There was a mild drama in Abeokuta, Ogun State, on Saturday as former President, Olusegun Obasanjo, was seen riding a tricycle and later stopped to pick a passenger. Obasanjo rode the tricycle, popularly called “Keke” from the premises of the Olusegun Obasanjo Presidential Library (OOPL), at Oke-Mosan in Abeokuta, through the popular Kuto under […]
Presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Bola Ahmed Tinubu did not meet with Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, in France, a spokesperson said on Friday. Reports had emerged online about a supposed meeting between Tinubu and Wike, a chieftain of the opposition party, the Peoples Democratic Party. But a statement signed by a […]
CHAIRMAN, Senate Committee on Niger Delta Affairs, Senator Peter Nwaoboshi(APC, Delta North) has vowed to immediately challenge the Court of Appeal judgment at the Supreme Court. In a statement made available to Vanguard in Abuja by his media unit, Nwaoboshi said they are confident that the Supreme Court will subject the judgment to critical […]
Former presidential spokesperson, Dr Doyin Okupe, has faulted those claiming that the Labour Party has no structure to win a presidential election. In a tweet on Friday, Okupe predicted that the LP’s presidential candidate, Peter Obi, would win the 2023 election. Okupe, whose name was submitted to the Independent National Electoral Commission as Obi’s […]
The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project, SERAP, has said it will take a legal action against President Muhammadu Buhari over the lingering strike embarked on by public universities’ lecturers. SERAP said this on its verified Twitter handle @SERAPNigeria on Friday. Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, started a strike action on February 14 […]
Five American senators have asked Antony Blinken, the US secretary of state, to re-designate Nigeria as a country of particular concern (CPC). In December 2020, the US listed Nigeria among countries blacklisted for “violating religious freedom” under the CPC designation. However, in November 2021, Nigeria was removed from the list. In a June 29, […]
Member representing Egor/Ikpoba-Okha Federal Constituency of Edo State, Hon. Jude Ise-Idehen is dead. Idehen was said to have died on Friday morning, after battling a yet to be known ailment. Disclosing this to newsmen, Spokesman of the House, Rep Benjamin Kalu, said the cause of his death was not yet known to the House. […]
Joe Igbokwe, the Special Adviser for Drainage and Water Resources to Lagos State Governor, has tied his achievements to his decision to move from his home state to Lagos. He said if not for Lagos, he would have been chasing lizards in Aba, in Abia State, as a practicing native doctor. Igbokwe stated this […]
The former Senator representing Kogi West, Dino Melaye, has given reasons on why he believes the Labour Party (LP) presidential candidate Peter Obi cannot win the 2023 presidential election. He stated that Obi’s agenda to cut cost of governance as he has listened to in Obi’s campaigns is not as important as unifying the country’s […]
The Court of Appeal sitting in Lagos, Friday, convicted and sentenced Senator Peter Nwaoboshi(Delta North), to seven years imprisonment and ordered that his two companies, Golden Touch Construction Project Ltd and Suiming Electrical Ltd, be wound up in line with the provisions of Section 22 of the Money Laundering Prohibition Act 2021. The court’s […]
