Tope AbdurRazaq Balogun, Governorship candidate of the Action Alliance (AA) for Lagos State in the 2023 general elections on Thursday said Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu has not done enough to merit a second term in office. Speaking in an interview with DAILY INDEPENDENT, Balogun said the governor and his party, All Progressives Congress (APC) have failed…
The deputy director, Subcommittee on Support Groups and Member of the PDP National Campaign Council, Evang. Mike Ikoku, has condemned sponsored attacks targeted at the leadership of the Imo state Presidential Campaign Management Committee. He described the sponsored media attacks and protest as rantings from failed “coup’ plotters”. Addressing a section of the media at the…
The Federal High Court in Abuja has dismissed a suit by former Minister of State for Education, Chukwuemeka Nwajiuba, seeking to void the nomination of Asiwaju Bola Tinubu as the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC). In a judgment on Friday, Justice Zainab Abubakar held that she lacked jurisdiction to entertain the suit. According to…
A 26 years old man, Adeyemi Babatunde, who reportedly killed a 46-year-old man identified as Obafunsho Ismail, for bashing his car has been arrested by the Ogun State command of the Nigeria Police Force. The command confirmed this in a statement by its spokesman, SP Abimbola Oyeyemi, saying the killer suspect was arrested on Tuesday, December 20,…
Russian President, Vladimir Putin has said that Russia wants an end to the war in Ukraine and that the war would only end by a diplomatic solution. Putin made the comments on Thursday evening, December 22 a day after U.S. President Joe Biden hosted Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy in the White House and promised him continued…
Three Nigerians were involved in this match. Asisat Oshoala started for Barcelona, Vicky Lopez came on as a substitute for Barca and Halimatu Ayinde came on as a substitute for Rosengard. Translated from Spanish by Microsoft. Barça – Rosengard: Round night to say goodbye to the year (6-0) The Blaugrana manage to qualify as first…
Okechukwu Nnodim and OpeOluwani Akintayo The Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited is planning to sign an agreement with independent oil marketers to ensure that the ex-depot price of petrol is N148/litre. The National Controller, Operations, Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria, Mike Osatuyi, told The PUNCH on Thursday, that IPMAN was currently holding a series…
My first executive order will be to reform the civil service — Accord presidential candidate, Prof ImumolenAccord party’s presidential candidate Professor Christopher Imumolen says he will make wholesale reforms in the country’s civil service his topmost priority should he get the opportunity to become Nigeria’s president in next year’s general elections. Nigeria’s civil service has…
The presidential candidate of the African Action Congress (AAC), Omoyele Sowore has said the deployment of the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System (BVAS) in the 2023 general elections will not address Nigeria’s perennial problem of election rigging. He also said the current insecurity in the country poses a great threat to free and fair elections next…
Inherited Wealth Is A Burden, I Won’t Leave Much Wealth For My Kids – iRoko TV Boss iRoko TV boss, Jason Njoku has said that inherited wealth is mostly a burden to those it is bequeathed to, IGBERETV reports. Taking to his Twitter handle, Jason stated that his job and that of his wife, Mary,…