Former Jigawa Governor Saminu Turaki on Monday said that he would work with Alhaji Sule Lamido, who succeeded him as governor of the North-Western state, to defeat the ruling All Progressives Congress in 2023. Turaki spoke in Dutse shortly after meeting with the Jigawa chapter of the Peoples Democratic...
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Prof. Yemi Osinbajo says his experience as Nigeria’s Vice President in the last seven years under President Muhammadu Buhari has placed him in high pedestal to lead the country come 2023. Osinbajo stated this during a visit to the Emir of Ilorin, Alhaji Ibrahim Sulu-Gambari, on Monday. He was...
By BARBARA KALU, Owerri – Troops of 34 Brigade of the Nigerian Army, Obinze, in Owerri, have killed four gunmen in Amaifeke and Ihioma communities in Orlu Local Government Area of Imo State. The Army spokesman, Brig.-Gen. Onyema Nwachukwu, said in a statement on Monday that the gunmen, suspected...
A Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential aspirant, Mr Peter Obi, has appealed to the party’s delegates to vote wisely during the upcoming national convention. Obi, a former governor of Anambra, urged them to be guided by their conscience and vote in the interest of the country’s future and that...
A labour leader, Mr Gbenga Komolafe, has urged labour unions to canvass for a new socio-economic system. He called for a system that would put the interest of working people and their allies in the peasantry and informal sector on the front burner. Komolafe made the call at the...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – The Economic and Financial Crime Commission (EFCC) has arrested the Accountant-General of the Federation, Mr Ahmed Idris, over alleged diversion and laundering of N80 billion. Mr Wilson Uwujaren, Head of Media and Public Information at the EFCC made the declaration on Monday in Abuja....
BY ANKELI EMMANUEL, Sokoto Barely four days after the gruesome murder of Miss Deborah Samuel, a 200-level student of Shehu Shagari College of Education, (SSCOE) Sokoto, Deborah Samuel, who was accused of blasphemy, the police on Monday said it have arraigned two of the suspects – Bilyaminu Aliyu and...
By PATRICK ABANG, Calabar – The Director General of Cross River State Primary Healthcare Development Agency, Dr. Janet Ekpenyong has debunked reports of active cases of monkey pox in the state as reported by some online media platforms. Dr. Ekpeyong, who spoke in a telephone interview with our correspondent,...
BY ANKELI EMMANUEL, Sokoto – Zamfara State Governor, Bello Matawalle has assured that the All Progressive Congress (APC) will surely win all elective positions in the State come 2023. Governor Mutawalle gave the assurance shortly after arriving at the Sultan Abubakar 111 International Airport, Sokoto with all APC bigwigs...
By THOMAS AKASE, Makurdi – Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom has said the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP will present Nigeria with the leadership that will take the country out of the socioeconomic pains it is currently passing through in the hands of the APC-led federal government. The governor said...
A Federal High Court (FHC), Abuja, on Monday, asked the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to take a critical look at the development in its suit to know if it could still continue with the case. Justice Inyang Ekwo gave the advice after counsel to the PDP, Joseph Daudu, SAN,...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has approved that its accredited Computer Based Tests (CBT) centres should increase service charge per candidate from N1,400 to N2,000. JAMB made this known in its Weekly Bulletin of the Office of the Registrar on Monday in...
Chief Timipre Sylva, Minister of State for Petroleum, has withdrawn from the presidential race in the All Progressives Congress (APC) and has returned to work. A correspondent of the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) who monitored development at the ministry in Abuja on Monday reports that Sylva withdrew having...
Some parents have expressed worry over the backlog of admissions following incessant strikes by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) in the country. NAN reports that in 2020, ASUU went on a nine-month strike, which was the longest since 1999 and about two years later on Feb. 14,...
Ms Hasfat Abiola -Costello, Director-General, Yahaya Bello Presidential Campaign Organisation, says she stands with Gov. Yahaya Bello (GYB) of Kogi in the race for APC presidential ticket and not South West aspirants. Abiola-Costello said her backing Bello was because she had seen in him, qualities of the kind of...
At least 34 lawyers have indicated interest to defend killers of Deborah Samuel in court today. According to PM News, the suspected killers have been identified as Bilyaminu Aliyu and Aminu Hukunci. The defense team was led by Prof. Mansur Ibrahim. Deborah Samuel, a 200-Level Home Economics student of...
The Department of State Services (DSS) has been told to arrest the Chief Imam of Bayero University, Kano (BUK), Sheikh Abubakar Jibril, for inciting Muslims against the Bishop of the Catholic Diocese of Sokoto, Most Reverend Matthew Hassan Kukah. The call was made by the Human Rights Writers Association...
BY ANKELI EMMANUEL, Sokoto – Sokoto State Governor, Aminu Waziri Tambuwal has relaxed the 24 hours curfew declared in Sokoto as a measure to forestall breakdown of law and order following the uproar that greeted the gruesome murder of Miss Deborah Samuel last week. Deborah, a student of the...
The National Assembly has countered a suit filed by President Muhammadu Buhari and the Attorney-General of the Federation (AGF) and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, on the controversial Section 84(12) of the Electoral Amendment Act 2022. While the President and minister asked the Supreme Court to interpret the provision...
President Muhammadu Buhari and the Attorney-General of the Federation (AGF) and the Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, have filed a suit at the Supreme Court, seeking an interpretation of Section 84(12) of the Electoral Amendment Act 2022. In the suit filed on April 29, the President and AGF, who...