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Late Osinachi's Nwachukwu's pastor, Paul Enenche, breaks his silence days after her passing

2022-04-15T12:58:00.000-07:00

Senior Pastor of Dunamis Church Abuja and the clergyman of late gospel singer, Osinachi Nwachukwu, Paul Enenche, has broken his silence days after her passing.

In a video shared on social media this evening, the clergyman said that Osinachi and her husband came two and a half months ago to complain of a chest infection and he did his best as her pastor to get her medical help until she died.

He said it was after her passing that he got wind of the series of abuse she allegedly suffered in the hands of her husband, Peter Nwachukwu.

Pastor Enenche said when he asked Osinachi's twin sister, her son, and even church members who knew about the physical abuse, they told him that late Osinachi would always beg them not to let the church leaders know what she was passing through and that she believed God will change him.

LIB

Respected and powerful people in Zamfara are behind banditry and killings - Gov. Matawalle says

2022-04-15T12:49:00.000-07:00

Zamfara State Governor Bello Matawalle has alleged that respected and powerful people are sponsoring terrorists in the state.

Zamfara State has suffered a series of bandit attacks in recent times.

On Tuesday, April 12, bandits abducted five female students of the College of Health Science and Technology, Tsafe, Zamfara State.

LIB

Over 4800 persons displaced by Plateau state attacks – Humanitarian Minister

2022-04-15T12:43:00.000-07:00

Internally displaced women and children gather at an IDP camp in the Garga Village in the Kanam Local Government Area of the Plateau state on April 12, 2022, after their houses were burnt down in the Kukawa Village during an attack by bandits. – President Muhammadu Buhari vowed on April 12, 2022, there would be no mercy for those behind the killings of more than a hundred people in a series of attacks in central Nigeria. Gunmen raided and ransacked a group of villages there, local sources said, in one of the worst attacks this year blamed on heavily armed criminal gangs. Condemning what he called the “heinous” killings, Buhari promised that the perpetrators would receive “no mercy”. (Photo by AFP)

The Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development Sadiya Umar Farouq, Wednesday said the attacks on five communities in Plateau state, by armed bandits on Monday displaced over 4800 women and children.

The communities are Kyaram, Gyambau, Dungur, Kukawa, Shuwaka villages under Garga District were attacked by armed bandits on Monday while scores were reportedly killed during the mayhem.

Farouq said the development was reported to the ministry by the Coordinator, National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) North Central Zonal office Jos, Mr Eugene Nyelong after profiling and assessment of victims.

The Guardian

Lagos nurse performs surgery on Edo bizwoman, victim dies

2022-04-15T12:34:00.002-07:00

Fatima Isa

The family of a businesswoman, Fatima Isa, have demanded justice after she died during a fibroid surgery at the Felobam Alpha Clinic in the Mafoluku area of Oshodi, Lagos State.

PUNCH Metro gathered that the victim, alongside her sister, Queen, left their hometown in Auchi, Edo State, and travelled down for the surgery at the medical facility.

When the sisters got to the hospital last Thursday, Fatima was admitted and Queen slept over at the hospital.

The Punch

Court sacks Ebonyi PDP chairman

2022-04-15T12:28:00.002-07:00

Federal High Court, Abuja, on Wednesday, ruled that the Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party in Ebonyi State, Mr Tochukwu Okorie, was not validly nominated to contest election into the position.

Delivering a ruling in the suit filed by Mr Silas Onu, challenging the election of Okorie, Justice Ahmed Mohammed held that Okorie was indolent in submitting his nomination form and could not benefit from his wrongdoing.

He declared that Okorie submitted his nomination form on October 4, 2021 – days after the October 1, 2021 deadline stipulated in the guidelines on the conduct of congresses.

The Punch

Relief as Niger community gets free electricity after 100 years

2022-04-15T12:21:00.002-07:00

A community in Gbako Local Government Area of Niger State has received a free 90kw hybrid mini-grid to provide free electricity for over 305 households.

The mini-grid which was donated to the Gbanga community by Engie Energy Access was commissioned on Wednesday by the Niger State Governor, Abubakar Bello.

