Rivers state governor, Nyesom Wike says he will not quit the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). He also said his party is resolved to unseat the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) in 2023. Wike made the announcement in Port Harcourt on his return from vacation in Turkiye amidst reports that he met with the APC presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu towards his rumored defection to the ruling party. According to him, true democrats disagrees to agree and that in spite of his grievances, it would not affect thier resolve to unseat APC. “In politics, a true democrat disagrees to agree. “Yes, we…
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Former President Olusegun Obasanjo on Saturday engaged in commercial tricycle business, picking a male passenger around Kuto area of Abeokuta in Ogun state. Obasanjo in a statement by his Special Assistant on Media, Kehinde Akinyemi said the ride was to encourage the youths to be hardworking and embrace self -employment. The former president rode from his Pent House residence at the Olusegun Obasanjo Presidential Library (OOPL), through Kuto area, amidst greetings and jubilation from shocked onlookers along the road. According to the statement, the ride was also meant to demonstrate the safety of the means of transportation. “The president, along…
Pastor Enoch Adeboye, the General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG) says he never asked Christians to buy guns for self-protection. “I never asked Christians to go and buy guns. Samson in the Bible did not fight with guns,” the renowned cleric said on Sunday at the monthly thanksgiving live television programme of the church. The clarification came against media reports that the general overseer said it was now “fire-for-fire’’ for any attack on Christians. “Don’t buy guns. You don’t want to kill anybody. We just must make sure that unwanted visitors don’t come to our churches,…
A multiple auto crash has claimed the lives of 11 persons who were burnt to death near Isara Bridge, Ogere, off the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway on Saturday night. Seven other persons sustained varying degrees of injuries in the inferno that resulted from the accident. Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) Sector Commander in Ogun, Mr Ahmed Umar confirmed the figures of the accident victims to newsmen in Abeokuta on Sunday. Umar stated that the accident, which occurred at 10.35pm involved two Mazda buses and a car and was caused by excessive speeding. He added that the affected vehicles and the dead were…
The Ondo State Command of the Nigeria Police has revealed that it rescued a total of 77 persons from a Church, following the earlier rescue of 50 children who were kept in a dungeon of the Church in Ondo West local government area of Ondo state. The spokesperson of the command, SP Funmilayo Odunlami said the victims, rescued on Friday night in the church at Valentino axis of Ondo, were deceived by an assistant pastor of Whole Bible Believers Church, Josiah Peter Asumosa. Odunlami disclosed that the victims, rescued following intelligence report gathered by police operatives at Fagun Division, included…
By Lizzy Carr, Bauchi The Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria Globe FM Bauchi football team emerged winners of the just concluded Sports Writers Association of Nigeria SWAN Bauchi chapter 2022 sports week. The team defeated Albarka Radio football team 6 to 5 after a penalty shootout at the Yelwa Campus pitch of Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University. Globe FM received their trophy at a colourful event and was presented with an award to mark the end of the SWAN week. Others winners include Best Sports Journalist for Television that went to Abdullahi Shehu Yankari of Bauchi state Television; Best Sports Journalist for…
The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the forthcoming 2023 general elections, Atiku Abubakar has reacted to media reports that Rivers governor Nyesom Wike shunned his emissary in Türkiye. According to media reports, Atiku deployed Adamu Waziri, a former Minister, to meet Wike, who is on holiday in Türkiye, “after the governor rebuffed several attempts by the candidate to arrange a meeting between them.” But Atiku in tweet by his media adviser, Paul Abe on his Twitter handle @omonlakiki on Friday, denied that his principal ever sent an emissary to Wike. “The report that H.E @atiku sent…
Turkish and foreign law enforcement have seized record quantities of cocaine heading from South America to Turkey, revealing the expanding role of the country’s traffickers in shipping drugs to European and Middle Eastern markets. In late June, Ecuadorean authorities seized roughly 850 kilograms of cocaine at the port of Guayaquil from a container of bananas bound for Turkey, according to a police statement. The shipment was almost identical to a separate load intercepted in Turkey’s port of Mersin in April, also from Guayaquil and containing over 250 kilograms of cocaine. The seizures, according to experts consulted by InSight Crime, are…
The Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC) has called on Nigeria’s Inspector General of Police (IGP), Usman Alkali Baba to transfer the case of 50 children allegedly found by the Nigerian Police in the underground of a Church in Valentino area of Ondo town in Ondo state in the evening of Friday, 1st July, 2022, to Abuja. The call is contained in a statement by its director, Professor Ishaq Akintola emailed to ASHENEWS on Saturday. MURIC described the development as shocking, terrifying and almost incredible. “Men of the Nigerian Police allegedly found more than 50 children in the underground of a church…
Lagos state has revealed that 10,000 retirees are been owed their pension rights in Lagos State, Mr Babalola Obilana, Director-General, Lagos Pension Commission (LASPEC), has said. Obilana said the commission also had about N10 billion to pay as outstanding accumulated debts for pensioners in the state. He disclosed this in an interview on the sidelines of the 95th Retirement Benefit Bond Certificates Presentation For Retirees in Lagos on Saturday. Obilana stated that the outstanding pension would be settled before the end of the first tenure of Gov. Babajide Sanwo-Olu in May 2023 as promised by the governor. Recall that the…