**Senator Orji Uzor Kalu, a former governor of Abia State, has declared his intention to succeed President Muhammadu Buhari in 2023. On Tuesday, Kalu told reporters that the time has come for the South East to produce the next President and that the region has enough credible and capable contenders to succeed Buhari.
**Leader of the Indigenous People Of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu, has invited representatives from the United Kingdom, United States and United Nations to observe court proceedings during his next trial. This was contained in a letter written to the two countries and UN, copies of which were obtained by our correspondent on Wednesday. Bar. Ifeanyi Ejiofor, who wrote the letters on behalf of the IPOB leader, said the presence of the representatives would ensure fair hearing.
**The Ogun State Government has announced diversion of traffic on major roads across the state due to the proposed visit of President Mohamodu Buhari to the state on Thursday 13th January, 2022 to commission several projects.
**Nigeria’s Amina Mohammed reappointed UN Deputy Secretary-General. According to UN Sec. Gen. “Ms. Mohammed’s leadership helped advance the conceptual shift from the United Nations that member states called for in adopting the Sustainable Development Goals,”
**Otunba Adebayo Alao-Akala, a former governor of Oyo State died in the early hours of Wednesday in Igbomoso. He was aged 71 years. It was gathered that he had slumped while in the bathroom and was found dead.
**Tinubu’s declaration won’t change our minds, Osinbajo group insists, wants ‘a test of might’ over APC ticket – Shettima Umar Gana,
**Yoruba Ronu Leadership Forum (YRLF), a socio-political organization in the country’s South-West, has backed the country’s South-East to produce the country’s next President. According to the group, the Igbos are ripe for the country’s top leadership position, and any move by any area to snare it might plunge the country deeper into political turmoil, potentially igniting a civil war if caution is not exercised.
**A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Senator Olufemi Lanlehin, has commended Governor Seyi Makinde for his position on the Olubadan stool and who becomes next Olubadan of Ibadan Land. The statement read: “Like every true Ibadan indigene and lover of truth, equity and justice, I received, on Tuesday, 11 January, 2022, news of the position of the Executive Governor of Oyo State, Engr. Seyi Makinde, on the ascension to the revered Olubadan stool, with pride and gladness.
**This is really not the best of time for Ogbomoso as another egghead Prof Alex Gboyega is dead. He is reported to have died yesterday at the aged of 75. This is coming after the news of the death of former Governor Christopher Adebayo Alao-Akala, who also passed on yesterday (January 12); the Soun of Ogbomosoland Oba Oladunni Oyewumi Ajagungbade III who died on December 12, 2021; and Prof (Mrs.) Bolanle Taibat Danmole (then eldest surviving child of late Soun) who transited last Saturday, January 8.
**Sowore’s personal effects and IDs alleged to have been tampered with by security operatives, with no explanation for their actions.
**In what appears to be a show of example, world’s richest black man and President of Dangote Group, Alhaji Aliko Dangote, on Wednesday, visited the Sura Drivers License Centre (DLC), Lagos, to renew his driver’s license. The Kano-born business mogul was accompanied by another billionaire Nigerian, Mr. Femi Otedola, during the driver’s license renewal process.
**There was a melodrama at the Corona sitting on the Ikoyi Collapsed building at Ikeja GRA, Lagos when wife of the former President of the Nigerian Senate, Toyin Ojora Saraki stormed the venue with a retinue of DSS personnel. Mrs. Saraki was not there for the Coroner inquest on the 21 storey building that collapsed at Ikoyi but for the inquest on the death of her brother, Dapo Ojora, a socialite and polo buff, who allegedly shot himself in the head on Friday, 11th December, 2020, in his Lagos residence.
**A popular skit maker, Sunday Joshua also knows as D-General has been arrested by the Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA for allegedly dealing in illicit drugs. This follows the raid of a notorious drug joint at Orchid Estate, Lekki area of Lagos state. He said narcotic officers stormed the drug joint in the estate, where three suspects were arrested with illicit drugs including 200 sachets of 225mg Tramadol and 1.5kilograms of cannabis sativa.
**The Federal Government has lifted the suspension on microblogging site, Twitter, seven months after it suspended the social media platform in Nigeria. This was contained in a statement issued by the Chairman Technical Committee Nigeria-Twitter Engagement and Director-General National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA), Kashifu Inuwa Abdullahi.
**Lagos traditional healer, Prince Tom bags double life imprisonment for kidnapping and raping of a client’s minor. The judgement was delivered by Justice Abiola Soladoye of an Ikeja Domestic Violence and Sexual Offences Court. According to the judge, the convict said the prosecutor had proved its case beyond reasonable doubt. She noted, “In view of all evidence presented in court, I am convinced that the accused is guilty of these two counts.”
