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The National President of the Arewa Youth Consultative Forum, Alhaji Yerima Shettima, has declared his full support of the joint security task force by the southwest states known as Amotekun. Shettima while in an interview with newsmen disclosed that Amotekun was necessitated as a result the security challenges the nation was facing. Shettima said that … Read more
The leadership of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission EFCC, has announced that it would ensure that the former minister of petroleum, Alison-Madueke, was brought to the country this year to answer for her alleged crime. The EFCC’s boss Ibrahim Magu,gave the hint in Ibadan on Wednesday, January 22, 2020, while fielding questions from journalists … Read more
Ekohotblog gathered that Freda Francis was allegedly impregnated by Seyi Tinubu. This is said to be the reason why the man, Freda gave the pregnancy to took to his heels after he discovered the truth. However, it was stated that Seyi is performing his parental duties in secret, but have both decided not to go … Read more
Femi Fani-Kayode, a former minister of aviation, on Wednesday, berated the National leader of the All Progressives Congress, Bola Ahmed Tinubu over his stance on the controversial Operation Amotekun. Recall Tinubu had broken his silence in a statement released earlier after being challenged by the public to comment on the declaration of the Western Nigeria … Read more
US President Donald Trump said on Wednesday he would love to be attending his impeachment trial underway in the US Senate, but that his lawyers had advised him against it. “I’d love to go. I’d sort of love (to) sit in the front row and stare in their corrupt faces,” Trump told reporters as he … Read more
According to a report, the cross-party majority of 261 MPs voted in favor of the 63-year-old Ekaterini Sakellaropoulou, a senior judge with an expertise in environmental and constitutional law. Ekaterini #Sakellaropoulou elected new President of Hellenic President – w 261/300 votes-will succeed Pr. Pavlopoulos on March 13!☑️ 8th president after democracy was restored in GR,1974☑️ … Read more
Amidu Ganiu, a primary six pupil of St Paul’s school, Breadfruit, Lagos Island, will become a one-day Chairman of Lagos Island Local Government. The announcement was made on Wednesday, 22nd of January during the visit of the Special Adviser to the Governor on Civic Engagement, Princess Remi Adebowale and the Chairman, Lagos Island LCDA, Mr. … Read more
The All Progressives Congress (APC) national leader, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, has said that the formation of the Western Nigeria Security Network, code-name Amotekun, might not live up to expectations. In a statement titled “The Public Discourse Over Amotekun,” and signed by the former governor of Lagos State, Tinubu broke his silence on the controversial security outfit … Read more
The Bauchi State governor, Bala Mohammed, has said he expressed fear he could be sacked by the Supreme Court like the former governor of Imo State, Emeka Ihedioha after his opponent and predecessor, Muhammed Abubakar boasted that the court’s verdict will favour him. The governor who was responding to questions from journalists in Bauchi on … Read more
Amidu Ganiu, a primary six pupil of St Paul’s school, Breadfruit, Lagos Island, will become a one-day Chairman of Lagos Island Local Government. The announcement was made on Wednesday, 22nd of January during the visit of the Special Adviser to the Governor on Civic Engagement, Princess Remi Adebowale and the Chairman, Lagos Island LCDA, Mr. … Read more
President Muhammadu Buhari has reacted the killing of the Chairman of the Christian Association Of Nigeria CAN, Lawan Andimi, who was beheaded the deadly terrorist group Boko Haram. Buhari in his reaction described the beheading of the cleric as provocative and cruel. It could be recalled that CAN confirmed the killing of the chairman on … Read more
Raymond Dokpesi, founder of DAAR Communications Plc, on Tuesday opened his defence at the Federal High Court, Abuja, in the alleged N2.1 billion fraud charge preferred against him by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). The commission arraigned Dokpesi in 2015 on a seven-count charge bordering on alleged N2.1 billion fraud. The money was … Read more
Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka has described the statement by former Governor of Kaduna State, Balarabe Musa on the creation of “Operation Amotekun, a” security outfit in the South West region as a “recipe for tragedy.” In a statement he personally signed on Tuesday, Soyinka said he wished Nigeria to avoid the blunder by Musa. … Read more
The Peoples Democratic Party PDP, has applauded the Supreme Court over the its judgment on the Sokoto’s gubernatorial poll. It could be recalled that the apex court had affirmed the election of Governors Aminu Tambuwal, Bala Mohammed, Samuel Ortom and Ahmed Fintiri of Sokoto, Bauchi, Benue and Adamawa states respectively. In a statement signed by … Read more
The Ondo state Governor, Rotimi Akeredolu, has said that his roe in the establishment of the Southwest joint security out popularly called Amotekun can not denied him his second term gubernatorial ambition. The governorship election in the state is due in November this year. Akeredolu in a statement in Akure said he “is not perturbed … Read more
The presidential candidate of the People Democratic Party PDP in the last presidential election, Atiku Abubakar, has cautioned the federal government against its decision to termed the southwest joint security outfit known as Amotekun as Illegal. Atiku backed the establishment of Amotekun, noting that such outfit would assist the police, armed forces and paramilitary bodies … Read more
The Acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Ibrahim Magu, has decried the refusal of the United Kingdom (UK), to extradite former Minister of Petroleum Resources, Diezani Allison-Madueke, to face trial for alleged money laundering in Nigeria. Magu stated this on Monday, January 20, 2020, while receiving the “Institution of the Decade” … Read more
There are indications that the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, may have rejected the new candidate of the ruling All Progressives Congress APC for Saturday’s rerun elections in Akwa Ibom Northwest Senatorial District. Following the appointment of its candidate, Sen. Godswill Akpabio as Minister for Niger Delta Affairs, APC had last month forwarded a replacement … Read more
Following the affirmation as the winner of the Mrach 2019 governorship by the Supreme Court, the governor of Sokoto, Aminu Tambuwal, has extended a hand of fellowship to the opposition parties in the state to move the state forward. Gov. Tambuwal made the call when he paid a courtesy visit on the Sultan of Sokoto … Read more
A student of the Nigerian Institute of Journalism (NIJ), Ogba, Lagos, Ms Anjola Ogunyemi, has said she is not returning to the school after being allegedly sexually assaulted by one of her lecturers, Tene John, as she no longer feels safe. Ogunyemi said she feared that she would be victimized by other lecturers of the … Read more