Spain’s Ministry of the Interior has agreed to re-examine the cases of all three Nigerian nationals who had arrived in the Canary Islands on top the rudder blade of a cargo ship last week. This allowed them to have the status of asylum seeker until a final decision is issued. After agreeing to re-assess the asylum applications of two of the three Nigerian migrants, the interior ministry also authorised the case of the the third migrant to be revisited. It said that this procedure would be fast-tracked using emergency procedures. This means that the third migrant who had arrived alongside…
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Joseph R. Biden Jr. has invited 49 African heads of state and the head of the African Union to Washington, D.C. for a three-day U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit December 13-15. The goal of the historic summit will be to build and expand vital political, economic, and strategic partnerships, as well as people-to-people dialogue, based on mutual interests and shared priorities in Africa. It comes just months after Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken unveiled the U.S Strategy Toward Sub-Saharan Africa. The summit’s agenda will be packed, including increasing sustainable food production, strengthening health systems, providing humanitarian assistance, responding to the climate crisis,…
The Inspector General of Police, Usman Alkali Baba wants all structures in the criminal justice system of the country to synergise to stamp out all forms of violence against women and children, who are mostly victims of violent acts. He is however dissatisfied with violence against all genders. The police boss on Thursday made this position known just as the ‘Colour-me-Orange’ team led by the Minister of Women Affairs and Social Development, Dame Pauline Kedem Tallen, called on the IGP at the Force Headquarters, Abuja, as part of the activities to mark the 16 days of activism against Gender-Based violence and…
A-34-year old Michael Isaac and 44-year-old Oluwaseyi Samuel, accused of abducting an 11-year old girl and engaging her in sex romps for five days have been freed of the allegations. Justice Abiola Soladoye of a Sexual Offences and Domestic Violence Court, Ikeja on Thursday, discharged and acquitted the two friends, of the charges for lack of culpability in the case of defilement, human trafficking and contemporary slavery. Trial of the two friends began in 2018 when they were accused of luring the 11 years old alleged victim to a place at Railway line in Ijora area of Lagos. They were said…
Pandemonium broke out on Wednesday morning following the alledged shooting of a Dubai returnee, Gafaru Buraimoh, a Nigerian man by a Police inspector in the Ajah area of Lagos. However, situation report has it that the officer behind the shooting, an Inspector of Police, was immediately disarmed, detained, and full-scale investigation has commenced into the incident. This development was credited to the Lagos State Police Command Spokesperson, SP. Benjamin Hundeyin on Wednesday. According to him, “At About 2330 hours of Tuesday, December 6 2022, a shooting incident involving men of Ajah Division, resulted in the unfortunate death of Gafaru Buraimoh…
Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, the Presidential candidate of the governing All Progressives Congress, has finally brought to rest all issues and controversies surrounding his age, school and record in the private sector. While fielding questions at Chatham House, in London, on Monday, Tinubu said he was born on March 29, 1952, adding that those who disputed claims that he was from the Tinubu family could request for a DNA test. The former Lagos State Governor also announced that he just received his original certificate from Chicago State University, adding that Mobil Oil attested to his outstanding record. His words: “At…
The Tinubu/Shettima Presidential Campaign Council has described the comments of the People’s Democratic Party, PDP’s Presidential candidate, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, at the party’s Lagos rally, as bare-faced lies. The PDP Presidential candidate had at the campaign on Monday, told scandalously scanty supporters that the Presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu did not develop modern Lagos, but that the Federal Government did. In a swift reaction, Chief Spokesperson and Director, Public Affairs of the Tinubu-Shettima Presidential Campaign Council, Festus Keyamo, reminded Atiku that despite conspiring to seize the funds of the people of Lagos State,…
Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, the Presidential candidate of All Progressives Congress, APC, has been speaking on sundry issues recently, this time the contender in the February 2023 Elections has said when he becomes Nigeria’s president, his administration will continue to provide quality leadership in the country. He pledged this while speaking at Chatham House in London on Monday. According to a release E-signed by Tinubu Media Office Tunde Rahman, the presidential hopeful vowed that as President, Nigeria will epitomise values of democracy during elections anywhere in Africa, by ensuring that democratic ideals are followed and all forms of electoral violence will…
The police team leader Goddy Ihende who investigated the death of a 22-year old fashion designer, Oluwabamise Ayanwola, who was alledgedly raped and murdered by the driver of Bus Rapid Transit, Andrew Nice Ominikoron, has told Justice Sherifat Sonaike of the Lagos State High Court sitting in Tafawa Balewa Square, that the police conducted a forensic examination on the bus but that the report is yet to be out. Continuing his evidence on Monday, Ihende told the trial judge that the police took samples from the bus for a DNA analysis adding that it takes time to get the result…
This is not the best of time for Kogi State House of Assembly candidate Ismaila Yousuf Atumeyi, as the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, docked the aspirant and two others before a Lagos Federal High Court, in connection with an alleged hacking of an old generation bank and fraud of N1,403,343,400 billion. Ismaila Yousuf Atumeyi, alongside Ngene Joshua Dominic and Abdulmalik Salau Femi, a former employee of Union Bank were arraigned before the court on Monday. Atumeyi is the Kogi State House of Assembly candidate of the New Nigeria Peoples Party, NNPP, for Ankpa 11 Constituency. The EFCC, through…