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Wednesday, 10 March 2021 05:55

Police release OPC members detained over Wakili’s arrest

Oyo State Police Command has released, on bail, three members of the Oodua People’s Congress (OPC) detained on Sunday in connection with the arrest of an alleged Fulani territorial warlord and kidnapping kingpin, Iskilu Wakili, in Kajola area of Ayete in Ibarapaland. The OPC members, Dauda Kazeem, Awodele Adedigba and Ramon Hassan, were detained on Sunday, shortly after the OPC handed Wakili to the police. Wakili was reportedly captured alongside three others in Aiyete after several attempts. Aare Ona Kakanfo of Yorubaland, Gani Adams, who spoke shortly after their release, via a statement by his Special Assistant on Media, Kehinde…

Wednesday, 10 March 2021 05:54

'Shoot till they are dead': Some Myanmar police say fled to India after refusing orders

When Tha Peng was ordered to shoot at protesters with his submachine gun to disperse them in the Myanmar town of Khampat on Feb. 27, the police lance corporal said he refused. “The next day, an officer called to ask me if I will shoot,” he said. The 27-year-old refused again, and then resigned from the force. On March 1, he said he left his home and family behind in Khampat and travelled for three days, mostly at night to avoid detection, before crossing into India’s northeastern Mizoram state. “I had no choice,” Tha Peng told Reuters in an interview…

Tuesday, 09 March 2021 05:51

FG commits to establishing specialised courts on Gender-Based-Violence

Federal Government is working towards establishment of specialised courts and judicial divisions that will focus on sexual and gender-based violence (GBV). Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, made this known while speaking at a virtual session on ‘Special Event on Gender Dimensions of Criminal Justice Responses to Terrorism’. The event was organised by the UN Office on Drug and Crime as part of events commemorating the 2021 International Women Day holding at Kyoto, Japan. It focused significant attention on the issue of sexual and gender-based violence. Malami recalled in 2020, he inaugurated the Inter-Ministerial Management…

Tuesday, 09 March 2021 05:44

Niger President Issoufou wins $5m African leadership prize

He is the sixth head of state in Africa to win the $5 million award, to be paid out over 10 years, and the first since Liberia’s Ellen Johnson Sirleaf in 2017. The prize, founded by Sudanese telecoms tycoon Mo Ibrahim, was not awarded between 2018 and 2020 due to a lack of suitable candidates. Issoufou, who was first elected in 2011 and re-elected in 2016, has distinguished himself by stepping aside after two terms, unlike a handful of African leaders such as Ivory Coast’s Alassane Ouattara and Guinea’s Alpha Conde, who changed constitutional term limits to run a third…

Tuesday, 09 March 2021 05:42

Nigerian army to Gumi: Mind your utterances

Nigerian Army has called on popular Islamic Scholar Sheik Ahmed Gumi to exercise caution in his opinion regarding how troops are deployed and other issues pertaining to national security. The warning follows a video that had Sheik Gumi telling bandits that non-Muslim soldiers were the ones killing them and that troops are deployed along ethnic and religious lines. A statement signed by Director, Army Public Relations, Mohammed Yerima, described Gumi’s utterances as capable of dragging the image and reputation of one of the most reliable national institutions to disrepute. It reads, “The attention of the Nigerian Army has been drawn…

Tuesday, 09 March 2021 05:39

Fani-Kayode reacts to Wakili’s arrest, son’s atrocities

PRESS RELEASE I congratulate my friend and brother, Gani Adams, the Aare Ona Kakanfo of Yorubaland and the OPC for the successful capture of Wakili, one of the most barbaric and notorious foreign Fulani terrorists and cold-blooded killers, in the forests of Oyo state. This is the way forward. Kudos! There is no doubt that the newly captured Wakili is the godfather of terrorism in the Southwest. However the enforcer and "hard man" of his terrorist cell is his son whose name is Abu. Abu killed 10 innocent souls 3 days ago and Sunday Adeyemo (Sunday Igboho), who was utterly…

Monday, 08 March 2021 04:01

Dreaded kidnapper, Iskilu Wakili, arrested in Oyo

A notorious kidnapper alleged to be responsible for a series of kidnappings and killings in Ibarapa area of Oyo State, Iskilu Wakili, has been arrested. Wakili was arrested on Sunday by men of the Oodua Peoples Congress (OPC) and other local security groups. The arrest was carried out after several attempts resulting in a gun battle on Sunday morning. This newspaper reported that Wakili and his gang have been fingered in various kidnappings and killings in the past. Confirming the arrest, OPC leader, Gani Adams, said in a statement by his Special Assistant on Media, Kehinde Aderemi, that Wakili has…

