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Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos State, has said Bola Tinubu, an All Progressives Congress, APC, presidential aspirant will use a “magic wand” to fix Nigeria’s problems if elected in 2023. Sanwo-Olu said Tinubu knows the issues plaguing the country, hence has the solution. Speaking in Lagos yesterday, the governor said Nigerians should give the APC National Leader a chance to be president next year. He urged lawmakers in Lagos State to work towards ensuring that Tinubu becomes Nigeria’s next president. He said, “Tinubu knows the issues plaguing our nation like the back of his hands and he has the magic wand to fix it.

2023: My wife will contest Senate seat, says Obiano Anambra State Governor, Willie Obiano, has said that his wife, Ebelechukwu, would contest for Anambra North Senatorial District in the 2023 general election. Obiano disclosed this while addressing members of Nigeria Union Journalists, Anambra State Chapter, at his country home, Aguleri, in the Anambra East Local Government Area of the state, on Saturday. Mrs Obiano will be contesting against the incumbent Senator in the zone, Stella Oduah, of the All Progressives Congress.  

Civil Society Groups declare 22nd February 2022 National Day of Protest on the Electoral Bill Aware that on the 31st January 2022, the National Assembly transmitted the Electoral Bill 2022 to the President for assent after expeditiously reworking the bill to meet the President's expectations. Also, aware the bill allows electronic transmission of results, strengthens INEC’s financial independence and empowers the commission to reject falsified election results. Further aware, the bill, when signed, requires INEC to issue Notice of Election not later than 360 days before the day appointed for an election. Therefore, the President has to give assent to the bill on or before 22nd February 2022 if the dates announced for the 2023 elections are to be maintained. Concerned that the delay in granting presidential assent to the Electoral Bill, 2022 will create legal uncertainties that threaten the integrity of the off-cycle elections in Ekiti, Osun, and the 2023 general election The civil ...

Reno Omokri:  1 am in Ethiopia, where I went to an Ethiopian 0rthodox Church. The priest asked the congregation to pray and I closed my eyes to pray. The priest came to me and asked in Amharic ‘why are you closing your eyes?’ I said ‘because we are praying’. He said ‘where do you see that in Scripture’. I was speechless. Ethiopians are the oldest Christians in the world, bar none. They became Christians a year after Christ’s death (Acts 8:38). Jews and Ethiopian Christians do not close their eyes to pray. The practice is a European tradition, originating from the practice of making petitions to kings, of which protocol demanded that your eyes be closed. So many traditions we think are Scriptural, are not!  

Fake police inspector arrested in Ogun A 38 year old man Akinyemi Thomas was on the 17th of February 2022 arrested by men of Ogun state police command for impersonating a police officer. The suspect was arrested while policemen attached to Sagamu divisional headquarters were on routine patrol of their area with the DPO, CSP Godwin Idehai and they sighted the suspect in full police camouflage uniform at under the bridge along Lagos Ibadan expressway. His conduct raised the suspicion of the policemen who then stopped to question him. Immediately the patrol vehicle stopped, the suspect took to his heels. He was then chased and apprehended. On interrogation, he confessed been a dismissed policeman but using the uniform to extort unsuspecting members of the public. Recovered from him aside from the uniform is a police warrant card. Confirming the arrest, the spokesperson of the state police command, DSP Abimbola Oyeyemi, said the state commissioner of police, CP Lanre Bankole, has ordered a...

The EFCC, Gombe Zonal Command, on February 15, 2022, secured the conviction of a rice dealer in Gombe State, Ibrahim Yusuf. He was sentenced to two years imprisonment by Justice Doraboh Sakkiam of the Gombe High Court, Gombe, on one count charge of cheating contrary to Section 320 of the Penal Code Law and punishable under Section 322 of same Law. The convict was alleged to have sometime in October 2020 obtained the aggregate sum of N5,350,000.00 (Five Million, Three Hundred and Fifty Thousand Naira) from one Usman Umar Bello by falsely representing to him that the money was payment for the purchase of 520 bags of paddy rice but converted same to his personal use. He pleaded guilty to the charge when it was read to him.  

