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F ounder and Senior Pastor of the Latter Rain Assembly, Lagos, Pastor Tunde Bakare, has reacted to the declaration by President Muhammadu Buhari to contest for Presidency come 2019 election. President Buhari had announced his intention to go for second term at the National Executive Council meeting of the APC held in Abuja on Monday. Reacting to the new development, Bakare, speaking to Daily Sun said he would support Buhari’s re-election bid if he (the president) canvassed for his support. According to him, Buhari has every constitutional right to seek re-election. Bakare said “I would support Buhari If he canvasses for my support. “It was the President’s prerogative to seek re-election, nothing forbade the President constitutionally from seeking re-election.” Bakare, speaking on whether he would cast his vote for the President during the election, said “It is a secret vote, for that it remains my secret.” Bakare further warned Nigerian to be careful, eve...

P olice have ordered the arrest of the operatives of a rogue unit after armed officers cornered a Nigerian writer at a bank in Lagos on Monday, held him hostage for hours demanding bribe. The writer, James Ibe-Anyanwu, who is also a businessman, hid in the toilet of a Zenith Bank branch at Ago Palace-Way, Okota, as eight armed operatives of the police special anti-robbery squad laid siege outside. The officers initially accused the man of being a fraudster, before asking him to withdraw money from his bank account and pay them off. The standoff, posted real time to Facebook, ended after police deployed its X-squad to the bank. The Lagos police commissioner has ordered the erring officers be arrested and prosecuted, a spokesperson said. Mr. Ibe-Anyanwu in the Facebook post narrated how he was accosted by SARS officials who humiliated him and accused him of being a fraudster. He said he called the police spokesperson in Lagos State but his phone was seized from h...