APC UPDATE: Kano High Court Halts Oshiomhole’s Suspension, Analysts Say It’s Just a Stop Gap Measure

NewsNigeriaPoliticsAPC UPDATE: Kano High Court Halts Oshiomhole’s Suspension, Analysts Say It’s Just a Stop Gap Measure

Adeola Oladipupo (Correspondent)March 5, 2020

The crisis rocking the All Progressives Party (APC) at the national level, took a new twist on Thursday when a Federal High Court sitting in Kano issued an interim order halting the suspension of Adams Oshiomhole, less than 24 hours after an Abuja High Court asked him to step aside until substantive suit seeking his permanent removal as the APC Chairman was determined. In a ruling on an application brought before Justice A. Lewis-Allagoa of...

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Buhari’s $22.7 Billion Loan Request Approved as Some Senators Alleged Exclusion of Some Regions

EconomyNewsNigeriaBuhari’s $22.7 Billion Loan Request Approved as Some Senators Alleged Exclusion of Some Regions

Adeola Oladipupo (Correspondent)March 5, 2020

After a heated debate and a closed- door session that lasted 45 minutes, lawmakers in the Senate have approved President Buhari’s $22.7 billion loan request to fund key infrastructural projects, four years after it was rejected by the Saraki-led eight Senate. The loan request was given a green-light after the report of the Senate committee on Local and Foreign debts was read and recommended for approval by its chairman, Clifford Ordia (PDP, Edo). But some...

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Coronavirus Delays James Bond Movie Release Until November

EntertainmentFilmCoronavirus Delays James Bond Movie Release Until November

Adeola Oladipupo (Correspondent)March 5, 2020

Initially due for release in April, but has now been moved to November 25th, James Bond Movie ‘No Time to Die’ has been postponed because of the coronavirus outbreak, producers announced on Twitter. According to MGM which handles the domestic release, Universal which handles the international release and the Producers, Michael Wilson and Barbara Broccoli, the decision was taken after careful consideration of the global market. This makes the movie the first Hollywood film to...

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Plots to Replace Oshiomhole by Governors Revealed as APC Chair seeks Stay of Execution

NewsNigeriaPoliticsPlots to Replace Oshiomhole by Governors Revealed as APC Chair seeks Stay of Execution

Adeola Oladipupo (Correspondent)March 5, 2020

Some governors of the All Progressive Congress and anti-Oshiomhole forces are planning to call a meeting of the National Executive Council (NEC) in a few days to determine the fate of the suspended National Chairman. According to Punch newspaper, some APC governors were looking for Mr. Oshiomhole’s successor to be announced in a soon-to-be convened NEC meeting. A top member of the party who did not want to be named was quoted as saying that...

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Cross River: How A Female Judge Lost Promotion Because of Her State of Origin

Law & JusticeNigeriaCross River: How A Female Judge Lost Promotion Because of Her State of Origin

Adeola Oladipupo (Correspondent)March 3, 2020

The three arms of government in Cross River State are heading for a clash over the rejection of the nomination of Justice Akon Ikpeme as the Chief Judge of the State for not being an indigene of the state. Justice Ikpeme, who is the most senior Judge in the state since the former Chief Judge, Justice Micheal Edem retired last November, had her fate sealed on March 2, when the committee of the whole house...

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Coronavirus Latest News in Nigeria: What We Know About How the Italian Man Entered Nigeria Undetected

HealthNewsNigeriaCoronavirus Latest News in Nigeria: What We Know About How the Italian Man Entered Nigeria Undetected

Adeola Oladipupo (Correspondent)March 1, 2020

Since the announcement that a man who just arrived from Milan, Italy to Lagos, Nigeria, has COVID-19, many people have been asking how the Italian was able to go through the Lagos Airport undetected, despite the health screening reported to be carried out at the airport. In the early hours of February 28, the Government of Nigeria, confirmed the first case of COVID-19 in the country. The case makes Nigeria the first sub-Saharan Africa country...

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Coronavirus in Nigeria: ‘Follow This Precautions’ – Nigerian Government Tells Citizens

HealthNigeriaWellnessCoronavirus in Nigeria: ‘Follow This Precautions’ – Nigerian Government Tells Citizens

Adeola Oladipupo (Correspondent)February 28, 2020

Following the first confirmed case of Coronavirus in Nigeria, the Minister of Health, Dr Osagie Ehanire, has announced health precautions Nigerians should take. “All Nigerians should take care of their health,” the Minister said in a statement released in the early hours of Friday 25 February. “Maintain hand and respiratory hygiene to protect themselves and others, including their own families.” Regularly and thoroughly wash your hands with soap and water and use alcohol-based hand sanitizer....

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Coronavirus in Nigeria: What We Know About How the Italian Man Entered Nigeria Undetected

HealthNigeriaWorldCoronavirus in Nigeria: What We Know About How the Italian Man Entered Nigeria Undetected

Adeola Oladipupo (Correspondent)February 28, 2020

Since the announcement that a man who just arrived from Milan, Italy to Lagos, Nigeria, has COVID-19, many people have been asking how the Italian was able to go through the Lagos Airport undetected, despite the health screening reported to be carried out at the airport. In the early hours of February 28, the Government of Nigeria, confirmed the first case of COVID-19 in the country. The case makes Nigeria the first sub-Saharan Africa country...

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War Against Insurgency: Are Nigerian Soldiers Traumatised?

National SecurityNewsNigeriaWar Against Insurgency: Are Nigerian Soldiers Traumatised?

Adeola Oladipupo (Correspondent)February 28, 2020

Combat soldiers are generally trained to be hard-boiled and resilient, but with the increase in reported cases of Nigerian soldiers turning their guns and knives on colleagues and neighbours, many are calling for a check on the well-being of combatants, with some asking the question, are Nigerian soldiers traumatized? Telling the tragic story of how the lives of four soldiers were taken by their colleague, the Nigerian Army spokesman, Sagir Musa, on Wednesday 26 February,...

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Boko Haram proxy group, ISWAP executes its own leaders for not being brutal enough

NewsNigeriaBoko Haram proxy group, ISWAP executes its own leaders for not being brutal enough

Adeola Oladipupo (Correspondent)February 26, 2020

The Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP), a faction of Boko Haram terrorist group, has killed three of its top leaders for attempting to soften the rules guiding the terrorist group’s mode of operation. According to Audu Bulama Bukarti, a subsahara Africa analyst at Tony Blair Institute for Global Change, the ISWAP leaders — Idris Al-Barnawi, Abu Maryam and Abu Zainab – were killed by commanders who perceived the trio as being compromised for changing...

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