Founding member of the All Progressive Congress (APC), Osita Okechukwu says the former Lagos State governor, Asiwaju Ahmed Bola Tinubu would be in pole position to clinch the ticket of the party under consensus arrangement to vie for the presidency in the 2023 poll. Tinubu, who is the national leader of the party is believed […]
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The Emir of Muri Empire in Taraba State, Abbas Tafida, has issued a 30-day ultimatum to herders terrorising residents of the state to vacate forests within the state or be forced to do so. The Emir gave the ultimatum on Tuesday after Eid prayers. This followed a rising spate of kidnappings, killings, and attacks in […]
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Thirteen persons, including a three-month-old baby, have been feared killed in two separate attacks in Governor Samuel Ortom’s local council, Guma in Benue State. It was gathered that the Tuesday attack came barely 24 hours after suspected herdsmen killed eight persons, including two aid workers, in the same local council. Local sources told The Guardian […]
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Back Kukah on his address to U.S. Congress Say insecurity, dwindling economy, others are indices of a failed country The Catholic Bishops of Ibadan Ecclesiastical Province have condemned what they termed selective administration of justice by the President Muhammadu Buhari-led Federal Government, saying this development has greatly affected the country’s image in the international community. […]
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Protests rock Ibadan, Cotonou Lawyer: Yoruba indigenes fought to stop standby helicopters from bringing Igboho to Nigeria 1984 extradition treaty: Igboho ill advised, should have fled through Niger, says Oyebode Agunloye: Agitation will continue until Buhari adopts principles of social justice Igboho not a criminal, Aare Onakankanfo, Okei-Odumakin, others tell FG The act alleged must […]
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By Abdu Rafiu The readers may be wondering why I say ‘again.’ It is to connect the past with the present. It is about Lai Mohammed’s unrelenting efforts to hamstring the Media since 2017. It is not unusual in these climes to have spacecraft in readiness to transport leaders into the clouds for them to […]
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The Nigerian Air Force on Thursday took delivery of the first batch of six A-29 Super Tucano aircraft from the United States. The Director of Public Relations and Information, NAF Headquarters, Air Commodore Edward Gabkwet, announced this in a statement in Abuja. According to Gabkwet, the aircraft arrived Kano at about 12.34 p.m. He added […]
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By Ben Ezeohagwu Liars are humans in diversely different shades and tones of contortions…. they all share common characteristics denominators of dishonesty, disguise, intrigue, greed and so on… which connect countless human vices in a chemistry of densely dark entanglement. Humans may lie for several reasons better known to them. For whatever reasons, no reasons […]
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Some aggrieved youths and people sympathetic to the plight of Chief Sunday Adeyemo, popularly known as Sunday Igboho, on Wednesday staged protest in major areas of Ibadan, Oyo State capital, calling for his release. Igboho, a Yoruba activist, is currently being held in Cotonou by the Government of Benin Republic, after he escaped arrest in […]
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Intrigue, Suspense. These features becloud the much-awaited conduct of ward congresses by the ruling All Progressive Congress (APC). The exercise is expected to begin by July 31, 2021. The congresses would be the first of such gathering of party faithful across the country since the July 25, 2020, when the National Working Committee (NWC), led […]
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