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The House of Representatives on Thursday passed a constitutional amendment bill seeking the establishment of state police, paving the way for the creation of a decentralised policing system in Nigeria. The proposed amendment seeks to alter the 1999 Constitution to allow states to establish their own police forces, ending the current arrangement where policing is controlled mainly by the federal government through the Nigeria Police Force (NPF). With insecurity continuing to plague communities across the country, lawmakers overwhelmingly backed a proposal to amend the Constitution and pave the way for the establishment of state police. While the bill enjoyed near-unanimous…
A woman who went shopping on Sunday at the popular Vegetable Market, off Airport Road in Benin City, has reportedly been abducted. The woman was at the market with her children and husband when gunmen reportedly came to the scene and whisked her away. In a video online, a woman who claimed to have witnessed the incident described it as kidnapping, stressing, “Today, for the first time, I witnessed someone being kidnapped.” She continued, “Who said kidnapping is not in Benin? A kidnapping happened in my presence right at Airport Road by the Vegetable Market. Just because it has not…
Panic has gripped Pissa Village in the Borgu Local Government Area of Niger State following a deadly attack by suspected bandits who killed three residents and set several houses ablaze. The incident, which occurred on Saturday morning, also triggered a military response as troops engaged the attackers, though details of the encounter remain unclear. The command’s spokesperson, Wasiu Abiodun, told the News Agency of Nigeria on Sunday that the bandits attacked the village at about 9:00am. He stated that some houses were set ablaze during the attack and added that the bandits were engaged by the military, but details of…
Laverne Cox is opening up about her deep connection and meaningful relationship with a man who held opposing political views. “I was in sheer bliss with this man and you know, things would come up and we would agree to disagree about some political things,” Cox, 54, said while appearing on Wednesday, June 10, episode of The New York Times’ “Modern Love” podcast. “Problematic but not, like, offensive. He had been, the way he grew up and algorithms he was given, information he was consuming that he had been propagandized to. So I tried to give him grace there.” The…
Journalist and former senator Babafemi Ojudu has criticised the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Bianca Odumegwu-Ojukwu, after a viral video showed her dancing with Nigerian inmates during a recent visit to a prison in Ethiopia. Mr Ojudu, who represented Ekiti Central Senatorial District between 2011 and 2015 and later served as Special Adviser on Political Matters to former President Muhammadu Buhari, said the minister’s conduct projected the wrong message about crime, punishment, and public leadership. In a statement posted on his social media platforms, Mr Ojudu questioned the appropriateness of the scene captured during the minister’s visit to Nigerian prisoners in…
Osun State chapter of the All Progressives Congress has called on the state police command to probe the assassination attempt alleged by the Ataoja of Osogbo, Oba Jimoh Oyetunji, with a view to bringing to justice those responsible. This was disclosed in a statement signed by the party’s spokesperson, Kola Olabisi, obtained in Osogbo on Sunday. Osun APC hinged its demand for probe on the claim by Oba Oyetunji, at the adoption of Governor Ademola Adeleke for re-election by the spare parts traders at Ajegunle area of Osogbo, on Saturday, where he said that he escaped an assassination attempt from…
Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency have arrested a Brazil-based businessman, Abugu Oliver Ikechukwu, for allegedly importing shirts and towels impregnated with 6.10 kilograms of liquid cocaine into Nigeria from Brazil. The agency said the 41-year-old suspect was arrested at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Ikeja, Lagos, upon his arrival from São Paulo, Brazil, via Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, aboard an Ethiopian Airlines flight on June 11. According to a statement released on Sunday by the NDLEA Director of Media and Advocacy, Femi Babafemi, a thorough search of the suspect’s luggage led to the discovery of 14 towels and…
A group of 13 World Cup teams on Sunday hit out at UEFA President Aleksander Ceferin over reported remarks in which he said this year’s expanded tournament would lead to many “completely uninteresting” matches. In a joint statement, the 13 football associations, including World Cup debutants Cape Verde, Curacao and Uzbekistan, said they “respectfully but firmly reject” Ceferin’s comments quoted in the Slovenian newspaper Delo. “For our countries, there is no such thing as an unimportant World Cup match,” the joint statement read. “To suggest that these matches are somehow less important is deeply disappointing and fails to recognise the…
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African delegates attending seminars in China have condemned xenophobic attacks against foreign African nationals in South Africa and called for greater unity across the continent. The delegates responded to the ongoing black-on-black violence while speaking with the News Agency of Nigeria on the sidelines of training programmes organised by the Academy for International Business Officials under China’s Ministry of Commerce. They described the reported attacks as disturbing and contrary to the ideals of Pan-Africanism, solidarity, and peaceful coexistence. ‘In Africa, we are all one’ Yusupha Bojang of The Gambia’s National Council for Civic Education said Africans must see themselves as one people irrespective of…
