Author: Alade Adisa

The Rivers State High Court sitting in Port Harcourt has restrained the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) state executives led by Aaron Chukwuemeka from parading themselves as Exco of the party. Presiding judge, Justice Stephen Jumbo, delivered the ruling on an interlocutory injunction on Monday. Two Port Harcourt based legal practitioners, Edwin Woko, Love Otuonye, and two others who are members of the PDP filed the case was against the party’s National chairman, state chairman, and nine others praying the court to declare null and void the purported PDP local government and ward congresses conducted the 319 wards and 23 LGAs…

Some All Progressives Congress (APC) members who are supporters of the just impeached Lagos State House of Assembly Speaker, Mudashiru Obasa were on Monday arrested by security agents inside the Assembly complex. The arrested persons were taken away from the Assembly premises in a Black Maria on the same day. They claimed to be APC youths from Agege, the constituency of the impeached speaker. According to News Central reports, the supporters were intercepted by security personnel and subsequently confined in a Black Maria stationed near the Assembly premises. In the video posted by News Central, one of the victims speaking…

The Federal Government’s axe may fall on some Deposit Money Banks over the non-payment of over N200 billion on Unstructured Supplementary Service Data (USSD) to Nigerian telecom operators as the government set to list out names of the defaulting 18 banks on Tuesday (tomorrow). According to a report from Vanguard, the reason for the public seems to be for the telcos to stop offering the said services that enable their customers conveniently do online banking. The Central Bank of Nigeria and the Nigerian Communications Commission, in December 2024, issued a final directive to Deposit Money Banks and Mobile Network Operators…

Governor Seyi Makinde of Oyo State, on Monday, inducted 48 newly-appointed Permanent Secretaries into the state civil service held at the Executive Chambers of the Governor’s Office, Agodi, Ibadan, with a vow to continue upholding merit in the state civil and public service. The new Permanent Secretaries comprise 15 from the mainstream, six Inspectors General of Education, six from the health sector, seven from the local government, one from the House of Assembly, one as Surveyor General, nine Tutor Generals, and three executive secretaries. The governor stated that the appointees went through a rigorous selection process before being appointed to…

The Kremlin said on Monday that the latest round of US sanctions on the Russian energy sector risked destabilizing global markets, and Moscow would do everything possible to minimize their impact. “It is clear that the United States will continue to try to undermine the positions of our companies in non-competitive ways, but we expect that we will be able to counteract this,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said. “At the same time, of course, such decisions cannot but lead to a certain destabilization of international energy markets, oil markets. We will very carefully monitor the consequences and configure the work…

Former world heavyweight champion, Tyson Fury has announced his retirement from boxing. Tyson Fury has dramatically announced his retirement from boxing with immediate effect. The Gypsy King, 36, revealed the shock news in a video to his fans on Monday afternoon. ‘Hi everybody, I’m going to make this short and sweet,’ he said in a clip he shared to social media. ‘I’d like to announce my retirement from boxing. It’s been a blast, I’ve loved every single minute of it. ‘I’m going to end with this… Dick Turpin wore a mask. God bless everybody, see you on the other side.…

Governor Seyi Makinde of Oyo State has said he will prosecute kingmakers who are still protesting over the choice of Prince Abimbola Owoade as the new Alaafin of Oyo for bribery except they declared support for the new king. The governor said this after presenting Certificate of Appointment and Staff of Office as the new Alaafin of Oyo to Owoade on Monday at the Executive Chamber of the Governor’s Office in Ibadan. Governor Makinde, who declared that the Alaafin’s stool was important to the entire Yoruba race and not only to Oyo Town or Oyo State, noted, “Those who are,…

The Lagos State House of Assembly has elected Mojisola Lasbat Meranda as its first female Speaker in history. Her emergence on Monday followed the impeachment of Mudashiru Obasa, who was accused of financial mismanagement and corruption. Here are facts about the new female Speaker.

For disrupting an Ibom Air flight from Uyo to Abuja on 8 January 2025, and causing its cancellation, a female passenger has been charged to court and granted bail. According to the Director of Public Affairs and Consumer Protection, Michael Achimugu, who disclosed this on Monday, the incident, described as “unruly behaviour,” affected 89 other passengers and caused significant disruptions to the airline’s operations.Reports have it that an unruly passenger last Wednesday disrupted Ibom Air flight operations scheduled to depart Uyo for Abuja International Airport at 1730hrs and prevented its takeoff. It was reported that passengers had been informed during…

Data sourced from the newly released Monthly Oil Market Report (MOMR) by the Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) indicated that Nigeria’s daily average oil production rose by 152, 000 barrels per day last November. The OPEC MOMR for December 2024 revealed that the country’s production, including condensates rose by 11 per cent, from 1.333 million barrels in October to 1.486 million in November 2024. The analysis puts the daily increase to 152, 000b/d and about one million barrels increase between October and November last year. This is as the Nigerian Upstream Petroleum Regulatory Commission (NUPRC) in its latest…