Speaking during the launch of the mini-grid, the Managing Director of Engie Energy Access, Bankole Cardoso, noted that the provision of electricity to the said community marked its first encounter with power supply.

He added that the power supply which had been providing electricity for the people of Gbangba since November 2021 empowered over 300 consumers.

The Punch

Plateau massacre: Bandits shot, beheaded victims in their homes —Survivors

2022-04-15T12:16:00.000-07:00

Following the massacre of 78 persons in some Plateau communities on Sunday, the residents have fled the affected areas to homes of relations in safer communities in Garga area of Dengi, headquarters of Kanam Local Government Area.

Some survivors of the attack, which also led to the burning down of scores of houses, also said, yesterday, that their communities were attacked through the land donated for ranching in the areas.

Though mourning their loved ones, who had since been given mass burial, the survivors said they had to leave for fear of further attacks.

Vanguard

NDLEA Intercepts 101 Parcels of Cocaine in Children Duvets at Lagos Airport

2022-04-11T12:03:00.001-07:00

No less than 101 parcels of cocaine concealed in eight children duvets have been intercepted by operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos.

According to a statement yesterday by the spokesman of the anti-narcotics agency, Femi Babafemi, the illicit drug was brought into the country by a 52-year-old Brazilian returnee, Akudirinwa Uchenna.

He said Uchenna was arrested on Saturday at the D-Arrival Hall of the Lagos airport upon his return from Sao Paulo, Brazil via Doha aboard Qatar Airline flight, noting that the the 101 parcels of the class A drug with a gross weight of 13.2 kilogrammes were recovered from his only check-in bag.

ThisDay

Plateau attacks: Over 90 killed, 70 abducted, scores injured, more than 100 homes burnt

2022-04-11T12:00:00.000-07:00

Following the attack on some communities in Kanam, Bassa and Barkin Ladi LGAs of Plateau State, over 90 people are feared to have been killed, over 70 abducted, scores injured and more than 100 homes set ablaze in a week.

DAILY POST gathered from locals in the aforementioned council that Kukawa, Gyanbahu, Dungur and Keram villages were the communities attacked, that suspected bandits have killed over 78 people, over 70 abducted and over 100 homes set ablaze, all in Kanam LGA of the state.

According to a resident of one of the affected villages, Bala Adam, the incident occurred around 3pm on Sunday, saying, “Gunmen came around 3pm and started shooting sporadically, it was unbelievable, as if it was a dream.

Daily Post

Rivers APC in renewed movement — Peterside

2022-04-11T11:51:00.003-07:00

A chieftain of All Progressives Congress, APC, in Rivers State, and leading aspirant for the governorship ticket of the party in the state, Dr. Dakuku Peterside, has declared that the party was in a renewed movement.

Peterside, weekend, at the party’s Special Thanksgiving Service held at the Adokiye Amiesimaka Stadium, Port Harcourt, said APC in Rivers State looks unstoppable in its goal of winning the presidential, governorship and all other elective positions in the state in 2023.

Peterside expressed happiness that APC in the state was on the right path of recovery and victory to end the alleged “sad breast-pocket governance style of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in the state.”

Vanguard

DELTA 2023: Ball back to Okowa, Ibori, Uduaghan

2022-04-11T11:48:00.000-07:00

The reality in Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Delta State now is that no one leader can produce the governorship standard-bearer of the party alone and declares from his bedroom that heaven will not fall.

Even the incumbent Governor and Leader of the party, Senator Ifeanyi Okowa, cannot palm off his choice on other leaders and stakeholders and go to sleep, not to talk of ex-governor and his political mentor, Chief James Ibori, imposing his celebrated choice, as things stand today in the state.

Similarly, you may not accurately configure Ibori’s stance on affairs of Delta PDP without examining the position of his successor, Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan, who handed over power to Okowa in 2015. Uduaghan remains a very sturdy force in the party and there is fundamentally no move Ibori makes that he is not aware of or party to.

