Super Eagles Team ’94 Thirty ome years after winning the 1994 Africa Cup of Nations in Tunisia, the Federal Government has moved to fulfil its pledge of house allocations to members of that Super Eagles victory team. The government, on Wednesday 25th June 2025, through a statement on the website of the Federal Ministry of […]
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A foremost constitutional lawyer, Prof. Mike Ozekhome, SAN, has petitioned the Attorney General of the Federation (AGF) and Minister of Justice, Lateef Fagbemi (SAN), demanding the enforcement of the June 13, 2025 Court of Appeal judgment that affirmed the legitimacy of the Osun State local government elections conducted by the Osun State Independent Electoral Commission […]
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The Independent National Electoral Commission has alleged clashing names, and irregularities in the applications for registration as political parties by most of the associations. IMEC had on Wednesday, said it received letters of intent from 110 associations seeking registration as political parties. The requests list including proposed names, acronyms, addresses, and names of their protem […]
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Prayer at the Kaabah, Mecca, Saudi Arabia The Supreme Court of Saudi Arabia has officially declared Thursday, June 26, 2025, as the first day of Muharram, marking the start of the Islamic New Year 1447 AH, after the crescent moon was sighted on the evening of Wednesday, Dhul Hijjah 29. The Supreme Court announced the […]
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The crisis within the Peoples Democratic Party intensified on Wednesday as Oyo State Governor Seyi Makinde and former Rivers State Governor Nyesom Wike clashed over the scheduled date for the party’s 100th National Executive Committee meeting and the reinstatement of Senator Samuel Anyanwu as National Secretary. Makinde’s camp, which includes Governors Peter Mbah (Enugu), Douye […]
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By Femi Mimiko, mni It is rather unfortunate that the long-anticipated war between the two sworn enemies in the Middle East – Israel and Iran – eventually got fought. This intervention is not focused on which side is right or wrong – a theme that will continue to be interrogated, for a long time to […]
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The internal crisis rocking the Peoples Democratic Party has taken a fresh twist, as 11 out of 19 members of the National Working Committee have rejected the return of Senator Samuel Anyanwu as the party’s National Secretary. In a joint statement issued on Wednesday, the 11 NWC members also insisted that the party’s National Executive […]
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The Catholic Diocese of Ondo has faulted the demolition of the cenotaph built by the state government in honour of the victims of the gruesome June 5, 2022, terrorist attack on worshippers at St Francis Xavier Catholic Church, Owo. The cenotaph, built by the administration of the departed former Governor Oluwarotimi Akeredolu to immortalise the […]
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recommends expulsion for alleged gross indiscipline The pan-Yoruba socio political organisation, Afenifere has suspended Oba Oladipo Olaitan, the Alaago of Kajola Ijesa in Atakumosa Local Government Area, over what it described as gross indiscipline and disloyalty to the group’s leadership. Osun State chapter of the group, which took the decision, also recommended the monarch’s immediate […]
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Tensions flared in the Senate on Wednesday as lawmakers clashed over the confirmation of Michael Odey, a Cross River State indigene, as Chairman of the Rivers State Independent Electoral Commission. Odey’s confirmation, which followed the submission of a report by the Ad-Hoc Committee on the Emergency Rule in Rivers State, chaired by Senate Leader Opeyemi […]
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