Today’s Headlines: Tinubu is incompetent, Muslim-Muslim ticket a bondage – Primate Ayodele, 𝗧𝗿𝘂𝗺𝗽 𝘄𝗮𝗻𝘁𝘀 𝘁𝗼𝘂𝗴𝗵𝗲𝗿 𝗷𝗮𝗶𝗹 𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗺𝘀 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗳𝗿𝗮𝘂𝗱𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝘁𝗮𝗿𝗴𝗲𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗔𝗺𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗻𝘀

The Leader of INRI Evangelical Spiritual Church, Primate Elijah Ayodele, on Sunday described President Bola Tinubu as an incompetent leader, stressing that Nigeria has yet to experience what it means to be an independent nation because of bad leadership.

In a statement signed by his media aide, Osho Oluwatosin, Primate Ayodele claimed Nigeria has independence of hardship and hunger, explaining that the government complains more than provides solutions to the nation’s problems.

Primate Ayodele wrote: “We are not fully independent. It’s an independence of stagnancy and hunger. Tinubu isn’t competent to be a president, so there is no way the people will enjoy independence.

𝗧𝗿𝘂𝗺𝗽 𝘄𝗮𝗻𝘁𝘀 𝘁𝗼𝘂𝗴𝗵𝗲𝗿 𝗷𝗮𝗶𝗹 𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗺𝘀 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗳𝗿𝗮𝘂𝗱𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝘁𝗮𝗿𝗴𝗲𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗔𝗺𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗻𝘀

United States President Donald Trump has threatened lengthy prison sentences for fraudsters targeting Americans through Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security programmes, warning that state and local politicians who knowingly fail to stop fraud could be held personally liable for the losses.

Trump made the announcement in a video released on Saturday, calling on Congress to pass legislation introducing mandatory minimum sentences for people who steal from the benefit programmes.

He said the proposed legislation would eliminate probation as an option for offenders convicted of the fraud.

𝗢𝗻𝗲 𝗱𝗲𝗮𝗱, 𝗮𝗻𝗼𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿 𝗶𝗻𝗷𝘂𝗿𝗲𝗱 𝗮𝘀 𝗽𝗲𝘁𝗿𝗼𝗹 𝘁𝗮𝗻𝗸𝗲𝗿 𝗰𝗿𝗮𝘀𝗵𝗲𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝗖𝗿𝗼𝘀𝘀 𝗥𝗶𝘃𝗲𝗿

One person has been confirmed dead while another sustained serious injuries in a petroleum tanker inferno opposite the Odukpani Local Government Secretariat, Odukpani, Cross River State.

The incident occurred on Saturday, October 4, 2026, when a tanker conveying petroleum product was involved in a road traffic accident, overturned and went up in flames. The fire later spread to nearby shops and buildings.

Confirming the incident in a statement on Sunday, the Cross River State Police Command, through its Police Public Relations Officer, Eitokpah Sunday, said its officers have been deployed to the scene to secure the area and ensure public safety.

𝐈 𝐞𝐬𝐜𝐚𝐩𝐞𝐝 𝐤𝐢𝐝𝐧𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐬’ 𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐬 𝐭𝐰𝐢𝐜𝐞 – 𝐒𝐮𝐫𝐯𝐢𝐯𝐨𝐫

For nine days, Mohammed Salihu walked through an unfamiliar forest without knowing whether he was heading towards home or deeper into the territory of the men who had abducted him, only to encounter another group of armed men who captured him and returned him to captivity.

That was not the beginning of Salihu’s ordeal, or was it the end of it?

The resident of Tsaragi, Edu Local Government Area of Kwara State, had already spent months in the hands of bandits after being abducted from his home on May 8, 2026, and his first escape was supposed to be his route to freedom.

Instead, it became another chapter in a 141-day ordeal that saw him move between two bandit camps, survive prolonged hunger and thirst, witness the aftermath of a failed ransom exchange and eventually escape for a second time with eight other captives.

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