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2023: I Stand With the Youths,The Old Ones Should Fade Away - Abdulsalami Abubakar "I think the right thing for the country is that old ones should fade away gracefully and allow young people to take over,”  "What we can do as former leaders is to mentor and tutor them in whatever way we can in order for them to lead the country.  “As a matter of fact, this is the time Nigerians should begin to support young, vibrant, and visionary leaders that would steer the country on the path of glory" Former Head of State, Abdulsalami Abubakar

The Kogi State Government has shut down over five brothels and shanties in Lokoja and other parts of the state. The Director General of Land and Urban Development, Nazil Ochu, who led the operation which began on Tuesday, August 30, advised operators of the illegal businesses in the state to switch to other legitimate businesses in order to avoid being arrested. He said the exercise is the implementation of the pronouncement made by the state governor, Yahaya Bello, that all brothels and shanties should be closed down to curb criminal activities in the state. He warned that any brothel shutdown and reopened by the operators will be demolished to serve as a deterrent to others. He stated further that those who claimed that there was no prior notice before shutting down are economical with the truth, assuring that the exercise is continuous till the desired result is achieved. In his remarks, the chairman of the Lokoja local government, Dan-Asabe Mohammed, described the exercise as a wel...

  Russian energy giant Gazprom has announced the suspension of natural gas supplies to the EU via the Nord Stream 1 pipeline, for an indefinite period, The world has been expecting this as the war in Ukraine moves into the injury time. But no one has predicted with high confidence that Russia would strike this early with its gas. Yes, Russian energy giant Gazprom has announced the suspension of natural gas supplies to the EU via the Nord Stream 1 pipeline, for an indefinite period, due to technical malfunctions. Last week, I read a piece where Russia was worried that it had so much money that it needed to slow the appreciation of its currency, and the only way to do that was to buy other currencies. I even suggested buying Nigerian naira. Typically, because of sanctions, Russia’s balance of payment became exceedingly favorable (you export so much and import largely nothing) heating up the currency, ruble, which has appreciated in recent weeks. With so much money in the bank, it now...

Pastor arrested for defiling and impr€gnating the 12-year-old daughter of his church member who went to him for deliverance  A 48-year-old Pastor of "The Light House Gospel Church" Oluwo, Owode Egba, Pastor Michael Abiodun, has been arrested by men of Ogun state Police Command for allegedly defiling and impregnating the 12-year-old daughter of a member of his church. It is reported that the suspect was arrested following information received at Owode Egba divisional headquarters that, the victim's mother joined the church as a result of a spiritual problem that led to the de@th of two of her daughters.  In order to prevent the victim from the same calamity, she ran to the church for deliverance. On a fateful day, the Pastor who is a father-of-three asked the victim's mother to send her to him for special prayers, but on getting there, the Pastor took her into a room within the church and f%rcefully had carnal knowledge of her which resulted in pregnancy.  Upon the inf...

  Organ H@rvesting: Don’t release my biodata to Ekweremadu and London Court – Victim begs Nigerian court David Ukpo, the victim of the alleged organ h@rvesting scandal involving Senator Ike Ekweremadu and his wife, Beatrice, on Tuesday asked a Federal High Court in Abuja to set aside its July 1 order for the release of his bio-data for use in a London court in Ekweremadu’s trial. Ukpo, while faulting proceedings of the court that led to the issuance of the order, claimed that his fundamental rights to a fair hearing and personal privacy had been grossly breached. His grouse was that neither he nor the Attorney General of the Federation, AGF, as Chief Law Officer of the Federation, was made a party in the suit. In a motion on notice he just filed through his lawyer, Mr Bamidele Igbinedion, Ukpo prayed Justice Inyang Eden Ekwo to reverse the order permitting the release of his bio-data to Ekweremadu and his wife for their defense before Uxbridge Magistrate Court in London. Defendants...