A former Governor of Anambra State, Peter Obi, has said Nigeria’s biggest problem over the years has been leadership failure. Obi, a former vice-presidential candidate and now presidential aspirant on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party, stated this on Channels Television’s Sunday Politics. He said, “One singular, biggest problem which we have seen to […]
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Gunmen last week killed the chairman of the Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders’ Association of Nigeria (MACBAN) in Gwagwalada Area Council of Abuja, Adamu Aliyu. Aliyu was said to have been killed alongside four others near Daku village in Dobi ward of the council on Thursday. It was learnt three persons were abducted while three others […]
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• PDP gets nod to appeal Umuahia ruling The Court of Appeal has restrained the Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice Abubakar Malami (SAN) and others from frustrating the hearing of an appeal against a judgment mandating the AGF to delete Section 84 (12) from the Electoral Act 2022. A three-member panel, led […]
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Peter Nwachukwu, the husband of late popular gospel artiste, Osinachi, has been arrested by the police over the death of his wife. The 42-year-old artiste died on Friday after spending days at an undisclosed hospital in Abuja. Colleagues of Osinachi, who was a lead singer at the Dunamis International Headquarters, Abuja, accused her husband of […]
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The Federal Government has accused the Academic Staff Union of Universities of selfishness over the strike it embarked upon. The Minister of State for Education, Mr Emeka Nwajiuba, who stated this in an interview with one of our correspondents, also took a swipe at the Joint Action Committee of the Senior Staff Association of Nigerian […]
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No fewer than six persons, including a pregnant woman, were killed as gunmen invaded a community in Ebonyi State on Sunday evening. Seven houses were also razed in the attack, which took place in the Ohaogelode community, in the Izzi Local Government Area of the state. The Chairman of Ohaukwu LGA, Ebonyi State, Clement Odah, […]
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Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, has lambasted Governor Abdullahi Ganduje of Kano State for his alleged hypocrisy and promotion of religious intolerance in the state which allegedly contributed to the 24-year jail term handed down to an atheist, Mubarak Bala. In a telephone interview, Soyinka said the sentence handed down to Bala must be appealed […]
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Ending months of speculation and consultation, Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo on Sunday joined the presidential race ahead of the primary of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, which comes up next month. At a dinner he hosted at the Presidential Villa for the breaking of Ramadan fast (Iftar), the Vice-President informed the APC governors of his […]
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Terrorists who attacked an Abuja-Kaduna train and killed eight people have released a fresh hostage video showing their victims in an unidentified location suspected to be a forest. The Chief Executive Officer of Nigeria’s Bank of Agriculture, Alwan Ali-Hassan, who was recently released was flanked by other abductees in the new video. The masked terrorists […]
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Chairman of telecommunications services provider, Globacom, Dr. Mike Adenuga Jr., has said the company appreciates its dealers who have worked assiduously to make the network the darling of subscribers across the country. The business mogul spoke on Friday at an exquisite Dealer Appreciation gala dinner organised by the company at the Eko Hotels and Suites […]
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