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Anambra State Governor, Chukwuma Soludo on Monday tackled the presidential candidate of the Labour party, Peter Obi, in a lengthy opinion piece. The former Central Bank of Nigeria Governor said Obi knows he cannot win the 2023 presidential elections and is only playing a game. “Let’s be clear: Peter Obi knows that he can’t and […]

A lack of education and carelessness in managing the ailment are mostly responsible for early death from diabetes, former president Olusegun Obasanjo has said. Mr Obasanjo, 85, spoke Sunday evening at the MKO Abiola Stadium, Abeokuta, Ogun State, during a novelty match between All-Stars Football Club of Abeokuta and some ex-Super Eagles. The match ended […]

The lady who jumped into the Lagos Lagoon Thursday afternoon has been identified as Adetutu Adedokun, a staff of the Department of State Services (DSS). Sources in the office revealed that she is an unarmed combat instructor who stepped into the shoes of her parents who worked with the plain cloth service. Just a few […]

Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari has called out western countries for hypocrisy and failure to take responsibility in tackling climate change. “Many of my peers are frustrated with Western hypocrisy and its inability to take responsibility,” he wrote in a Wednesday WashingtonPost article. The Nigerian leader noted that western governments have repeatedly failed to meet their commitments to […]

Governor Charles Soludo of Anambra State has said the investments by one of his predecessors is worth next to nothing. One of the points Obi, presidential candidate of the Labour Party, has been using to sell himself to the electorate is the investments he made when he governed Anambra from 2006 to 2014. But speaking during […]

President Muhammadu Buhari says Nigerians should vote whomever they like from whichever political party during the 2023 general elections. He said nobody would be allowed to mobilise resources and thugs to intimidate people in any constituency.  He spoke in London Wednesday evening after meeting with King Charles III at the Buckingham Palace. “My aim is […]

The High Court of the Federal Capital Territory has set aside the contempt proceedings and all the orders of conviction for contempt against the Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Abdulrasheed Bawa. Justice Chizoba Oji set aside the proceedings on Thursday after hearing an application brought by the EFCC Chairman. The application was […]

Barely two weeks after the announcement of plans by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to redesign some naira notes, about N52 billion cash has been deposited. There were indications that the deposit sum may increase in the next few days because it is suspected that about N3 trillion cash was in circulation at the […]

Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Abdulrashid Bawa, has reacted to the judgement which sent him to prison. Daily Trust had reported how an Abuja high court sitting in Maitama convicted Bawa for contempt of court. The court had ordered the EFCC to return to a defendant, a former Director of Operations […]

A Deputy Superintendent of Police, Olusegun Bamidele, on Tuesday, told a Lagos High Court sitting at the Tafawa Balewa Square that Chidinma Ojukwu, the alleged killer of the Chief Executive Officer of Super TV, Usifo Ataga, and her foster father, Onoh Ojukwu, did not tell the police the truth on the incident. Bamidele, who is […]

Security and the economy took centre stage on Sunday as the presidential candidates of the Labour Party, Peter Obi; the New Nigerian Peoples Party, Musa Kwankwaso and Kola Abiola of Peoples Redemption Party squared up at the Arise tv Presidential Town Hall Series on Security and Economy, in Abuja. However, the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party,  […]

Counsel for the Academic Staff Union of Universities, Femi Falana, has called on the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), to pay the unions lecturers their full salaries. In a statement on Sunday, the Senior Advocate of Nigeria asked Buhari to ignore the advice of the Minister of Labour and Employment, Chris Ngige, and pay […]

Members of the National Executive Council of the Academic Staff Union of Universities will on Monday hold a crucial meeting to decide on whether to go on a fresh strike or not. The decision to convene the emergency NEC meeting, which is to be held at the ASUU National Secretariat on the University of Abuja […]

Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State, on Friday, increased the number of his newly appointed special assistants on political units to 200, 000. Governor Nyesom Wike had on Thursday inaugurated the first batch of the 100,000 special assistants. Inaugurating the last batch of the 100,000 appointees at the Adokiye Amiesimaka Stadium, Omagwa in Ikwerre Local […]