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SENATOR’S WIFE ORDERS POLICE CONVOY TO ARREST, TORTURE SKIT MAKER FOR CRITICIZING HUSBAND Personnel of the Taraba State police command acting on the orders of Hajia Fatima Lau, wife of the Senator representing Taraba North senatorial district, Shuaibu Isa Lau, arrested and detained a skit maker, Nafiu Hassan, for several days, SaharaReporters has gathered.Lau is a member of the Peoples …

OSHIOMHOLE NEVER AN ACTIVIST, MET OBASANJO SECRETLY TO INCREASE FUEL PRICES – SOWORE Nigerian human rights activist and convener of #RevolutionNow movement, Omoyele Sowore, has described former governor of Edo State and former National President of the Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC), Adams Oshiomhole, as “Agaracha” labour leader who was never and has never been an activist as he makes Nigerians …

MULTICHOICE NIGERIA LOSES 243,000 DSTV, GOTV SUBSCRIBERS IN SIX MONTHS . The South African pay-TV operator MultiChoice Group disclosed that its Nigerian unit, MultiChoice Nigeria, lost 243,000 subscribers on its Digital Satellite Television (DStv) and General Entertainment on Television (GOtv) services from April to September this year. The company revealed these figures in its Interim Financial Results for the period …

WE’LL SUPPORT NIGERIA’S ECONOMIC REFORMS, SAUDI CROWN PRINCE TELLS TINUBU Crown Prince and Prime Minister of Saudi Arabia, Prince Mohammed bin Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, has assured President Bola Tinubu that his country would support Nigeria’s economic reforms.According to a release by the presidential spokesperson, Bayo Onanuga, the crown prince gave the assurance when he met with Tinubu on …

Y OBIDIENT MOVEMENT BIGGER THAN LP, WE CHANGE PARTY IF… YUNUSA The National Coordinator of Nigeria’s “Obidient” Movement, Yunusa Tanko has asserted the movement’s independence and the possibility to pivot to another platform to uphold its values of good governance and accountability. He said, “The Obidient Movement is bigger than the Labour Party… We have them everywhere, academicians, traders, some …

COMMITTEE ON LG AUTONOMY CONCLUDES ASSIGNMENT The Committee on Local Government Autonomy set up by the Federal Government has concluded its meetings and signed the technical document, which is expected to be transmitted to President Bola Tinubu soon.The National President of the National Union of Local Government Employees, Hakeem Ambali, made this known in an interview with our correspondent on …

EDICT ESTABLISHING NIGERIA EXPIRED TEN YEARS AGO – NORTHERN ELDERS The Northern Elders Forum has declared that the Edict that birthed Nigeria expired 10 years ago.The chairman of the Forum, Ango Abdullahi, stated this, in an interview, on the sidelines of a “national dialogue on home grown parliamentary system” organised by a group of members of the House of Representativesunder …

NEW EDO GOVERNOR, OKPEBHOLO, HITS GROUND RUNNING, APPOINTS KEY OFFICERS Newly sworn-in governor of Edo State, Senator Monday Okpebholo, has appointed Barrister Musa Ikhilor as the Secretary to the State Government (SGG).The appointment, alongside others, was the first to be made by the governor hours after assumption of office on Tuesday.Also, a former federal lawmaker, Dr Samson Osagie, has been …

BREAKING. THE ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY, JUSTIN WELBY RESIGNS This comes after the independent Makin review discovered that the Church of England covered up sexual abuse by a barrister. Following calls for his resignation, Welby said the report “exposed the long-maintained conspiracy of silence about the heinous abuses of John Smyth”. According to Welby, he believed wrongly that an appropriate resolution …

, ABIA DECLARES FREE EDUCATION: TO PROSECUTE DEFAULTING PARENTS, GUARDIAN Abia State government has announced free and compulsory education for all children in the state irrespective of their state of origin. The free education, which will commence by January 2025, will run from primary one to Junior Secondary School three in all public schools. The Commissioner for Information, Prince Okey …