PoThe police in Lagos State have arrested a 26-year-old man, one Akpannu, for allegedly cutting a pastor with a machete for allegedly giving him a fake prophecy. The accused was alleged to have in May, 2023, cut the pastor of one of the new generation churches, Prophet Anayochukeu, for allegedly giving him a fake prophecy. The incident was said to have happened at the church’s headquarters in the Ijesha area of Lagos. The accused claimed that the pastor, during a prayer session, told him that he was about to lose his sister except when certain prayers were…
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A former Senator who represented Anambra Central senatorial district in the National Assembly, Senator Annie Okonkwo is dead. He reportedly died in US after a long battle with a terminal illness. A family member who spoke to Vanguard via the telephone on condition of anonymity confirmed the news of the his (Okonkwo) death. Recall that the deceased who was a foremost industrialist recently celebrated his 63rd birthday on May 23, 2023.
The former Governor of Kaduna State, Nasir El-Rufai, has said that he and some northern governors used religion as a political tool to give victory to Asiwaju Bola Tinubu in the 2023 presidential election. According to the former governor, the decision to use religion as a political strategy was to help tackle the issue of tribalism and religion in politics in the country. The former governor stated this in a viral video. He was speaking to an audience in the Hausa language in Kaduna at an event before handing over to his successor. He said, “Allah sees…
President Bola Tinubu had his first meeting with Governors of the 36 States of the Federation known as the Nigeria Governors’ Forum (NGF) at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. The meeting was said to have commenced around 12:36pm. Some of those present at the meeting include Gvernors of Zamfara, Kano, Taraba, Kogi, Ogun, Nasarawa, Bayelsa, Adamawa, Ebonyi, Lagos, Rivers, Osun, Jigawa, Benue, Taraba, Delta, Enugu, Rivers, Oyo, Plateau, Kebbi, Abia, Imo, Bauchi While the Deputy Governors of Edo and Niger are representing their States. Those not sighted before the commencement meeting are Governors of Katsina, Kaduna, Gombe, Borno, Cross River, Akwa…
The bishop of Rome and sovereign of the Vatican City State, Pope Francis will undergo surgery on his abdomen at Rome’s Gemelli hospital, the Vatican said in a statement. It added that his medical team had decided in recent days that surgery was required and that he was expected to stay in hospital for “several days” to recover. He will have the operation on his abdominal wall under a general anaesthetic, the Vatican said. Francis was due to be taken to hospital following his weekly audience at the Vatican on Wednesday morning, where he made no mention…
Indication has emerged that the North Central geopolitical zone would not drop its demand for the slot of Speaker of the House of Representatives of the 10th National Assembly in spite of the emergence of Senator George Akume as Secretary to the Government of the Federation. Chieftains of the ruling party from the region on Monday insisted that the All Progressives Congress National Working Committee must review its zoning arrangement for positions of Presiding Officers of National Assembly barely two weeks to the inauguration of the Parliament. Addressing journalists on Monday in Abuja, Reverend Dominic Alancha, Convener, Concerned…
The house of representatives committee investigating the alleged missing 48 million barrels of Bonny Light crude has summoned Godwin Emiefele, governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), to provide details on the N32.5 billion paid to two companies — Messrs GSCL Consulting and Bizplus — without formal records. The lower chamber is also investigating an alleged payment of $200 million to the firms for “consultancy service”. The committee also invited the former managing director of the Nigeria Export Promotion Council (NEPC), the auditor-general of the federation, the accountant-general of the federation, the minister of foreign affairs, managing…
Peter One week after President Bola Tinubu announced the removal of subsidy payment on Premium Motor Spirit also known as petrol, the presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP) in the February 25, Peter Obi, on Tuesday broke his silence on the much-criticised move. He said rather than go through a “forceful removal”, he would have provided “various relieving policies” to cushion the effect of subsidy removal. Obi, a former Anambra State governor, spoke with judicial correspondents at the Court of Appeal, venue of the Presidential Election Petitions Tribunal on Tuesday. “I’ve actually been in support of…
A chief Magistrate’s Court sitting in Osogbo, Osun State has ordered that two men be remanded in correctional centre for allegedly defaming the newly inaugurated Speaker of the state, Adewale Egbedun. The defendants, Ajibola Oluwasegun Fawale, aged 34 and Ajiboye Babatunde, 28, were arraigned on Tuesday by the state police command. The police slammed the duo with two count-charge bordering on publication of defamatory content on the social media. Fawale and Babatunde were accused of posting on social media that Egbedun is a fraudster and that he had been declared wanted by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Economic…
A pharmacist, Amos Nzioki, on Tuesday, was arraigned before Chief Magistrate Martha Mutuku of Mombasa Magistrate Court for conducting an abortion on a 15-year-old girl. Nzioki was charged for allegedly conducting an induced abortion on the girl conceived through defilement by a yet-to-be-identified man who is now at large, K24tv reported on Tuesday. The office of the Director of Public Prosecution revealed that the doctor committed the offence on June 3, 2023, at his private chemist in Tudor. Nzioki was arrested after the victim’s guardian reported the incident to the police. The police took the girl to Coast General Hospital…