Breaking News from Nigerian Evening Newspapers and Evening News Friday 3rd January 2025
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target=_blank>Analyzing anti-democracy narratives and advocacy for coup d’etat in Nigeria
By Hamza Ibrahim Following the coup d’etat in Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger Republic, the advocacy for military takeover especially among the youth population in Nigeria has lately gained momentum. This is obvious when one pays attention to social media commentary and conversations. Anti hardship protests that took place in early August have reinforced this
target=_blank>Policeman celebrating colleague’s promotion guns down Ekiti nursing mother
An accidental discharge by a policeman in Ado-Ekiti, Ekiti State capital, has killed a nursing mother, Ifeoluwa Adekolu, in the state. Information gathered revealed that the incident happened at Oke-Ila Police Station. An eyewitness, said the woman was standing across the road opposite the police station when an officer, who had come to the station
target=_blank>Attempted assassination of Kaduna Senator worrisome –PDP
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Kaduna State has condemned the assassination attempt on the life of Senator Lawal Adamu Usman, representing Kaduna Central senatorial distric, saying it sets a worrisome tone for 2025. Recall that the senator had posted the news of his attempted assassination on his Facebook wall on January 1, 2025. However,
target=_blank>Opposition flays Bauchi govt over N3.4bn budget for fuel, travels
The Bauchi State Chapter of Peoples Redemption Party (PRP) has described plans by the Bauchi State Government and the state House of Assembly to spend over N3.4bn on fueling of vehicles, generators and travels in the 2025 fiscal year as a shameful display of mismanagement of public funds and greed. The party stated this in a
target=_blank>Fee hikes: Don’t ‘privatise’ federal varsities, don cautions FG
The Chief Imam of Al-Hilal Crescent Central Mosque, Ilorin, Kwara State, Prof. Yusuf Lanre Badmus, has described hikes in school fees in federal universities across Nigeria as an attempt by the government to privatise the institutions, cautioning that such move is wrong. Badmus spoke during his Friday Juma’at sermon at the mosque where he reeled
target=_blank>Customs: How we recovered petrol worth over N100m being smuggled out of Nigeria
Officials of Operation Whirlwind Zone A of the Nigeria Customs Service, on New Year eve, raided some criminal hideouts along the Lagos waterways in Badagry and intercepted 10,970 litres of Premium Motor Spirit (PMS) also known as Petrol stocked in plastic sacks concealed in wooden boats. The commercial value of the petrol is put at
target=_blank>Edo: Impeached LG chair blames Okpebholo for removal
The impeached Chairman of Esan Central Local Government Area of Edo State, Paul Iyoha, has accused Edo State Governor, Senator Monday Okpebholo, of orchestrating his removal from office. The impeachment of Iyoha brings to four the total number of local government chairmen and their deputies who have been impeached under Okpebholo. Daily Trust reports that
target=_blank>Blackout looms in Abuja over relocation of electricity installations
The Abuja Electricity Distribution Company (AEDC) says there will be power disruptions in some parts of Abuja due to relocation of the 33KV DC Airport Feeder and 132KV Kukwaba-Apo Transmission Line Towers along the Outer Southern Expressway. A statement on its official X handle said the operation would occur from January 6 to 31. The
target=_blank>Lagos denies demolishing Lekki building
The Lagos State Building Control Agency (LASBCA) has refuted claims in an online video that it demolished a building at 1A Olubunmi Owa Street, Off Admiralty Way, Lekki Phase 1, Eti-Osa, Lagos. The General Manager of LASBCA, Mr Gbolahan Oki, made the denial in a statement issued by the agency’s Assistant Director of Public Affairs,
target=_blank>Biden awards presidential medal to Trump’s Republican critic
President Joe Biden on Thursday awarded Republican Trump critic Liz Cheney one of the highest civilian honours in the United States – the Presidential Citizens Medal. Cheney, 58, a former Republican lawmaker for Wyoming in the House of Representatives, led, together with Mississippi Congressman Bennie Thompson, the Jan. 6 select committee that investigated President-elect Donald
target=_blank>UK minister faults Musk’s intervention in politics
A senior British government minister, Jess Phillips, on Friday berated Elon Musk’s latest intervention in the country’s politics, saying it was misjudged and certainly misinformed. Musk had earlier alleged that Prime Minister Keir Starmer failed to bring rape gangs to justice when he was Director of Public Prosecutions. In a string of posts on his
UK minister faults Musk’s intervention in politics
target=_blank>Rivers characterised by anti-party activities in 2023 – Abe
Senator Magnus Abe has revealed that widespread anti-party activities characterised the 2023 general elections across political parties in Rivers State. Speaking during a civic reception hosted by the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Nyesom Wike, for political stakeholders in Rivers State on Friday in Port Harcourt, Abe stated that such actions were driven
Rivers characterised by anti-party activities in 2023 – Abe
target=_blank>Community policing a scam in Nigeria — Prof. Rotimi
A professor in the Department of History at Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Ile-Ife, Osun State, Kemi Rotimi, has described community policing as a scam. The scholar averred that talks about such policing gain momentum in Nigeria whenever there are funds from donor agencies that believe in the security of the lives and properties of citizens.
