Wednesday 10 May 2023 Presidential poll: Tribunal to consider PDP, LP’s live broadcast request Speaker: Five aggrieved aspirants team up against Abbas Lagos bishop raped me twice –Female pastor Edo police arrest correctional service, naval officers for robbery Deadly noodles: NAFDAC extends probe to other brands, experts allay fears ‘No Victor, No Vanquished’, Adeleke Extends Olive Branch To Oyetola After Supreme Court Verdict Osinbajo Inaugurates Afam 3 Power Plant, Says Nigeria’s Electricity Market Has Huge Potential APC Makes Case For Akpabio, Says South-South Hasn’t Produced Senate President Since 1999 Opposition Parties Are Greater Majority, United To Elect 10th Speaker – Plateau Rep Bagos CBN To Sanction Shipping Companies Exporting Undocumented Cargoes Security Operatives Kill Two Gunmen, Arrest Members Of Robbery Gang In Anambra Senate Presidency: Tinubu Persuaded Me To Step Down For Akpabio – Umahi 10th NASS leadership: Crisis hits APC over zoning of Senate president, Speaker Buhari to stay additional week in London ‘on dentist’s instruction’ Military onslaught: Terrorists flee Zamfara, invade Katsina villages No regret trekking from Gombe to Abuja for Buhari in 2015 — 53-yr-old man 14-yr-old boy steals school bus How Nigeria, others can escape global funding squeeze —IMF Tinubu’s Govt: I Won’t Accept To Serve As FCT Minister – El-Rufai Revenue Sharing Formula: El-Rufai Wants 80% For States, Revert To 1963 Constitution 7 Feared Dead After Drinking Tea At Wedding In Kano Soji Adagunodo, PDP south-west vice-chairman, is dead Visit a newspaper stand this morning, buy and read a copy for yourself…

  At least 15 girls have reportedly died in a fresh boat accident at Dandeji village in Shagari Local Government Area of Sokoto State. The girls were said to be be on their way to a nearby bush to fetch firewoods when their boat capsized on Tuesday morning. According to eyewitness accounts, over 40 girls were on board when the incident happened. A resident of the area, Muhammad Ibrahim, said 15 corpses had already been recovered and local divers were still searching for the other victims. The chairman of Shagari local government, Aliyu Abubakar, who confirmed the incident said the bodies were being prepared for burial. Recall that in 2021 and 2022, boat accidents claimed 13 and 30 people who were mostly women and children at Ginga and Gidan Magana villages in the area respectively. Similarly, some members of Tijjaniyya sect were said to have died in a similar circumstance during the last Eid Maulud festival.

  Soji Adagunodo, the zonal vice chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the south-west, is dead. Oladele Oluwabamiji, PDP’s director of media and publicity in Osun, confirmed the development to TheCable on Tuesday night. TheCable gathered that Adagunodo died in the United States. Details of his death were not available at the time of this report. Sources close to the family said Adagunodo had travelled to the US shortly after the general election for a routine medical checkup but has not returned since then. Adagunodo, until his death, was PDP’s zonal-vice chairman and former chairman of the party in Osun state. The late politician who hailed from Obokun LGA of Osun was also a former member of the state house of assembly.

  Autopsies on corpses found in mass graves linked to a church in Kenya have revealed missing organs and raised suspicions of forced harvesting, investigators said, with a fresh round of exhumations set to resume Tuesday. The discovery of mass graves last month near the Indian Ocean coastal town of Malindi has stunned the deeply religious Christian-majority country in what has been dubbed the “Shakahola forest massacre”. Police believe most of the bodies belong to followers of self-styled pastor Paul Nthenge Mackenzie who is accused of ordering them to starve to death “to meet Jesus.” While starvation appears to be the main cause of death, some of the victims — including children — were strangled, beaten, or suffocated, according to the chief government pathologist Johansen Oduor. Court documents filed on Monday said that some of the corpses had their organs removed, with police alleging that the suspects were engaged in forced harvesting of body parts.   “Post mortem reports have established missing organs in some of the bodies of victims who have been exhumed,” chief inspector Martin Munene said in an affidavit filed to a Nairobi court. It is “believed that trade on human body organs has been well coordinated involving several players,” he said, giving no details about the suspected trafficking. Munene said that Ezekiel Odero, a high-profile televangelist who was arrested last month in connection with the same case and granted bail on Thursday, had received “huge cash transactions,” allegedly from Mackenzie’s followers who sold their property at the cult leader’s bidding. The Nairobi court ordered the authorities to freeze more than 20 bank accounts belonging to Odero for 30 days. A total of 112 people have so far been confirmed dead, interior minister Kithure Kindiki said Tuesday after arriving in Malindi to supervise the resumption of exhumations, which were suspended last week because of bad weather. “Search and rescue efforts for persons suspected to be holed up in the thickets and bushes have been going on,” Kindiki said. Questions have been raised about how Mackenzie managed to evade law enforcement despite a history of extremism and previous legal cases. The former taxi driver turned himself in on April 14 after police acting on a tip-off first entered Shakahola forest, where some 30 mass graves have now been found. Prosecutors are asking to hold the father of seven, who founded the Good News International Church in 2003, for another 90 days until investigations are completed. Senior principal magistrate Yusuf Shikanda said he would rule on the request on Wednesday.

