Popular movie star, Jumoke Akindele, has been nominated as the Lagos State deputy governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP. This was confirmed on Wednesday by Mr Gbenga Ogunleye, the media aide to the party’s governorship candidate in the state, Mr Olajide Adediran. While debunking the reported selection of the movie star as his […]
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A Federal High Court in Abuja has approved the request of former Imo State Governor Rochas Okorocha to travel to the United States (U.S.A) for medical attention. In a ruling yesterday, Justice Inyang Ekwo ordered the court’s Registrar to release Okorocha’s international passport, which he deposited with the court as part of the conditions attached […]
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An aspirant of the ruling All Progressive Congress, in the last senatorial primary elections in Ondo State, Dr Tola Awosika, has defected to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). He had resigned from the ruling All Progressives Congress APC last week. His spokesperson, Prince Segun Adesemoye, told newsmen in Akure, that Awosika’s interest in politics is […]
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A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, has been asked to stop the All Progressives Congress (APC) from replacing Alhaji Kabiru Masari, as the running mate to Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, the presidential candidate of the party in the 2023 presidential election. Two chieftains of the party, who were delegates in the just concluded APC National […]
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By Alade Rotimi-John It must be noted that the inability of the ordinary people of Nigeria to alter their strategy in an essential way has continued to conduce to their all-pervasive sorry plight. The unrepentant smug indifference with which their oppressors hold them tends to attest to the feared hopelessness of their situation. What is […]
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Britain’s Prime Minister Boris Johnson speaks during the opening ceremony of the COP26 UN Climate Change Conference in Glasgow, Scotland on November 1, 2021. – COP26, running from October 31 to November 12 in Glasgow will be the biggest climate conference since the 2015 Paris summit and is seen as crucial in setting worldwide emission […]
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Anambra State House of Assembly has expressed displeasure over 70 per cent budget slash in education from N3.23 billion to N1.1billion in the 2022 revised budget presented by Governor Charles Soludo. They said that the budgetary allocation to education sector was unrealistic and the slash would lower the standard of teaching and learning, as well […]
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Photo by Pius Utomi Ekpei / AFP Motorists groan as petrol queues persists in Abuja The need to cut down on Nigeria’s high cost of governance, embrace local refining of petroleum products, create urgent solutions to vandalism and crude oil thefts as well as sustainable and diversified mass transportation system were part of options canvassed […]
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The Westminster Magistrate Court in the United Kingdom ruled Thursday that David Nwamini (Ukpo), the alleged organ harvesting victim in the case involving former Nigerian Deputy Senate President Ike Ekweremadu’s case, is not a minor. The Westminster magistrate issued the order during the appearance of Ekweremadu and his wife in court for the third time […]
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President Muhammadu Buhari at the scene of Kuje Prison jailbreak …yesterday; Photo: Philip Ojisua Defence Minister confirms 64 Boko Haram suspects escaped Kaduna train attackers likely behind Kuje prison invasion, Gumi’s spokesman says ‘Soldiers were posted out of Kuje prison same day of attack’ APC complicit in attack, PDP alleges ADC presidential candidate, Kachikwu urges […]
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