RESIDENTS of Owerri, the Imo State capital city, on Friday, stayed indoors in compliance with a sit-at-home order by the outlawed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) to honour fallen Biafra heroes. From Douglas Road, Wethedral Street, Government House, IMSU Junction, up to Orlu Road, everywhere was empty despite the heavy presence of security operatives to safeguard lives and properties. IPOB had fixed May 30 every year as Remembrance Day for fallen Biafra heroes and directed no business or any activity should take place on that day. In compliance, workers, traders, students, and transporters stayed indoors. A drive across Tetlow, Wethedral,…
NO fewer than six children between the ages of one to six have reportedly died of an outbreak of a strange disease in Mbutu Community in Aboh Mbaise Council Area of Imo State. The Executive Chairman of the Council, Barr. Henry Alaribe, who made the disclosure in a press statement signed by his spokesman, Dike Godspower on Tuesday, said that there are new recorded cases, though not yet confirmed. Alaribe said that to forestall further spread of the disease and ensure the safety of other children, all schools in the area have been temporarily closed, while the May 27 Children’s…
IN a bid to address the crisis rocking the Peoples Democratic Party, (PDP), the party’s Special Reconciliation Committee chaired by a former President of the Senate, Bukola Saraki, Friday, met with the Governor of Enugu State and leader of the party in the South East region, Peter Mbah. Other members of the committee present at the meeting, which was held behind closed doors at the Government House, Enugu, were a former governor of Bayelsa State, Senator Seriake Dickson, and a former governor of Gombe State, Ibrahim Dankwambo. The leaders of the PDP in the zone had in a communiqué issued…
FORMER Labour Party presidential candidate Peter Obi has denied allegations linking him to a covert meeting with President Bola Tinubu in Rome and a purported ₦225 billion debt crisis involving Fidelity Bank. Obi was responding to a report suggesting that his May 9 trip to Rome was not ceremonial but rather a political manoeuvre intended to secure the financial future of Fidelity Bank. The report, published by Sahara Reporters, claimed Obi was in Rome to meet President Tinubu privately in a bid to address Fidelity Bank’s mounting liabilities, allegedly approaching ₦225 billion, as awarded in various court judgements. “Peter Obi’s…
THE Department of State Services (DSS) has distanced itself from the controversial arrest of the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, in Kenya, insisting its operations are limited strictly to Nigeria’s territorial borders. This emerged during cross-examination of a prosecution witness, with code name BBB, an intelligence officer from the DSS. The cross examination of the prosecution witness resumed shortly after by Paul Erokoro, who conducted proceedings on behalf of the defence. Responding to questions, whether the DSS can be influenced by politicians or ministers, the witness stated that the agency is under the office…
AMID growing rumours of a possible coalition among opposition leaders to unseat President Bola Tinubu in 2027, the presidential candidate of the Labour Party in the 2023 election, Peter Obi, has said that the only coalition he is interested in is the one against hunger, poverty, and the terrible state of healthcare and education in Nigeria. Obi, who visited the Bishop of the Anglican Diocese of Kubwa in Abuja on Monday, emphasised that he was not desperate for any position. “I am in a coalition against hunger, in coalition against poverty, coalition against bad state of health. Politics for me…
A TRAGIC incident in Ibagwa-Aka, Igbo-Eze South Local Government Area of Enugu State, has left a family grieving and the community stunned, following the death of four siblings allegedly killed by a self-proclaimed spiritualist. The victims — Kamsiyochukwu Ezema (7), Ezinne Ezema (6), Ujunwa Ezema (5), and Chinedu Ezema (2) — were reportedly murdered with a pestle by a pastor affiliated with a Sabbath church operating in the area. While the motive behind the killings remains unclear, local authorities have begun investigations and pledged to bring those responsible to justice. Chairman of Igbo-Eze South Local Government Area, Mr. Ferdinand Ukwueze,…
PRESIDENT Bola Tinubu, on Sunday, shared a moment with the Labour Party presidential candidate in the 2023 election, Peter Obi, and a former Ekiti State Governor, Dr Kayode Fayemi, during Pope Leo XIV’s inauguration mass in Rome. The Special Adviser to the President on Information and Strategy, Bayo Onanuga, revealed this in a post on X on Sunday. The meeting between Tinubu and Obi comes almost two years after the fiercely contested February 2023 presidential election, in which Tinubu, the candidate of the All Progressives Congress, was declared the winner, defeating Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party, Obi and…
THE Independent National Electoral Commission has released the personal particulars of candidates for the 2025 Anambra State governorship election. The publication of the particulars followed the conclusion of party primaries by 16 political parties and the upload of candidates’ nomination forms for the election by the deadline of 6 pm on May 12, 2025, when the dedicated portal automatically shut down. This was disclosed in a statement by the National Commissioner and Chairman, Information and Voter Education Committee, Sam Olumekun, on Saturday, titled ‘PUBLICATION OF PERSONAL PARTICULARS OF CANDIDATES FOR THE 2025 ANAMBRA STATE GOVERNORSHIP ELECTION’. The Anambra State governorship…
ONE person has been declared dead, while six were reported injured in a gas cylinder explosion at the plumbing market, along Uga Street, near Onitsha Bridge Head Market in Anambra State. A statement by the Police Public Relations Officer, Anambra State Police Command, Awka, SP Tochukwu Ikenga, on Saturday, said the incident occurred on Friday, while a welder was working on metal with carbide. “Police Operatives attached to the Onitsha Head Bridge Divisional Police Headquarters on the 16th of May 2025 complemented the rescue efforts by good-spirited individuals on the six victims of a gas cylinder explosion at a plumbing…