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A presidential aspirant under the All Progressive Congress, Bola Tinubu has stated that qualifying to be president of Nigeria doesn’t require strength but intelligence and smartness to overcome the numerous problems bedevilling the country. Tinubu stated this when he met with delegates of the APC ahead of the party primaries in Minna on Friday. He […]

Minister of Labour and Employment, Chris Ngige, has pulled out of the 2023 presidential race to retain his ministerial seat. The former governor of Anambra State and member of the All Progressives Congress made his withdrawal known in a statement on Friday. In the statement, the minister said that after meeting with the President and […]

Ahead of the primaries of the two leading political parties, the All Progressives Congress (APC) and Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), aspirants are mopping up dollars across the country, leading to the further depreciation of the naira. Daily Trust reports that the dollar has hovered between N550 to N570 in the last two months before it jumped […]

The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has rejected the plea to back down from its ongoing strike. The union, which met with Federal Government officials at the Presidential Villa in Abuja, on Thursday night, maintained its stance on the industrial action. Prof. Ibrahim Gambari, Chief of Staff to President Muhammadu Buhari, had invited the […]

Nollywood actor and comedian, Ayo Makun, popularly known as AY, has opened up on his alleged beef with his colleague, Basketmouth. In an Ask Me Anything session he recently organised on his Instagram page, AY claimed that he didn’t have issues with Basketmouth but that the latter had “uncontrollable superiority complex.” AY noted that he […]

Ministers were caught napping yesterday shortly before the end of the Federal Executive Council (FEC) meeting. This follows President Muhammadu Buhari’s bombshell that ministers eyeing political offices, who have obtained nomination forms, must resign. Speaking calmly, the President did not mince words. He showed a bit of anger. What followed was pin-drop silence before Secretary […]

Ahead of its primaries, Nigeria’s main opposition party, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has decided to throw open its 2023 presidential ticket to all sections of the country. The party’s National Publicity Secretary, Debo Ologunagba, disclosed this at the end of the PDP’s National Executive Council meeting on Wednesday. The decision to throw open the ticket he […]

Barely 48 hours after dissociating himself from moves by some groups to draft him into the 2023 presidential race, former President Goodluck Jonathan has finally made up his mind to vie for the top post. Nigeria is set to go to the polls next year in a crowded contest parading many contestants in both the […]

A former governor of Lagos State and leader of the All Progressive Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu, has declared that he has the track records and experience to be the president of Nigeria. Mr Tinubu, who stated this when he met Katsina State Governor, Aminu Masari and APC delegates in the state, said he joined the contest […]

President Muhammadu Buhari has said there is no going back on leaving office after completing his constitutionally guaranteed tenure, emphasising that the May 29, 2023, handover date is sacrosanct. Speaking through Malam Garba Shehu, his media aide, Buhari said the current administration would honour the constitution and people’s right to decide. His reaction follows the […]

Former Zamfara State Governor and presidential aspirant under the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), Senator Sani Yerima, on Tuesday on Tuesday said there is no Nigerian law that determines how and when one gets married. Yerima stunned many Nigerians in 2009 by allegedly getting engaged to a 13-year-old Egyptian girl, paying $100,000 to the bride’s […]

A police officer serving with the homicide department of the State Criminal Investigating Department (SCID), Yaba, DSP Olusegun Bamidele, has continued his testimony at the Lagos High Court in the alleged murder case of the Chief Executive Officer of Super TV, Usifo Ataga. Picking up from where he left off on Monday, the police officer, […]

Renowned American boxer and boxing promoter, Floyd Mayweather wants to establish a boxing academy in Africa, especially in Nigeria to build young fighters. Mayweather, a former WBC Super featherweight champion said this when he visited frontline All Progressives Congress (APC) Presidential Aspirant and Minister of Transportation, Rt. Hon. Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi at his Abuja residence […]

Minister of State Petroleum Resources, Chief Timipre Sylva, has picked the N100 million presidential forms of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) amid the ongoing fuel scarcity. Nigerians have been spending hours at filling stations in the last three days, a situation the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) blamed on low depot loading. A group, […]