The governor of Rivers State, Siminalayi Fubara, has launched a scathing attack on the Inspector General of Police, Kayode Egbetokun over the controversy surrounding the conduct of local government election in the state. The visibly angry governor spoke to journalists at the Rivers State Independent Electoral Commission (RSIEC) office in Port Harcourt on Friday morning, stressing that there appeared to be a more-than-professional relationship between the police boss and “someone who says he is more powerful than the state”, in an apparent reference to the Federal Capital Territory minister and his predecessor, Nyesom Wike. The governor said, “The Inspector General…
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Following years of severe condemnation, the General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG), Pastor Enoch Adejare Adeboye has apologized for saying that any believer who does not pay tithes will not make heaven. The highly revered cleric tendered his apology on Friday while delivering a message at the ongoing annual national youth convention at the RCCG Redemption City on Lagos – Ibadan Expressway. He said: “I am going to be talking to everybody as soon as God permits me. I am going to apologize for making a mistake by saying that if you don’t pay tithe, you…
After weeks of arduous efforts to meet the bail conditions imposed on them by the trial court, three of the 10 persons charged with treason over the August #EndBadGovernance protest have been released from detention. The defendants, Opaluwa Eleojo, Michael Adaramoye and Mosiu Sadiq, were released from the Nigerian Correctional Centre in Kuje, Abuja, on Thursday after fulfilling their bail conditions and completing all necessary paperwork. They joined three other co-defendants who were released earlier. The development was confirmed by their lawyer, Abubakar Marshall of Falana and Falana chambers, on Thursday. The lawyer noted that “efforts are being made to…
Perceived selective payment of the N70,000 new minimum wage by the Federal Government is already generating tension among federal public workers, as those yet to be paid have lamented the development. Also, the workers are worried and angered by the delay in the payment of their salaries. Most of those affected are workers of federal universities and some staff of Ministries, Departments and Agencies, (MDAs), who lashed the government, lamenting that at this time of hardship and hunger, the action smacks of insensitivity and lack of empathy on the part of the government. However, sources in the Accountant-General’s and Budget…
With a day to the October 5 local government election in Rivers State, the Rivers State Police Command has said it would comply fully with the judgment of the Federal High Court, Abuja which barred it from participating in the election. Disclosing this in a statement issued in Port Harcourt on Thursday, the spokesperson for the state police command, Grace Iringe-Koko, said the decision is a sequel to the directives by the Force Legal Department that the ruling from the Federal High Court on September 30, 2024, takes precedence. Iringe-Koko, a Superintendent of Police, however, noted that while adhering to…
The online experience is bound to get better for internet users as tech giant, Google has released a new feature that will allow people to search the internet by taking a video. Video search will let people point their camera at something, ask a question about it, and get search results. Android and iPhone users globally will gain access to the feature from 1700 GMT by enabling ‘AI Overviews’ in their Google app, but it will only support English at launch. The latest move from the tech giant is to change how people search online by utilizing artificial intelligence (AI).…
As the Middle East gallops dangerously towards a regional war, at least 18 people have been killed in an Israeli air strike in the occupied West Bank city of Tulkarm, the Palestinian health ministry said late on Thursday. According to the Palestinian Authority-run news agency, Wafa, the air strike had hit a cafe in the Tulkarm refugee camp where many civilians had been present. The Israel Defence Forces (IDF) said the air force had conducted a strike in Tulkarm in a joint operation with its Shin Bet security service and had killed the head of Hamas in Tulkarm and “other…
Not less than 78 people have died after a ferry capsized on Lake Kivu, in the Democratic Republic of Congo, just a few hundred metres from its destination. According to Reuters, a regional governor, Jean Jacques Purisi said the boat was travelling from the town of Minova in South Kivu and sank as it arrived on Goma’s shore on Thursday morning. There were 278 passengers onboard when the tragic incident occurred. A online video shows the boat tilting to one side and then sinking. Governor Jean Jacques Purisi said, “It’ll take at least three days to get the exact numbers…
The killing of two black women by a white farmer, Zachariah Johannes Olivier, and his employees, 19-year-old Adrian de Wet, and William Musora, 50, who allegedly shot and fed the women to pigs has sparked widespread outrage in South Africa. According to BBC reports on Wednesday, 45-year-old Maria Makgato, and Lucia Ndlovu, 34, were reportedly searching for food on a farm near Polokwane in Limpopo province when they were shot in August. The killers then allegedly fed the bodies to pigs in an attempt to conceal the crime. They are being tried in a court in Polokwane. The three accused…
A Lagos State High Court sitting in Ikeja has sentenced a Lagos businessman, Abodurin Gerald Abozo to eight years imprisonment for duping one Engineer Samuel Segher of N6 million under the false pretext of selling him plots of land from the Chevy Estate Ojomu Chieftaincy Family land. Dele Oyewale, Head, Media & Publicity, Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) said in a statement on Wednesday that Abozo, who is the boss of S.G.B. & As Property Lines Company was arrested for obtaining the N62 million from Engineer Samuel Segher without delivering the land or returning his money to him. According…
