Stray bullets from the Nigerian army barrack at Odogbo in Ibadan, the Oyo state capital, hit two people living in the community around the barracks.

One of the victims is said to be a 10-year-old Daniel, while the second, who is fondly called Baba Ajeri, have been taken to the military hospital in the barracks and are being attended to by the army medical personnel.

One of the community leaders who spoke to journalists, Kareem Ijeru, revealed that sporadic shooting has always been happening within the barracks but the Friday night was very fearful.

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The combined group of Arewa communities in the six southwest states have endorsed the presidential ambition of Bola Tinubu, the APC candidate in the 2023 presidential election.

The group leader, Sa’adu Yusuf Dandare, promised a door-to-door campaign for Tinubu at the inaugural meeting of the southwest Arewa.

The group endorsement came at a time when the strong opponent of Tinubu is one of the leaders of the Arewa in Nigeria.

The Arewa community in the Southwest region comprising Lagos, Ogun, Oyo, Osun, Ondo and Ekiti States has declared support for the presidential candidate of All Progressive Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu.

They said Tinubu’s emergence as the next President is crucial considering the spate of insecurity across the nation, The Nation reported.

They urged Nigerians to vote for competence ahead of religion, saying that there is a need for Nigerians to unite for the victory of Tinubu/Shetima tickets and other APC governorship candidates.

Southwest Arewa communities promise door-to-door campaign for Tinubu
Speaking at the inaugural meeting of All Progressive Congress (APC) Southwest Arewa Community and Declaration of Door-to-Door Campaign, Chairman of APC Southwest Arewa’s Community, Sa’adu Yusuf Dandare, said the community will mobilise massively for TInubu.

“We, the leadership of the Arewa Community, also have it as a point of agenda to swift into action in deeply regulating our timing population to avoid any bad element coming into our long age settlement to create any evil act while been resolute to legitimately protect our law-abiding members that fall into the victim of circumstance.

“This inaugural meeting has boosted the confidence and morale of all our timing members across the region and we have been tasked to immediately set up a strategy team to implement our major pattern which is the “DOOR to Door” campaign. Over time, this has been identified as our best strategy for delivering huge votes for our dear party across our different settlements in the southwest.”

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INEC has removed more than one million voters from its register ahead of the 2023 general elections.

The commission has said that double, multiple and underaged registrations were discovered and deleted during a clean-up of the voters.

However, you can check if your name is still on the INEC voter register either by waiting for the commission to publish the full list in its offices across the states, visiting its website or sending an SMS to the phone number the commission made available.

Read more details here https://www.legit.ng/nigeria/1492528-2023-elections-3-ways-check-inec-voter-register/

The report of the international observer, YIAGA Africa, on the July 2022 governorship election in Osun state has created tension among stakeholders in the state.

The observer revealed that there was overvoting in 12 local government areas of the state during the poll.

The campaign DG of the governor-elect, Ademola Adeleke, said that YIAGA Africa among other 60 observers who have commended the exercise is now coming two months after to reveal inconsistency in the poll.

https://www.legit.ng/politics/1492228-osun-2022-tension-evidence-shows-davidos-uncle-adeleke-sworn-governor/

PDP has reacted to NOI poll that predicted Peter Obi’s victory in 2023 election.

The spokesperson of the PDP presidential campaign organization, Daniel Bwala, said the NOI organizers did not present their data sampling for verification.

According to Bwala, “57.5% of people who followed Peter Obi and engaged for him on social media do not live in Nigeria.”

https://www.legit.ng/politics/1492542-2023-peter-obi-basking-euphoria-hallucinations-atiku-pdp-react-noi-poll/

A former Osun Central Senatorial District Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Honorable Gani Olaoluwa, has denied the report where he was quoted of saying he obtained Higher National Diploma (HND) before he obtained National Diploma (ND).

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The officer in charge of Gombe Medium Security Custodial Centre, ACC Abdulazeez Mohammed, has said that the facility is a 379 capacity centre but takes over 1000 inmates.

Mohammed disclosed this on Friday, adding that over 600 of the 951 current inmates were awaiting trials.

Continue Reading: https://www.ekohotblog.com/2021/08/09/see-prison-built-for-379-has-over-1000-inmates-with-over-600-on-trials/

Following reaction from some Nigerians of the failure of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to sanction violators of the Nigeria’s currency, the Nigeria apex bank said it has no power to take such action.

In July, Nigerians’ reactions dominated the headlines after the capturing of a nightclub businessman, Obi Iyiegbu, popularly known as Obi Cubana, and his friends for violating the currency during the burial of his mother in Oba, Anambra State.

Continue reading: https://www.ekohotblog.com/2021/08/09/why-we-cant-prosecute-obi-cubana-for-abuse-of-naira-cbn/

President of the National Association of Resident Doctors (NARD), Dr. Uyilawa Okhuaihesuyi, has said that the people that should resign their position or be sacked are those who have put the doctors in a position where they have to embark on industrial action to make their demands known.

