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BANDITS CELEBRATE SALLAH IN VIRAL VIDEO, NIGERIANS REACT Nigerians and the rest of the world were taken aback when a video of thousands of bandits celebrating Sallah in Zamfara State surfaced on social media. The development, many say, is a slap on Nigeria’s security architecture. The video, which was disclosed by a counter insurgency analysts and security expert focused on …

ROBOT PRIEST, ‘FATHER JUSTIN”, EXCOMMUNICATED BY CATHOLIC CHURCH A robot priest created by artificial intelligence was defrocked after just one day when parishioners kicked against it. The virtual priest named “Father Justin” was set up by a US religious network Catholic Answers to tend to the needs of Catholics online. But within 24 hours the computerised clergyman was excommunicated as …

IT’S A LIE! 2023 POLL DIDN’T REFLECT NIGERIANS’ WILL – LP, PDP FAULT US REPORT The opposition Labour Party, LP, and Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, have expressed shock over how the United States 2023 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices arrived at its conclusion that the 2023 polls reflected the will of Nigerians, despite widespread irregularities. However, the All Progressives …

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LAGOS WORKERS EARNING N70,000 MINIMUM WAGE SINCE JANUARY – SANWO-OLU Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos State said on Thursday that civil servants in the state have been receiving N70,000 minimum wage since January. Sanwo-Olu said his administration has been paying workers an additional N35,000 wage allowance since January. Speaking at a function on Thursday, the governor assured workers that his …

THOUSANDS OF DOCTORS CONSIDERING LEAVING UK – GMC Factors driving thousands of doctors to consider leaving the UK have been revealed in new research published by the General Medical Council (GMC). The GMC had commissioned independent research into the reasons doctors may be considering, or have already made, a move abroad. The report, Identifying groups of migrating doctors, also makes …

US CRITICIZES ‘ARBITRARY ARRESTS’ OF GODWIN EMEFIELE, NNAMDI KANU The United States Government has criticized the arbitrary arrests of Godwin Emefiele, the former governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, and Nnamdi Kanu, the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), by security personnel in Nigeria. In its ‘2023 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices: Nigeria,’ published Tuesday on …

APC SUPPORTERS ATTACKED, PREVENTED IGBO VOTERS FROM VOTING DURING 2023 ELECTION – US REPORT The United States Government has analysed how supporters of Nigeria’s ruling party, the All Progressives Congress (APC), attacked and prevented supporters of opposition parties, particularly Igbo people, from exercising their voting rights during the Lagos State governorship election in March 2023. In a report titled, ‘2023 …

AYOGU EZE, FORMER SENATOR, GUBER CANDIDATE, DIES AT 66 Ayogu Eze, a former senator, who represented Enugu North Senatorial District in the National Assembly between 2007 and 2015, is dead. Ayogu Eze, who contested the governorship of Enugu State in 2015 on the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC), died in an Abuja hospital after a protracted illness. A …

WIKE, FUBARA, WAR GETS HOTTER AS FOUR COMMISSIONERS QUIT GOVERNOR’S CABINET Four Commissioner serving in the administration of the governor of Rivers State, Sir Siminalayi Fubara, have since resigned their appointments into the State Executive Council. Whereas the Commissioner for Works, George Kelly, and the Commissioner of Power, Henry Ogiri, had earlier resigned, the Attorney General and Commissioner of Justice, …