Supporters of various political parties in Nigeria have reacted to the recently launched Tinubu-Shettima NAIRAXI Transit Card Initiative, which was introduced to tame the high cost of road transportation in the country. The Tinubu/Shetima-NAIRAXI Transit Card initiative is currently assisting alot of Nigerians through free and subsidized transportation cost, although attracting several criticisms from Nigerians…
The Peoples Democratic Party in Osun State has expelled Dotun Babayemi after the Supreme Court judgment that ruled in favour of Ademola Adeleke as the party’s candidate in the gubernatorial primary election. Babayemi had sought the court’s intervention in appealing against the PDP gubernatorial primary election which produced Adeleke. This is as the party also praised…
An official of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, identified only as Dickson, has died after crashing an escort motorbike of the Commandant-General of the agency, Ahmed Audi, in Abuja on Tuesday. Our correspondent gathered that the deceased was leading Audi’s convoy when he ran into a culvert and died on the spot. An…
The Supreme Court of Nigeria has on Friday, dismissed an appeal filed by persons loyal to the National Vice-Chairman (South-South) of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Dan Osi Orbih, seeking to recognise them as authentic delegates produced on April 30, 2022. The Apex Court dismissed the Appeal marked SC/CV/979/2022, which was lodged by Monday Iyore…
A Nigerian man, Sixtus Nnaemeka Okuma, alongside four Indian nationals has been arrested in Greater Noida, India, for allegedly smuggling drugs and fake SIM cards. The suspects were arrested by the Gautam Budh Nagar police on Tuesday, September 27, 2022. Police recovered around 700 SIM cards and drugs worth over 20 lakh from the possession of the…
Heavy gunfire rang out from the main military camp and some residential areas of Burkina Faso’s capital on Friday and a large blast was heard near the presidential palace, Reuters reporters said. Soldiers took up positions along the avenue leading to the presidency and blocked access to administrative buildings and the national television, which had…
Former Vice President and presidential candidate of Peoples Democratic Party(PDP) ,Alhaji Atiku Abubakar,on Tuesday said he would actualise Igbo presidency if elected in 2023.Abubakar made the pledge during the PDP South-East Zonal Stakeholders’ Meeting in Enugu on Tuesday. He said his love for Ndigbo was so great that in the 2011, 2019 elections and he…
Humiliating pictures have emerged showing newly mobilized soldiers being sent to the war in Ukraine as Moscow continues to lose ground on the battlefield. Russia’s president Vladimir Putin has ordered the mobilisation of 300,000 extra soldiers to the frontline and in a frenzied bid to stop his army collapsing amid Ukraine’s lightning counterattack, he appears…
Governors Samuel Ortom of Benue State; Seyi Makinde of Oyo State; Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi of Enugu State; Okezie Ikpeazu of Abia State, all believed to be loyal to Rivers State Governor Nyesom Wike, including Wike, on Wednesday, boycotted the inauguration of the Peoples Democratic Party Presidential Campaign Council and book launch in honour of the PDP presidential…
Osun governor-elect, Senator Ademola Adeleke, on Wednesday expressed optimism of a favourable judgement as Supreme Court rules on the suit instituted against his candidature as the flagbearer of the Peoples Democratic Party in the Osun July 16 governorship poll.Supreme Court is expected on Thursday to rule on the case filed against Adeleke by a governorship aspirant…