Author: Olabanji Ayoola

• Adebanjo: Ajayi remains suspended, has no right to issue statement for Afenifere • Ndigbo not part of any conspiracy, plans to attend Tinubu’s swearing-in • Decide presidential petitions before May 29, Agbakoba tells tribunal • Natives stage peaceful march, vow to resist moves to truncate democratic rule After one week of what could be […]

The Federal Government has admonished the presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Mr. Peter Obi, against inciting people to violence over the outcome of the presidential election. Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, gave the admonition in Washington DC during his official engagements with some international media organisations on the just concluded 2023 […]

Nobel Laureate Prof. Wole Soyinka. Photo/ademide25 Nobel Laureate Prof. Wole Soyinka has said the Nigeria presidency should go to the southeast region to heal from the wounds of the civil war. Soyinka, the first Black Nobel Laureate in Literature, spoke in an interview with Channels Television’s Roadmap 2023, which aired on Monday. The Nigerian civil war […]

Peter Obi during his visit to Canaanland. Credit: PM News • Leaked audio on Obi, Oyedepo deep fake, says LP campaign • Okonkwo: Audio taken out of context • Obi’s spokesman blames NCC for leaked call • I have never campaigned for any politician, says Oyedepo • Nnamani: Obi introduced religious, ethnic politics Five weeks […]

The Rivers State Police Command has freed three lawyers of the All Progressives Congress after arresting them in a hotel room on Friday night, where they were said to be working on the election petitions of the APC governorship candidate, Tonye Cole, to be filed at the tribunal. Late Saturday, however, the Rivers State chapter […]

CBN Governor, Mr. Godwin Emefiele The country’s external reserves fell by $1.46bn between January and March, figures obtained from the Central Bank of Nigeria have revealed. The reserves ended February 27, 2023, at $36.67bn. Figures obtained from the CBN’s data on the movement of external reserves on Sunday showed that the reserves, which stood at […]

The 36 states in Nigeria shared a total of about N9.3tn as federal allocation between June 2019 and December 2022, a period of 43 months, which formed the bulk of the second tenure of the President Muhammadu Buhari administration. Data sourced from 43 monthly reports of the Federation Accounts Allocation Committee, as released by the […]