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Igbo leaders, including politicians and chiefs, promised yesterday to support Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential candidate Atiku Abubakar. The Igbo leaders spoke in Enugu after a meeting where elder statesman Prof. Ben Nwabueze, 86, called on them to “do me the honour of achieving the success of the (Atiku/Peter Obi) ticket before I am gone”. […]
Continue ReadingOpening of the 13th Chinese Community and Police Co-Operation Center in South Africa last week has sparked concerns about China’s growing influence in various institutions across the continent of Africa. Many top South African dignitaries gathered in Port Elizabeth to celebrate the opening of the new center, which was established to improve relations and communications […]
Continue ReadingNigerian President, Muhammadu Buhari has told Nigerians in diaspora that ‘there are too many people talking lazily about restructuring’ in Nigeria. Buhari who is in France for the Paris Peace Forum, spoke during his interactive session with the Nigerian community, made up of Nigerian Diaspora Organization, NIDO, All Progressives Congress, APC, members in France, students […]
Continue ReadingFormer Nigerian Minister of Aviation, Mr Femi Fani-Kayode, has called on the National Assembly to impeach Vice President Yemi Osinbajo over the abuse of the Public Procurement Act in the approval of N5.8billion as intervention funds for the North East in 2017. Nigeria’s House of Representatives in its investigative report had indicted Osinbajo after its investigation […]
Continue ReadingFormer Nigerian Vice President, Atiku Abubakar, returned to Nigeria on Sunday. The presidential candidate of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) had been in Dubai. While at Dubai, Atiku held meetings with his running mate, Peter Obi, Senate President, Bukola Saraki, Senator Ben Bruce, among others. Others were: members of his campaign team, top party chieftains […]
Continue ReadingPeoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Ekiti State has finally resolved its internal crisis, with the state caucus, the highest decision making organ of the party at the state level, reaffirming former Governor Ayodele Fayose as the leader of the party and declaring the Chief Gboyega Oguntuase-led Exco as the only recognized exco of the party […]
Continue ReadingNational Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Mr. Adams Oshiomhole has denied that he was arrested, detained and granted administrative bail by the Department of State Services (DSS), after nine hours of interrogation. Speaking with editors in Lagos, Oshiomhole insisted that he saw DSS once and had conversation with them. He said, “It was […]
Continue ReadingFormer Nigerian Minister of Aviation, Mr Femi Fani-Kayode, has made mockery of the National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Adams Oshiomhole, for rushing out of the country. Oshiomhole, former Edo State Governor, left the shores of the nation hours after he was reportedly grilled by the Department of State Services (DSS) in Abuja. In […]
Continue ReadingNigerian President, Muhammadu Buhari leaves Abuja, Friday for Paris, France to participate in the first edition of the Paris Peace Forum, scheduled for November 11-13, 2018. Organised by the French Government and a number of Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs), the Forum is based on the “simple idea that international cooperation is key to tackling global challenges […]
Continue ReadingNigeria’s Independent National Electoral Commission’s witnesses, Friday, disagreed with the All Progressives Congress (APC) and Governor Kayode Fayemi’s lawyers at the ongoing sitting of the Ekiti State governorship Election Petitions Tribunal in Abuja. The witnesses disagreed with APC and Fayemi’s counsel on the powers of INEC officials to alter results of election already entered into […]
Continue ReadingThe Southern and Middle Belt Leaders Forum on Wednesday accused the Buhari administration through the vice president, Yemi Osinbajo, of engaging in “advance(d) vote buying” ahead of the 2019 general elections. The group, which met in Abuja to deliberate on the state of the nation, noted that the Tradermoni scheme of the government was an […]
Continue ReadingNigeria’s House of Representatives, Wednesday, passed for second reading, a bill seeking to abolish age barrier in government employment. This indicates that job seekers, without discrimination of age, are one step closer to gaining employment in Federal Government Ministries, Agencies and Departments (MDAs). The bill, with the long title “Bill for an Act to Eradicate […]
Continue ReadingUnited States Institute of Peace (USIP) has said it never predicted the outcome of Nigeria’s 2019 general election. The Institute said that the report which was misinterpreted is a report of a thorough study based on the interviews conducted by the institute across the country with more than 200 Nigerian respondents. In its statement, USIP said: […]
Continue ReadingThe seven-man committee set-up by the Kano State House of Assembly to investigate the alleged bribery video clips against Governor Abdullahi Ganduje of the State has vowed to continue with its assignment despite the court order. Chairman of the committee, and member representing Kano Municipal, Alhaji Baffa Danagundi disclosed the committee‘s decision to the News […]
Continue ReadingPrince of Wales, Prince Charles and his wife Camilla, the Duchess of Cornwall, have arrived Abuja, Nigeria’s capital, in what is the third stop of their West African tour. Prince Charles and Camilla have just rounded off trips to Gambia and Ghana. The British royals began their West African tour in Gambia. In Ghana, Prince […]
Continue ReadingNigerian government has unlawfully diverted $1.05 billion (N378 billion) sourced from the Nigerian Liquefied Natural Gas (NLNG) dividend funds to secretly fund subsidy payment on petroleum products, according to Premium Times. Details of the diversion are coming amidst revelations from accusations the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) has a $3.5 billion subsidy fund it is spending without […]
Continue ReadingAcademic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), Sunday, November 4, announced that it has begun an indefinite strike action following the inability of the federal government to respond to their demands. The ASUU said its strike would be total as all federal and state varsities would join the strike. Punch reports that the union accused the […]
Continue ReadingAfter the presentation of attestation certificate to President Buhari by the Registrar of West African Examination Council (WAEC) in Abuja, Mr. Reno Omokri, former aide to ex-President Goodluck Jonathan, has described the development as pure garbage, maintaining that President Buhari has no WAEC certificate. Omokri who said this on his viral Facebook page said even the Headquarters […]
Continue ReadingThere were reports Friday that the Resident Electoral Commissioner in Osun State, Mr. Segun Agbaje was humiliated and beaten by some angry youths, but the Osun Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has denied that the REC was beaten, saying that he was only booed. In a statement, INEC stated that Agbaje’s speech at a burial […]
Continue ReadingSylvester Debe Ojukwu, the first son of one time military governor of the old Eastern Region and Biafra warlord, Chief Emeka Odumegwu Ojukwu, is dead, according to Nigerian Tribune. He died at the age of 62. He reportedly died on Friday night after spending a short time at the hospital. The cause of his death […]
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