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Edo State Governor, Godwin Obaseki, on Friday, said he visited the General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, Pastor Enoch Adeboye, during his second-term election travails. According to the governor, he said the 78-year-old cleric assured him that all would be well. Obaseki stated this on Friday night during the Testimony Session at this year’s RCCG Holy Ghost Congress held at the Church’s International Headquarters along the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway. He said, “When it looked impossible, and when men rose, He (God) came out to say that He is God and only He has the power. “About the time when the crisis started a year ago, I came to the (RCCG) camp with my wife and met Daddy G.O.” Obaseki said after explaining his political challenges, Adeboye told him, “My son, it is well. Don’t be afraid you will overcome and you will win.” The governor said he went back to meet the cleric shortly before the September 19 “A few months before the election, I came again to

Sam Nda-Isaiah The Publisher of Leadership newspaper, Sam Nda-Isaiah, is dead. Multiple sources from his family and the newspaper organisation confirmed that he died on Friday “after a very brief illness.” “Yes, it is true. I was just told now,” a family member told Punch on the telephone on Friday evening. When asked if he had been sick, the source said, “Yes, but very briefly.” The late publisher was said to be at his duty post in Abuja on Thursday during the inaugural meeting of National Economy’s Board of Economists at the corporate head office of the media organisation. Sam Nda-Isaiah A senior management staff of his company was said to have broken the sad news of his death on the company’s staff WhatsApp, saying “Today is a sad day for Leadership.” An editor with the Leadership, who spoke with one of our correspondents, said Nda-Isaiah did not show any sign of sickness when he appeared at the office on Thursday. “He did not show any sign of sickness. It was not the

Kaduna State Governor Nasir el-Rufai Kaduna State Governor, Nasir El-Rufai, has gone into isolation. The governor, who stated this on Saturday in a broadcast, said the measure was necessary as family members and senior government officials around him tested positive for COVID-19. Kaduna State Governor Nasir el-Rufai El-Rufai said he is in self-isolation as a precaution pending a COVID-19 test to be conducted on Sunday. The governor had earlier tested positive for the virus in March but recovered after some weeks. Other governors who had tested positive for the infection and had recovered include Ekiti State Governor, Kayode Fayemi; Ondo State Governor, Rotimi Akeredolu; Bauchi State Governor, Bala Mohammed; Governor Ifeanyi Okowa of Delta State, amongst others. In a related development, Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, has also gone into isolation following reported cases of positive COVID-19 cases recorded by persons close to him. PUBLIC HEALTH News AddThis :

A Federal High Court in Ibadan has on Friday sentenced an Internet fraudster, Ibrahim Tunde Akinsola, to one-year imprisonment for internet scam.  Justice Patricia Ajoku in his ruling at Adeoyo Ring Road in Ibadan, also ruled that Tunde Akinsola should pay the sum of $1,700 (One Thousand and Seven Hundred American Dollars) to his victim, Richard Wilson. The judge also pronounced that the convict forfeited his iPhone 7 Plus mobile phone to the Nigerian government.  Akinsola, 22, was prosecuted by the Ibadan Zonal office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, on an amended one-count charge of fraudulent impersonation.  “This judgment is in line with the provisions of Section 270 of the Administration of Criminal Justice Act 2015 that provides for a reduced sentence for anyone who enters a plea bargain agreement,” Ajoku pronounced. “Consequently, Tunde Akinsola is sentenced to 12 months in prison for the crime. “The sentence starts from the date he was first arreste

Isidore Ojukwu Nwankwo Justice N.I. Buba of the Federal High Court, Enugu on Thursday sentenced a former Rector of the Enugu Polytechnic, Ndeabor, Dr Isidore Ojukwu Nwankwo, to one year in prison for N1.1 million fraud committed against some students. The court sentenced Nwankwo to one year in prison following his prosecution by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). Isidore Ojukwu Nwankwo The EFCC, in a statement on Friday, said the court in its ruling also ordered the former rector to refund the money to the students. The statement read, “The former rector’s journey to prison began when one Eze and 19 other students of the school petitioned the Enugu zonal office of the EFCC, alleging that they were deceived into believing that the school was partly owned by the Enugu State government and accredited by the appropriate authorities, following which they paid the sums of N5,000 for admission form, N10,000 for acceptance fee and N35,000 for first-semester school