Vanguard

Yahaya Bello and his 2,000 millionaires

2022-04-11T11:45:00.002-07:00

Numerous social media users on Facebook, Instagram and other platforms are asking Kogi State Governor, Yahaya Bello, to show the world the thousands of young millionaires his administration made out of Kogi youths.

The governor on Friday stated that his administration had turned no fewer than 2,000 persons in the state into millionaires. Bello made this known in Abuja at the ongoing “Second Annual GYB Seminar for Nigeria’s Political and Crime Correspondents”.

Hardly had the statement hit social media than the governor started trending with many commentators asking him to prove his claims. “2,000 millionaires in Kogi? Gov pls where are they? They must show love oo,” a commentator, @Lookma, said.

The Nation

Criminals Attacking Anambra Come From Other South-East States – Governor Soludo

2022-04-11T11:42:00.000-07:00

Governor Chukwuma Soludo of Anambra State has condemned the recent attacks launched by unknown gunmen on citizens of the state.

SaharaReporters had reported how gunmen on Thursday, set on fire the secretariat of Aguata Local Government Area of Anambra State.

It was learnt that several buildings, including administrative blocks and parked vehicles, were among the facilities torched.

Reacting, Soludo said the criminals who perpetrated the act were not from Anambra but from neighbouring South-East states according to information from those arrested.

Sahara Reporters

Obiano’s wife picks APGA nomination form for Senate

2022-04-08T07:38:00.005-07:00

Wife of the immediate past Governor of Anambra State, Mrs Ebele Obiano, has picked the APGA nomination form to contest for Anambra North in the senate in the next election.

This is coming few hours after the Chief of Staff to the former governor, Mr Primus Odili, declared interest to run for the same seat.

According to a statement yesterday by the Senior Special Adviser to Willie Obiano, Mr Uloka Chuks, Ebelechukwu Obiano, was accompanied to the All Progressive Grand Alliance National Secretariat in Abuja by party members, stakeholders, transition committee chairmen and numerous supporters, where she purchased her nomination form.

Vangurad

Powershift debate: PDP shouldn’t lose Abia, Iyorchia Ayu tells Ikpeazu, aggrieved party chieftains

2022-04-06T14:40:00.002-07:00

As the dust raised by the zoning formula of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party PDP in Abia State is yet to settle, the National Chairman of PDP, Senator Iyorchia Ayu, has advised Gov. Okezie Ikpeazu and aggrieved members of the party to quickly resolve their differences to avoid the state sliding into the hands of the opposition.

PDP had last week, announced the zoning of the party’s 2023 governorship ticket to both Abia North and Abia Central Senatorial Districts.

But several party chieftains including former Senate President Senator Adolphus Wabara; immediate Secretary to State Government SSG Dr Eme Okoro; among others have kicked against the “strange zoning” which some alleged, was a ploy to actualise the alleged “Ngwa self succession agenda”.

Vanguard

2023: God Will Give Nigeria Best Person As President – Governor El-Rufai Tells Tinubu, Avoids Endorsement

2022-04-06T14:36:00.002-07:00

Governor Nasir El-Rufai of Kaduna State says Nigeria is at “critical crossroads” and God will give the country the best person fit to be president.

El-Rufai said this while receiving former Lagos Governor, Bola Tinubu, who was in the state, on a condolence visit over the bandits’ attack on a Kaduna-bound train.

The governor told Tinubu that he was aware of his presidential ambition, but added that he was looking unto God to help Nigeria choose the best leader come 2023.

Sahara Reporters

Supreme Court okays INEC’s de-registration of 22 political parties

2022-03-25T11:45:00.000-07:00

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2022-03-25T11:32:00.002-07:00

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World Bank rates Niger best in rural road rehabilitation

2020-07-12T07:06:00.000-07:00

The World Bank and the French Development Agency for Nigeria has commended Niger State for the rehabilitation and maintenance of rural road network across 120 communities in the state.

In a letter of commendation addressed to Governor Abubakar Sani Bello, jointly signed by the World Bank Country Director for Nigeria, Mr. Shubham Chaudhuri and the Country Director of French Development Agency for Nigeria, Mr. Pascal Grangereau, the development partners rated the government of Niger State as the best in the Rural Access and Mobility Project (RAMP-2).

