The President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), on Friday in Daura, his hometown, said he fled home to join the Nigerian Army amidst growing pressure for him to get married. Highlighting the years of battle during the Nigerian Civil War and some personal challenges, Buhari said he secured his first job early after school […]
Osun State Governor, Ademola Adeleke, has urged the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) not to issue a Certificate of Return to Mr Gboyega Oyetola following a judgement by the election tribunal. The tribunal in its judgement on Friday held that the governorship election was characterized by over-voting, adding that after deducting the excessive votes, […]
A Kaduna- Abuja bound train has reportedly derailed while approaching the Kubwa station in Abuja on Friday. Although the authorities were yet to react to the incident as at press time ,a passenger in the train, Fatima Mukhtar in an audio message , said she was in the train when the incident happened. She […]
Peter Obi, the presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), says he is going to stop the poverty cycle in Nigeria if elected. Obi spoke on Friday at a town hall engagement with students of the University of Abuja. The LP candidate said the elections are about the youth, and that they should seize […]
Hours after the Election Petition Tribunal annulled the July 16 Osun State governorship election results and declared former governor Gboyega Oyetola the winner of the poll, some Peoples Democratic Party supporters stormed the streets to protest against the judgement. While annulling the July 16 Osun governorship poll results, the tribunal held that the Independent […]
The Imo State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party on Friday conducted a fresh primary for the emergence of a candidate of the party for Ngor Okpala/ Aboh Mbaise federal of the state. The development followed a court of appeal judgement in Abuja last week which nullified the candidacy of Albert Agulanna and ordered […]
Following the death of Prof. Uche Ikonne, the Abia Peoples Democratic Party gubernatorial candidate on Wednesday January 25, 2023, the PDP has released details for the conduct of fresh primary election in the state. JOURNALIST101 recalls that the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, had given the party 14 days to conduct another primary election […]
Federal High Court sitting in Awka, the Anambra State capital has sacked Chief Victor Umeh as the candidate of Labour party for Anambra central senatorial zone. The court in its ruling on Friday, agreed that Umeh violated the electoral act for standing for election in same Constituency for two different political parties. Umeh […]
fatal beating of a Black man in Memphis, as the southern city braced for possible civil unrest and President Joe Biden urged demonstrators to protest peacefully. Tyre Nichols, 29, was stopped on January 7 for what the Memphis Police Department said was reckless driving. After a chase ensued, “police brutalized him to the point […]
The House of Representatives has requested that the Federal Government close tertiary education institutions so that students can actively participate in the coming general elections. The National Universities Commission, the National Board for Technical Education, the National Commission for Colleges of Education, and the Federal Ministry of Education were all asked by the House […]
