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The Federal High Court in Lagos has issued an order restraining the Lagos State Police Command and its Commissioner of Police from arresting, harassing, or intimidating Omoyele Sowore, publisher of Sahara Reporters and prominent human rights activist. The interim injunction was granted on Wednesday by Justice Musa Kakaki, following an application filed by Sowore seeking the protection of his fundamental rights. In his ruling, Justice Kakaki directed the respondents, particularly the Lagos Commissioner of Police, to refrain from “harassing, intimidating, threatening with arrest, or declaring the applicant wanted pending the determination of the substantive suit.” According to affidavits attached to…

A tragic accident occurred in Jos, Plateau State, on Wednesday when a moving train crushed a tricycle, killing the rider and one passenger on the spot. The incident happened around the Phototech area of Abattoir Junction in Jos South Local Government Area at about 11 a.m. The train was said to be travelling from Bukuru to Jos city centre when it rammed into the tricycle. Two other passengers sustained serious injuries and were rushed to the hospital for medical attention. Confirming the incident, the spokesperson of the Jos Railway Station, Adam Abdullahi, blamed the crash on the tricycle rider’s refusal…

The Kwara State police command has declared three suspected kidnap kingpins wanted in connection with recent bloody attacks on communities in the state. The state Police Commissioner, Adekimi Ojo, disclosed this to newsmen in his office in Ilorin on Wednesday. He identified the three kingpins as Chelsea, Auta and Aro, whose arrest would help tremendously to nip the issue of armed banditry in the bud in the affected areas of Kwara South, Edu and Patigi Local Government of the state. Adekimi, further revealed that bandits were now on the run following the military onslaught along Kwara-Kogi border axis, with a…

The Federal Government has said Nigeria is willing to work with the United States and other countries to wipe out remnants of terrorists and criminal elements in Nigeria. Minister of Information and National Orientation, Mohammed Idris, stated this during a world press conference in Abuja on Wednesday. While acknowledging that Nigeria is faced with insecurity challenges, he clarified that it is not targeted at any religion or group, as peddled by faulty data. He saud in the last two years, President Bola Tinubu has deepened his commitment to dealing with insecurity, evident in the country’s improved standing on the Global…

Governorship candidate of the Young Progressive Party, YPP, Paul Chukwuma, has accused the incumbent governor Charles Soludo of funding state militias to disrupt Saturday’s governorship election in Anambra State. Chukwuma made this allegation on Wednesday.in an interview on Arise Television monitored by DAILY POST. DAILY POST reports that the Anambra governorship election is scheduled for November 8 and the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has expressed its readiness to conduct the polls. “I have absolute confidence in the system, especially with INEC and the security agencies. Inasmuch as I’m very confident of winning this election, and this confidence finds expression…

Victor Osimhen will look to join Obafemi Martins as Nigerians with most goals in European competitions when Galatasaray take on Ajax in a UEFA Champions League tie at the Johan Cruyff Arena on Wednesday (today). Martins, a former Inter Milan striker currently holds the record with 23 goals. Osimhen has so far scored 22 times in Europe across his spells with Lille, Napoli and now Galatasaray. The 26-year-old has netted 12 times in the UEFA Champions League, and 10 in the UEFA Europa League. A goal against Ajax would see the powerful hitman draw level with Martins, whilst two goals…

The detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu, has asked the Federal Government to release him, insisting that he has no case to answer. This was as he failed to open his defence to the seven-count terrorism charge the Federal Government preferred against him on Tuesday. Kanu, who is conducting his case by himself, after he disengaged his team of lawyers, maintained that in the absence of a valid charge pending before the court, there was no legal basis for him to either open his defence or to file and exchange a final written address with…

A Nigerian postgraduate student living in the United Kingdom, Chiemka Okoronta, is set to be deported after serving a 10-year prison sentence for raping a teenage girl in West Yorkshire. According to a report by the BBC on Monday, the 29-year-old committed the offence after the teenager became stranded on a night bus in Morley, Leeds, while both were returning home to Bradford on March 25. Court documents revealed that Okoronta tricked the victim into sharing a taxi with him before luring her into his accommodation and assaulting her in a locked toilet. The prosecution told the Bradford Crown Court…

Arsenal midfielder Max Dowman on Tuesday became the youngest-ever player to feature in the Champions League, after coming on as a 73rd-minute substitute against Slavia Prague. Dowman reached the milestone at 15 years and 309 days old. The English teenager took the record from Youssoufa Moukoko, who played for Borussia Dortmund against Zenit St Petersburg in 2020 at the age of 16 years and 18 days. Dowman also made his Premier League debut aged 15 years and 234 days, as Arsenal thrashed Leeds United 5-0 in August. That made him the second-youngest player ever in the Premier League, after teammate…

The All Progressives Congress (APC) has won all 25 chairmanship positions in the recently held local government elections in Niger State. The Niger State Independent Electoral Commission (NSIEC) reported that the APC won 271 of the 274 councillorship seats, whereas the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) obtained just three which include two in Tafa and one in Rafi local government areas. Announcing the results,  the NSIEC Commissioner for Operations, Mohammed Liman, stated that the election was carried out in all 25 local government areas according to electoral laws and the commission’s operational protocols. “All returning officers have finished the collation and…