In the letter, the development partners noted that The physical and financial progress of RAMP 2 in Niger State is at 84 and 91 per cent while a total of 176km of roads has been rehabilitated in the state, including another 404km under rehabilitation, in addition to 29 river crossings, consisting of culverts and bridges, which have also have been constructed |>>>NIGER

2,191 COVID-19 Cases Yet To Turn Up For Admission – Lagos Govt

2020-07-12T07:03:00.002-07:00

The Lagos State government has called on residents to take responsibility in the fight against coronavirus (COVID-19) in the state.

This comes as the Commissioner for Health in Lagos, Professor Akin Abayomi, decried the action of some residents who are not supporting the government’s effort to flatten the curve of the virus in the state.

In a series of tweets on Friday, Professor Abayomi revealed that a total of 2,191 active cases of COVID-19 in various communities have yet to turn up for admission in the government’s treatment centres |>>>LAGOS

Benue boat mishap: One family lost 5 children, another triplets

2020-07-07T06:48:00.002-07:00

Five more bodies were yesterday, recovered from River Benue by local fishermen and the Police taking the number of victims of Sunday’s boat mishap on River Benue at Ijaha community, an outskirt of Makurdi Local Government Area, LGA, to 26.

The victims said to be children of Mobile Police personnel of MOPOL 13 in Makurdi and members of the youth wing of Evangelical Church Winning All, ECWA, Adeke Makurdi, were on their way to an annual church retreat for youths when the boat which they were travelling in capsized midstream due to overloading.

The victims were crossing from Agbor, Innyongu Area of Wadata to a village in an island opposite Kwaghter called Ole-Gabu, for the Annual Church Retreat |>>>BENUE

Bandits Kill 15 Farmers in Katsina Community

2020-07-07T06:45:00.003-07:00

Bandits monday killed at least 15 farmers at Yar Gamji village in Batsari Local Government Area (LGA) of Katsina State.

The farmers were said to be working on their farmland when the bandits attacked about 10a.m and killed them.

The Spokesman for the Katsina State Police Command, SP Gambo Isah, confirmed the incident |>>>KATSINA

Ogun Police arrest two fleeing robbers, one herbalist

2020-06-30T05:43:00.000-07:00

Two fleeing members of an armed robbery syndicate and their herbalist have been arrested by men of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad attached to the Ogun State Command.

The armed robbers reportedly fled their hideouts and escaped arrest three weeks ago when the operatives of Special Anti-Robbery Squad stormed their hideout at the Adesan area of Mowe, Obafemi-Owode Local Government Area of Ogun State

The Police Public Relations Officer in the state, Abimbola Oyeyemi, disclosed this in a statement on Monday |>>>OGUN

Court restores four demoted profs in Bayelsa varsity

2020-06-30T05:31:00.003-07:00

The National Industrial Court, Yenagoa Judicial Division, has ordered the authorities of Federal University, Otuoke, Bayelsa State, to reinstate four professors who were demoted by the institution.

Justice Bashir Attahiru Alkali, in a judgment on the case on Monday also awarded N20m to the affected professors as damages against the management of FUO.

The four dons are Steve Nwabuzor, Felina Nwadike, Sepribo Lawson-Jack, and Evans Eze, who were the claimants in the case that lasted three years |>>>BAYELSA

Naira Marley Concert: Court Unseals Jabi Lake Mall

2020-06-23T08:40:00.003-07:00

The FCT Mobile Court, Tuesday morning ordered the unsealing of Jabi Lake Mall, Abuja, which was locked on June 14 after the management contravened the Presidential Task Force (PTF) protocols on COVID-19 control by allowing its premises to be used for a drive in concert featuring Naira Marley.

The Mobile Court Magistrate, Idayat Akonni, who earlier gave the 14-day shutdown order, considered a plea by the management of the Mall, asking the court to set aside the earlier ruling in the overriding economic interest of the retailers, employees and their dependents.

Akonni said the management erred by allowing the the upscale mall to be used for the concert in violation of the PTF guidelines on COVID-19 prevention |>>>ABUJA