A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja has ordered the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to remove names of all Action Alliance (AA) candidates, including the presidential candidate, Major Hamza Al-Mustapha (rtd), submitted to it by the Kenneth Udeze led faction of the party. The order, which was made available to journalists in Kaduna on…
The Delta State Governor Special Assistant on Media Mr. Ossai Ovie Success has said that the Presidential Candidate of the Labour Party Mr. Peter Obi has been abandoned by Nigeria youths. According to Ossai on his Facebook page, Nigerian youths are no longer talking about Peter Obi because they know he doesn’t have the capacity…
The Federal Government on Saturday explained why it failed to pay full salaries to lecturers under the aegis of the Academic Staff Union of Universities. In a statement, by the Federal Ministry of Labour and Employment, the government noted that members of ASUU were paid their October salary pro-rata.According to the ministry, pro-rata was done…
2023: Ibadan mogajis, baales, others endorse Tinubu for President [quote]Other groups that endorsed Tinubu’s presidency were the Agbekoya, O’dua Peoples Congress (OPC) Fasehun faction, Irorun O’dua and non-indigenes…As gale of endorsements for candidates of political parties continues ahead of 2023 elections, family heads (Mogajis); Baales and other notable groups, including Agbekoya in Ibadan, have endorsed…
I celebrate the extraordinary prowess of His Excellency, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, in bringing peace to Ethiopia. I am not surprised. I know my boss. He did the same thing in Liberia and São Tomé and Príncipe during our time in office. If for nothing else, he is most deserving of a Nobel Peace Prize, and…
Lagos State Government on Saturday, announced plans to impound unpainted intra-state commercial vehicles across the state beginning from Monday, November 7, 2022. The General Manager, Lagos State Traffic Management Authority, LASTMA, Mr. Bolaji Oreagba who disclosed this in his office in Oshodi, said, this is to ensure compliance with the laws and regulations guiding the…
The ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) on Saturday said it is confident of an improved electoral contest in the 2023 presidential election with the use of the Bimodal Voters’ Accreditation System (BVAS) and automatic transmission of results. Festus Keyamo (SAN) Minister of State, Labour and Employment and Director of Public Affairs and Chief Spokesperson, Tinubu/Shettima…
The Lagos State Government has reassured Nigeria’s port community that issues of the bad road will not be an inhibition to seamless cargo evacuation from Nigeria’s biggest and deepest seaport in Lekki. Speaking at the Nigeria Lekki Deep Seaport Construction Completion ceremony in Lagos on Monday, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, the governor of Lagos State, said the…
Twitter was sued by former employees who say they were not given enough notice under federal and California law that they had lost their jobs amid ongoing mass layoffs. The class-action lawsuit was filed in San Francisco federal court Thursday by five current or former Twitter employees, including Emmanuel Cornet, a software engineer known for…
Yoruba socio-political organisation, Afenifere; and its northern and eastern counterparts, Arewa Consultative Forum and Ohanaeze Indigbo, respectively, on Saturday, backed the proposition by former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar that the image of ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo should be on one of the naira notes to be newly designed. Atiku, who took to his Twitter handle to congratulate…