Felix Duru Mbah

Barely hours after exiting office as Chairman of Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), a problem may have begun for Professor Mahmoud Yakubu. This is because a Federal High Court sitting in Osogbo, the Osun State capital, has ordered the Inspector General of Police (IGP), Mr Kayode Egbetokun, to arrest the former INEC Chair for an offence relating to contempt of court. It is the second time the court had issued the order,the first being when Yakubu was still in office. A political party, Action Alliance (AA), had instituted a case before the court challenging INEC and Yakubu over their alleged…

*DG HMB Leads Assessment Team As Hope Rises For 200-Bed Rural Facility By our reporter Prospects for better and more affordable healthcare rose for hundreds of thousands of residents of Karu satellite town and environs of Federal Capital Territory (FCT) as FCT Administration (FCTA)'s Hospitals Management Board (HMB) is taking steps to revitalize the Karu General Hospital. The hospital, which has been struggling, was initially built with a 200-bed capacity and designed to alleviate the burden on nearby hospitals --General Hospital Nyanya and Asokoro District Hospital. A vital section of the hospital's operations has for years been abandoned, vandalized and…

Rights activist lawyer, Dele Farotimi, has reacted to yesterday's resignation from office of Uche Nnaji, Minister of Innovation, Science and Technology, declaring him the most honorable among other members of President Bola Tinubu’s cabinet. In a post on X, Farotimi thumbed up Nnaji for his action. Following allegation of certificate forgery, Nnaji quit office --a move confirmed by the Presidency in a statement by presidential spokesman Bayo Onanuga,same yesterday. In his reaction , Farotimi urged others in the government, who have been accused of forgery to follow suit. Recall that Tinubu's Chicago University certificate was a key fulcrum of post-election…

One year and 10 months after then-Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Alleviation Minister, Betta Edu, was forced to resign over alleged corrupt dealings, another Minister today resigned in circumstances bordering on a misdemeanor. Minister of Innovation, Science and Technology, Geoffrey Uche Nnaji, resigned following allegations of certificate forgery levelled against him. President Bola Tinubu’s Special Adviser on Information and Strategy, Bayo Onanuga, confirmed the resignation in a statement today, saying the President has accepted the Minister’s decision to step down. According to Onanuga, President Tinubu “accepted the resignation of Geoffrey Uche Nnaji, the Minister of Innovation, Science, and Technology, following some…

Another US lawmaker has raised an issue with what he alleged is a genocide against Christians in Nigeria, and has officially brought the matter to the attention of President Donald Trump. In a letter to the US President, Representative Riley M. Moore, who represents West Virginia’s Second District in the US Congress, specifically asked Trump to immediately designate Nigeria as a Country of Particular Concern (CPC). Rep Moore belongs to the ruling Republican Party, same as Trump. His letter is coming on the heels of a bill sponsored by another Republican lawmaker, Senator Ted Cruz (Texas), which seeks targeted sanctions…

By Stephen Gbadamosi, Ibadan A huge uproar today greeted the Court of Appeal, Ibadan Division's restoration of the operations of National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW) in Oyo State. The court declared the action taken by State Governor Seyi Makinde in 2019 proscribing the union as unlawful. Governor Makinde had, on May 31, 2019, proscribed the activities of the NURTW in the state, citing a breach of peace and announcing the immediate takeover of all motor parks by the state government. The government subsequently established a Park Management System (PMS). Challenging the move, the union filed a suit at…

Federal High Court in Abuja, was Monday, 6 October, asked to issue an order of perpetual injunction, restraining former President Goodluck Jonathan from presenting himself to any political party in the country for the purpose of contesting the 2027 presidential election. The court was equally urged to bar the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, from accepting from any political party, Jonathan’s name or publishing same as a duly nominated candidate for the presidential contest. While ex-President Jonathan was cited as the 1st defendant in the matter, both INEC and the Attorney General of the Federation, were listed as 2nd and…

A sextortion network traced to Lagos, Nigeria, has been linked to the death of a 16-year-old American schoolboy, Evan Boettler, who took his own life after receiving blackmail messages from a fake Snapchat account. Boettler, from Missouri, died just 90 minutes after being threatened by an online user posing as a teenage girl under the name JennyTee60, according to a BBC investigation. The account had persuaded him to share explicit images before demanding money and threatening to leak the pictures. One of the messages sent to him read: “I have your nudes and everything needed to ruin your life.” Investigators…