Author: Elizabeth Jenrola Oso

French President, Emmanuel Macron has appointed François Bayrou as Prime Minister. This comes after an unprecedented parliamentary vote to depose the previous government last week. Bayrou, 73, is a well-known personality in French politics and an important member of Macron’s centrist alliance. His political background is regarded as important in efforts to restore stability in a split National Assembly. Bayrou, who was recently cleared of allegations of misappropriation of European Parliament funds, now has the difficulty of guiding the country through a divided parliament. He is anticipated to reveal his selection of ministers in the coming days. The appointment of…

The police have arrested Olamide Abiodun Thomas, a nurse and human rights activist. According to FIJ, Thomas Facebook friend was detained in November in a bid to get to her. FIJ said she was arrested in Shomolu, Lagos State in the early hours of Friday. A source claimed Muyiwa Adejobi, the Force Public Relations Officer, ordered Thomas’ arrest. Earlier, FIJ detailed how the police went after Lanre Shotunde, a businessman based in Abeokuta, Ogun State, as a placeholder for Thomas. The Intelligence Response Team (IRT) of the police arrested Shotunde in Abeokuta on November 6 and took him to the…

The Ondo State Police Command has disclosed that a middle-aged man killed himself after setting his estranged wife ablaze in the state. In a message on its X handle, the Command recounted how the man invited his estranged wife to their home to collect her wardrobe but set her ablaze before killing himself. The wife was left with serious burns. The statement read, “Mr A was married to Mrs A, but along the line, they had issues that made them stay apart. “Mr A called Mrs A to come over and carry a wardrobe, when she got to the house,…

In a tragic incident that occurred in Lokoja on Friday morning, two female students from the Federal University Lokoja (FUL) and Kogi State Polytechnic lost their lives in a ghastly motor crash along the Felele axis of the state capital. According to reports, the accident involved a heavily loaded articulated vehicle heading toward Abuja, which lost control and rammed into a tricycle (commonly known as Keke NAPEP) carrying passengers toward the main town. Sources confirmed that the victims were among four passengers in the tricycle. While the other two passengers sustained severe injuries, the two students succumbed to the impact…

President Bola Tinubu has approved the appointment of Nwakuche Sylvester Ndidi as Acting Controller-General of the Nigerian Correctional Service (NCoS), following the retirement of Haliru Nababa from the service. Haliru Nababa served as Comptroller General for three years and seven months. He was appointed as Comptroller General by former President Muhammadu Buhari and his tenure would end on 15th of December. Haliru was pulled out of the Service in a colourful ceremony on Friday. According to a statement signed by Ahmed Ja’afaru, the Secretary of the Board of Civil Defence, Correctional, Fire and Immigration Services, the appointment of Mr Nwakuche…

In a tragic incident that occurred in Lokoja on Friday morning, two female students from the Federal University Lokoja (FUL) and Kogi State Polytechnic lost their lives in a ghastly motor crash along the Felele axis of the state capital. According to reports, the accident involved a heavily loaded articulated vehicle heading toward Abuja, which lost control and rammed into a tricycle (commonly known as Keke NAPEP) carrying passengers toward the main town. Sources confirmed that the victims were among four passengers in the tricycle. While the other two passengers sustained severe injuries, the two students succumbed to the impact…

The leader of the United Kingdom’s Conservative Party, Kemi Badenoch, has stated that she identifies more with her Yoruba heritage than with Nigeria as a whole. Badenoch spoke in an interview with The Spectator, where she expressed that she feels little connection to northern Nigeria, which she described as a “haven for Islamism and Boko Haram.” She said, “I find it interesting that everybody defines me as being Nigerian. I identify less with the country than with the specific ethnicity (Yoruba.) “I have nothing in common with the people from the north of the country, the Boko Haram where Islamism…

A Chief Magistrates’ Court in Kafanchan, Kaduna State, on Thursday ordered the remand of a 30-year-old woman, Mercy Michael in a correctional facility over allegations of killing her eight-month-old daughter with rat poison. The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) charged Michael with culpable homicide, an offence that contravenes Section 189 of the Kaduna State Penal Code Law. According to the NSCDC prosecutor, Marcus Audu, the case was reported on December 11 by a resident of Fadia Bakut, Zonkwa, identified as Godfrey Sunday. Audu stated that on December 10, Michael allegedly fed her baby with rat poison for reasons…

Operatives of the Benue State Police Command have arrested a lecturer at the Joseph Sarwuan Tarka University of Agriculture, Makurdi, Dr Ichor Tersagh, for allegedly masterminding the abduction of the wife of his colleague, Mrs Susan Anyagh. According to reports, the woman was ambushed and kidnapped by some men along Otukpo Road, Makurdi, last Saturday. It was learnt that the kidnappers reportedly collected the N1.3 million found in her car, beat her to a coma and abandoned her on a bush path. Confirming the incident on Friday, the state command spokesperson, Catherine Anene, said that the woman was later found…

A Lagos-based businesswoman, Oluremi Phillips, was on Thursday convicted and sentenced to 17 years imprisonment for defrauding a company, AYM Shafa Limited, of N57,690,000. A Lagos State High Court in Ikeja presided over by Justice Ijelu handed down the sentence in a trial that spanned over two years. Phillips initially stood trial before Justice Sherifat Solebo of the Special Offences Court, Ikeja, following her arraignment on January 27, 2022. However, the trial could not be concluded before Justice Solebo retired in November 2022, leading to the reassignment of the case to Justice Ijelu. The EFCC said Phillips and her company,…