Atiku to challenge Kano, Kebbi, nine other states’ results at tribunal

• INEC ad hoc workers say server was used The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and its candidate in the February 23, 2019 presidential election, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, on Monday, presented their first set of six witnesses at the Presidential Election Petitions Tribunal in their bid to prove their petition challenging outcome of the polls. They […]

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Nigerian economy groans without ministers -PDP

Chairman Board of Trustees of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Senator Walid Jibrin, has said that the delay in appointing ministers by President Muhammadu Buhari is not good for the country. Speaking in Abuja on Monday, Jibrin urged the President to hasten the appointment of his ministers. According to him, the appointment of competent persons […]

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Corps member washes hair with sniper, dies 10 days to birthday

A member of the National Youth Service Corps scheme serving in Osun State, Ayomikun Ademorayo, on Sunday died after she reportedly washed her hair with an insecticide, Sniper, to eliminate lice. Some colleagues of the deceased told our correspondent that Ayomikun, an orphan, discovered lice in her hair while preparing for a new hairdo in […]

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Lagos seizes truckload of toxic ponmo

Lagos State Government on Monday said it had confiscated a truckload of poisonous cowhide (ponmo) at Ijegun, a suburb of Lagos, in the Alimosho Local Government Area of the state. The Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Agriculture, Dr Olayiwole Onasanya, who described the cowhide as  Ebola ponmo said the item was imported into the country by some ‘unscrupulous individuals’. […]

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Call for Nigeria’s unity rings at Osoba’s birthday

Chief Bisi Akande (left); Babagana Kingibe; Lagos State Deputy Governor Obafemi Hamzat; Kano State Governor Abdullahi Umar Ganduje; wife of the governor of Ogun State, Victoria; Ogun State Governor Dapo Abiodun; Senate President Ahmed Lawan; Vice President Yemi Osinbajo; Oba of Lagos, Oba Riliwanu Akiolu; former Head of State, Abdulsalami Abubakar, his wife, Fatima; wife […]

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Osun and the Supreme Court verdict

By Reuben Abatil The Supreme Court of Nigeria delivered the final judgment on Friday, July 5, in the matter of the September 22 Gubernatorial election, and the September 27 re-run in Osun State.  On September 22, 2018, the collation of results indicated that the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Senator Ademola Adeleke had won the […]

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Fayemi offers 50 Ekiti varsity medical students automatic employment

Ekiti State Governor, Dr. Kayode Fayemi has given automatic employment placement to the all the 50 medical doctors billed for graduation at the State University Medical College. This decision followed the full accreditation of all the college courses by the Medical and Dental Council of Nigeria (MDCN) after 10 yrs of existence. Fayemi had earlier in the […]

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Trump attacks May after damning cables leak

Donald Trump launched an extraordinary attack Monday on outgoing British premier Theresa May, following the leak of diplomatic cables highly critical of his presidency. London has been scrambling to stem the damage caused by the weekend release of confidential telegrams in which its envoy to Washington, Kim Darroch, described the US leader as “inept” and […]

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Ned Nwoko: Supreme Court’s purity on trial again

By Boladale Adekoya Haile Selassie, the former Emperor of Ethiopia and one of the most defining figures of the East African country, once said: “Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who could have acted; the indifference of those who should have known better; the silence of the voice of justice when it mattered […]

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