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On Friday, April 22, 2022, a big Iroko fell in Yorubaland. That fateful Friday, Oba Lamidi Olayiwola Adeyemi III, the Alaafin of Oyo, joined his forebears. In the African culture, customs and traditions, Obas don’t’ die. They simply sleep. They merely exchange mortality for immortality. So it was with Iku Baba Yeye. There is no doubt that the passing of the Oyo monarch, after 52 years on the throne of his ancestors is like a library that goes ablaze. Oba Adeyemi III was more than a library. He was a walking encyclopedia of Yoruba cultures, customs, traditions, norms and the essence of the Race. From Oranmiyan, who established the throne of Oyo, to Oba Bello Gbadegesin Ladigbolu II, his immediate predecessor, Alaafin Adeyemi III had the privilege of having the longest reign on the ancient throne of Oyo. His passing therefore, on Friday, even at a very ripe age of 83, is no doubt a big loss to the entire Yorubaland.

https://www.thenews-chronicle.com/alaafin-message-to-oyomesi-makinde/

Mr Bala was convicted of 18 counts of causing a public disturbance under Sections 210 and 114 of the Kano State Penal Code, and sentenced to 24 years in prison by a High Court in Kano state on 5 April.

Mr Bala has been detained since 28 April 2020, when he was arrested at his home in Kaduna state following a petition to the Kano State Police Commissioner by a law firm in Kano state, accusing him of insulting Islam in Facebook posts. He was held incommunicado for the first 162 days of his detention, was denied access to his legal team for five months, and spent 462 days in prison before being formally charged.
https://www.thenews-chronicle.com/nigeria-humanists-in-london-protest-mubarak-balas-sentencing/

The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency has announce on Monday 25th April 2022 that it arrested a suspected billionaire drug baron behind the N3billion Tramadol deal allegedly tied to the suspended Deputy Commissioner of Police, Abba Kyari-led Intelligence Response Team, Chief Afam Mallinson Emmanuel Ukatu.

The anti-narcotic agency said Ukatu’s arrest is coming after months of surveillance and evasion of arrest by the drug baron. Ukatu, who is Chairman of Mallinson Group of Companies, was arrested onboard a flight to Abuja at the MM2 terminal of the Lagos airport, Ikeja on Wednesday 13th April.
https://www.thenews-chronicle.com/ndlea-apprehends-drug-baron-behind-n3bn-tramadol-linked-to-abba-kyaris-team/

Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has filed a lawsuit against President Muhammadu Buhari “over the failure to unblock the phone lines of over 72 million telecommunication subscribers barred from making calls on their SIMs.”
According to the group, the suit followed the recent directive by the Federal Government to telecommunications companies to block outgoing calls on all unlinked lines, as the deadline for the verification expired on March 31. Following the directive, over 72 million subscribers have now been barred from making calls.

In the suit number FHC/L/CS/711/2022 filed last week at the Federal High Court in Lagos, SERAP is seeking: “an order setting aside the directive by President Buhari to telecommunications companies to block outgoing calls on all unlinked lines without due process of law, and for being inconsistent with the requirements of legality, necessity and proportionality.”
https://www.thenews-chronicle.com/serap-drags-buhari-to-court-over-blocked-phone-numbers/

A Muslim rights advocacy group, the Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC), has opposed the endorsement of Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu for a second term. The group hinged its objection on the fact that Christians have had their two terms and it is the turn of Muslims to produce a governor by 2023.

MURIC’s position was enunciated in a statement circulated among the media on Monday, 25th April, 2022. The statement was signed by the director of the organization, Professor Ishaq Akintola.
https://www.thenews-chronicle.com/lagos-2023-dont-rob-peter-to-pay-paul-muric/

Perhaps this is why these women approached the Prophet Muhammad (Peace be upon him), that day with a question that remains a problem in marriages over a thousand years later: Domestic Violence or Domestic Abuse.

On hearing of this abuse, the Prophet called the community to the Mosque for a meeting. Whenever there was something he felt all Muslims needed to know about or discuss, he would have Bilal Ibn Rabah, may Allah be pleased with him, give the call to prayer, even if it was not time for it. Then, when people came to the Mosque, he would lead them in prayer. This would be followed by a special sermon about a topic of concern or discussion about a particular situation.

https://www.thenews-chronicle.com/domestic-violence-dangers-and-solutions/

International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) says a silent revolution is happening in Nigeria’s yam production systems as pebble-sized seed tubers, known as minitubers by researchers and “chin-chin” yam by farmers affiliated with the Yam Improvement for Income and Food Security in West Africa (YIIFSWA II), could change how yam is produced in the country.

