Lagos State Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu has visited the presiding bishop of Living Faith Church Worldwide Bishop David Oyedepo as the March 18 date for the governorship and state Houses of Assembly elections draw close. Mr Sanwo-Olu paid the courtesy visit on Monday at the church’s headquarters in Ota, Ogun State. Dressed in white, the governor posed for photos with Oyedepo who was also dressed in his customary white attire. Sanwo-Olu announced his visit via Instagram on Tuesday. “I paid a courtesy visit to Bishop David Oyedepo founder of the Living Faith Church…

Police in Bauchi have declared a member of the House of Representatives Yakubu Shehu wanted and placed a bounty of N1 million on him over alleged homicide. Bauch State Police Command’s spokesperson Ahmed Wakil announced this in a bulletin on Tuesday. Shehu represents Bauchi Federal Constituency on the platform of PRP but later defected to APC. The bulletin said the Nigeria Police Force, under the authority of the Inspector-General of Police, Usman Baba, had declared Shehu wanted. He is wanted “in connection with a case of criminal conspiracy, causing grievous…

Femi Aina, father of Oreoluwa Aina, the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) member killed in a Lagos train accident last week, has disclosed that his daughter took the BRT bus involved in the disaster because of naira scarcity. BBC Yoruba quoted Mr Aina as saying “if not for the money the authorities have withdrawn from circulation, my daughter would not have boarded that bus. “But because she had no money on her, that’s why she boarded the bus.” The bereaved father said he was in Abuja when the accident occurred on Thursday,…

Anambra State Governor Charles Soludo on Monday said the governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Godwin Emefiele confirmed to him that banks can now receive and dispense old naira notes. Soludo stated this in a release which he also shared on social media. He used the medium to urge Anambra residents to begin transacting with the old banknotes. Prof Soludo, a former CBN governor, said Emefiele personally confirmed the development to him in a phone conversation on Sunday night after a bankers’ committee meeting. According to him, tellers…

Supporters of the presidential candidate of the Labour Party Peter Obi on Wednesday followed him to the Court of Appeal in Abuja. Dressed in a black shirt, Obi was also accompanied by the party’s stalwarts including its national chairman Julius Abure and Senator-elect Victor Umeh. The appellate court had fixed Wednesday to consider the merit of the application the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) filed, seeking to be allowed to reconfigure the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System (BVAS) machines used for the presidential and National Assembly elections. On Twitter, the platform…

By Sen Rilwan Soji Akanbi The serious gang-up against the National leader and presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress APC, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu from winning the 2023 presidential election is no longer news. It is obvious that the sinister plan is building up by the day through different dynamics.Those who are in the know, with privileged information, given the events playing out have all spoken out concerning the underground plot to upstage Tinubu from clinching victory, given his nationwide acceptability across all geo-political zones.But what is obvious is that…