Monday, 08 March 2021 03:58

Group carpets Oyo police for detaining OPC operatives who arrested Wakili

The International Alliance for Justice and Peace (IAJP) congratulates the men of Oodua People’s Congress (OPC) for their exceptional courage matched only by great discipline in their latest intervention in the Ibarapa area of Oyo state. On Sunday, 7th March 2021, men of the OPC effected the arrest of one Wakili, a notorious leader of a violent gang that has unleashed terror on the people of Ibarapa for many months, paralysing economic activities and leaving many residents maimed and dead, and billions of property destroyed in his wake. OPC completed this operation without any bloodshed to the alleged gang leader…

Monday, 08 March 2021 03:56

Masari to Gumi: Bandits are plain criminals who don’t deserve amnesty

Aminu Masari, governor of Katsina state, says bandits killing Nigerians in the north do not deserve amnesty. Masari, whose state has been among the worst hit by banditry, tackled Ahmad Gumi, prominent Islamic cleric, for demanding amnesty for the bandits, saying that even animals killed deserve justice much less human beings. The governor’s comment is coming days after the bandits released about 270 schoolgirls whom they had abducted from their school in Zamfara state. In December 2019, they also took more than 300 students hostage in Kankara, Katsina state — before releasing them after six days. Amid the attacks, Gumi…

Monday, 08 March 2021 03:54

Supreme Court Justice, Sylvester Ngwuta is dead

Supreme Court Justice, Sylvester Ngwuta is dead. Sources at the apex court confirmed that Ngwuta died in the early morning of Sunday in his sleep at his official residence in Abuja at almost the age of seventy. Ngwuta was said to be getting set for his retirement from the Supreme Court on March 30, 2021 upon attainment of 70 years mandatory retirement age. NAN

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Monday, 08 March 2021 03:52

Meghan Markle and Prince Harry interview with Oprah fetches at least $7m from CBS

The network was seeking about $325,000 for 30 seconds of commercial time in highly-anticipated interview, ad buyers say Talk isn’t cheap when it comes to Oprah Winfrey, Prince Harry and Duchess of Sussex Meghan Markle. CBS is paying a license fee of between $7 million and $9 million for the rights to air Ms. Winfrey’s interview with Prince Harry and the Duchess of Sussex, according to people familiar with the pact. The two-hour interview is scheduled for Sunday on CBS at 8 p.m. ET, after the network’s popular news magazine “60 Minutes.” Sunday is one of the biggest nights of…

Sunday, 07 March 2021 05:58

Buhari to Nigerians: Follow my vaccine lead

President Muhammadu Buhari had his first Covid-19 vaccine shot on Saturday, part of a bid to boost public confidence as Nigeria attempts to inoculate 80 million people this year. Vaccinating Nigeria’s 200 million people, and those in other developing countries, is seen as key to stemming the spread of the coronavirus, but getting doses across the vast nation, with its pot-holed roads and lawless areas, is a huge challenge. Not all Nigeria’s states have functioning airports, rail networks are limited, and authorities also have to overcome public distrust around the vaccines. “As a demonstration of leadership and faith in the…

Sunday, 07 March 2021 05:49

Fani-Kayode replies to ex-wife’s court filings against him

PRESS RELEASE The statement of claim and affidavit filed in court by one Precious Chikwendu against Femi Fani-Kayode is filled with lies and falsehood. Not one thing that she has alleged there is true. She is a pathological liar and a slanderer and we intend to prove this in court. We also believe thet she is unfit to be a mother and that she has shown nothing but cruelty to her children whom she has never taken care of or shown the love and affection of a mother. We believe that the children's lives would be in danger if they…

Sunday, 07 March 2021 05:39

Myanmar protesters string up women's clothes for protection

Protesters in Myanmar have taken to stringing up women's clothing on lines across the streets to slow down police and soldiers because walking beneath them is traditionally considered bad luck for men. The wraparound cloths, known as longyi, are hung on washing lines. Sometimes women's underwear is used too. "The reason why we hang the longyis across the streets is that we have the traditional belief that if we pass underneath a longyi, we might lose our luck," said one 20-year-old protester who declined to give his name for fear of reprisals. "The younger generation nowadays doesn't believe it anymore,…

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