Author: TheScrutinyNG

Rotterdam mayor Ahmed Aboutaleb on Tuesday called off this weekend’s football match between arch-rivals Feyenoord and Ajax due to a police strike, saying public safety “cannot adequately be guaranteed”. The call comes after police unions Monday said they will not be present at the highly-charged game, which was scheduled to be played at Feyenoord’s De Kuip stadium in Rotterdam on Sunday. “The safety of players, as well as the public cannot be adequately guaranteed without the involvement of the police,” Aboutaleb said in a statement sent to AFP. “The decision was taken in consultation with safety and security officials and…

A former Minister of State for Defence, Senator Musiliu Obanikoro says the only time the Lagos State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) had peace was when Chief Olabode George was in prison. In a trending video sighted by TheScrutiny, Obanikoro who granted an interview to TVC also said George has never won his polling unit for the party since 1999. Obanikoro who granted the interview after losing the governorship primaries to Jimi Agbaje also accused George of being undemocratic and using thugs to destabilise the peace in the party and the state. “Let me say this, because it…

Civilians are among the dozens of people killed in an attack by militants in Burkina Faso, local and security sources told AFP on Sunday. Jihadist rebels affiliated with Al-Qaeda and the Islamic State group have waged a grinding insurgency since 2015 in Burkina Faso that has killed thousands and displaced two million people. The latest attack was carried out by armed men in the village of Barsalogho in north-central Burkina Faso on Saturday, multiple sources said. Denouncing the “cowardly and barbaric attack”, Communications Minister Rimtalba Jean Emmanuel Ouedraogo said it was carried out by “hordes of criminals”. The assailants targeted…

The Chairman of the All Progressive Congress in Kogi State, Abdulahi Bello, has urged the opposition to support the administration of Governor Usman Ododo in moving the start forward. He made the call while reacting to the Supreme Court judgement affirming the victory of Ododo during the November 11, 2023, governorship election. Bello, in a telephone chat with our correspondent shortly after the court judgement, said “I feel elated for the Supreme Court verdict of today. “It’s a demonstration of the court as the last hope of the common man. I will advise the opposition noise makers to put a…

The Supreme Court has affirmed the re-election of Senator Duoye Diri as the Governor of Bayelsa State after dismissing the appeal of Timipre Sylva, candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), in the November 11, 2023 off-cycle election. A five-member panel of the Apex Court headed by Justice Lawal Garba, on Friday affirmed the Court of Appeal decision of July 15 which deemed Sylva’s appeal as an abuse of Court process for filing two notices of appeal. Citing a section of the 1999 Constitution, the Apex Court panel held that the APC Governorship candidate has only one right to appeal…

PIDOM NIGERIA, a prominent anonymous whistleblower, has gone missing, and his social media accounts have been compromised, this is according to David Hundeyin a close friend and colleague. Hundeyin said he received a suspicious message from PIDOM’s Twitter account, leading him to investigate the situation. In his latest tweets, he had accused the Ooni of Ife, Adeyeye Enitan Ogunwusi of romance scam with one Ms Fagbule. He also accused him of swindling her of the sum of $180,000 with a promise of marriage through Facebook. The Ooni denied the allegations. In another tweet, he also accused Umara Zulum, son of…

President Bola Tinubu has returned to Abuja after a short trip to France on a brief work visit. The President, who arrived at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport in the early hours of Friday, left for France on Monday. President Tinubu is scheduled to swear in the new Chief Justice of Nigeria, Kudirat Kekere-Ekun this morning at the Council Chambers in the state House. Justice Kekere-Ekun will succeed Justice Olukayode Ariwoola, who bowed out on Thursday after clocking the retirement age of 70 years.

Political consultant and strategist, Temi Okesanjo, recently provided insights on the current challenges facing the nation. When asked what advice she could give to the President based on her experience advising in the former presidency, Okesanjo remarked, “It’s difficult to provide effective advice without adequate knowledge of internal complexity in the presidency.” However, she managed to offer some critical recommendations that could bolster the administration’s effectiveness. In her commentary, Okesanjo emphasised the need for better coordination across the entire government architecture, particularly to ensure that the impact of initiatives meant to cushion the effect of the fuel subsidy removal is…

Emmanuel Ayoola, former chairman of the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC), is dead. Musa Aliyu, ICPC chairman, announced Ayoola’s death in a statement on Wednesday. Ayoola, who was the second ICPC chairman, died on Tuesday at the age of 91. He served as the commission’s chairman between 2005 and 2010, after succeeding Mustapha Akanbi. Ayoola served the country in various capacities. He was appointed as a high court judge in 1976 and rose through the ranks to the supreme court. He retired as a justice of the nation’s apex court in 2003, having attained the mandatory…

The Federal Government has announced a hike in the cost of obtaining Nigeria’s international passport. Spokesman of the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS), DCI Kenneth Udo, who disclosed this in a statement on Wednesday night in Abuja, said the move is “part of efforts to maintain the quality and integrity of the Nigerian Standard Passport.” According to him, the new charges take effect from 1st September, 2024. “Based on the review, the 32-page passport booklet with a 5-year validity previously charged at Thirty-five Thousand Naira (N35,000.00) will now be Fifty Thousand Naira (N50,000.00) only, while the 64-page passport booklet with a…