  Anambra Police Command says a joint security team put in pace in the state, have killed two suspected kidnappers terrorising parts of the state. Police Public Relations Officer, Anambra State Command, DSP Ikenga Tochukwu in a statement made available to JOURNALIST101, said their operatives on routine patrol on the 7th of May, 2023, intercepted a 4-man Kidnap gang and a gunfire ensued. Ikenga said after the gun duel, 2 of the kidnappers were neutralised while other members of the gang escaped while various arms and ammunitions were recovered. “These joint operations yielded a major positive development on 7/5/2023 by 8:45 pm, the operatives while on routine patrol along usmusiome Nkpor, Idemili North LGA intercepted a Gang of Four operating in an unregistered black Lexus SUV, recovered two locally made explosives, one Ak47 rifle, nine live 7.62 ammunition, four Ak47 magazines, Charms and other incriminating items. The operatives during the gun duel with the criminals demobilized two of the gang members, while two others escape. Efforts are already emplaced to arrest other fleeing gang members. “Also earlier on the same date by 4 pm, the Operatives at Azu Ogbunike Oyi LGA arrested another gang of armed robbery/vandals in the act, vandalizing a truck suspected to have been stolen. “The suspects are one Nwusulor Fidelis ‘m’ aged 51years, Iloegunam Amobi ‘m’ aged 44years, Solomon Akpagu ‘m’ aged 51years and Chidiebere Innocent ‘m’ aged 28years. They all confessed to the crime and they are currently helping the police with information on other syndicate members that dispossess innocent drivers of their trucks before bringing them to their criminal hideout at Azu Ogbunike.”

  The president-elect, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu is set to travel outside the shores of Nigeria, but the specific days have not been made known. Tinubu’s spokesman, Tunde Rahmon, confirmed the development on Monday, May 8, as the pressure on who becomes the next Senate President and House of Reps speaker gets worse.

  …Says, NLC did not endorse Uzodinma The recent stand-off between the Nigerian Labour Congress and Governor Hope Uzodinma of Imo state may have thrown up a lot of dark areas in the present administration. This is also as the Imo state Chairman of the NLC, Comrade George Ofoegbu has said that Imo state has not implemented the N30,000 minimum wage in the state. Ofoegbu who spoke to our correspondent on the phone said: “More than 90 percent of the states of the federation have fully implemented the minimum wage and Imo is not on that list. Of the few states outstanding, Imo is one of the three states in the South-East that have not implemented the minimum wage and its consequential adjustments. So how can we leave these more pressing issues of workers’ welfare to go around looking for who to endorse. The people that endorsed the Governor for a second tenure are not labour leaders but most likely people out to fend for their own pockets.” Ofoegbu however noted that in some areas, Governor Uzodinma may have done well but he nevertheless stressed that: “No matter what personal benefit anybody may obtain from this government, the labour standard remains that if one worker is not paid, no worker has been paid; if one pensioner has not been paid, then pensioners have not been paid and if one teacher did not get his salary, then no teacher has been paid.” He regretted that the lockdown and withdrawal of services of its affiliates imposed on Imo by the NLC was unfortunate, but became necessary following a series of violent attacks and interference in the affairs of the Imo NLC which reached a breaking point last May 1st when workers were holding their Workers’ Day rally at the Labour House. “For the second time in two months, the Imo state government deployed thugs and hoodlums backed by security operatives to attack and beat up workers at the Labour House on May Day. About forty canopies, furniture and then electronics set up for the labour rally were destroyed by the rampaging thugs. Two of our members were admitted to hospital while one, the DJ’s arm, was broken. This is why Organized Labour at the National Level took a firm decision to sanction the state, deter the governor from such high-handedness and by so doing, protect it’s members.

  Tuesday 9 May 2023 Adeleke, Oyetola hopeful as Supreme Court delivers judgment today Tribunal: Tinubu, Atiku, Obi’s legal battle commences Reports Obi visited me for reconciliation inappropriate, diversionary — Soyinka Presidential poll: Five justices sitting on Atiku, Obi’s petitions against Tinubu N2.2bn fraud: Fayose gets court permission for medical trip IPOB declares May 30 sit-at-home to honour fallen heroes Top militants killed in Israeli strikes on Gaza How To Protect Yourself From Oral Cancers Bandits Release More FGC Birnin Yauri Students 56-Year-Old Ex-Boxer Punches Wife To Coma Over TV Remote Control APC Reveals Candidates For Senate Presidency, Speakership Monarch’s Sons, Daughters Abducted From Kaduna Palace JAMB Releases Results Of Mop-Up UTME – Here’s How To Check Terrorists attack Kaduna church, abduct 40 worshippers Sudan crisis: 129 more Nigerian evacuees arrive Abuja Buhari directs NUPRC to take over supervision of ALL crude oil export terminals Crude Oil Buyers Should Pay Nigeria In Naira, Not Dollar – Falana ‘Are We Not Part Of Nigeria?’ Ifeanyi Ubah Insists On South-East Senate Presidency At Least 22 Dead After India Boat Capsizes Airstrikes Rock Sudan As Truce Talks Yield No Breakthrough Fuel Subsidy: CISLAC Queries $800m World Bank Loan For Nigerians Protesters Storm Appeal Court, Ask Tribunal To Stop Tinubu’s Inauguration Twitter Cancelling Inactive Accounts, Says Musk Visit a newspaper stand this morning, buy and read a copy for yourself…