This follows the experiences of some farmers and seed entrepreneurs like Mohammed Isa Galadima from Paiko Local Government Area of Niger State.
https://www.thenews-chronicle.com/iita-silent-yam-revolution-is-happening-in-nigeria/

The Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB on Wednesday accused the Nigerian military of burning innocent citizens and their buildings alive in Imo State.

Earlier this week, the Nigerian Army said its troops of 34 Artillery Brigade Nigerian Army on Sunday  neutralized a member of the proscribed IPOB and its armed affiliate ESN at Ihioma Community in Orlu LGA of Imo State.

But in a release on Wednesday, the spokesperson of the IPOB, Emma Powerful said the IPOB in very strong terms, condemns the ‘ongoing senseless attacks and killings in Imo State allegedly by the Nigeria military and Ebubeagu security outfit formed and financed by the Imo State politicians and their collaborators.’

https://www.thenews-chronicle.com/army-lied-they-are-burning-people-alive-in-imo-ipob/

A Professor at Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile Ife, Joseph Opefeyitimi has been accused by a female student of the Department of Linguistics and African Languages for sexual assault.

The female student, in the name of Boluwatife Bababunmi, filed this report to the University Management which has been taken up by the University for further actions.
https://www.thenews-chronicle.com/sex-scandal-oau-professor-petitioned-for-sexual-assault/

Most parents like to think that their generation’s burden was the heaviest. And that today’s children are too soft and spoilt by the easy life to be up to any good. Well, I disagree. Or let me put that a bit differently: I don’t agree completely.

The debate about just how far astray today’s children have gone was sparked afresh by the juvenile sex video of students of Chrisland School, VGC, Lagos, who had gone for the World Schools Games in Dubai between March 8 and 14.

https://www.thenews-chronicle.com/chrislands-dubai-five-and-our-digital-footprints/

‘’It’s not my problem.’’ – This was President Muhammadu Buhari’s immutable response to a question on his thoughts on the 2023 elections. Buhari has been coerced and blandished to assert himself like former President Olusegun Obasanjo who assumed the de facto office of godfather and technically installing the late Umaru Musa Yar’Adua as president in 2007. But the president has remained stolid to these sweet temptations.
https://www.thenews-chronicle.com/is-buhari-a-reluctant-political-godfather/

A shocking video of a 13-year-old student of Chrisland School involved in a sexual activity has stirred up lots of reactions online.
https://www.thenews-chronicle.com/10-year-old-student-of-chrisland-school-suspended-for-engagement-in-sexual-activity-video-goes-viral/

It seems that in the midst of anguish and gnashing of teeth, #Kemi Olunloyo, a blogger who cares less about emotions while plying her trade for profit, constantly enjoys choosing a perspective that not only tramples upon the grave of the dead, but also burdens the family and friends (#Frank Edwards in this case) of the deceased for the rest of their life.
She claims Frank Edwards has been sleeping with Late Evangelist Osinachi Nwachukwu. Olunloyo as we all know will always have her own twist to every story.
Look at the case of #Justice for Sylvester Omoroni for example. After reading her twist to the story, I couldn't help but wonder. If she had lost her empathy as a mother in Sylvester's case, did she also lose her identity as a woman in this case? Or like Bobrisky, is she also on a mind confusion adventure?


Hearing about the death of this gifted singer Osinachi Nwanchukwu was a shocker, but the cause of her death wasn't in the least surprising.
I see everywhere on Social Media that almost everyone has an opinion to share, ranging from the late singer being stuck in an abusive marriage, to the role the church had to play in keeping her in an abusive marriage.

https://www.thenews-chronicle.com/remi-tinubu-bamise-and-osinachi-where-will-the-nigerian-woman-be-safe-from-abuse/

To some, she should have left the marriage long ago. But she didn’t despite many advice. If she did, possibly she would still be alive today, ministering? On which platform? In the presence of God? Still yielding to the Holy Spirit or the Spirit of Mammon?

The soul of Osinachi was too important to God to be left in the hands of worldliness. Maybe He saw the wolves and dragon in wait for her to quit her marriage, for her devouring plans to be activated.

https://www.thenews-chronicle.com/the-death-of-osinachi-the-true-story/

Let us for a moment believe Ortom, the beleaguered governor of Benue state who has had a running battle with killer herdsmen that have attempted his life and that of his predecessor at least once. Ortom’s predecessor, Gabriel Suswan, had told his survival story and his narrow escape. Ortom too nearly died but escaped by a whisker but his chief security officer, Chris Dega, who was a retired AIG of police, wasn’t so lucky. He died protecting Ortom.
https://www.thenews-chronicle.com/pdp-zoning-dilemma-a-fatal-self-inflicted-injury/

The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has stated that Subscriber Identity Module (SIM) cards that were barred from making calls will not be unbarred by the service providers until they are linked with the National Identification Numbers (NINs) of the SIM holders.

https://www.thenews-chronicle.com/unblocking-sim-cards-require-sim-linkage-ncc/

A Nigerian woman who is identified as Princess Munachi has opened up in a heart wrenching video shared on Instagram by BBC Pidgin of how her husband Ifeanyi Njokure was allegedly burnt alive by her brother-in-law.

