The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) says Akin Osuntokun, director-general of the Labour Party (LP) presidential campaign council, remains a Zenith Labour Party (ZLP) senatorial candidate. Osuntokun was announced as the LP campaign DG on Tuesday, taking over from Doyin Okupe who resigned after he was convicted of breaching the Money Laundering Act. TheCable […]
Femi Adesina, the presidential spokesperson, says the inherent corruption in the country is the fault of every citizen. Adesina said this in response to comments credited to Matthew Kukah, bishop of Sokoto Catholic diocese. Kukah had said the “broken promises” of President Muhammadu Buhari are leaving Nigerians more vulnerable, adding the corruption he promised […]
Ahead of the 2023 general elections, the presidential candidates of major political parties are yet to give Nigerian voters viable solutions to extrajudicial killings. This is according to a human rights lawyer, Femi Falana (SAN), who condemned the recent murder of a Lagos-based lawyer, Mrs Bolanle Raheem in Ajah. Raheem met her untimely demise […]
The spokesperson of the Atiku/Okowa Campaign Organisation, Daniel Bwala, has accused the All Progressives Congress (APC) of trying to frustrate the cashless policy introduced by the Central Bank of Nigeria to engage in vote buying in the 2023 election. The Senate on Thursday urged the CBN to extend its deadline for the phasing out […]
Over 200 persons were displaced, with goods and property worth millions of naira destroyed, following a fire outbreak in Elekahia, a densely populated area in Port Harcourt, Rivers State on Friday morning. Our correspondent who visited the scene gathered that the fire which started at about 8:30 am was caused by a kerosene explosion. […]
Hundreds of constituents of a former Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, on Thursday declared their support for the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, saying the Muslim-Muslim ticket should not be a factor in next year’s election. Our correspondent reports that Dogara, who represents the Dass/Tafawa Balewa/Bogoro […]
As the demand for justice for the slain pregnant lawyer, Bolanle Raheem, heightens, the court has remanded the suspected killer cop, ASP Drambi Vandi, at the Ikoyi Correctional Centre, Lagos State till January 30, 2023. The spokesperson for the Lagos State Police Command, Benjamin Hundeyin, made this known in a tweet on Friday, stating […]
THE apex body of the Yoruba self-determination struggle, Ilana Omo Oodua Worldwide, on Thursday, announced that it would formally unveil Radio Ijangbara as the official broadcast radio of the struggle on January 1, 2023. The announcement was contained in a statement jointly signed by the group’s Chairman and General Secretary, Wale Adeniran and Tunde […]
Confusion reigned at the Murtala Mohammed International Airport, MMIA, Lagos, when thousands of people returning home from Christmas could not quickly be attended to at Nigeria Immigration Service, NIS, section. Fracas almost ensued when some security agents were helping some passengers to beat the long queue as other passengers began to protest the corruption […]
Indication emerged on Thursday that the Presidential Candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, has struck a deal with the members of the G-5, the five aggrieved governors who are members of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). Daily Trust had exclusively reported on Wednesday that Tinubu and the five governors […]