Community policing a scam in Nigeria — Prof. Rotimi
target=_blank>Man hangs self in Kwara
A middle-aged man, yet to be identified, in the early morning of Friday took his life in the Enyenkorin area of Ilorin, the Kwara State capital. The man allegedly committed suicide by hanging himself under the tree along the Ilorin-Eyenkorin highway. An eyewitness, Alhaji Waheed, disclosed that they found a little paper under the tree
Man hangs self in Kwara
target=_blank>Edo: Two council chairmen, 13 councillors defected to APC
Probably to avoid being impeached by the legislative arms of their councils, the local government chairmen of Owan West and Ovia South-West Local Government Areas, Dickson Ahonsi and Edosa Enowoghomenma, respectively, have defected to the All Progressives Congress, APC. DAILY POST reports that eight councillors, including the Leader of the House, Nosakhare Edobor, defected along
Edo: Two council chairmen, 13 councillors defected to APC
target=_blank>Release Nnamdi Kanu, write your name in gold – Ohanaeze to Tinubu ahead Enugu visit
The President-General of Ohanaeze Ndigbo, Nze Ozichukwu Fidelis Chukwu, on Friday said President Bola Tinubu would have written his name in gold if he orders the release of Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB. Chukwu made the remark while welcoming Tinubu to the South-East ahead of his official visit to Enugu
Release Nnamdi Kanu, write your name in gold – Ohanaeze to Tinubu ahead Enugu visit
target=_blank>We’ll no more tolerate, killing, assault on police officers – IGP vows
The Inspector General of Police, IGP, Olukayode Egbetokun, on Friday, vowed that any assault on police officers will receive commensurate response. He said this in Enugu while expressing displeasure on the number of police officers that have been killed by criminal elements. Egbetokun, who was in Enugu police headquarters on a one-day official visit, said
We’ll no more tolerate, killing, assault on police officers – IGP vows
target=_blank>VP Shettima unveils World Bank-funded project in Nasarawa
Vice President Kashim Shettima, on Friday, launched a World Bank-funded State Action on Business Enabling Reforms, SABRE, project in Nasarawa State. This was contained in a statement by Shettima’s spokesperson, Stanley Nkwocha. According to him, the project includes a one-stop investment centre and multi-door court in Lafia, the state capital. Nkwocha added that the ceremony
VP Shettima unveils World Bank-funded project in Nasarawa
target=_blank>Immigration hands over wanted human trafficking suspect to NAPTIP
The Nigeria Immigration Service, NIS, has handed over a high profile human trafficking suspect to the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons, NAPTIP. This was contained in a statement by the Press Officer of NAPTIP, Vincent Adekoye, on Friday in Abuja. Adekoye said the suspect, Uadiale-Christiana Jacob, popularly known as Christy Gold,
Immigration hands over wanted human trafficking suspect to NAPTIP
target=_blank>13 political parties to contest in Ondo LG polls
The Ondo State Independent Electoral Commission, ODIEC, has released the names of the political parties that will partake in the local government elections coming up on 18th January 2025. The Commissioner in charge of Communication, Media and Information Technology, Tunde Adeleye, released the list of the political parties on Friday in Akure, the state capital.
13 political parties to contest in Ondo LG polls
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