Brazil’s former leftist president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, has sealed an astonishing political comeback, beating the far-right incumbent Jair Bolsonaro in one of the most significant and bruising elections in the country’s history. With 99% of votes counted, Silva, a former factory worker who became Brazil’s first working-class president exactly 20 years ago, had secured 50.8%…
Fifty-nine people have died in a crush among huge Halloween crowds in a popular nightlife area of South Korea’s capital, officials say. Yonhap news agency cited emergency services saying 150 more had been injured in Seoul’s Itaewon district. Videos from the scene show body bags on the streets, emergency workers performing CPR, and rescuers trying…
In keeping with his commitment to Nigerians, our Presidential candidate has continued to keep Nigerians updated on his engagements with officials In the United States. In the second of such update, he tweeted: “Yesterday, at the meeting at the State Department led by Molly Phee, Assistant Secretary—Bureau of African Affairs, the focus of our discussions…
Leadership Excellence: Kenneth Ifekudu’s Diamond Leeds Emerges 2022 Most Innovative Architecture Company of the Year A leading architecture company in Nigeria, Diamond Leeds Limited has emerged 2022 Most Innovative Architecture Company of the Year in Leadership Excellence Awards. In a nationwide online poll monitored by News Agency of Nigeria, NAN, Dr Kingsley Ifekudu, the Chief…
Recently, the presidential candidate of the Labour Party and former Governor of Anambra State, Mr Peter Obi walked into a store to pick up some items, his presence at the place changed the countenance of the people already therein. With a gentle smile on his face, Peter Obi was able to bring out the beautiful…
Sheikh Ahmad Gumi has kicked against redesigning of the naira by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), describing it as economic suicide for Nigerians, especially rural dwellers. According to him, 80 percent of Nigerians especially rural people, depend on cash transactions. In a statement titled: “[b]Changing the Naira: This is no time for economic kamikaze!”, Gumi…
TRADITIONAL rulers in Idemili North and South Local Government Area of Anambra State, over the weekend, says they are comfortable supporting the Candidate of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Atiku Abubakar and his running mate, Governor Ifeanyi Okowa of Delta State, in 2023 general election. The monarchs, said they are behind Atiku and his…
The Lagos Chamber of Commerce and Industries (LCCI) invited the three main candidates in the 2023 presidential election to address its Private Sector Economic Forum. The candidates were to speak in the following order: The People’s Democratic Party’s Presidential Candidate, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, was to speak on Tuesday, September 13, 2022, at 9.30am; the Labour…
The presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, will on Sunday pay a courtesy visit to Pa Reuben Fasoranti and the leadership of the Yoruba cultural and political organisation, Afenifere, in Akure, the Ondo State capital. This was disclosed in a statement issued Saturday night by the Director of Media and Publicity for…
The company in its report however said protests and social discontent are likely to increase in the aftermath of a Tinubu win. Fitch, the global rating company has tipped Bola Tinubu, presidential candidate of the ruling All Progressives Congress to win the 2023 election. The company in its report however said protests and social discontent…