Nigeria

Dr Orji Kalu, a former governor of Abia State and the Senate’s chief whip, has lamented the death of Prof. George Obiozor, president general of Ohaneze Ndigbo.

Oyo State’s Police Command has made nine arrests related to the death of Hakeem Mudashiru, a grassroots mobilizer for the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in Oyo town.

The Commissioner of Police, Yekini Ayoku, has stated that in 2022, the police in Kaduna neutralised twenty-one (21) bandits and rescued 206 hostages.

Some of the personnel who worked for former Osun State governor Gboyega Oyetola have returned government vehicles they were accused of stealing while in office.

Hon Sunday Agwu, an adviser to Governor David Umahi and the coordinator of the Ishielu Development Centre in the Ishielu local government area of Ebonyi State, has been killed in a car crash on the Enugu-Abakaliki Road.

Protests by young people from the Akon-Itam village in the Itu local government area of Akwa Ibom State have persisted after the convoy of Senator Akon Eyakenyi, who represents the Eket senatorial district (Akwa Ibom South), killed a married couple on the Calabar-Itu Highway.

More than a hundred terrorists, including several of their leaders, have been reportedly killed in an attack conducted by the Nigerian Air Force (NAF) in Borno State.

Igwe Chijioke Nwankwo, the traditional ruler of Nawfia community in Njikoka local government area of Anambra State, has spoken out against what he claims is harassment and intimidation by the police in the state.

The Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) has been taken to court by civil society organisations for violating the Freedom of Information Act by withholding information on its 2020 budget.

Ademola Adeleke, governor of Osun State, has fired quarry site consultants and revenue collectors.