By JOY ADARA, Abuja – Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has urged President Muhammadu Buhari to “direct the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice Mr Abubakar Malami, SAN to widely publish the names of those indicted in the alleged misappropriation of over N6 trillion in the running of...
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By JACKSON AFAGHA – There seems a scurrilous pattern among Western media to willy-nilly tar home-grown African entrepreneurs who dare to swim above the waters with their foreign counterparts in ugly colour. Many successful African entrepreneurs have come under the hammer of Western media in a manner that raises...
By TOM CHIAHEMEN, Abuja – A former Commissioner for Lands and Survey in Benue State, Surv. John Tondu, has called on the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), to make immediate special arrangements to take the on-going continuous voters’ registration exercise to all the internally displaced (IDP) Camps hosting Nigerian...
Israeli forces have killed at least four Palestinians during a raid in the occupied West Bank on Sunday, the Palestinian Health Ministry said. Israeli Prime Minister, Naftali Bennett said in a statement that, Israeli forces had mounted an operation against Hamas terrorists who were about to carry out imminent...
Taliban authorities has displayed four bodies of alleged kidnappers, and hung one of them from a crane parked in a city square in the western Afghan city of Herat. Taliban officials announced that the four were caught taking part in a kidnapping earlier on Saturday and were killed by...
The Bola Ahmed Tinubu Movement (BAT), a support group of the National leader of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Ahmed has collapsed it’s structure to join Tinubu Support Group (TSG) in order to ensure the realisation of the former Lagos state governor 2023 presidential ambition. The...
By HARUNA AHMED, Kano – Kano State Governor, Abdullahi Ganduje has appointed Alhaji Aliyu Ibrahim-Gaya, the Chiroman Gaya, as the new emir of Gaya. Ibrahim-Gaya succeeded his late father, Alhaji Ibrahim Abdulkadir, who died on Sept. 22, at the age of 91, after a protracted illness. At a press...
Anthony Joshua said he was “110 percent” likely to activate a rematch clause with Oleksandr Usyk after losing his world heavyweight titles to the Ukrainian in stunning fashion in London on Saturday Usyk gave a boxing masterclass in recording a unanimous points victory to deprive Joshua of his World...
Mr Ibrahim Gajere of People’s Democratic Party (PDP) has been declared winner of the Kajuru Local Government Chairmanship election. The Returning Officer, Dr Ibrahim DanMaraya, announced the results of the election on Sunday. DanMaraya said Ibrahim Gajere of PDP polled 14,432 votes to defeat the immediate past Chairman and...
President Muhammadu Buhari has returned to Abuja after a loaded weeklong engagements at the 76th Session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) in New York, United States of America. The Nigerian leader came back with a special request from the UN Secretary General, Antonio Guterres, to help in...
A House of Representatives member, Jonathan Gaza, said he dumped the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) because of the developmental strides of Gov. Abdullahi Sule of Nasarawa. Gaza represents Karu, Keffi and Kokona Federal Constituency of Nasarawa. In an interview with the News...
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), in its strongest defence of e-transmission of election results, says it has developed adequate structures and processes to successfully transmit election results electronically. The commission disclosed this in its “Position Paper No.1/2021 Electronic Transmission of Election” released on Saturday, in Abuja. The commission...
Gov. Abdullahi Sule of Nasarawa has called on voters in the state to vote for the candidates of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the Oct. 6 local government polls. Sule made the call on Saturday during a campaign rally for the chairmanship and councillorship candidates of the party...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja has stopped the proposed Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) ward congress election scheduled to hold on Saturday 25th September, 2021 across the 27 Local Government Areas of Borno State. This followed a suit filed by the Chairman of...
The Super Falconets on Saturday in Douala spanked their counterparts from the Central African Republic (CAR) 7-0 in a 2022 FIFA Under-20 Women’s World Cup qualifier. The Nigerian under-20 women national football team won the African qualifiers’ first round first leg match in emphatic fashion to make the second...
Oleksandr Usyk ended Anthony Joshua’s second reign as world heavyweight champion Saturday with a unanimous points win in just his third fight since stepping up from the cruiserweight division. Usyk became the third man, after Evander Holyfield and David Haye, to win world titles at cruiserweight then heavyweight. Six...
The All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) has flagged off its campaign for the forthcoming governorship election in Anambra State. This comes six weeks to the date announced by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to conduct the poll across the local government areas of the state. Party faithful, in...
Brazilian legend Pele congratulated Lionel Messi on Saturday for overtaking him as South America’s top scorer in international football. Messi surpassed Pele’s mark of 77 goals by scoring a hat-trick in Argentina’s 3-0 win over Bolivia in a home World Cup qualifier on September 9. The 34-year-old Paris Saint-Germain...
A passenger train with over 100 people on board derailed in the northern U.S. state of Montana on Saturday afternoon, killing at least three people and injuring multiple others, local media reported. The Amtrak’s Empire Builder train travelling between Seattle and Chicago derailed at around 4 p.m. local time...