The UK government says unclaimed estates and assets of 56 dead Nigerians and other global citizens would become forfeited to it if by December 2022 they are not claimed. This was contained in UK’s government Treasury Solicitor website updated on September 8, 2022. According to UK government, a Nigerian identified as Mark N’wogo, born in Sapele, Delta state. Almost 30 years after his death on December 9, 1992 in Surrey, United Kingdom, his assets have remained unclaimed. By December, they would become forfeited to the British government. Another Nigerian is Victor Adedapo Olufemi Fani-Kayode, who died on August 15, 2001…
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Reactions have trailed an alleged comment by the vice-presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Kashim Shettima that the party’s presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu and late dictator, Gen Sani Abacha are alike. Shettima who spoke at the 96th-anniversary celebration of the Yoruba Tennis Club in Ikoyi on Thursday, was quoted as saying “we need a leader with a dose of ruthlessness and taciturnity of General Sani Abacha…There is no one, with all due respect, that fits this better than Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu.” “We need a leader with the patience and sense of responsibility and commitment, and somebody who…
A chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Bode George has expressed fears that the party could will lose the 2023 presidential election if quick action was not taken to resolve the unending crisis rocking the party. George who spoke with journalists advised that the party should not allow sentiment, ethnicity or religion to divide supporters. “We should not allow any sentiment – ethnicity or religion to divide us. Unfortunately, with what we are presently witnessing, our party may lose the next presidential election if we continue to disregard or fail to address the feeling and grievances of ‘alienation’ being…
…PDP has failed in all sectors of developments As the 2023 general election draw closer, 7,000 supporters of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) from Wurno and Kware local government areas of Sokoto state on Thursaday, defected to the All Progressives Congress (APC). The APC governorship candidate, Ahmad Aliyu Sokoto who received 4,270 PDP supporters defectors in Wurno local government, expressed satisfaction over the large number of the PDP supporters that dumped the party for APC, saying, “there is light at the end of the tunnel.” According to him, the mass defection followed failure of the PDP in providing dividends of…
A business woman Monica Gambo on Friday, dragged her husband Yakubu Gambo before a customary court in Nyanya Abuja, for denying her “conjugal rights”. The petitioner, who resides in Nyanya, said this in a divorce petition she filed against her husband before the court. “My husband has taken to an adulterous life and brings all his lovers to the house to commit adultery with them. “He denied and starved me of my conjugal rights and I cannot continue to live with him,” she said. She also told the court that her husband had been threatening to kill her and take…
Ahead of the 2023 general elections, the Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP) has named members of its Presidential Campaign Committee. In a statement by its National Organising Secretary, Umaru Bature Thursday night, the party also appointed Sokoto state governor at the Director General of the Committee. It also named Akwa Ibom State Governor, Udom Emmanuel as Chairman of the Atiku Abubakar Campaign which has Governors Bala Mohammed and Seyi Makinde of Bauchi and Oyo States as Vice Chairmen, North and South, respectively. This committee has four directorates headed by Deputy Directors General. They are: Sen. Liyel Imoke (Operations), Prof. Adewale Oladipo…
Global Initiative for Food Security and Ecosystem Preservation (GIFSEP) on Thursday trained 45 community activists in Benue on the development of community climate risk register. Mr David Michael-Terungwa, Team Leader for GIFSEP, gave the figure at the two-day training in Lafia. He said that the training became necessary to enable communities to build adaptation plan to climate change. According to him, the essence of the training is to enable activists get back to their communities and help in developing community climate risk register and risk mitigation strategies. According to Michael-Terungwa, climate change register highlights climate risks that have the highest likelihood…
A Federal High Court, Abuja, on Thursday, restrained the Minister of Youth and Sports, Sunday Dare, and President, Nigeria Football Federation (NFF), Amaju Pinnick from conducting the NFF executive election scheduled for Sept. 30 in Edo. Justice Inyang Ekwo, in a ruling on an ex-parte motion moved by counsel for the claimants, Celsus Ukpong, ordered the the minister, Mr Pinnik or any person, acting on their instruction, to maintain a status quo pending the hearing and determination of the motion on notice for interlocutory injunction. “Counsel for the claimants informed the court that the defendants are taking action that will…
The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) says Nigeria’s headline inflation rate increased to 20.52 per cent on a year-on-year basis in August. This is according to the NBS Consumer Price Index (CPI) and Inflation Report for August released in Abuja on Thursday. The report says the figure is 3.52 per cent points higher compared to 17.01 per cent recorded in August 2021. “This shows that the headline inflation rate increased in August 2022 when compared to the same month in the previous year. “Meaning that in August 2022, the general price level was 3.52 per cent higher relative to August…
Retired Justice Clara Bata Ogunbiyi has been appointed acting chairman of Police Service Commission (PSC), following Wednesday voluntary retirement of Musiliu Smith, a retired Inspector General of Police. His resignation based on health grounds, has been accepted by President Muhammadu Buhari. According to Ikechukwu Ani, Head, Press and Public Relations, pursuant to Schedule 2(4) sub-section 2(2) of the Police Service Commission Establishment Act 2001, members of the management of the Commission met on Wednesday and nominated a colleague, Justice Clara Bata Ogunbiyi, a retired Justice of the Supreme Court, as the acting Chairman pending the appointment of a new Chairman…