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Mr Phrank Shaibu. Bola Ahmed Tinubu, the All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential candidate, is reportedly the worst civilian governor in the history of Lagos state, according to Mr. Phrank Shaibu, Atiku Abubakar’s personal assistant on public relations. In a statement on Sunday, January 15, Shaibu, one of the PDP presidential candidate’s media aides, stated as much. Lateef Jakande, who served as governor of Lagos from 1979 to 1983, is the best governor, in Shaibu’s opinion. Tinubu is not the best thing to come out of Lagos. The late Lateef Jakande, a disciple of Chief Obafemi Awolowo, holds that title. Jakande…

Prince Dapo Abiodun. In order to ensure that the sacrifices made by the nation’s fallen heroes were not in vain, Ogun State Governor Prince Dapo Abiodun has urged Nigerians to assist the widows and children they have left behind. The governor proclaimed that honoring Nigeria’s dead heroes must go beyond the country’s customary parades and dove releases, and also entail demonstrating affection for their families as a way to show gratitude to those who gave their lives to ensure the nation’s continued existence. In order to ensure that the sacrifices made by the nation’s fallen heroes were not in vain,…

Olubadan of Ibadan land. The Olubadan Advisory Council has called a meeting with the Central Council of Ibadan Indigenes (CCII) and the contractor in charge of the new Ibaban Palace which is being built at Oke-Aremo in the capital of Oyo State, due to the poor progress of development. After the Council, headed by Olubadan Lekan Balogun, Alli Okunmade II, inspected the new palace project, the Otun Balogun of Ibadan land, High Chief Tajudeen Ajibola, revealed this. The first phase of the project’s completion and the occupation of the site by the Olubadan were allegedly promised at various times by…

The proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra has rejected the offer of the governor of Anambra State, Professor Chukwuma Soludo, to stand as surety for its leader, Nnamdi Kanu, to be released, saying the Federal Government is in breach of the order of its own court. While welcoming the call by Soludo to release Kanu unconditionally, the group said the call was belated, coming three months after “the Court of Appeal…discharged and acquitted” its leader. It added that the Governor should rather call on the Federal Government to respect its own court and grant Kanu freedom. This was contained in a…

Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike. Governor of Rivers State Nyesom Ezenwo Wike has praised President Muhammadu Buhari for his perseverance in battling Boko Haram terrorists and bandits who have been terrorising and wrecking portions of the nation. After the wreath-laying ceremony for the 2023 Armed Forces Remembrance Day celebration at the Isaac Boro Park, Wike made known his praise of the President yesterday at the Government House in Port Harcourt. The governor pointed out that the military forces were required to put an end to the revolt that followed the civil war, which started a few years after independence and…

Barely four days after gunmen kidnapped the Divisional Police Officer in Pankshin Local Government Area of Plateau State, the state command on Sunday confirmed his release. It as been reported that the kidnapped police officer identified as Nwapi Augustus was shot in his hotel room in Pankshin by gunmen before they took him away to an unknown destination. Confirming his release in a statement on Sunday, the spokesman for the state command, Alfred Alabo, said, “Following the kidnap of SP Nwapi Augustus on January 11, 2023, at about 7:30pm by unidentified gunmen to an unknown destination in Pankshin LGA, the…

A seven-year-old girl was among four people injured following a suspected drive-by shooting outside a church where mourners had gathered for a funeral. The shocking incident took place in Phoenix Road, close to Euston station in north London, in the middle of the afternoon on Saturday, January 14. Police, paramedics and an air ambulance were scrambled to the scene just before 1.30pm. Three women, aged 41, 48 and 54, were rushed to hospital. Their injuries are not thought to be life-threatening, but one has potentially life-changing injuries. Scotland Yard said it received a further report just over half an hour…

Richard Sauber said DOJ officials “immediately took possession of them.” President Joe Biden responds to questions from reporters in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House Campus, in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 12, 2023. Five more classified documents have been found at President Joe Biden’s home in Wilmington, Delaware, according to a new statement from White House counsel Richard Suaber. Suaber said the personal attorneys for the president, who do not have security clearances, stopped searching the residence after discovering a document Wednesday with a classified marking in a room adjacent to the garage. “Because I have a security clearance,…

Ray Cordeiro, who interviewed music acts including the Beatles during a six-decade career on Hong Kong radio that earned him the title of the world’s longest-working disc jockey, has died. HONG KONG — Ray Cordeiro, who interviewed music acts including the Beatles during a six-decade career on Hong Kong radio that earned him the title of the world’s longest-working disc jockey, has died, his former employer announced. He was 98. Cordeiro died Friday, according to Radio Television Hong Kong, where he worked until 2021. It gave no cause of death. Cordeiro, who was born in Hong Kong in 1924 of Portuguese…

Anambra State governor, Professor Chukwuma Soludo has called on the federal government to release the detained leader of the  Indigenous People of Biafra ( IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, saying he is prepared to stand surety for him. Kanu has been in detention at the custody of the Department of State Service( DSS) since 2021 on allegation to treasonable felony after he was brought back to Nigeria from Kenya. Soludo, who spoke during the kickoff of the campaigns of the All Progressives Grand Alliance ( APGA) for this year’s general elections at Alex Ekwueme Square in Awka, appealed for unconditional release of…