Today’s Headlines: I Think About Tinubu’s Re-election When Sleeping — Wike,Trump Talks About Russia

𝗜 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗸 𝗮𝗯𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝗧𝗶𝗻𝘂𝗯𝘂’𝘀 𝗿𝗲-𝗲𝗹𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝘄𝗵𝗲𝗻 𝘀𝗹𝗲𝗲𝗽𝗶𝗻𝗴, 𝗲𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 — 𝗪𝗶𝗸𝗲

Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike, has said President Bola Tinubu’s re-election is constantly on his mind as he rallies support for the President ahead of the 2027 election.

‎Wike spoke on Monday during town hall meetings with the Rumueme and Apara kingdoms in Obio-Akpor Local Government Area of Rivers State.

‎The former Rivers State governor urged residents to support Tinubu, saying the President had recognised Rivers people through appointments and what he described as developmental projects in the state.

“Each day I sleep, I am thinking about the president’s re-election. When I am eating, I think about the president’s re-election. Everything I am doing now is about the president’s re-election,” Wike said.

‎He urged Rivers residents to set aside political sentiments and vote for Tinubu.

WASHINGTON, Oct 5 (Reuters) – US President Donald Trump on Monday at ​the White House told reporters that ‌the United States will help Russia after a laboratory worker died at a plague research institute ​in Siberia.

Trump told reporters as he ​left the White House for a trip ⁠to Nebraska that the outbreak is a “big ​problem for Russia.”

A laboratory worker at a ​plague research institute in Siberia fell ill and died in undisclosed circumstances, prompting authorities to quarantine dozens ​of people.

The death has sparked public health ​fears on social media, but Russian authorities said on ‌Monday ⁠the situation was under control.

“Well, I hate to see them having it,” Trump said. “It’s a rough disease.”

He said the US would ​do what ​it could ⁠to help Russia. Trump has said he considers Russian President Vladimir ​Putin someone whom he can work ​with ⁠despite tensions over Russia’s war against Ukraine.

𝗣𝗼𝗹𝗶𝗰𝗲 𝗮𝗿𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝘁𝘄𝗼 𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿 𝗡10.3𝗺 𝗿𝗮𝗻𝘀𝗼𝗺 𝗸𝗶𝗱𝗻𝗮𝗽 𝗶𝗻 𝗥𝗶𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘀

The Rivers State Police Command has arrested two suspected members of a six-man kidnapping syndicate allegedly involved in the abduction of a man in Port Harcourt.

The suspects allegedly abducted the victim, identified as Hassan, around Fidelity Bank, Garrison, Port Harcourt, and held him captive for three days at a waterfront in the Borikiri area before his relatives paid N10.3m ransom for his release.

The spokesperson for the command, SP Blessing Agabe, disclosed this in a statement issued in Port Harcourt on Monday.

Agabe said the suspects were arrested by operatives of the command’s Violent Crime Response Unit following intelligence received about the abduction.

𝗢𝗻𝗲 𝗸𝗶𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗱, 𝗼𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝗶𝗻𝗷𝘂𝗿𝗲𝗱 𝗶𝗻 𝗞𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗮 𝗯𝘂𝘀 𝗳𝗶𝗿𝗲

One person was killed while several others sustained injuries after a commercial bus conveying 21 passengers somersaulted and caught fire along the Oko-Olowo Expressway in Ilorin, Kwara State, on Sunday.

PUNCH Metro gathered that the accident occurred around Iye-Maja Junction after the bus, with registration number DTH840SA, reportedly suffered a tyre puncture while in motion, causing the driver to lose control.

Confirming the incident in a statement on Monday, the spokesperson for the Kwara State Fire Service, Hassan Adekunle, said the agency received a distress call and immediately mobilised to the scene.

Adekunle said firefighters arrived at about 6:35pm and commenced rescue and firefighting operations.

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