In the video, the grieved pregnant woman revealed that her late husband was murdered by a relative called Benjamin Ogudoro who is however, now in custody of the Lagos State Criminal Investigation Department.
https://www.thenews-chronicle.com/how-would-i-get-to-tell-my-kids-that-their-father-didnt-die-he-was-burnt-pregnant-wife-whose-husband-was-burnt-alive-by-brother-in-law-cries-in-a-video/

Former Secretary of the defunct All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP), and a chieftain of All Progressives Congress (APC) in Cross River State, Bobby Ekpenyong, is alleging that the administrations of Donald Duke and Loyel Imoke incurred huge public debts despite selling the state assets.

Speaking against the backdrop of the current political situation in the state, Ekpenyong, who is also a former Special Adviser to the Governor on Obudu Cattle Ranch, claimed that Cross River has not made any meaningful progress before the administration of Ben Ayade, who he claimed is changing the economic landscape of the state.
https://www.thenews-chronicle.com/ayade-duke-imoke-under-fire-in-cross-river/

Take for instance the constitutional provision that prevents ex-convicts from contesting for or holding public office for ten years. It has never been observed and no court has been able to enforce it. In 2018, Lawali Dogonkade, a lawmaker representing Kaura-Namoda in Zamfara state was convicted by a Gusau High Court of receiving a bribe of N4.5 million in a contract involving the sum of N31.2 million. He was sentenced to four years in prison with the option of a fine of N120, 000. He not only paid the fine but continued to occupy his seat at the state house of assembly.
https://www.thenews-chronicle.com/the-reign-of-ex-convicts-in-nigeria/

Governors of South East States have been advised to channel their bogus monthly security votes amounting to billions of naira, towards gainfully engaging the unemployed youths in their respective states.

The Southeast region has in recent times been a hotbed for violence and heightened insecurity, with many people already killed and property destroyed.

https://www.thenews-chronicle.com/insecurity-group-tells-s-east-govs-to-channel-bogus-security-votes-towards-youths-employment/

The Chelsea Football Club is based in London. Stamford Bridge is their 'den'. The team is a household international soccer brand. It has won many national and international trophies -- Premier League, FA Cup, Community Shield, Europa League, UEFA Champions League etc. Chelsea was owned by one Russian benevolent billionaire named Roman Abramovich.
https://www.thenews-chronicle.com/abramovich-chelsea-and-the-politics-of-soccer/

Bobrisky Reacts to Bill Being Considered by House of Rep seeking to Jail Cross Dressers in Nigeria- Says it Will finally solve Nigeria’s insecurity challenges
https://www.thenews-chronicle.com/bobrisky-reacts-to-bill-being-considered-by-the-house-of-rep-seeking-to-jail-cross-dressers-in-nigeria-says-it-will-finally-solve-nigerias-insecurity-challenges/

Obafemi Awolo University in Ile-Ife, Osun state, was invaded by indigenes who came to protest the appointment of the new vice chancellor who is not an indigene of the state.

The unusual protest happened after the University Governing Council led by its Chairman, Chief Owelle Udoji, announced a Professor of Agricultural Economics, Adebayo Bamire, as the 12th substantive Vice-Chancellor of the institution.

https://www.thenews-chronicle.com/charms-and-fetish-objects-on-display-as-ife-indigenes-invade-oau-in-protest/

Anambra State Government on Sunday condemned the assault and naked parading, of a woman accused of killing her husband with an overdose of sexual intercourse at Igboezunu, Aguleri in Anambra East Council Area of Anambra State.