The NARD President spoke while appearing on Channels Television’s Politics Today programme. He was reacting to threat by the Federal Government through Labour Minister, Chris Ngige, about replacing the striking doctors.

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Eyewitnesses have said that robbers who attacked two commercial banks in Iree area of Osun State walked-out customers off the premises before they carried out the attack.

Three of those who were on the premises of the United Bank for Africa and Access Bank in the Iree/Ikirun road, disclosed that the robbers who were about 20, asked them to leave the premises because they did not want to injure anyone.

Continue Reading here: https://www.ekohotblog.com/2021/08/08/robbers-who-attacked-osun-banks-walk-out-customers-before-operation/

A wedding event has been hit by tragedy as lightening by thunder killed not less than 17 wedding guests while 14 others were injured.

BBC reported that the incident happened in Bangladesh, adding that the bride was safe because she was not at the wedding party when the thunder stroke.

Continue Reading here: https://www.ekohotblog.com/2021/08/07/why-thunder-strikes-killed-17-wedding-guests/

Gunmen suspected to be bandits have abducted the Zone ‘C’ chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Niger State, Mallam Aminu Bobi in Mariga local government area.

The abduction occurred around 5 pm on Saturday while Bobi was supervising workers in his farm.

Continue to read: https://www.ekohotblog.com/2021/08/07/breaking-bandits-abduct-apc-chairman/

Following the image of deployment making round on the internet, NASIMD has called on all applicant of Batch C of the NPower scheme to regard the message and treat as invalid.

Continue to read here: https://www.ekohotblog.com/2021/08/07/new-update-for-batch-c-npower-applicants/

President Muhammadu Buhari’s Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina says about 30 million Nigerians were unemployed before Buhari took office but data from the Nigeria Bureau of Statistics for the second quarter of 2015 (which falls around the period Buhari came to office in May 2015), summed the total of unemployed and underemployed Nigerians to 19.6 million.

Adesina said the recent report released by the National Bureau of Statistics that 23.2 million Nigerians were currently unemployed was not a new development.

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The Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) is making arrangements to use the database of the National Identification Number (NIN) to ramp up registration of taxpayers, data collection, and profiling in the country.

This was disclosed by the Chairman of the tax agency, Muhammad Nami, who said that the agency was working with the National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) to achieve this. He added that it would help to ensure that all eligible taxable Nigerians were compelled to declare and pay their taxes honestly and promptly.

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On Wednesday, Lafarge Africa Plc declared a total of N16.11 billion dividend for the 2020 financial year, despite the COVID-19 pandemic challenges.

The dividend translated to N1 per share and would be payable to shareholders on the register of the cement group as at the close of business on May 7.

The company’s audited results for the financial year ended Dec. 31, 2020 released on the Nigerian Stock Exchange showed impressive performance in spite of the coronavirus pandemic.

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One of the umbrella bodies of the herdsmen in Nigeria, the Miyetti Allah Kautal Hore, has said that the Southwest Governors are hurting the rumoured 2023 presidential ambition of the All-Progressives Congress Stalwart, Bola Tinubu, with their anti-herdsmen stance.

The group, which broke away from the Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria (MACBAN), spoke through its spokesperson, Saleh Alhassan, on Wednesday while featuring on an interview with The Punch.

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The Federation Account Allocation Committee (FAAC) shared the sum of N619.34bn among the three tiers of government from the revenue generated in January 2021.

The report which was released by the Nigerian Bureau of Statistics (NBS) on Wednesday March 24, 2021 explained that the disbursement was meant for December 2020 allocation.

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The Emir of Anka in Zamfara State, Attahiru Ahmed has said that more than 100 miners operating between Anka and Maru LGA in the state were abducted by bandits on March 2.

The Emir, who is also the chairman of the state council of chiefs disclosed this in Gusau, the capital of Zamfara on Wednesday, when Lucky Irabor, Chief of Defence Staff (CDS), led the service chiefs on an assessment visit to the state.

The Emir explained that the attack happened when the state focused on the rescue of the 279 students abducted from Government Girls Secondary School in Jangebe on February 26.

Ahmed further disclosed that...

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Unverified COVID-19 vaccines and three major COVID-19 vaccines, Pfizer/BioNTech, AstraZeneca and Moderna, are being sold on the darknet with crypto currency between $250 and $1,200.

Kaspersky researcher revealed that advertisements by sellers for these vaccines were found in 15 different marketplaces examined on the darknet.

According to the researcher, majority of the sellers are from France...

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The Senate, through its spokesperson, Dr. Ajibola Basiru, has denied the speculations that Senators and Members of the House of Representatives may be unable to sit for the mandatory 180 days due to lack of cash in the National Assembly.

He explained on Tuesday that the speculation was off the mark because the legislators were not being paid sitting allowance to attend plenary.

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The operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), the Anambra State Command, have recovered 58.5 grammes of cocaine and 13.9 grammes of heroin concealed in the palace of a prominent traditional ruler in the state.

