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05/04/2023

The presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Peter Obi, has criticised the Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, over allegations of inciting a post-election insurrection. At a press conference in Washington DC on Tuesday, Mohammed reportedly warned Obi to desist from stoking violence, following the February 25 presidential election which saw the emergence of Bola Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress (APC) as the winner....

The presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Peter Obi, has criticised the Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, over allegations of inciting a post-election insurrection. At a press conference in Washington DC on Tuesday, Mohammed reportedly warned Obi to desist from...

05/04/2023

The Federal Government has directed all Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs) implementing increases in salaries, allowances, and fringe benefits without its approval to desist from such acts. The Chairman, National Salaries, Income and Wages Commission (NSIWC), Mr Ekpo Nta, gave the warning at a two-day training workshop for salaries inspectors in Abuja. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the workshop is for the ex*****on of the Phase II of the 2022 Salary Inspection Programme....

The Federal Government has directed all Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs) implementing increases in salaries, allowances, and fringe benefits without its approval to desist from such acts. The Chairman, National Salaries, Income and Wages Commission (NSIWC), Mr Ekpo Nta, gave the...

04/04/2023

The Kaduna State Government says it has received preliminary reports from security agencies on the kidnapping of about 10 students in Kachia Local Government Area of the state. The Commissioner for Internal Security and Home Affairs, Mr Samuel Aruwan, confirmed the incident in a statement issued on Tuesday in Kaduna. He said that according to preliminary reports about 10 students of Government Secondary School, Awon (a day secondary school) were kidnapped on Monday....

The Kaduna State Government says it has received preliminary reports from security agencies on the kidnapping of about 10 students in Kachia Local Government Area of the state. The Commissioner for Internal Security and Home Affairs, Mr Samuel Aruwan, confirmed the incident in a statement...

29/03/2023

The Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria (PENGASSAN) says petrol will sell between N360 and N400 per litre after the petroleum subsidy removal. Festus Osifo, PENGASSAN president, made this disclosure when speaking to journalists on the sidelines of the association’s National Executive Council meeting (NEC) held in Abuja on Tuesday. He spoke days after marketers and other groups in the downstream sector of the Nigerian petroleum industry said subsidy removal will push fuel prices to N750 per litre....

The Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria (PENGASSAN) says petrol will sell between N360 and N400 per litre after the petroleum subsidy removal. Festus Osifo, PENGASSAN president, made this disclosure when speaking to journalists on the sidelines of the association’s...

02/03/2023

The Presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Mr. Peter Obi, has said that he won the February 25, Presidential Election in Nigeria and would prove it. Addressing his first press conference since the election was held and results declared, Obi said he and his running mate, Datti Baba-Ahmed were committed to reclaiming the mandate given to them by Nigerians on February 25....

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02/03/2023

Labour Party (LP) governorship candidate in Abia State, Dr. Alex Otti says his party's candidate in the February 25, 2023 Nigerian presidential election, Mr. Peter Obi will reclaim his mandate. The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in the early hours of Wednesday, March 1, declared the candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Ahmed Tinubu, winner of the election, which process and outcome have been roundly criticised by local and international observers and Nigerians in general....

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02/03/2023

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has declared the candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Ahmed Tinubu, as the winner of Nigeria’s presidential election, held Saturday, February 25. Mahmood Yakubu, chairman of INEC, announced the results in the early hours of Wednesday, while Nigerians were still asleep. Yakubu said Tinubu scored a total of 8,794,726 votes. Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) had the second-highest figure with 6,984,520 votes, while Peter Obi of the Labour Party (LP) was next with 6,101,533 votes....

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28/02/2023

The Labour Party (LP) governorship candidate in Abia State, Dr. Alex Otti, says two Goliaths have been cut down in the political structure of the state as results emerge from the 2023 general elections. Otti, who was honoured with a courtesy visit on Monday by the victorious LP National Assembly candidates, the duo of Senator-elect Darlington Nwokocha (Abia Central) and House of Reps member-elect, Ginger Onwusibe (Isialangwa South and North), who had come to pay him homage, said more of such political Goliaths will still fall....

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27/02/2023

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has called for the cancellation of the Presidential and National Assembly elections in all violent-prone areas, saying they failed integrity test. Obasanjo made the call on Monday in a statement titled, “2023 Nigeria Presidential Election: An Appeal For Caution and Rectification.” He asked the chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof Mahmood Yakubu, to save Nigeria from the looming danger and disaster waiting to happen....

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27/02/2023

Presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Mr. Peter Gregory Obi, has upstaged the All Progressives Congress (APC) Presidential Candidate, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu in Lagos, in the presidential election conducted across the federation on Saturday, February 25, 2023. Tinubu has dominated the politics of Lagos State for the past 24 years, since serving as governor between 1999 to 2007....

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16/02/2023

President Muhammadu Buhari has firmly shut the door at the old N1000 and N500 notes. He however allowed the continued use of the N200 notes for another 60 days. In his national broadcast on Thursday morning, Buhari directed Nigerians to swap the affected currencies at the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) and other designated places. Full speech: NATIONAL BROADCAST BY HIS EXCELLENCY MUHAMMADU BUHARI, PRESIDENT, FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA ON THE CHALLENGES OF THE CURRENCY SWAP AND STATE OF THE NATION, ON 16th FEBRUARY, 2023…...

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10/02/2023

A Nigerian teacher, Dr. Peter Ogudoro was at the weekend celebrated in Lagos by the British Council for outstanding social action in Nigeria’s education industry. This was at the Study UK Alumni Awards ceremony for Nigeria organized by the British Council at Eko Hotel and Suites in Lagos to celebrate the award finalists for Nigeria. According to the British Council, “the Study UK Alumni Awards is a prestigious global awards scheme that finds and celebrates the outstanding alumni of UK Higher Education Institutions and the impact that they are having around the world....

