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My brother’s disapperance after Sunday service shocking – Sibling A Lagos-based graphic designer and digital marketer, Kingsley Ukanwoke, speaks to ABDULLATEEF FOWEWE about his missing brother and the steps he has taken to locate him What is your relationship with the missing man? I’m Kingsley Ukanwoke, I hail from Umuahia South in Abia State, but I am based in Lagos State. I am a graphic designer /digital marketer for a financial company in Lekki, Lagos. I am the immediate elder brother of the missing individual, Edward Ukanwoke, 27 years old. When was the last time you saw or communicated with your missing brother? That was on December 21, 2023, in church during our Christmas Carol service at the Redeemed Christian Church of God, City of Favour Parish, Agboju, Lagos. Can you provide details about the circumstances surrounding your brother’s disappearance? Before relocating to Lagos to stay with me, he had been undergoing treatment for a mental health issue that arose in 2021. By June...

Igbo abused, called greedy after playing a major role in shaping Lagos, Abuja— Iwuanyanwu •Vows Truth and Reconciliation Committee will expose malicious falsehood against Igbo •‘Why I think Lagos demolitions were politically motivated’ …demands compensation for victims •Laments Eze in Lagos detained indefinitely for mentioning IPoB •‘No way Nigeria can survive without restructuring’ •Speaks on what he discussed with Obasanjo during Owerri visit Chief Emmanuel Iwuanyanwu is the President-General of Ohanaeze Ndigbo. In this monitored interview, the leader of the Igbo apex socio-cultural organization says he thinks the demolition of properties belonging mainly to Igbo people in Abule Ado area of Lagos State was politically influenced. Iwuanyanwu also speaks on former President Olusegun Obasanjo’s visit to him, alleged marginalization of Ndigbo in Nigeria, restructuring, detention of Eze Nwajiaku in Lagos as well as the reason Ohanaeze leadership set up the Peace and Reconciliation Committ...

Bandits Raping Wives Of My Subjects, Monarch Raises Alarm Pioneer ruler of Dnata chiefdom located in Tafa Town along the Abuja-Kaduna highway, Chief Bitrus James, has lamented that bandits have sacked territorial communities under his rulership. James disclosed this during an interview with Daily Trust as he cried out that the activities of bandits have restrained his subjects from farming. The monarch’s community was carved out of Kagarko by the immediate past Kaduna State governor, Malam Nasir el-Rufai, in 2022. He mentioned six communities – Gadunda, Kwakulu, Jida, Isa, Kuyeri and Mpape that are currently sacked by bandits. Tension as bandits kill 4 captives in Kaduna Bandits abduct 23 in FCT The chief said bandits ravaged Gadunda on December 2, 2023 and ordered villagers to leave and only to return if they paid N10 million. He added that some herders close to the hamlet who had initially ignored the order had to flee the community when the bandits started slaughtering their chicken...

Uproar as CBN announces Abuja office decongestion affecting 1,533 staff There is a growing concern among workers as the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, commenced the decongestion of its head office in Abuja, affecting 1,533 staff. A circular dated January 12, 2024, signed by the Director of the Human Resources Department of CBN to all staff, said the move was necessitated by safety concerns and the need to boost efficiency. According to the apex bank, the action plan focuses on optimizing the utilization of other banks’ premises. It added that the headquarters occupancy level of 4,233 significantly exceeds the optimal capacity of 2,700 for the head office building. Consequently, 1,533 staff will be transferred from its head office to other CBN facilities within Abuja and Lagos and understaffed branches. To this end, about 80 per cent of the Banking Supervision Department of the CBN staff have been transferred to Lagos State. The official reason is that the head offices of the banks they’...

 A 72-year-old man mauled by dogs trying to save his own dogs they had attacked! Jerry Schlich was walking his dogs near his Belleville, Illinois home when a big white and tan dog (an Akita mix possibly) came out of nowhere and began attacking his dogs.  Jerry said his dog, Hank, was literally screaming out in pain and fear. Jerry did what any loving dog owner would do, he jumped in the fray kicking and punching in an attempt to save his dogs. This is when the aggressive dog and his dog cohort turned on Jerry. They were able to pin Jerry to the ground and deliver multiple bites. Jerry suffered serious tears and puncture wounds in the attack. Doctors contend that a child would not have survived. Now St. Clair County Animal Control officers are looking for the dogs and owner. Jerry and others in the neighborhood say that both dogs had collars with tags on them. Others in the neighborhood reported seeing the dogs bloody before from having attacked something or someone. If you liv...

STATE HOUSE PRESS RELEASE PRESIDENT TINUBU ESTABLISHES SPECIAL PRESIDENTIAL PANEL ON SOCIAL INVESTMENT PROGRAMMES Sequel to President Bola Tinubu's six-week suspension of the four (4) programmes under the National Social Investment Programmes Agency (NSIPA), President Tinubu has approved the establishment of a Special Presidential Panel, which will be led by the Coordinating Minister of the Economy and Honourable Minister of Finance, Mr. Wale Edun. This Special Presidential Panel is tasked with immediately undertaking a comprehensive review and audit of existing financial frameworks and policy guidelines of the social investment programmes with a view to implementing a total re-engineering of the financial architecture of the programmes with detailed modification to procedures guiding the programmes' implementation moving forward. The Special Presidential Panel, which is comprised of ministers representing strategic sectors and will ensure a multi-disciplinary approach to the r...