**Justice Mojisola Dada of the Special Offences Court in Ikeja has directed that a suspected internet fraudster, Ismaila Mustapha alias Mompha, be put in protective custody of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, until his bail is determined in a new case against him and his company a Bureau de Change Company, Ismalob Global Investment Limited.
He was docked on Wednesday for allegations contrary to Section 8 of the Advance Fee fraud and other fraud related offences. EFCC said the defendant was charged to court on an 8-counts information dated 3rd September, 2021 where it said investigations revealed a fraudulent transfer slip of $92,412,75 found in the suspect’s IPhone 8 device. When the charge was read to him, he pleaded not guilty to the charge.
**A 21-year-old kidnapper, Auwal Abdulrasheed, who was arrested by the Kano State Police command has narrated how he abducted, killed a 13-year-old female hawker and demanded N1m ransom from her family after burying her body in a shallow grave.
**Police operatives in Plateau State have arrested a 20-year-old boy, identified as Moses Okon, who allegedly murdered one Jennifer Anthony, a 300 level student of the University of Jos, for ritual purposes. The deceased’s corpse was found on January 1, 2022, with her eyes plucked out. She was allegedly brutally murdered at a hotel in Jos by the suspect, who was said to be her boyfriend.
**Passengers of a 14-seater bus from Uyo, Akwa Ibom State capital, en route Lagos, were abducted by suspected gunmen in Imo State on Tuesday, January 11.
**My mother asked me to kill my younger brother for sacrifice so that we can make money. 32 year old man Afeez Olalere arrested by the Operatives of the Lagos State Police Command for using his brother for money rituals. He made the shocking confession saying; “My mother took me to an herbalist who told me if I want to be successful in the yahoo business I will have to sacrifice a life and that person must be a sibling to me. The things he would need prepare a concoction with are his thumbs, his hair, fingers and a passport photograph. So we went back home and thought about it, then my mother suggest we use my younger brother since he is just 21 year old. She also brought the poison which we gave him to eat, he died within 20 minutes after consuming the food. I was the one who cut out the body parts needed. We then wrapped his dead body and headed to mortuary.” Nemesis caught up with them during a stop and search operation along Itamaga Ikorudu, Lagos State.
**Managing Director, Nigerian Railway Corporation,Fidet Okhiria
Fire fighting equipment were missing as fire razed the newly procured Warri-Itakpe standard gauge train coaches in the early hours of Wednesday
**Expedition passenger ship MS FRIDTJOF NANSEN with 233 passengers and 165 crew on board reportedly ran aground early in the morning Jan 12 off Risoya Islet, South of Maloy, Norway,
This was while en route from Honningsvag to Flam in Sognefjord, Norway, in stormy weather
**Muyideen Olalekan a.k.a Oogun Po, who was one of the inmates of Abolongo Correctional Centre in Oyo Town who escaped during a gunman attack on October 22, 2021, has been re-arrested by the Oyo State Security Network Agency, commonly known as Amotekun.
**Mohammed Zarma ‘Male’ a retired Deputy Comptroller of Nigeria Custom Service, who was kidnapped on his farm located at Oke Jia, Egbejila at about 1730hrs of 6/1/2022 by some unknown gunmen speaking a particular Nigerian language has been released.
**Popular Nigerian professional dancer, instructor and a former holder of the Guinness longest dancer’s world record, Kafayat Ameh, known as ‘Kaffy Dance’ has confirmed publicly that her marriage to her husband, Joseph Ameh has crashed. Kaffy disclosed this in her new podcast episode ‘JustKaffy’. She declared that she’s single but not searching
“The African Cup of Nations is coming back to Nigeria-” Kanu Nwankwo
**AFCON: Confusion as referee ends Mali vs Tunisia game before 90th minute. Mali 1- 0 Tunisia
**Real Madrid manager Carlo Ancelotti lavished praised on his Barcelona counterpart Xavi on Tuesday as the arch-rivals prepare to face each other in the semifinal of the Spanish Super Cup in Saudi Arabia this week. Former Barca midfielder Xavi took over at the Nou Camp in November following the sacking of Ronald Koeman but has struggled to turn the fortunes of the club around with the side sixth in LaLiga, 17 points behind leaders Real. However, Ancelotti was impressed with what he had seen so far from the rookie coach and predicted a strong second half of the season from Barca.
*May the expectations of those who look down on us be embarrassed by our divine countless successes*