There is anxiety in the political camp of a presidential aspirant on the platform of the All Progressives Congress, Senator Bola Tinubu, as Chief John Odigie-Oyegun heads the presidential screening panel of the party. Odigie-Oyegun, the first substantive national chairman of the party, is believed to be a political enemy of the APC National Leader […]
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Rivers State Governor Nyesom Wike has described some of his southern colleagues as betrayers, saying they worked against the agreement that the presidency should return to the South. He said the PDP Governors ganged up with some vested interest groups to derail the quest of the south to produce the next President on the platform […]
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The National Examinations Council on Sunday announced that it has “extended the Registration period of the 2022 Senior School Certificate Examination for school-based candidates to midnight of Monday 20th June 2022.” It made this known in a statement in the early hours of Monday. The registration period was initially scheduled to close on Monday 30th […]
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The gunmen who abducted passengers on a Kaduna-bound train have released another video of the abductees. In the recent video, the hostages were pleading with the Nigerian authorities to come to their rescue. Monday’s video is the fifth time the bandits, as the gunmen are locally called, are releasing video or pictorial evidence that the […]
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Famous Nigerian dance queen Kafayat Oluwatoyin, better known as Kaffy, has revealed she was celibate for three years in her marriage. The 41-year-old dancer made this statement in an interview with media personality Chude Jideonwo. Kaffy married Joseph Ameh, an ex-drummer in PSquare’s music band, on June 2, 2012. The Lagos State-born dancer claimed her […]
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The Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, yesterday condemn in its entirety the kidnapping of Methodist Church Prelate, His Eminence Samuel Kanu Uche and some of his priests in Abia state, describing it as a sacrilegious. It therefore, called on the kidnappers of the men of God to release unconditionally the respected men of God they […]
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Peoples Democratic Party presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, on Monday, met with Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike in Abuja, it has been learnt. Atiku had defeated Wike at the party’s presidential primary in Abuja on Saturday night. The Monday meeting, it was gathered, was to reconcile the two party chieftains and give the PDP a robust […]
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By Tunde Odesola In the sunlight of man’s civility lurks a shadow of beastiality called boxing. Though British sportswriter, Pierce Egan, in 1813, coined the term ‘sweet science’, Jewish-English prizefighter, Daniel Mendoza, stapled the term to boxing in the late 1700s. However, on Saturday morning when I watched the videos of the 2016 UFC welterweight […]
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Prospective and exciting as the Lekki Deep Seaport may be in terms of revenue earning for both the Federal Government and the Lagos State Government, the project is surrounded by potentially suffocating circumstances that may abort the dream. It is crucial for the authorities to note that the port is not an end but a […]
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A presidential aspirant in Labour Party, Prof Pat Utomi, has stepped down for his rival, Peter Obi, in the race for the party’s nomination as its candidate ahead of the 2023 general elections. Utomi announced that he was stepping down for Obi, former Anambra State governor, on Monday at the venue of the party’s presidential […]
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