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President Muhammadu Buhari’s aide has jeered at a former Nigeria’s Minister of Aviation, Femi Fani-Fakoye over his rumoured defection to All Progressives Congress, APC. Bashir Ahmad, Personal Assistant on New Media to President Buhari on Wednesday, February 10, tweeted, ”They said he is now considering to join the POLITICAL WING OF BOKO HARAM, I do hope he’s successfully completed the required training, so he could be decorated as one of the great commanders of the wing. And when successfully joined, he will be one of the recognized ‘murderers.” This is because Fani-Kayode had tweeted on August 5, 2014 ”The APC…

The trial of some staffers and students of Deeper Life High School, Uyo campus accused of 3exual abuse, starvation, and negligence is to start anew. Recall that the parents of Don Davis Archibong, an 11-year-old student of the school had instituted the lawsuit against the staffers and students over alleged abuse. This is as Don Davis has become a brand ambassador to Resolution Technologies. The prosecuting counsel, David Okokon who was not in court Wednesday because his flight from Abuja was delayed, told Channels Television in a telephone conversation. According to him, as a result of the transfer of the former…

Suspected Boko Haram insurgents have allegedly abducted three officers of the Nigeria Customs Services in Yobe State. The Nation reports that the insurgents abducted the officers during an attack on Geidam town on Wednesday, February 10. “Honestly, we are all in a very sad mood with what happened to our colleagues in Geidam. We are with them in prayers,” a custom officer spoke with our correspondent in confidence. A spokesperson of Yobe state police command, Dungus Abdulkarim, refused to comment on the abduction, but he had confirmed the attack in Giedam. “My men on the ground informed me that the…

The Imo State Police Command has been thrown into mourning following the purported death of one of its officers. A police inspector simply identified as one Umoh at the Command was said to have allegedly committed suicide on Wednesday, February 10. According to reports, the inspector was a visiting cop who was at the area command on special duty. The late Umoh was said to have complained of being sick after returning from an assignment. He allegedly went into one of the rooms in the command and shot himself dead. “Mobile officers came back and one of them went to one…

Since the outbreak of COVID-19 in Nigeria in February 2020, the country’s confirmed cases have peaked 142,578, Nigeria Centre for Disease Control has chronicled. This is as the country recorded 1,131 new cases and eight deaths on Wednesday. NCDC tweeted on Wednesday ”On the 10th of February 2021, 1131 new confirmed cases and 8 deaths were recorded in Nigeria. According to the public health agency,  ”The 1131 new cases are reported from 22 states- Lagos (297), FCT (194), Kaduna (83), Kano (59), Oyo (58), Taraba (53), Imo (52), Osun (47), Plateau (45). Others are Edo (43), Akwa Ibom (42), Rivers…

Movement for the Survival of Ogoni People (MOSOP) has expressed concern over the impact of gas flaring and oil spill in the Niger Delta communities. The President of MOSOP, Mr Fegalo Nsuke, an environmental expert and human rights activist, expressed this concern on Tuesday in Port Harcourt, Rivers State capital. Nsuke attributed the cause of environmental pollution in the region to sabotage by stakeholders and poor government’s response to the plight of the people of the region. In particular, he expressed worry over continued gas flaring by the operating oil companies in Rivers State. “It has become necessary for relevant…

A Nigerian man has found home away from home and has vowed not to return to Nigeria. Nnayi David, residing in Dublin posted on his Twitter handle, saying if he perishes, he perishes but he would never return to his home country.  In his words ”If I perish I perish but will never go back to Nigeria.” His stance may not be distanced from dizzying unemployment, glaring injustice, class inequality, enthroned ethnicity and religious crisis. Others are ebbing infrastructural facilities, intractable insecurity occasioned by mindless killings, rapes, robbery and kidnapping, among others prevalent in Nigeria, Africa’s most populous country.  

Two African countries- South Africa and Nigeria- are paying their workers differently, not necessarily based on their vibrant or depressed economy. Straightnews discovers that South Africa’s GDP per capita was expected to reach $7180 by the end of 2020, according to Trading Economics global macro models and analysts expectations. Despite its wealth, South Africa is ranked as the most unequal country in the world. About 42 percent of total wealth in Africa is held by 140,000 high net-worth individuals, defined as those with assets of at least $1 million. Nigeria’s GDP per capita was expected to reach $2250 by the end of 2020, according to Trading Economics global macro models…

A one-time Nigerian Aviation Minister, Femi Fani-Kayode, has rejoined the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, Kogi Governor Yahaya Bello confirmed on Wednesday. Recall that Fani-Kayode was a member of APC before he defected to Peoples Democratic Party and had vowed in December 2019 never to return the party. Over the weekend, he had said he had a fruitful discussion on how to move Nigeria forward during his meeting with Bello over the weekend. He also visited the former President, Goodluck Jonathan. Although he did not debunk reports that he had defected, Bello while addressing members of the party said Fani-Kayode…

The Nigerian sports family is mourning the death of a former Super Eagles defender, Yisa Sofoluwe. The Minister of Youth and Sports Development, Sunday Dare, Wednesday, said Sofoluwe who died on Tuesday was somebody who came before his time. Dare, in a statement issued by his Media Office, said he was deeply shocked and sad to learn of Sofoluwe’s demise, especially as he died when help was on its way. Aged 54, Sofoluwe died on Tuesday at the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital. “The news of Sofoluwe’s death is quite devastating and one that hit me like a tornado. He…