 Nigerian Lady Ihechiluru Ukwu calls out woman for telling her that her Size is now “Too Big” as a Pastors Daughter   She wrote; A Nigerian lady Ihechiluru Ukwu has called out a woman Nkechinyere Ogbonna for inboxing her and telling her that her size is now too big as a Pastors daughter. “Yesterday while I was skipping under the freezing temperature, it wasn’t funny at all, I had to put on about three clothes, plus my hand gloves and all to be able to endure the cold for 30 minutes just because keeping fit and staying healthy has become part of me and I have done so well for my self in the last few years, dropped off some kgs and still going on, those who know me personally and have my WhatsApp contact can attest to the fact that I have been consistent even in the cold since we came here” “I have never called out anyone on this platform but this one, I won’t let it slide” “Now I open my Facebook messenger this morning just to see this message coming from someone. This is ...

Sunday Oliseh was clueless as Super Eagles coach. He's my w0rst manager  The players never understood anything he was doing, and he did not know what he was doing. He was just confused because he just came in and destroyed the team togetherness. He was so bitter with everybody, jealous with everybody, and had no respect for speaking to anybody, whether the physio or anybody. -Mike Obi  

Kano: I didn’t reach agreement with Tinubu on Supreme Court ruling – Kwankwaso Presidential candidate of the New Nigeria People’s Party in the last general elections, Senator Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso, says he did not reach an agreement with President Bola Tinubu or anyone concerning the outcome of the Supreme Court verdict on the Kano State governorship election tussle.   Kwankwaso stated this while responding to the allegation that he had reached an agreement with Tinubu before the judgment. Supreme Court, on Friday, affirmed the NNPP’s Abba Kabir Yusuf as the duly elected governor of Kano after series of litigations. Kwankwaso l BBC Hausa, “What happened at the Supreme Court is a lesson for all of us. I know that I mean well for everyone. Throughout the period, I have not done anything to anyone. And anybody would reap what he sows. To the best of my knowledge, I have not reached an agreement with anybody. “All I know is that President Bola Ahmed Tinubu is my contemporary. I joined p...

I won’t be distracted by second term in 2026 – Ekiti Gov, Oyebanji Governor Biodun Oyebanji of Ekiti State has said he would not get distracted by underhand political schemings ahead of the 2026 governorship race in the state, describing the idea of a second term as the least of his worries for now. The Governor also said work on the 1.2 kilometres flyover to be constructed between Okeyinmi and Ijigbo roundabouts in Ado Ekiti would commence early in the year to help decongest the business district and give the state capital Ekiti a facelift. Oyebanji stated these on Saturday at the grand finale of the 2024 Week of Prayer organised by the Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN, in conjunction with the Ekiti State Government, held at Jibowu Hall, Government House, in Ado Ekiti. At the intercessional programme, prayers were offered for President Bola Ahmed Tinubu for the success of his economic policies and programmes as well as for the security and progress of the country. The Biodun Oyeb...

2027: Atiku declares readiness to lead coalition against Tinubu, APC The Peoples Democratic Party presidential candidate in the 2023 election, Atiku Abubakar, has declared readiness to lead a coalition of opposition parties to remove the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, come 2027. Atiku disclosed this in a congratulatory message to governors of the PDP, whose elections were upheld by the Supreme Court on Friday. In a statement signed by his Media Office in Abuja, Atiku described the decision of the court as good news for the people of Bauchi, Plateau, Cross River and Zamfara states, and indeed, a win for constitutional democracy. He reaffirmed his position that only a united opposition force can strengthen democracy in Nigeria. Atiku was quoted as saying, “I am as prepared as ever, to lead the charge, alongside all our leaders and Governors, for the good of our country.” According to him, “Where Justice is seen to have been substantially rendered, we, as patriots and citizens, wi...

VICE PRESIDENT LAI, WINS PRESIDENTIA ELECTION IN TAIWAN    Walliam Lai Chinge-te has won the presidential election in Taiwan. Lai, who is the current vice president, faced repeated attacks from China, which called him a dangerous separatist.  According to partial result the vice president took 40.2 percent of votes casted, from the Central Election Commission.  “I want to thank the Taiwanese people for writing a new chapter in our democracy,” Lai said in a victory speech where he thanked his two opponents for conceding. “We are telling the international community that between democracy and authoritarianism, we will stand on the side of democracy.” He added that hoped for a return to “healthy and orderly” exchanges with China, reiterating his desire for talks based on dignity and parity. The results were counted from 98 percent of polling stations across the island, according to the commission tally, which also showed that Hou had trailed with 33.4 percent of the vote...