A viral video online obtained by TNC, showed the naked lady identified as Mrs Ajuese Obiora of Eziagulu-Out, Aguleri, squatting beside the lifeless body of her husband while members of the community verbally attacked her, accusing her of causing the death of her late husband with too much sex.
https://www.thenews-chronicle.com/anambra-govt-vows-action-against-men-who-paraded-woman-naked-for-allegedly-killing-husband-with-too-much-sex/

It turns out Nigeria’s most famous, most celebrated, most decorated and super cop is a common criminal after all, worse than the criminals he was supposedly going after. And for years, the signs were all there for us to see. But, desperate for heroes, we bluntly refused to “see no evil, speak no evil” as evidence of the malfeasance of our celebrated super cop and his carefully assembled team – the Inspector General of Police Intelligence Response Team (IRT) – keeps mounting. But we ignored them all.

https://www.thenews-chronicle.com/abba-kyari-is-a-perfect-reflection-of-the-nigerian-system/

Before now, there has been this praise of the positive impacts Buhari’s administration has brought to the country in respect to the end of the curse of fuel scarcity. To an extent the praise singers were right as fuel crisis had become part of an engrained recurring national problem in Nigeria until the coming of president Buhari. This assertion was always made in comparison to previous administrations as an edge Buhari has over them.
https://www.thenews-chronicle.com/why-buhari-should-take-over-the-education-ministry/

US-based Nigerian-born public intellectual, Prof. Farooq Kperogi, says the APC and PDP should zone the 2023 presidency to the southeast. The professor of journalism made the call on Sunday when he appeared as a guest on the inaugural episode of the online talk show “90 Minutes Africa” hosted by Rudolf Okonkwo and Chido Onumah.

Prof. Kperogi said he supports the ceding of power to the southeast so that the people of the region can be given a sense of belonging. “I will want the major political parties to be sensitive to people that have been excluded since 1999,” Prof. Kperogi stated, adding that he supports the ceding of “power to the southeast because that is the region that has never produced the president from 1999 until now.”


https://www.thenews-chronicle.com/i-support-igbo-presidency-in-2023-prof-farooq-kperogi/

The federal government of Nigeria is concluding plans to build a nuclear power plant that will help the country’s electricity problem.

It was said that deals have already been signed with Russia and Pakistan to train Nigerians on how to manage these plants.

The federal government stated that the bids for the building of a 400MV nuclear power plant is now open. According to Naiarmetics, this was revealed by Dr.Yau Idris, Director General of the Nigerian Nuclear Regulatory Authority (NNRA), during the ongoing
https://www.thenews-chronicle.com/partnership-with-russia-and-pakistan-nigeria-plans-to-construct-its-first-nuclear-power-plant/

The Southern Youth Alliance (SOYA), an umbrella group of southern youths, has responded to the Rivers State governor, Nyesom Wike, over his irascible outburst against former Vice President of Nigeria, Atiku Abubakar concerning the contest for the presidential ticket of the Peoples Democratic Party in the 2023 election.

A statement signed by the Rivers State coordinator of the group, Ziad Fubara said that the comment by Wike was in bad taste and capable of causing unnecessary division in the party.

According to the group, “the remark made by Governor Nyesom Wike seeking to discredit the presidential aspiration of Atiku Abubakar, a frontline politician and statesman is condemnable.

https://www.thenews-chronicle.com/southern-youth-group-to-wike-on-gratuitous-attacks-on-atiku-enough-is-enough/

Reacting to the development through his media office in Abuja on Friday, the former Vice President was quoted to have said: “I am embarrassed by the trivialisation of impeachment for personal vengeance by political leaders, contrary to the intentions of the framers of our constitution.”

According to Atiku, “the ill-advised idea behind the impeachment is an affront to the ideals of democracy and human rights which, regrettably and ironically, the parliament is meant to protect.”

https://www.thenews-chronicle.com/atiku-condemns-zamfara-dep-gov-impeachment-says-its-against-the-intent-of-our-constitution/

The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency NDLEA, has arrested popular music artists: Oniyide Azeez (Zinoleesky) and Mohbad (Ilerioluwa Oladimeji).
According to eyewitness reports and video footage uploaded on Instagram, the agents who reportedly stormed the building without arrest warrants, were seen hitting the artists with clubs and forcing them into the waiting bus.

President Muhammadu Buhari Tuesday in Abuja said prioritizing infrastructure projects ameliorated hardship in some parts of the country, particularly the quick intervention on the Lagos-Ibadan route with completion of road and rail lines, which improved the traffic significantly.

This was contained in a statement by Femi Adesina.

“My objective was very clear, despite the dwindling resources, I wanted to deal with infrastructure across the country,’’ the President told a delegation from Kaduna State, led by the Emir of Zazzau, Alhaji Ahmed Nuhu Bamalli, and Kaduna State Deputy Governor, Hadiza Sabuwa Balaraba at the State House.

https://www.thenews-chronicle.com/people-could-have-been-trekking-from-lagos-to-ibadan-if-we-hadnt-intervened-in-road-rail-projects-buhari/