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The Anambra State Governor, Chief Willie Obiano and the Governor-Elect, Professor Charles Chukwuma Soludo are said to have toed different paths on the size of the budget for the inauguration and handover ceremonies on March 17, 2022. The government budgeted N500 million for the programme to cover making customized clothes, caps, banners, T-shirts and even hiring of rain makers, Daily Independent gathered. However, Soludo was said to have advised the Governor to cut the budget size as he preferred a low-key ceremony, asking Obiano not to spend much money in such flamboyant venture. In his speech during the inauguration of the…

The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has sued President Muhammadu Buhari government over “secrecy in the spending of loans so far obtained.” In the suit number ECW/CCJ/APP/05/22 filed before the ECOWAS Court of Justice in Abuja last week, SERAP is disturbed by ”the unsustainable level of borrowing by the government and the 36 States, debt crisis, and the disproportionately negative impact of these retrogressive measures on poor Nigerians.” In a statement by Kolawole Oluwadare, SERAP’s Deputy Director, on Sunday, the organisation is seeking an order directing and compelling the Federal Government of Nigeria to issue an immediate moratorium on…

Boko Haram terrorists have reportedly abducted more than 17 girls in a fresh attack carried out in Chibok Local Government Area of Borno State. According to SaharaReporters, 25 girls were initially abducted by the terrorists however eight escaped leaving 17 in captivity. The insurgents broke into the town on Thursday night after shooting in different directions, causing the residents to run helter-skelter for safety. The insurgents were said to have torched not less than 20 houses, including a branch of Ekklesiyar Yan’uwa a Nigeria EYN Church. Read also: Boko Haram members Abduct Police Instructors in Gwoza Prosecute Boko Haram Insurgents for ‘Violating’ Chibok…

Ghana Football Association has sacked its coach, Milovan Rajevac, four days after the country’s disastrous outing at the 2021 Africa Cup of Nations. The decision was taken by Ghana FA Saturday morning after the Black Stars crashed out of the 33rd edition of the AFCON without winning a match. Their 3-2 loss against debutants, Comoros Island on Tuesday sent them packing from the tournament. This comes after the Ministry of Youth and Sports ordered the GFA to review the work and capacity of the Black Stars head coach. Related news: Debutants Comoros send Ghana packing from AFCON 2021 Ghanaian Clergywoman, Members…

Former President, Olusegun Obasanjo told leaders of Peoples Democratic Party that he can never return to the opposition party where he was elected as Nigeria’s President for two terms. Obasanjo renounced his membership of the party, when he fell out with ex-President Goodluck Jonathan in the buildup to the 2015 general elections. Addressing the National Chairman of the PDP, Iyorchia Ayu and other stakeholders who visited him in Abeokuta, Ogun State on on Saturday January 22, the former President said he had no intention to return to partisan politics or the PDP. Those on the team include PDP Vice Presidential candidate…

President Muhammadu Buhari has mourned the gruesome murder of a five-year-old school girl, Hanifa Abubakar in Kano State by her teacher and other accomplices. Buhari’s media aide, Garba Shehu, while reacting to the development, lauded the efforts of the police and the secret service in unraveling the mystery behind the disappearance of Hanifa. The killing of Hanifa by her teachers and burial in the school premises after they had collected N6 million ransom has elicited reactions from the presidency. Recall that little Hanifa had gone missing since December last year, prompting intelligence agencies to launch a search into her whereabouts.…

Three Nigerians who emerged as winners of the Nigeria National Order of Merit Award for 2020 and 2021 went home with N10 million each. Dr. Oluyinka Olutoye was named winner in Medicine (2020), Prof. Charles Chidume clinched the award in Science (2020), while Prof. Godwin Ekhaguere emerged winner in Science (2021). Olutoye, a renowned Surgeon and Scientist, was selected for the award for having performed in-utero surgery on foetus with large tumours while still in their mother’s womb, making him the first African and indeed the first Nigerian to perform this feat. Chidume, a Professor of Mathematics at African University…

Nigerian Navy officer,  a Professor from the University of Calabar and 10 passengers who are grueling in the pirates’ hideout may lose their lives if each of them is unable to pay N3 million ransom, boat driver confessed. The victims whose names are yet to be made public were said to have been abducted when sea pirates hijacked their boat that left Safe Journey beach in Calabar, Cross River State, to Oron beach in Akwa Ibom State on January 17, 2022. Already, the pirates had released five persons abducted along the Calabar channel manned by the Marine Police and the…

Liberian President, George Manneh Weah, has declared a three-day National Mourning following the tragic loss of lives in a stampede in New Kru Town outside Monrovia.  The incident took place during an open-air church service in the area Wednesday night, January 19, 2022 at a two-day power-packed crusade at the D. Twe Memorial High School soccer pitch in the borough of New Kru Town on Bushrod Island. At least, 28 worshippers at the crusade were confirmed dead following a stampede at the overcrowded venue of the church meeting. Other unconfirmed reports put the number at 30. Hospital officials say the…

The school teacher of the murdered five-year-old Hanifa Abubakar in Kano, was among the first set of people to sympathise with her parents after the abduction, the family source said. Abdulmalik Mohammed Tanko, the suspect and proprietor of Noble Kids Nursery and Primary school in Kano alongside the accomplice who kidnapped and killed was arrested for the gruesome murder. Uncle of the girl, Suraj Sulaiman, told Daily Nigerian that Tanko shed tears when he visited Hanifa’s parents to console them over the abduction. “He was full of tears when he visited the family to console them over the abduction,” said Sulaiman. Hanifa’s ransom, death  Recall…