Author: Biyi Lawrence

A Catholic Missionary seminarian on Twitter, said that two Nigerian girls have been burnt to death by their boyfriends in Burkina Faso. The seminarian who disclosed this on Twitter said the incident happened on Wednesday, 3 May, 2023. According to him, the remains of the girls were buried on the afternoon of Thursday, 4 May. He also added that he will reveal the identity of the girls on Friday as the person who took photos of their bodies was sent to the Nigerian embassy in Quagadougou. “Two Nigerian girls that came to Burkina Faso to do runs were burnt alive…

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The Minister of State for Power, Abubakar Aliyu, has said that the cost of electricity consumption in Nigeria is the cheapest and most defaulted by consumers in the world. He made this known on Thursday in Abuja during an interactive session with the Senate Committee on Power and heads of various agencies in the power sector. The minister in his submission said electricity was highly subsidised in Nigeria by the federal government which made its cost to be cheapest across the globe. He backed up his claim by making a comparative analysis of the cost of electricity in Nigeria with…

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The Director of Defence Media Operation, Major General Musa Danmadami, has issued a warning to disrupt the 29 May presidential inauguration. He said military forces are on standby to make sure that nothing unwanted happens. He gave the warning while fielding questions from journalists shortly after the bi-weekly press briefing on Thursday, 4 May. Danmadami said officers are on standby to forestall any unwanted happening in the country before, during and after the transition billed to hold at the end of the month. He said: “As far as internal security is concerned, the police still remain the lead agency. The…

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Archbishop of the Abuja Catholic Archdiocese, John Onaiyekan, has kicked against the forthcoming swearing-in of Bola Ahmed Tinubu as the next President of Nigeria. Onaiyekan said that it “makes no sense” to swear in Tinubu before the hearing of the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal is concluded. Recall that the presidential candidates of the Labour Party, Peter Obi, and the main opposition Peoples Democratic Party, former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar, had challenged the victory of Tinubu, at the 25 February Presidential elections. While the commencement of the hearing has been slated for 8 May, 2023, preparations for the inauguration and swearing-in of…

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Aggrieved candidates and political parties on the concluded Governorship, National and State House of Assembly elections have filed 45 petitions to the Bauchi State Election Petition Tribunal. This is contained in the list of petitions pasted at the tribunal and sighted by a correspondent of the News Agency of Nigeria, who visited the court on Thursday. According to the document, four of the petitions are challenging the declaration of Governor Bala Mohammed as the winner of the March 18 governorship election in the state. The petitioners include the New Nigeria People’s Party and its governorship candidate, Senator Halliru Jika, the…

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A 13-year-old boy identified as Iro Kwarangwal stabbed his biological mother, Jummai, to death over a disagreement in Karshen Kwalta, Rimin Kebe quarters in Ungoggo Local Government Area of Kano State, on Wednesday evening. It was gathered that the incident occurred on the fateful day around 5:30 pm. “I was standing outside my house when I suddenly heard screaming from the deceased residence,” an eyewitness said He revealed that upon rushing in for possible help, he found the deceased who was stabbed severally with a knife screaming for help. The eyewitness revealed that the suspect fled the scene shortly after…

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The Federal Government of Nigeria via the Transmission Company of Nigeria and the Market Operator has begun a massive disconnection of debtor electricity distribution companies from the national grid which may plunge millions of Nigerians into darkness in the coming weeks. The development followed notices of disconnection from the grid served on some of the Discos by the Market Operator. The MO, a division of the Transmission Company of Nigeria had informed some Discos, including generating companies of the disconnection plan, due to failure to make remittances of ancillary services bills. Since the noticed by MO, the electricity supply had…

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Professor Fatima Waziri-Azi, the Director-General of the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons, on Thursday, spoke on the plight of young women, saying that most of them worked as domestic workers in Iraq, and were exploited on daily basis. While speaking Waziri-Azi said that most of the young Nigeria women were now requesting for assistance to return home. The DG stated that the situation was a scary one, adding that the workload imposed on the vulnerable by their taskmasters was very worrisome. Waziri-Azi added that Nigerian women were constantly being sexually harassed by members of the household…

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Veteran Nigerian singer, Chris Mba, who was famous in the 1980s for his jerry curl and hits like ‘Funky Situation’, ‘Baby Don’t Cry’, ‘Making My Way’ and ‘Love Everlasting’, has died after a long battle with heart issues. Mba passed away on Wednesday at the Lagos University Teaching Hospital. Disclosing this on his Instagram account Michael Odiong, the General Manager of Premier Music which Chris was signed to said: He wrote: “PREMIER RECORDS EXPRESSES SADNESS ON THE DEATH OF ONE OF ITS ARTISTES, CHRIS MBA. “The management of Premier Records Ltd has expressed sadness on the demise of one of…

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Police have arrested and paraded a 35-year-old suspected ritualist, Ifasoji Ayangbesan, who confessed to buying a pair of fresh human legs at the rate of N20,000. When confronted with the allegation of an attempt to bribe policemen, Ayangbesan said a lawyer had instructed him to provide N10m to secure his release, but he was only able to gather N1m. He said he was arrested when he went to deliver the money to the lawyer. Other suspects paraded include five suspected cultists, eight armed robbery suspects and one suspected serial killer. The State Commissioner of Police, Olanrewaju Oladimeji, paraded the suspects…

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