Nri Ancient Kingdom Celebrates One Thousand And Twenty Third Igu Aro Cultural Festival The Nri Ancient Kingdom in Anaocha Local Government Area has celebrated its one-thousand-and-twenty-third Igu Aro Ndi Igbo cultural festival 2022. The Igu Aro festival which took place at the palace of Eze Tabansi Udene, the keeper of Nri sacred artefacts, attracted people from all walks of life. The “Igu Aro Igbo” or Igbo calendar, is a lunar calender, which measures space and time using the phases of the moon. The calendar, which shares semblance with what obtains in China and Israel, is shorter than the conventional solar year which has three hundred and sixty-five days. Unlike the Gregorian calendars, the Igbo calender has thirteen months in a year, seven weeks in a month and four days representing Eke, Orie, Afor, and Nkwo, in addition to one extra day at the end of the year in the last month. Performing the Igu Aro ritual, the Chairman of ADAMA Council, Chief Emma Enemuo, said that Nri, being t...

Catholic Church expels Fr. Magnus Ebere (E Dey Work), says Priest Not working for Church and God According to the Church, Fr. Ebere deceitfully sneaked into the Archdiocese and started operating an illegal ministry without the knowledge of the Ecclesiastical authority The Church further warned Catholic faithfuls to stay away from his ministry as it is inimical to their faith. One more photo.   

 Sule Matthew, First Class Graduate Shot Dead By Unknown Gun Men In Anambra Sule Matthew, a first-class graduate of Information and Media Studies of Faculty of Communication, Bayero University Kano (BUK) has been shot dead while traveling to Anambra State. Matthew was killed with other passengers at Ekwulobia one of the largest cities in Anambra State. A course mate of Mr Mathew who also interned with him at PRNigeria, Salis Manager, as saying that the deceased was billed to participate in the forthcoming orientation programme of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) before his death. “Sule Matthew was among the first set of students to intern with PRNigeria Centre in Kano in 2019. He lost his father in June, few months to his final examination, and graduated as the overall best student of our Department in August 2021 and was due to enroll for mandatory NYSC programme next week,” Salis said “He was on a 6-month non-residential fellowship programme that trains, and mentors young ...

NDLEA intercepts counterfeit $4.7million cash in Abuja ...Arrests nursing mum 3 weeks after bail on same drug offence Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, have foiled attempt by a syndicate to steal at least N2.7 billion from the Nigerian economy by pushing into circulation fake $4.7 million cash. The operatives had in the early hours of Friday 18th February 2022 intercepted a consignment sent from Lagos to Abuja at Abaji area of the Federal Capital Territory. A controlled delivery of the parcelled counterfeit US dollars totalling $4, 760, 000.00 led to the arrest of a principal suspect, 52-year-old Abdulmumini Maikasuwa.  The seizure followed intelligence received by the FCT Command of the Agency detailing the movement of the cash and the vehicle conveying it. Meanwhile, Chairman/Chief Executive of NDLEA, Brig. Gen. Mohamed Buba Marwa (Retd) has directed that both the cash and the suspect in custody be transferred to the Economic and Financial Crimes Comm...

PRESS RELEASE IGP COMMENDS COP FOR CLINCHING THE WBF SUPER BANTAMWEIGHT FEMALE TITLE BELT - Charges personnel on talent development   The Inspector-General of Police, IGP Usman Alkali Baba, psc(+), NPM, fdc, on behalf of the entire Police Force, has congratulated the famous Police Constable, Mary Yetunde Aina (aka Iron Abbey), on her victory at the international championship bout against United Kingdom’s Laura Pain, on her soil, to clinch the World Boxing Foundation (WBF) International Super Bantamweight title belt at City Coast Centre in Portslade, East Sussex, London on Friday February 18, 2022. Abbey, who serves in the Lagos State Police Command, has distinguished herself greatly in the boxing sphere by winning several awards and recommendations as a Boxing Referee at the amateur level. She is equally a renowned boxing judge and professional boxer with a clean sheet and several amateur wins to her name. The IGP, who intends to receive the champion in Nigeria on arrival soon, com...