Author: Alade Adisa

A top UN official, Tom Fletcher, has said that multiple unending conflicts, climate change, and a glaring disregard for long-established international humanitarian law are set to leave a staggering 305 million people in need of lifesaving assistance in 2025.Fletcher, UN Emergency Relief Coordinator and head of the UN aid coordination office, OCHA, said this in a statement on Wednesday.“The world is on fire…We are dealing with a polycrisis right now globally and it is the most vulnerable people in the world who are paying the price.We are dealing with the impact of conflicts – multiple conflicts – and crises of…

Netflix has denied that it is exiting Nigeria and has instead emphasized it’s commitment to investing in Nigerian stories.Earlier, Kunle Afolayan, movie producer had said that the movie streaming platform had quietly left Nigeria eight years after it launched in the country.Afolayan made this revelation while speaking at the 2024 Zuma Film Festival which took place in Abuja.Afolayan said that Netflix had stopped commissioning new Nigerian originals and that unlike many of his colleagues, he was fortunate to have secured a third season for his hit series ‘Anikulapo’ before the platform made the decision.He added that some of his colleagues…

Emergency services in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania have lost hope of finding alive, a 64-year-old grandmother who fell into a sinkhole as she was looking for her cat.Steve Limani, a spokesman for the Pennsylvania state police, said on Wednesday that the operation had moved from a rescue to a recovery status.The department is certain the woman is in the hole, but due to the oxygen supply and the conditions there, it is assumed she is no longer alive.Authorities believe the woman fell into a suddenly opened sinkhole in the ground on Monday afternoon while looking for her cat Pepper.Her…

Following the resumption of plenary at the House of Representatives on Thursday, five lawmakers of the Labour Party (LP) have defected to the All Progressives Congress (APC). The members are Tochukwu Okere (Imo), Donatus Mathew (Kaduna), Bassey Akiba (Cross River), Iyawe Esosa (Edo) and Daulyop Fom (Plateau). Similarly, a lawmaker, Erhiatake Ibori-Suenu (Delta), dumped the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for the APC. Erhiatake Ibori-Suenu is a daughter of former Delta State governor, James Ibori. The now-former Labour Party lawmakers cited division within their party as the main reason for their defection. After over 20 years of its formation, pro-workers political…

The police have fingered newly-formed terror group, Lakurawa as the mastermind of an explosion that occurred along the Dansadau-Gusau Road in the Maru Local Government Area of Zamfara State on Wednesday. The state’s police commissioner Muhammed Dalijan said on Channels Television’s Sunrise Daily breakfast programme on Thursday, “This Lakurawa (group) when they were dislodged by the Army in Sokoto and Kebbi, the rest of them that survived the military onslaught were trying to find new enclaves. “As they were passing that village to Birnin-Gwari forest, they planted a bomb under a bridge. Then a motorist was passing and stepped on…

Following the disappearance of six ladies after attending a house party in the Lekki area of Lagos State, efforts to know their whereabouts by journalists have met a brickwall, as the state Commissioner of Police, Olanrewaju Ishola, has declined to speak on the issue when he was approached. In a viral video, a lady recounted the incident, explaining that the seven ladies had been invited to the party, but one of them narrowly escaped after briefly stepping away to retrieve her forgotten hair wig. The lady in the video while speaking on their mysterious disappearance claimed that by the time…

9th November, 2024.The Commissioner of Police,Ado-Ekiti,Ekiti State. Dear Sir, CRIMINAL DEFAMATION OF AARE AFE BABALOLA, AFE BABALOLA & CO AND HER LAWYERS BY DELE FAROTIMI I write to report the criminal defamation of myself, my law firm Afe Babalola & Co and my lawyers in person of Olu Daramola SAN and Ola Faro by one Dele Farotimi in his book titled ‘NIGERIA AND ITS CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM’ published by Dele Farotimi publishers in respect of Suit no: SC/146/2005: Major Muritala Gbadamosi Eletu & Ors V. H.R.H Oba Tijani Akinloye & Ors. SUIT NO: SC/146/2005:MAJOR MURITALA GBADAMOSI ELETU & ORS V.…

The Federal Government has booted out some civil servants who graduated from private tertiary institutions in Benin Republic and Togo. According to a PUNCH report, the directive affected federal workers who graduated from the institutions from 2017 to date. Segun Imohiosen, the Director of Information and Public Relations in the Office of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, confirmed the development to journalists on Wednesday. The Federal August had announced in August, that only eight universities had been accredited to award degrees to Nigerians in Togo and Benin Republic. The development followed an undercover investigation report in which…

Babafemi Ojudu, a former lawmaker representing Ekiti Central Senatorial District and a seasoned journalist, has shared how he resorted to drinking his own urine to survive while imprisoned during the military regime of the late General Sani Abacha. A former Presidential Adviser on Political Affairs under Muhammadu Buhari’s administration, Ojudu made the revelation in Ado-Ekiti, during a media interaction with journalists, on his new book titled ‘Adventures of a Guerrilla Journalist.’ The book, which captured his struggles for the success and sustainability of democracy under the military regime, gave a detailed account of how he was arrested 15 times between…

President Bola Tinubu has expressed the need for labour unions to strengthen ties with the government for the benefit of Nigerians. The President, who was represented by the Minister of State for Petroleum, Senator Heineken Lopkpobiri, stated this at the grand commissioning of the Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers (NUPENG) Tower in Lagos on Wednesday. Tinubu noted that the success of the country’s oil and gas sector is dependent on the success of NUPENG and the Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria (PENGASSAN). In his appeal to the leaders of the labour unions, he…