Author: TheScrutinyNG

French authorities have ordered Omar bin Laden, a son of slain Al Qaeda leader, Osama bin Laden, to leave the country over posts on social media, France’s interior minister announced on Tuesday. Born in Saudi Arabia, where he spent his early years, Omar bin Laden, 43, has also lived in Sudan and Afghanistan. He left his father at the age of 19 and eventually settled in Normandy in northern France in 2016, taking up painting. France’s new interior minister, Bruno Retailleau, said on X (former Twitter) that Omar bin Laden had lived in the department of Orne in Normandy as…

The Federal High Court in Abuja in a suit brought before Justice Emeka Nwite has ordered the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to recognise Julius Abure as the substantive Chairman of the Labour Party. Justice Nwite on Tuesday delivered the ruling validating the Abure-led leadership of the party.  He also validated the March 2024 Nnewi convention of the Party that produced the national leadership, while issuing an order compelling the INEC to recognise the leadership.  Recall that the Julius Abure-led faction of the Labour Party (LP) had accused the party’s presidential candidate in the 2023 general elections, Peter Obi, and…

Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan has raised concerns over the escalating crisis in Rivers State, urging President Bola Tinubu to intervene in resolving the dispute between the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike, and Rivers State Governor, Siminalayi Fubara. In a statement on Tuesday by her media aide, Israel Arogbonlo, she called on the President to ensure that the minister focuses on his duties in the FCT, allowing his successor to govern Rivers State as mandated by the constitution. Akpoti-Uduaghan noted that the crisis, marked by violence, intimidation, and alleged electoral malpractices, poses a serious threat to the peace and…

Governor Siminialayi Fubara of Rivers State has said the issue between him and former Governor Nyesom Wike is about power and authority, saying there is no understanding between him and the FCT Minister that he hadn’t kept. Speaking on Politics Today, Fubara said there was no need for anybody to destroy things in the state recalling that when Wike, the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Abuja, was the Governor, Rivers was the envy of all.  He told the Minister that it was time for governance and not politics noting that he should be allowed to concentrate on governance.…

The Lagos State House of Assembly has asked suspended chairman of Alimosho Local Government Area, Jelili Sulaimon, and his lawyer, Dr. Abdul Mahmud, to recognise the place of law rather than sentiments and emotions as guiding principles of legislative practices in Lagos State. The advice by the Assembly on Tuesday was in response to the purported reaction of the duo to the suspension of the council chairman by the House on Monday at plenary. The House, in the reaction signed by Hon. Stephen Ogundipe, chairman, Committee on Information, Strategy and Security, further advised Jelili against ascribing self-made meanings to the…

Youths from the northern part of the country, under the umbrella of Arewa Youth for Peaceful Coexistence has asked the Federal Government to withhold funds meant for local government areas in Rivers State. The call is coming on the heels of what the group describes as blatant violations and infractions witnessed during last Saturday’s local government elections in Rivers State. National Coordinator, Arewa Youth for Peaceful Coexistence, Haruna Bature and the Chairman, Arewa Youth for Peaceful Coexistence, Abuja Chapter, Comrade Ogah Mark Okpanachi, in a press conference in Abuja urged the Federal Government to implement the Supreme Court judgment regarding…

A father of nine children, identified simply as Mr Charles, has reportedly committed suicide in the Jeddo community of Delta State. It has been gathered that the gory incident occurred in the early hours of Monday. The man allegedly took his own life after drinking an insecticide. Sources who are privy to the incident told PUNCH Metro that the said Mr Charles, who lived in the Jeddo community of Okpe Local Government Area, drank the insecticide at his residence and proceeded to his in-law’s place at nearby Ugbokodo, where he eventually gave up the ghost. It was gathered that before…

The All Progressives Congress (APC) has said that it is not losing sleep over the anticipated alliance between Peter Obi and Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso, both of whom are of the Labour Party (LP) and the New Nigerian Peoples Party (NNPP) respectively, ahead of the 2027 general election. The National Publicity Director of the APC, Bala Ibrahim, declared that the touted Obi-Kwankwaso alliance would fail again as it did ahead of the 2023 presidential election. According to him, while speaking to PUNCH, the lack of trust will always be an issue between Obi and Kwankwaso, and neither of them will be…

The Federal Government has flagged off the distribution of 21,924 bags of rice to various indigent groups in Katsina State. Alhaji Ibrahim Kabir Masari, the Northwest representative of the Presidential Committee on Food Security, flagged off the event at the Government House’ People’s Square in Katsina on Sunday. Masari who is also the Political Adviser to President Bola Tinubu said the 21,924 bags of rice are meant to reach less privileged persons in each of the 361 wards in the state. He noted that the periodic distribution of the rice palliatives across the country is part of the Federal gVovernment’s…

The hierarchy of the Nigeria Police Force has said it was not ready to engage in media with Governor Siminalayi Fubara of Rivers State. The police, however, faulted the allegations by the governor and said they were only conforming to a court order barring the force from participating in the LGA elections. The police spokesperson, Muyiwa Adejobi, in a statement also debunked the “prevailing falsehood of partisanship circulating in the media”. Adejobi also reaffirmed the police’s “neutrality and non-interference in political affairs” within the state and the country. He noted that the “misinformation triggered by the unwarranted outburst of Fubara…