The All Progressives Grand Alliance has emerged victorious in the 28 September 2024 local government elections in Anambra State, securing all chairmanship and councillorship seats across the 21 local government areas. Announcing the results late Sunday at the headquarters of the Anambra State Independent Electoral Commission in Awka, the Commission’s Chairman, Genevieve Osakwe, confirmed APGA’s […]
The office of the deputy governor of Edo State, on Osadebe Avenue, Benin, the dtate capital, has been sealed off by stern-looking policemen who were spotted there on Sunday. The sealed office was the one Philip Shaibu was relocated outside the Government House in the height off his face off with Governor Godwin Obaseki. As […]
The Opposition lawmakers coalition in Nigeria, has knocked the Minister of FCT, Nyesom Wike for his recent statement, telling him to stop day dreaming as the Rivers State Governor, Siminalayi Fubara will never leave PDP for him. Wike reportedly mocked his successor, Governor Fubara and his camp for resorting to the APP as an alternative […]
By Pascal Ibe One week after the Imo Local Government Elections, the State Electoral Commission (ISEC), has failed to publish the figures pulled by each of the parties’ candidates. 17 political parties participated in the election. On 22 September, ISEC Chairman, Mr Charles Ejogu, declared the results without announcing the figures polled by the parties […]
Nigerian crossdresser and social media personality, Idris Okuneye, popularly known as Bobrisky, has filed a ₦1 billion lawsuit against Martins Vincent Otse, commonly known as VeryDarkMan, accusing him of defamation through an audio clip. The lawsuit, announced via Bobrisky’s Instagram account on Sunday, claims that VeryDarkMan released an AI-generated audio recording that falsely implicated Bobrisky […]
Israel said Sunday it killed another senior Hezbollah official in an air strike on the Lebanese capital after dealing the Iran-backed group a seismic blow by assassinating its leader, Hassan Nasrallah. It announced the killing of Nabil Qaouq, a member of Hezbollah’s central council in a strike Saturday, adding that its air force continued to […]
The Ogun State Police Command on Sunday confirmed that a 35-year-old zoo worker at Olusegun Obasanjo Presidential Library, Abeokuta, Babaji Daule, was on Saturday killed by a lion. The spokesman for the state police command, Omolola Odutola, disclosed this in a statement sent to journalists on Sunday. The Bauch State born lion handler was said […]
The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has asked the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, Professor Mahmood Yakubu, to obey court judgement on electoral offences committed during 2023 general polls. SERAP made the call in a statement on Sunday by its Deputy Director, Kolawole Oluwadare. He said Justice Obiora Egwuatu of the Federal […]
Heineken Lokpobiri says Nyesom Wike, minister of the federal capital territory (FCT), facilitated his appointment as minister of state for petroleum resources (oil). Lokpobiri spoke on Saturday at an event organised in honour of Wike by the Ijaw Peoples Congress (IPC) in Port Harcourt, the Rivers state capital. “It is important to tell you my […]
The senator representing Borno South at the National Assembly, Mohammed Ali Ndume, has decried the level of corruption in Nigeria. According to NAN, Ndume made his position known while briefing newsmen in Kano on Sunday. The senator said corruption has remained endemic in Nigeria because politicians who steal money are celebrated for doing so. He […]
