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BY MIKE OSAROGIAGBON In a puzzling and shocking circumstance, another Commissioner of Police (CP), Peter Umoru Ozigi has assumed duty in Edo State, replacing CP Nemi Edwin-Iwo, who served for just two months. CP Edwin-Iwo took office on August 13, 2024, following CP Funsho Adegboye transfer to Force Headquarters, Abuja. This rapid succession of leadership is raising puzzles and shocks …

Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo is a svelte man by stature. He remains a very simple person, who welcomes everyone with an affable smile just as he is down to earth. But his small head harbours very sound and workable ideas that can transform the society. From the way he relates with and treats people who come across him, the man, who was …

President Bola Tinubu on Saturday evening returned to the nation’s capital, Abuja after a two-week working vacation in the United Kingdom (UK). The President, who arrived the Presidential Wing of the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja, at about 7:15pm was received on arrival by top government officials including Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu; Chief of Staff to the President, Hon …

Rights campaigners, on the platform of Youth Rights Campaign, YRC, have released the names of 22 activists including the spokesperson, Hassan Taiwo Soweto, arrested by the police this Sunday morning at Lekki Toll Gate. YRC in a statement by Francis Nwapa, its National Secretary, while condemning their arrest, said: “We demand their immediate and unconditional release. We understand that they …

Some lawyers in Lagos say there is no Nigerian law providing for special treatment for any category of inmates. The lawyers spoke with  Newsmen on Sunday. Mr Douglas Ogbankwa, a former Publicity Secretary of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), said that no law provided for any special treatment for any inmates. According to him, there could, however, be peculiar circumstances …

*FCT minister bitter for losing PDP presidential primary, says Atiku  *Obi will not dignify Wike with response, spokesman insists The Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Mr. Nyesom Wike, has stated that he will continue to be a problem to the camps of former Vice President Atiku Abubakar and the presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP) in the …

The Presidential Candidate of the Labour Party, LP, in the 2023 election, Peter Obi, has appealed to  Nigerians especially his supporters to eschew hate and bitterness because both have no place in Nigeria’s future. Obi said this in response to criticisms over his birthday greetings to former Head-of-State, General Yakubu Gowon (Retd), who turned 90 over the weekend. Gowon was …

Political parties, under the umbrella of Inter Party Advisory Council, IPAC, yesterday, bemoaned the rising cost of living in the country, saying the development was largely responsible for the increasing cases of voter apathy during elections. IPAC’s National Chairman, Yusuf Dantalle, stated this in Abuja at the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC’s fourth quarterly consultative meeting with leaders of political parties. The …

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has authorized higher institutions of learning to admit candidates who will be 16 years old by August 31, 2025. The issue of the minimum age for admission to the nation’s tertiary institutions was discussed at the 2024 Policy Meeting, where it was decided that the minimum age for the 2024/25 academic session would …

On Thursday, the Nigerian government received 846,200 doses of the R21/Matrix-M malaria vaccines from GAVI, the Vaccine Alliance. This is the first batch of the vaccine to be handed to Nigeria since it was endorsed by the World Health Organisation (WHO) alongside the RTS,S vaccine in October 2023. At the handing over ceremony of the vaccine in Abuja, the Coordinating …