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Former President Olusegun Obasanjo says he’s “audacious enough” to secure a third term if he had wanted it before exiting power in 2007. For umpteenth time, he insisted that he was not interested in the tenure elongation. Besides, Obasanjo foreclosed plans to join the campaign train of the presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), […]

Anambra State Governor, Professor Chukwuma Soludo, is now the National Leader of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA). Soludo, the third in the line of succession, was elected on Friday during a meeting of the National Executive Committee (NEC) of the party in Awka, the Anambra State capital, through a unanimous voice vote. The APGA […]

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has extended the deadline for the collection of Permanent Voters Cards (PVCs) to Sunday 29th, January 2023.  The electoral umpire earlier fixed Sunday, 22nd January 2023 as the collection deadline. But following a meeting on Thursday, INEC said it has pushed the deadline by eight days. “The Commission is […]

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has said that 93,469,008 registered voters, comprising 49,054,162 males and 44,414,846 females are eligible to vote in this year’s general elections. The INEC Chairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, said this on Wednesday in Abuja at a meeting with the 18 registered political parties. This is as he also said that […]

The Nigerian Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) has threatened to go on a nationwide strike if the federal government does not meet its demands. The association in a letter to the Minister of Health, Dr Osagie Ehanire on Monday, and signed by its president, Dr Emeka Innocent Orji, said processes for the strike would commence if […]

Authorities have announced that at least 16 people have been killed by flooding caused by the storm raging in California, LA Times reports. “These floods are deadly and have now turned to be more deadly than even the wildfires here in the state of California,” Governor Gavin Newsom said during a news conference over the […]

The Nigerian passport has fallen by 38 places in a global passport ranking in the last 17 years. This is according to the Henley Passport Index reports between 2006 and 2022 collated by Punch. The Henley Passport Index ranks passports according to the number of countries their holders can access visa-free or with a visa-on-arrival programme. […]

The Presidential Candidate of the Labour Party, LP, Mr. Peter Obi has said those pushing the narrative that he was stingy were those who feel threatened by his commitment to enforce fiscal discipline in the use of public funds. He debunked claims that he was stingy by nature. Obi said this while speaking as a […]

The Nigerian Security Printing and Minting (NSPM) Plc also called MINT, Friday, explained why the new Naira notes leave ink when rubbed on plain white surfaces while stressing that best international best practice was followed in their production. The company, also referred to as The MINT, is responsible for producing the naira, Nigeria’s currency. In […]

The recent increase in electricity tariff by power distribution companies, as approved by the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission, shows that the Federal Government and Discos are taking Nigerians for granted, power sector experts and consumer groups have said. Speaking on the issue on Sunday, they demanded the Federal Government to order the power distribution companies […]