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President Muhammadu Buhari (right) receives Senator Kashim Shettima at the State House President Muhammadu Buhari, on Wednesday, expressed confidence that Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, the All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate, and his running mate, Senator Kashim Shettima, will win the 2023 presidential election. Garba Shehu, the president’s spokesman, said Buhari envisaged …

File Photo : IPOB Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, has accused the local security outfit Ebubeagu of being behind the insecurity in Southeast, describing it as a terrorist group. This follows allegation that the 7 youths that were shot dead on Monday, at Awo Mmamma, Oru East Local Government Area …

L-R: Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak Party members in the United Kingdom have finally reduced all the candidates jostling for the position of United Kingdom’s prime minister. Former Chief Minister of Finance, Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss, current Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, are now the …

A former Minister of Power, Dr Wole Oyelese, described the victory of the Osun State governor-elect, Senator Ademola Adeleke, as a good omen for Nigeria electorate. Oyelese said the electorate had made it known that they were in charge and would fire any governor that did not perform. He said …

The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, has described claims in an anonymous write up going round on WhatsApp platforms that a certain former chairman/ceo of the agency sold off its headquarters office buildings in Ikoyi, Lagos, leaving officers and men stranded, as a total distortion of facts. Femi Babafemi, …

Olumuyiwa Adejobi, Police PRO Olamuyiwa Adejobi, the Nigerian Police Public Relations Officer has said men of the force have no right to search people’s phones unless such phone is an exhibit. Adejobi made this disclosure in a tweet on Wednesday in response to a tweep who wanted to know if …

The senate has on Wednesday, passed the electricity bill meant to improve the utilisation of generated power. Nigeria has for years been bedeviled by poor power generation, transmission and distribution, a situation which successive governments have not been able to change. But Senator Gabriel Suswam , chairman of the senate  …

The Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) has denied any association with the “clerics” who were seen at the unveiling of Kashim Shettima, the vice presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) on Wednesday.  The body said they looked like mechanics and artisans. Rev. Joseph John Hayab, the Vice President of CAN …

Hope Uzodinma Youths of Nigeria’s Southeast under the umbrella the Coalition of Southeast Youth Leaders (COSEYL), on Tuesday gave Hope Uzodinma, Imo state governor, seven days to resign as governor of the state or face impeachment by the state assembly. COSEYL, through its president general, Goodluck Ibem, gave the ultimatum …

File Photo: Ohanaeze Ndigbo  Ohanaeze Youth Council, OYC, Tuesday, condemned what it described as ‘the horrifying activities of Imo State chapter of Ebubeagu security network’. This followed the alleged killing of about fourteen youths of Otulu and Awo Omemma who attended a wedding in the state on Sunday. The national …