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Fayemi defeats Olusola-Eleka at Supreme Court

May 25, 2019 topnews

The Peoples Democratic Party and its candidate for the Ekiti State governorship poll, Kolapo Olusola-Eleka’s appeal challenging the declaration of Kayode Fayemi of the All Progressives Congress as the winner of the election has been dismissed by the Supreme Court on Friday. Confirming Fayemi’s election, the five-man Supreme Court panel led by acting Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Tanko Muhammad, unanimously held that the appeal challenging the outcome of the polls lacked merit. Justice John Okoro, who read the lead judgment, affirmed the judgments of both the Ekiti State Election Petitions Tribunal and Abuja…

CCB gives Buhari, Osinbajo, others Tuesday deadline to submit Asset declaration forms

May 25, 2019 topnews

The Code of Conduct Bureau has said President Muhammadu Buhari, Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo, governors and other public officers whose tenure ends on May 29 must submit their end-of-tenure asset declaration forms on May 28, 2019. However, other public officers, mainly members of the outgoing 8th National Assembly, who were inaugurated on June 9, 2015 have up till June 8, 2019, a few hours to the expiration of their tenure to declare their assets. Paragraphs 1 to 16 of the Part II of the Fifth Schedule of the Nigerian Constitution list the…

Buhari caught in Shiites’ protest at National Mosque

May 25, 2019 topnews

In protest of the continued detention of their leader, Ibrahim El-Zakzaky, and his wife, Zeenah, who had been in detention since 2015, thousands of members of the Islamic Movement of Nigeria, also known as Shiites, blocked the roads around the National Mosque, Abuja, on Friday demanding their release. President Muhammadu Buhari had come to the mosque to observe the Juma’at prayer, as part of activities lined up for the May 29 inauguration, when the Shiites and some youths marched around the mosque. The protest started around 1pm and continued till…

UK PM Theresa May Announces Resignation

May 24, 2019 topnews

Theresa May has bowed to intense pressure from her own party and named 7 June as the day she will step aside as Conservative leader, drawing her turbulent three-year premiership to a close. The prime minister listed a series of what she said were her government’s achievements, including tackling the deficit, reducing unemployment and boosting funding for mental health. But she admitted: “It is and will alway remain a matter of deep regret to me that I have not been able to deliver Brexit.” May’s announcement came after a meeting…

FG accuses Obasanjo of seeking to divide Nigeria in his old age

May 24, 2019 topnews

The Federal Government has accused former President Olusegun Obasanjo of seeking to divide Nigeria in his old age over his comments that the Boko Haram insurgency has become an agenda to ‘Fulanise’ West Africa and Islamise Africa. The government in a statement by the Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, urged Obasanjo not to allow personal animosity override his love for a united Nigeria, saying it will not be out of place if he withdrew his statement and apologize to Nigerians. The government said comments imputing ethno-religious motive to…

Kidnap suspect’s confession: We’re interested in newly-wed women

May 24, 2019 topnews

Mohammed, a 25-year-old member of a suspected gang of kidnappers in the Kpakungu community in the Chanchaga Local Government Area of Niger State has confessed to the abduction of one Halima Ibrahim on May 11, 2019. The suspect was said to have kidnapped his victim and held her in captivity for over two weeks while demanding N150,000 ransom before her release. Yakubu confessed that he kidnapped Halima with the intent of extorting money from her would-be husband, who also resides in the same area. He said, “We are from the…

Woman arrested for allegedly throwing 9-month-old baby into well

May 24, 2019 topnews

A 17-year-old lady has been arrested in the Ekuigbo community, Ughelli North Local Government Area of Delta State following the death of a male child she allegedly threw into a well. Sources from the community said the mother was reported to have thrown her 9-month-old son into a well owing to her inability to carter for his welfare. The mother, identified as Eguonor Joseph, according to local sources, had dropped her baby, Harrison Joseph inside a well in the community at about 5a.m but the remains of the baby was…

Ex-customs boss, Okafor, arraigned for alleged N3b fraud

May 22, 2019 topnews

Bridget Okafor, a former Assistant Comptroller General of Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), has been arraigned by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) yesterday, on a 13-count charge bordering on a N3.336 billion sleaze. She was arraigned before Justice Venchak S. Gaba of a Federal Capital Territory (FCT) High Court, Kwali, Abuja, but she pleaded not guilty to the charges. One of the counts reads: “That Bridget Chienyezu Okafor, while in the public service and serving as ACG in charge of finance and revenue in 2015 at Abuja within the…

Medical student commits suicide for failing exam

May 22, 2019 topnews

Uzakah Ebiweni, a 300-level medical student of the Niger Delta University, Ammasoma in the Southern Ijaw Local Governmant Area of Bayelsa State, has committed suicide for failing his examination. Ebiweni was said to have dived into the Amassoma River and drowned before he could get help. Sources at the university said few hours after Ebiweni’s body was recovered, another student attempted to kill himself by running into a fast-moving motorcycle, but was rescued by other students. It was gathered that Ebiweni, a student of Surgery and Medicine at the Faculty…

Dog rescues day-old baby buried alive by its mother

May 21, 2019 topnews

An infant that was buried and left to die by its 15-year-old mother has been rescued by a three-legged dog on a farm. The incident happened in Korat’s Tha Talat community in Thailand and was reported by major local media. Eyewitnesses said the newborn had been buried in a cassava field, but nobody was aware. However, farmers noticed the dog sniffing around one spot, and they went ahead to dig out what was there and were surprised to dig out a living infant. Police soon apprehended a 15-year-old girl who has…