Ribadu intervenes as FG resolves RTEAN, Lagos Gov’t 15-month dispute The Federal Government has resolved the crisis between the Road Transport Employers Association of Nigeria, RTEAN and Lagos State Government. It was gathered that peace move was brokered by the National Security Adviser, Nuhu Ribadu during a meeting with the leadership of the organised labour. Recall that for 15-months, the activities of the RTEAN were banned in Lagos state after the leadership crisis that engulfed the association. This led the state goverment to slam a ban on the association and subsequently appointed a 35-man Caretaker Committee to take over the activities of the union. However, the intervention of the office of the National Security Adviser has now brought an amicable resolution of all issues in dispute. RTEAN General Secretary, Comrade Yusuf Ibrahim Adeniyi, in a statement on Saturday, said certain resolutions were reached during the meeting between the Federal Government and organized labour that...

Nothing will change our loyalty to T.B. Joshua – Worshippers.  In the early hours of Monday, January 8, the British Broadcasting Corporation released a three-part documentary where former disciples of the founder of the Synagogue Church of All Nations, the late Prophet Temitope Balogun Joshua, popularly known as TB Joshua, accused the deceased prophet of various forms of physical abuse, manipulation, and performing fake miracles. They had also accused him of allegedly raping women, and orchestrating forced abortions in the church. Even before his death at the age of 57 in June 2021, two months after he was said to have suffered a stroke, the prophet had been plagued with many controversies. The former disciples, in the three-part documentary which lasted for over 50 minutes each, also accused the prophet of covering up the real reason behind the collapse of the church’s guest house in 2014. Official data pegs those killed in the collapse at 116 of which 84 persons were said to be S...

“Look for those you grew up with and help them” – Kanayo says, gifts friend he dug pit latrines with during his early days money:::: Veteran actor Kanayo O. Kanayo has shared advice with the public as he gifts an old friend he used to dig pit latrines in the past. The seasoned actor posted a video of himself with some family members while cooling off in his village. KOK continued by revealing that one of the men—the one seated next to him—had been his partner in their early days of hustle. He remembered digging pit latrines for people. The Kanayo underlined how important it is for people to constantly watch out for their childhood friends, regardless of whether they are superior to them or wealthier than them. He went on to give the man some cash which left him super-excited as he appreciated KOK for the kind gesture. Captioning the video, he wrote: “Look out for those you grew up with. Chased rats and did menial jobs with. You may have grown richer than them or in better health. Thank...

 Finally , an end to indiscriminate dumping of refuse in Ekiti has come . Kudos to Governor Oyebanji The administration of Governor Biodun Oyebanji is investing massively in the Waste Management sector with a view to drastically reducing the spate of indiscriminate dumping of refuse at unauthorized places across the State. The Director General, Ekiti State Waste Management Authority(EKSWMA),Mr Sunkanmi Onipede on Friday took the Director General, Office of Community Communications,Mrs  Mary Oso- Omotosho round some of the facilities being put in place by the State Government to ensure a cleaner environment. Mr Onipede who was accompanied by the General Manager EKSWMA , Engnr Ayoola Osalusi took  the DG, Community Communications to  some of the refuse trucks and facilities also noted that the state government has invested impressively in the area of waste management towards ensuring a cleaner Ekiti State. The DG EKSWMA showed the first batch of dino bins being fabrica...

 Sexual Harassment: Court Grants Suspended UNICAL Prof Temporary Bail on Health Grounds Justice James Omotosho of the Federal High Court, Abuja has granted a temporary bail to Professor Cyril Ndifon, the suspended Dean of Faculty of Law at the University of Calabar, who is being prosecuted by the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) over an alleged sexual misconduct against some of his students. Justice Omotosho had on Monday, 8th January, 2024 ordered that Professor Ndifon be remanded at the Kuje Centre of the Nigerian Correctional Service pending the conclusion of his bail application. At the resumed hearing of the bail application on Wednesday, January 10, 2024, counsel to the defendant, Mr. Okon Efut, SAN applied that his client be granted temporary bail so as to enable him go for a glaucoma surgery scheduled for Thursday, January 11, 2024.

BIO-IBRAHIM VOWS TO SUPPORT CAPACITY BUILDING FOR YOUTH  The Honourable Minister of Youth Development, Dr. Jamila Bio-Ibrahim has vowed to support any capacity building effort that will promote the potential of young women and girls in order to empower them to play their part in shaping the future of Nigeria  Dr. Bio-Ibrahim made this assertion in her office in Abuja during a courtesy visit by some executive members of the Progressive Young Women Forum. According to the Minister, young women and girls need mentorship to enable them to realize their full economic and political potential.  She stated that young women will be gradually repositioned through mentorship and empowerment to enable them to positively impact their families and communities. Earlier in her address, Hon. Patience Kwache, the National President, Progressive Young Women Forum who led the delegation on the visit, disclosed that the purpose of their visit was to brief the Minister on the forum's activit...