The NDLEA Commander in the state, Muhammadu Idris, said that investigations were ongoing to unravel how the illegal drugs were hidden in the palace

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An Abuja High Court has remanded a former Minister of State for Power, Mohammed Wakil, in the custody of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) over the allegations of corruption.

Wakil was arrested by the EFCC at his Abuja residence on Sunday, and arraigned on Monday before Justice Suleiman Belgore on two counts bordering on corruption and abuse of office.

He was arraigned alongside two companies, Corozzeria Nigeria Limited and Pikat Properties Nigeria Limited.

According to the EFCC, the former Minister allegedly received...

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Nigeria has a robust history of women taking part in the control of power and the affairs of its respective societies. Despite the societal construction that women are weaker humans, women from history till the present have proven the error of that societal notion.

Every Nigerian society has imprints of women in its politics and the control of the society but the society is struggling to desist from that social construct.

Historically, from the northern part of the country to the southern part, women have a footprint in the political affairs but we have chosen to talk less about the heroes. Some of them include Queen Amina of the Zazzau kingdom now Zaria; Queen Idia of the Bini Kingdom; Oromptoniyun, the female Alaafin of Oyo; Queen Luwoo, the first and only female Ooni of Ife (The Spiritual Home of the Yoruba).

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After being in detention since 2015, the trial of the embattled leader of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria (IMN), Sheikh Ibrahim El-Zakzaky, and his wife, Zeenat, will resume today at the Kaduna State High Court.

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A former Deputy-Governor of Kaduna State, Bala Bantex, has rejected the idea of negotiation between the federal or state government and bandits.

Bandex made his opposition known while speaking on Channels Television’s ‘Sunday Politics’. He described the statement credited to non-state actors on security as a mark of failure.

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Following the killings of two farmers: Mr. Toyin Akeju, known as Jisoro and Mr. Yusuf Onuche by suspected Fulani herdsmen, the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) has called on Governor Kayode Fayemi of Ekiti to compel the leaders of herders in the state to fish out the farmers’ killers.

The farmers were killed in Isaba Ekiti in the Ikole council area of Ekiti State.

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COVID-19 vaccination is not yet certain in some states as the Federal Government disclosed that 11 states are yet to submit the lists of their frontline health workers.

The states include Kogi, Kano, Bayelsa, Osun, Delta, Cross River jigawa, Borno, Gombe, Taraba and Katsina.

The list is according to a progress chart sent to 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) by the National Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA) on Saturday tagged, ‘Update from COVID-19 Vaccination Operations Room.’

On Tuesday, the Federal Government received 3.94 million doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine from COVAX Facility, an initiative co-led by the Vaccine Alliance, GAVI and the World Health Organization (WHO).

The facility was set up to ensure equitable access to COVID-19 vaccine by dividing about two billion doses across 92 low-and-middle-income countries.

The Federal Government on Friday began the vaccination of Nigerians against the deadly disease. The health workers of the National Hospital, Abuja, were the first to receive doses of the vaccine.

President Muhammadu Buhari and Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo were vaccinated against the deadly disease on Saturday.

On Thursday, the Executive Director of the NPHCDA, Dr. Faisal Shuaib, warned that his agency would not make the vaccine available to states which had not yet met the set criteria for its distribution.

It was learnt that one of the criteria was the list of health workers, in which the agency asked the states to submit.

As at Sunday, the NPHCDA progress chart measured the compliance of the 36 states and the FCT using five criteria, which include states that have submitted the list of health workers in their employ; states that have health facilities for COVID-19 vaccination sites; states that have health facilities in treatment and isolation centres; states that have submitted the list of focal persons for e-registration and states that have set up technical working groups and operations rooms.

A review of the documents showed...

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Under the new Highway Development and Management Initiative (HDMI) of the Federal Government, private individuals will be licensed to build, operate or maintain assets on some federal highways that are up for concession.

During one of his interactive sessions with a Senate Committee, The Minister of Works, Babatunde Fashola in November 2017 said that “Tolls will Come.” He explained that the shortfalls of the past toll regimes had been reviewed and that the government was set to return standardized tolls across the country.

“We have looked at the previous tolling regime, the inefficiencies raised we have tried to review. One of the things we have done is to try and standardize the toll designs for the entire country. We have finished with that. So that we’ll expand its width according to the size of the road but they will be built with the same kind of materials that we can control,” Fashola explained.

Read full article here: https://allnews.ng/news/allnews-exclusive-why-nigerians-should-expect-toll-gates-by-2022

The National Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA) has dispelled the fear that Nigerians may not want to be vaccinated against COVID-19, noting that 2.3m Nigerians have registered for the vaccination in less than 24 hours. Read full details here: https://allnews.ng/news/2-3m-nigerians-registered-for-covid-19-vaccination-in-less-than-24hrs

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), has arraigned a former Director-General of the Bureau of Public Enterprises (BPE), Benjamin Dikki, before Justice Yusuf Halilu of the Federal High Court Abuja on Monday. He was arraigned on four counts of alleged corruption and abuse of office.

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