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Chief Spokesman of the Tinubu/Shettima presidential campaign council of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Festus Keyamo, has announced that the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Atiku Abubakar, has been sued. He made the announcement on Friday stating that Atiku was sued alongside the Economic and Financial Crime …

Nasir Kwarra Nigeria’s 2023 national population and housing census will hold from March 29 to April 1, 2023. Nasir Kwarra, the Chairman of the National Population Council Chairman, National Population Commission, disclosed this to State House Correspondents on Friday. He spoke shortly after an audience with the President Muhammadu Buhari …

Abdullahi Sule The Nasarawa State police command has confirmed the abduction of pupils at the Local Government Education Authority Primary School, Alwaza, in Doma Local Government Area the state by heavily armed men who stormed the school premises on Friday morning. Though witnesses said six pupils were abducted within the school …

Senator Godswill Akpabio The Supreme Court has affirmed Godswill Akpabio as the All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate for Akwa Ibom North West Senatorial District election. The apex court gave the verdict in a judgment on Friday. Recall that the Court of Appeal sitting in Abuja had ordered his removal on …

Usman Baba, the Inspector General of Police (IGP), on Thursday presented cheques worth N13.6bn to the next-of-kins of 6,184 deceased and injured police officers. The IGP during the presentation at the Force Headquarters in Abuja said the amount covers 6,184 personnel who had previously fallen under the uninsured period from …

Bandits have attacked St. Monica Catholic Church, Ikulu-Pari, in Chawai chiefdom, Kauru council area in Kaduna, and abducted Kefas Ishaya, the catechist. The bandits were said to have kidnapped the catechist on Thursday when they could not get the church’s reverend father, Joseph Shekari. Shekari was not at home when …

Specially branded rice with embossed pictures of the presidential candidate of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, Bola Tinubu, has resurfaced Prior to the conduct of the party’s presidential primary election in June, Tinubu began to distribute branded rice in Kano and some northern states, promising to distribute such across …

A Lagos -based Civil Society Organisation (CSO), the Centre for Anti-Corruption and Open Leadership (CACOL), has thrown its weight behind the Minister of State for Labour and Employment, Festus Keyamo (SAN) over his recent call on anti-corruption agencies to arrest, interrogate and prosecute former vice president, Atiku Abubakar. Last week …

Atiku The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Atiku Abubakar, has asked all party members to show the results of their polling units to benefit from his government if elected as the next president. Atiku said this on Wednesday in Abeokuta, Ogun State capital, during a town hall meeting …

Abiola was the generally acclaimed winner of the June 12, 1993 presidential election, but the election was annulled by former military dictator Ibrahim Babangida. The former president, Olusegun Obasanjo has narrated how those he regarded as ‘bad belle’ prevented the late Chief Moshood Kashimawo Olawale (MKO) Abiola from becoming president …