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29/01/2023

The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has extended the deadline for the swapping of old Naira notes with the redesigned ones to February 10, 2023. CBN Governor Godwin Emefiele in a release on Sunday said the apex bank is granting the additional 10 days to allow for the collection of more old notes. He also noted that Nigerians would still be able to deposit their old notes directly with the CBN after the new deadline, until February 17, 2023 described as “grace period.”...

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27/01/2023

Some Point of Sale (PoS) operators in satellite towns of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) are making brisk business with the new Naira notes. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) had fixed January 31 as the deadline for the use of the old Naira notes. Some of the PoS outlets visited in Nyanya, Mararaba and Karu areas of the territory were either not dispensing the new notes or charging extra cash for them....

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27/01/2023

The Labour Party (LP) governorship candidate in Abia state, Dr. Alex Otti, has suspended all his campaign activities towards the March 11, 2023 governorship election in Abia State, owing to the death of the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Prof Uchenna Eleazar Ikonne. Ikonne's family in a statement issued Wednesday by his son, Dr Uche-Ikonne Chikezie, said the former vice chancellor of Abia State University passed on early hours of Wednesday, January 25, 2023, after a brief illness, at the National Hospital, Abuja....

The Labour Party (LP) governorship candidate in Abia state, Dr. Alex Otti, has suspended all his campaign activities towards the March 11, 2023 governorship election in Abia State, owing to the death of the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Prof Uchenna Eleazar Ikonne. Ikonne's...

27/01/2023

The governorship candidate of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in Abia State, Prof Eleazar Uchenna Ikonne, is dead. Ikonne died early hours of Wednesday, in Abuja, a statement signed on behalf of the family by Dr Uche-Ikonne Chikezie said. “I regret to announce the death of my dear father, Prof Eleazar Uchenna Ikonne, who died at the National Hospital Abuja today, 25th January 2023 by 4am after a brief illness....

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27/01/2023

Osun State Governor, Ademola Adeleke, has described the judgment of the Osun Election Petition Tribunal which sacked him from office as “a miscarriage of justice”, vowing to challenge the ruling at the Court of Appeal. Reacting to the verdict in a statement issued by his spokesman, Rasheed Olawale, Governor Adeleke faulted the resolution of the over-voting question in favour of the former state governor, Mr....

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27/01/2023

The Osun Election Petitions Tribunal has sacked Governor Ademola Adeleke, bringing to an end his stay in office, just after 62 days! The tribunal on Friday held that the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) did not comply with the provisions of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria as well as the Electoral Act as amended. INEC had declared Adeleke, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governorship candidate, the winner of the July 16 election....

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05/01/2023

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has set up of the National Situation Room and Collation Centre for the 2023 general election in Nigeria. Similarly, the electoral umpire announced the composition of two committees for the preparation of the election and collation of results during the period. INEC’s National Commissioner & Chairman Information and Voter Education Committee, Festus Okoye, in a statement on Thursday, named the committees as the Collation Secretariat and Situation Room and Collation Centre Committee....

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has set up of the National Situation Room and Collation Centre for the 2023 general election in Nigeria. Similarly, the electoral umpire announced the composition of two committees for the preparation of the election and collation of results...

05/01/2023

The High Court of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) has declined a request to remove the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, from office. Justice M. A. Hassan declared that the INEC chairman cannot be removed over fabricated allegations of false asset declaration. The court further barred security agencies from investigating him over his valid asset declaration....

The High Court of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) has declined a request to remove the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, from office. Justice M. A. Hassan declared that the INEC chairman cannot be removed over fabricated allegations of...

05/01/2023

Nigeria’s frontline domestic carrier, Air Peace, is alleging sabotage to its operations as an equipment of the Nigerian Aviation Handling Company (NAHCO) Plc on Wednesday rammed into one of its aircraft at the Murtala Muhammed Airport, Lagos. It was the third time in one month that NAHCO equipment would reportedly be damaging aircraft belonging to Air Peace Airline, a source told the…...

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03/01/2023

President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday in Abuja signed the 2023 Budget of N21.83 trillion and the 2022 Supplementary Appropriation Bill into law. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the 2023 budget is the last to be prepared by the present administration as it winds up. While signing the budget, the president said the aggregate expenditures of N21.83 trillion were increased by N1.32 trillion over the initial proposal of N20.51 trillion expenditures by the executive....

President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday in Abuja signed the 2023 Budget of N21.83 trillion and the 2022 Supplementary Appropriation Bill into law. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the 2023 budget is the last to be prepared by the present administration as it winds up. While signing...

30/12/2022

Pele, the legendary Brazilian soccer player who rose from barefoot poverty to become one of the greatest and best-known athletes in modern history, died on Thursday at the age of 82. Sao Paulo's Albert Einstein hospital, where Pele was undergoing treatment, said he died at 3:27 p.m. "due to multiple organ failures resulting from the progression of colon cancer associated with his previous medical condition."...

Pele, the legendary Brazilian soccer player who rose from barefoot poverty to become one of the greatest and best-known athletes in modern history, died on Thursday at the age of 82. Sao Paulo's Albert Einstein hospital, where Pele was undergoing treatment, said he died at 3:27 p.m. "due to...

29/12/2022

The newly appointed Director General of the Labour Party (LP) Presidential Campaign Council (PCC), Akin Osuntokun, says the tickets held by the presidential candidates of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu, and Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, are defective. Osuntokun bared his mind Wednesday night while speaking on Channel Television’s live interview programme, Politics Today, with Seun Okinbaloye....

The newly appointed Director General of the Labour Party (LP) Presidential Campaign Council (PCC), Akin Osuntokun, says the tickets held by the presidential candidates of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu, and Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, are defective...

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