The crisis ravaging the Labour party has reared its head as the Zenith Labour Party (ZLP) won 15 of the 17 chairmanship positions in the Abia local government elections. In the election that held on Saturday, the Young Progressives Party (YPP) secured victory in the remaining two LGAs. The development left the Labour Party, the political party of incumbent governor, Alex Otti, with no council. Chairman of the Abia State Independent Electoral Commission (ABSIEC), George Chima, announced the results at the commission’s headquarters in Umuahia, the state capital. NAN quoted Chima as saying, “We have carried out the duty we…
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The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency have busted an international drug syndicate operating between Brazil Ethiopia and Nigeria by thwarting a bid to smuggle 845 wraps of cocaine weighing 18.72 kilograms into Lagos. The agency disclosed that the consignments were recovered in an operation at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA), Ikeja. Femi Babafemi, spokesman of NDLEA said, “The drug consignments worth four billion four hundred and ninety-two million eight hundred thousand Naira (N4,492,800,000) in street value were recovered from two lavatories of an Ethiopian Airlines aircraft during the post landing cleaning of the cabin of flight ET900 from Addis…
Condemnations have continued to come the way of Dangote Refinery over its refusal to reveal the price of its Premium Motor Spirit (Petrol) price months after the company began fuel distribution. This comes after Dangote Group on Saturday, through its official X account, denied claims by petroleum marketers that Dangote PMS is sold between N1,115 and N1,028 per litre. National Assistant Secretary of the Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria (IPMAN), Yakubu Suleiman, said on Friday, during an interview with Arise Television, that the price of Dangote Petrol was higher than alternative sources. Suleiman said that the Dangote petrol price…
The Attorney-General of the Federation (AGF) and Minister of Justice, Lateef Fagbemi, has asked the police to transfer the case file of all protesters arraigned over the nationwide #EndBadGovernance protest. There was chaos at a federal high court in Abuja on Friday after some minors, who were among 76 protesters charged to court, collapsed while waiting to be arraigned. The court granted them bail in the sum of N10 million each, while the prosecutor asked the judge to remove the names of those who collapsed from the charge.In a statement on Friday, Fagbemi said he would look into the matter…
A federal government prosecutor, Rimazonte Ezekiel, has claimed that all #EndBadGovernance protesters arraigned before the court on Friday are adults. 72 protesters were arraigned by the police for allegedly participating in the nationwide #EndBadGovernance protest, which took place between August 1 and 10 across the country. Many of the defendants were minors who were eventually granted N10 million bail. However, many Nigerians have condemned the arraignment of the minors by the federal government. Speaking to journalists after the court session, Ezekiel, who is the government’s counsel in the case, denied that there were minors among the suspects, adding that “most…
Republican Donald Trump and Democrat Kamala Harris will head to North Carolina on Saturday (today) to try to clinch support in the southeastern battleground state just three days before Tuesday’s U.S. presidential election. Per Reuters, it will be the fourth day in a row that Vice President Harris and former President Trump visit the same state on the same day, underlining the critical importance of the seven states likely to decide the race, which opinion polls show to be on a knife’s edge. More than 70 million Americans have already cast ballots, according to the Election Lab at the University…
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has arrested the Accountant General of Edo State, Julius Anelu, and two other government officials for alleged huge withdrawals from the State’s derivation account at the twilight of the administration of Governor Godwin Obaseki. This is as the governor-elect, Monday Okpebholo, had accused the Obaseki administration “of last-minute borrowings and looting.” Quoting an impeccable source in the EFCC, New Daily Prime learnt that of N24.6 billion paid into the government’s account, N14 billion was left within one week after the money was deposited some weeks back. The source said, “We made some arrests…
To quieten the uproar trailing the fainting of six #EndBadGovernance protesters in court during their trial on Friday, the Inspector-General of Police, Kayode Egbetokun, has stated that the fainting was staged to attract negative attention. The police chief said despite that, the fainting suspects were promptly provided with medical attention, underscoring the police’s commitment to the welfare of individuals in their custody. 76 suspects, mostly minors who appeared malnourished, were arraigned in connection with the #EndBadGovernance protest on Friday. Six of them collapsed and were rushed out of the courtroom. Following their arraignment, the court granted each minor bail set…
The Minister of Aviation and Aerospace Development, Festus Keyamo, has said the House of Representatives did not ask him to revoke the airstrip licence for Oyedepo’s Living Faith Church or those of other private individuals. The minister said this in a statement via his official X handle on Friday. There were reports that the House of Representatives asked the Ministry of Aviation and Aerospace Development to halt the issuance of airstrip licences to private individuals and organizations and to revoke existing licences, including those granted to Living Faith Church, as a measure to safeguard national security. Reacting to the report,…
One of the participants of the August #EndBadGovernance nationwide protests has rendered a harrowing narration of how operatives of the Department of State Services (DSS) arrested him in Kano, detained and tortured him for over 60 days. Khalid Aminu, an engineer by profession, said he was picked up alongside other young demonstrators protesting hunger and bad governance in early August. Aminu said he was subjected to all forms of dehumanizing torture while in custody and he had no contact with his family for the period of his incarceration at the Kano office of the DSS. He was a guest on…
