Tribunal sacks Gov Sule of Nasarawa, declares PDP winner

Abdullahi Sule The Governorship Election Petitions The walkingribunal sitting in Lafia, Nasarawa State, has sacked Governor Abdullahi Sule of Nasarawa State and declared David Ombugadu, the candidate of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) as duly elected. In a ruling delivered on Monday, two of the justices agreed that the election was won by the […]

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Olojo Festival: Ooni promotes Yoruba culture, as South African monarch sues for unity among Africans

A foreign tourist, His Majesty, Raba Gaye Konjwa of the Ndebele Nation, South Africa, while fielding questions from journalists on the sidelines of the famous Olojo festival celebration, in Ile Ife, Osun State, Nigeria, has called on Africans to unite to solve the problems in the continent. He charged Africans across the world to come […]

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Yoruba Youth Council condemns refusal by Kogi SDP governorship candidate to honour police invitation over murder

The Yoruba Youth Council, YYC, on Monday slammed the Kogi State governorship candidate of the Social Democratic Party, SDP, Mr. Murtala Ajaka, for allegedly refusing to honour the invitation by the police in the ongoing investigation of a recent killing of a prominent politician and member of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in the state. […]

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Is Social Science a Science or some conjecture?

By Jimoh Ibrahim (Being a Paper written in Honour of Professor Idowu Amos Adeoye of the blessed memory) Professor Idowu was indeed not comfortable with the scientific approach of methodology. And that African Babalawo predictions based on Ifa or Orunmila, Ayelala, and Obatala are pseudo. He thinks science’s complete elimination of metaphysics is a foundational […]

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Heroic welcome as Kuku visits Arogbo home

Jubilant people of Arogbo Ijaw in Ese Odo Local Government of Ondo State on Thursday gave their prominent son the special adviser to former President Goodluck Jonathan on Niger Delta Affairs and the chairman of the Presidential Amnesty Programme, Dr. Kingsley Kuku, a heroic welcome. Kuku, a political and environmental rights activist, paid a surprise […]

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Independence Day: APC berates PDP as opposition faults Tinubu’s speech

The Peoples Democratic Party has blamed President Bola Tinubu for the harrowing experience Nigerians are currently facing. The opposition party also asserted that the 63rd Independence Day address by the President was empty and bereft of ideas. The PDP said this in a statement on Sunday by its National Publicity Secretary, Debo Ologunagba. “Our party […]

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PDP berates Tinubu, says Nigerians need not pass through hardship

The Peoples Democratic Party asserted that the 63rd Independence Day Address by President Bola Tinubu is empty, bereft of ideas, and merely aspirational in the wrong direction. PDP in a statement by its national publicity secretary, Debo Ologunagba, on Sunday, said President Tinubu’s admission in his speech that his administration is responsible for the current […]

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Chicago academic record: Tinubu’s lawyers kick as court orders release

The United States District Court in Northern District of Illinois has ruled in favour of the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Atiku Abubakar, and ordered the Chicago State University to release President Bola Tinubu’s academic record by Monday (today). But Tinubu’s lawyers insisted that the documents would not be relevant in Atiku’s appeal […]

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FG okays allowance for senior staff, Labour may suspend strike

The Federal Government on Sunday said the provisional wage increase announced by President Bola Tinubu for all low-income workers for six months would cut across all treasury-paid workers. The Chief of Staff to the President, Femi Gbajabiamila, revealed this to State House correspondents at the end of a four-hour marathon emergency meeting with the leaders […]

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