The house of Sunday Adeyemi ‘Igboho’, the man at the centre of the recent eviction controversy in Oyo State, was set ablaze in the early hours of Tuesday. Confirming the incident to Channels Television, the Oyo State Police Command said it received a distress call about the fire around 6 am. The distress report said some unidentified hoodlums had attacked Igboho’s house in Ibadan, the Oyo state capital. Efforts are on to get to the root of the matter, police spokesman Gbenga Fadeyi said. “At about 0620 hrs of today 26/01/2021, report was received at Santo Police Station that some…
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Security forces have withdrawn from Ugandan presidential candidate Bobi Wine’s residence after he spent 11 days under house arrest, his lawyer said on Tuesday. “They are now leaving, we hope this doesn’t change later today,” George Musisi said. The Ugandan High Court ordered security forces to end Wine’s house arrest on Monday. Justice Michael Elubu, who heads the court’s civil division, said if the government had evidence against Wine, he should be charged in court and not “held unjustifiably at his home,” according to Musisi. Wine, a popular singer, was the main opposition frontrunner in the presidential elections held on…
A Ugandan court has ordered security forces to cease surrounding the home of opposition leader Bobi Wine, whose house arrest since the presidential election has drawn international pressure. Troops have blocked the 38-year-old pop star-turned-politician from leaving his house in a suburb of the capital Kampala since he voted in the Jan. 14 election where he ran against long-serving incumbent President Yoweri Museveni. “The judge ordered that the state and its agencies should immediately vacate his property and his right to personal liberty should immediately be reinstated,” lawyer George Musisi said. 76-year-old Museveni, who has been in power since 1986,…
A Kaduna State High court presided over by Justice Gideon Kurada has ordered the Nigerian Correctional Service to evacuate the wife of the embattled leader of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria (IMN), Zeenat Elzakzaky to an isolation centre to enable her to undergo treatment for COVID-19. Mrs Elzakzaky reportedly contracted the virus inside the Nigerian Correctional Centre in Kaduna state capital last week. The spokesman of the group, Ibrahim Musa, confirmed the news to Channels Television on Thursday. He said Zeenat tested positive for COVID-19 a second time on January 20, 2021, but the management of the Correctional Centre denied the report.…
Nigeria’s federal government has assured citizens that Covid-19 vaccines will not be hijacked or diverted by any group outside the distribution plan. There have been growing concerns that politicians may hijack the Covid-19 vaccines, billed to arrive the country next month. Recent announcement of the formula for the distribution of the expected 100,000 doses of vaccines has also sparked off apprehension amongst Nigerians over a possible hijack or diversion of the vaccines. The National Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA), however, said it is important to douse the anxiety amongst the people over how government will be deploying the initial…
More states of the Nigerian federation have stepped up measures to combat the activities of criminals masquerading as herdsmen, THISDAY investigation has revealed. It was gathered at the weekend that state governments in conjunction with the police and other security agencies have devised various means of checking the influx of the herders and monitoring the activities of those already in their domains. The efforts, it was learnt, were geared towards preventing the ongoing crisis in Oyo and Ondo States where communities and the government are at loggerheads with the herdsmen from spilling to more states. The Ondo State government and…
Nnamdi Kanu, the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, has released a list of 62 prominent Nigerians to be blamed for the current state of the nation. He made the claim in a post on his Facebook page. “Let us not forget former US President Barrack Obama and former UK Prime Minister David Cameron and all members of the Redeemed Christian Church of God,” Kanu’s Facebook post read. According to him, those people take the full responsibility of what Nigeria has turned into today, owing to the roles they played in kicking out former President Goodluck Jonathan and…
As the seven-day ultimatum issued by Ondo State Governor, Rotimi Akeredolu, to herdsmen to vacate the state’s forest reserves expires, the leadership of the Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria (MACBAN) would on Monday meet the South West Governors’ Forum. The meeting would hold in Akure, the state capital. A source said the meeting was meant to find lasting solutions to the incessant killings, kidnapping, and crises between herdsmen and farmers in the region. Confirming the meeting with Channels Television on Sunday via the telephone, the Ondo State Commissioner for Information, Donald Ojogo said the meeting would hold by…
Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu has said that his administration does not need to vaccinate over 20 million residents of the state against the deadly COVID-19. He disclosed this during an interview on Channels Television’s Sunday Politics, adding that the state government is engaging some companies in the production of COVID-19 vaccines for residents of the state. “It is important for me to make this. We don’t have to vaccinate the 20 or 22 million population that we have. The plan is to ensure that there is herd immunity and that typically speaks about 50 to 60 percent of your population,…
The Bishop of Lebombos, the Rt. Rev. Carlos Matsinhe, has been elected president of the National Elections Commission (CNE) of Mozambique. Meeting on 15 Jan 2021 in Maputo, Bishop Matsinhe received the votes of 11 of the 17 members of the committee with Apolinário João receiving 6. After winning independence from Portugal in 1977, Mozambique was devastated by civil war for 15 years between the ruling Marxist Front for the Liberation of Mozambique (FRELIMO) and the anti-communist rebels of the Mozambican National Resistance (RENAMO). The CNE was created by Mozambique’s parliament, the Assembly of the Republic, in 2014, with ten…