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The Labour Party presidential candidate during February 25 presidential election, Peter Obi, on Friday, said he ‘must be” Nigeria’s president. While expressing optimism to clinch the number one seat in the country, he clarified that he was not in a hurry to achieve the dream. Obi, who is a former Anambra State governor, stated this…
Ondo State Governor, Rotimi Akeredolu has attacked the president-elect, Bola Tinubu, and the leadership of the All Progressives Congress (APC) over the zoning of the 10th National Assembly leadership seats. A statement personally signed on Wednesday by the governor said the hurried nature in which the decision was reached and announced is a dangerous tool…
Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project has filed a lawsuit against the Independent National Electoral Commission over its failure to investigate allegations of electoral violence and other electoral offences including bribery against some state governors and their deputies during the 2023 elections. According to reports, the recently concluded presidential, national assembly, and governorship elections in some…
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The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, has advised the opposition to stop their endless griping over the 2023 presidential election which they lost woefully, saying they know very well that they deserve to lose the election because of their overconfidence and complacency. In a statement yesterday in Abuja, the Minister argued that…
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The Indigenous People of Biafra, on Wednesday, lashed out at the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), saying his alleged ‘sins’ against Nigerians would never be forgiven. The separatist group, in a statement by its Director of Media and Publicity, Emma Powerful, was reacting to Buhari’s recent appeal that “all those that I have hurt,…
The president-elect, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, on Wednesday, departed his Asokoro residence for Defence Guest House in the Maitama District of Abuja, from where he will function until May 29 inauguration. Recall that the current President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), also lodged at the same base months before his May 29, 2015 inauguration, from where…
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The governorship aspirant of the All Progressives Grand Alliance in the just concluded 2023 general election in Enugu State, Chief Dons Udeh, has been reportedly found dead. Udeh, who was said to have got missing on Saturday, was reportedly found dead on Wednesday at the 9th Mile area of the state, barely four days after….
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) is set to file fresh proceedings against former aviation minister, Femi Fani-Kayode, over money laundering. Femi Fani-Kayode and Nenadi Usman were arraigned by on a 17-count charge in June 2016. Aside Fani-Kayode and Usman, also listed as defendants in the case are Danjuma Yusuf and Joint Trust Dimensions…
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The Federal Government has commenced the payment of the 40 per cent pay rise arrears for civil servants, Saturday PUNCH has reliably learnt. Our correspondent who spoke to some federal civil servants on Saturday learnt that workers started receiving bank alerts of the arrears on Saturday, April 22, 2023. A high-ranking civil servant who spoke…
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The High Court of the Federal Capital Territory on Monday refused to vacate an interim order which restrained the National Chairman of the Labour Party, Julius Abure, the National Secretary, Alhaji Farouk Ibrahim, and two others from parading themselves as leaders of the party. Alex Ejieseme SAN, counsel for Abure, had prayed the court to…
Read More “LP crisis: Court refuses to lift suspension order on Abure, others” »
The Nigerian government has approved the use of R21/Matrix malaria vaccine developed by scientists at Oxford University. “The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) in exercising its mandate as stipulated by its enabling law, NAFDAC Act CapN1, LFN 2004 is granting registration approval for R21 malaria vaccine,” Director-general of the National…
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Following the recent concluded general elections in Nigeria, it is obvious that both INEC and APC have no surviving souls respectively. The soul, yes, I mean the soul. No one in the world of matter, energy, space and time can plunge deeply into the realm of the soul without wise guides. Years of lone wolf…
Anthony de Mello in one of his witty reflections on ‘Imprisonment’ once said: “you are so proud of your intelligence,’ said the Master to a disciple. ‘You are like the condemned man who is proud of the vastness of his prison cell.” Whenever I reflect on this saying, my mind these days go around the…
According to Plato in his metaphoric and poetic way of expressing higher reality, he told a story about Er, a warrior who came back to life on the funeral pyre, after having been believed dead. Er according to Plato, was said to have seen many things in the afterlife, but he was told that he…
According to Plato in his metaphoric and poetic way of expressing higher reality, he told a story about Er, a warrior who came back to life on the funeral pyre, after having been believed dead. Er according to Plato, was said to have seen many things in the afterlife, but he was told that he…
The inability of the Federal Government and ASUU to come to a compromise, even after President Muhammadu Buhari gave members of his team a clear implementation timeline underscores the point that has been long emphasized. Which is that Nigeria’s tertiary education funding model has to be revisited. I agree with ASUU that their working conditions…
THE DUMB APC AND BATSHIT MEDIA PROPAGANDISTS, USING THE CRIMINALLY ENFORCED MONDAY SIT AT HOME ORDER BY ALLEGEDLY GOVERNMENT ENABLED/ ALLOWED UNKNOWN GUN MEN THAT IS DESTROYING ECONOMIC ACTIVITIES IN THE SOUTH EAST TO PLAY CHEAP POLITICS. ✍These dumb and unenlightened APC social media urchins, are not aware that the use of terror in the…
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My support for PO is mainly from an economic growth potential than any primordial sentiment. Nigeria is BROKE & by extension 89million Nigerians are ‘very’ poor while 53millions are “on God”. So how does PO holds the 🗝️ to unlock wealth? Pls walk with me To start with, let’s explore the strategy the two APC…
The Nigerian Academy of International Affairs is a body of eminent and retired professionals and scholars in diplomacy and International Affairs. The Academy is scandalized by the clownish gathering of some members of our political elite in London recently following similar meetings in Paris and Dubai. It is most unfortunate and heartbreaking that some Nigerian…
Are you aware that Nigeria has four existing refineries, with combined capacities to process and refine 445,000 barrels of crude oil per day, located in Kaduna, Warri, and Port Harcourt respectively? ✍️Are you also aware that the first Nigeria REFINERY in Port Harcourt at Alesa Emese was built in under 2 years ( from 1963…
The National Chairman of the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP), Prof Rufai Alkali has explained why alliance talks between their presidential candidate, Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso, and his Labour Party (LP) counterpart, Peter Obi, collapsed. According to Alkali, the talks about a merger fell apart because the LP camp insisted that NNPP concedes the presidency to…
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The Presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Mr. Peter Obi, has asked the Nigerian electorate not to vote for any of the presidential candidates speaking through proxies. Recall that at the Nigerian Bar Association Annual General Conference (NBA-AGC) in Lagos last Monday where most of the leading presidential candidates unveiled their programmes for 2023…
The fact that Rivers State Governor Nyesom Wike brought the next president of Nigeria and a previous president of Nigeria to London for decisive meetings last week, accompanied by his political allies, is a reflection of his current political influence. Bredda Bola Tinubu, the All-Progressives Congress’ (APC) presidential candidate, was the first person he met….
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