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Ex-gov Oni plans defection to PDP

Mar 17, 2020 topnews

Chief Segun Oni, former governor of Ekiti State, said on Monday that he, along with his supporters, had resolved to leave the ruling All Progressives Congress for the Peoples Democratic Party. Oni, a former APC Deputy National Chairman, South, said the decision to return to his former party, the PDP, was in line with the people’s clamour to move on. The former APC chieftain, however, did not disclose the specific time when he would return to the PDP. He said, “We have taken a decision and we are in the…

FG Not stopping Chinese, Italians, others from visiting Nigeria

Mar 17, 2020 topnews

The Federal Government says it has no plans to impose travel restrictions on visitors from countries where coronavirus continues to spread rapidly. However, Nigeria has decided to screen visitors entering the country from China (where the disease originated last year), Japan, Iran, Italy , Germany, France, South Korea and Spain. The killer disease was brought to Nigeria by an Italian man who arrived in Lagos aboard a Turkish Airlines plane on February 24. He travelled from Lagos to Ogun State before he was quarantined in the Infectious Disease Hospital in Yaba, Lagos. There has been other…

FG to SERAP: No record of $5b Abacha loot, expenditure

Mar 16, 2020 topnews

The Federal Government has told the Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) that it had “no record of the exact amount of public funds stolen by a former military Head of State, Gen. Sani Abacha, and the spending of about $5 billion recovered loot for the period between 1999 and 2015.” The government’s response followed the group’s Freedom of Information (FoI) requests to the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Mr. Abukabar Malami, SAN and his Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning counterpart, Mrs. Zainab Ahmed.…

Teenager arrested for defiling five minors in one week

Mar 16, 2020 topnews

Nwafor Jacob, an 18-year-old boy, was on Friday remanded in a correctional centre by an Ebonyi State Magistrates’ Court in Abakaliki for allegedly defiling a 10-year-old minor. The suspect, who was alleged to have serially engaged in the act for one week, was also alleged to have had the carnal knowledge of four other minors. It was gathered that three out of the five victims were siblings and the accused defiled them between January 19 and January 25, 2020. The police prosecutor, Sergeant Sebastine Alumona, told the court that Jacob…

Fake naval officer arrested for allegedly mutilating man’s private parts

Mar 16, 2020 topnews

A fake naval officer, Azeez Ali, has been arrested by men of the Lagos State Police Command for allegedly mutilating the private parts of a 42-year-old man, Sunday Amoo. It was gathered that Ali, during an argument, used a military Jack knife to mutilate Amoo’s private parts, which resulted in multiple deep cuts. The state Police Public Relations Officer, Bala Elkana, in a statement on Sunday, said Ali, who impersonated a naval officer, was arrested around Berger bus stop in the Bariga area of Lagos. He said, “On March 14,…

Gas plant Explosion kills 17, raze 50 houses in Lagos

Mar 16, 2020 topnews

A gas explosion which occurred at Abule-Ado area, near the International Trade Fair Complex, Amuwo Odofin Local Government Area of Lagos State on Sunday, has left no fewer than 17 persons dead and 25 others injured. More than 50 buildings in the area were impacted by the explosion, as hundreds of residents were rendered homeless. Several vehicles parked in the area were also destroyed by the explosion. Boarding pupils of the Bethlehem Girls College were trapped in the wreckage of their hostel, as residents and sympathisers pulled them out of…

Lamentations as network failure mars UTME exam

Mar 15, 2020 topnews

Due to power and network failures, the 2020 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination started nationwide on a poor note on Saturday, particularly in some centres in Lagos. Some candidates in a few Computer-Based Test centres in Lagos State, scheduled for 7am, were seen crying as they could not take the exam until 1pm. They became more tearful, after they went in and reportedly wrote two or three papers, during which some of the computers went off. It was learnt that the Virtual Private Network, which transmits the questions from the Joint…

Nollywood actor says homosexuality caused by Ogbanje

Mar 14, 2020 topnews

Pete Edochie, Veteran nollywood actor, believes that reincarnation is the real cause of homosexuality. The bearded actor dropped this bomb in a short video he posted online. Homosexuality is an issue that has become quite prevalent in the society and social media has also further helped to popularized it. Edochie, however, has a different perception. In a video that was shared on Twitter, Edochie said that when a child is born and looks sickly, he or she is suspected to be an ‘Ogbanje’(spirit child) and a mark is put on…

Don’t disrespect obas, Alaafin writes Fayemi

Mar 14, 2020 topnews

Oba Lamidi Adeyemi III, the Alaafin of Oyo, has warned the Ekiti State Governor, Dr Kayode Fayemi, against treating the traditional institution in Yorubaland with levity. Alaafin said unlike in some tribes, where there was nothing attached to their traditional institutions, the Yoruba traditional institution was “ancestral and spiritual.” The monarch stated this in a letter to the state governor dated March 12, 2020, following a query issued by Fayemi to some prominent traditional rulers in the state over alleged insubordination. Fayemi, in the query issued individually to the affected…

Oyetola signs Amotekun Bill into law in Osun state

Mar 14, 2020 topnews

Gboyega Oyetola, Osun State Governor, has signed the Osun Security Network Agency and Amotekun Corps Bill into law. This came as he warned citizens of the state against disrespecting or obstructing Amotekun personnel, as they would be striving to protect the state. He also called on residents to adhere to the spirit and letter of the Amotekun law. The signing of the bill was done yesterday at the Governor’s Office in Osogbo a few hours after the governor received the bill from the State House of Assembly. Speaker of the…