Festus Keyamo, the spokesperson of the Tinubu/Shettima Presidential Campaign Council of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, has congratulated Desmond Elliot for winning Surulere 1 constituency seat. Desmond reportedly defeated the youthful Olumide Oworu of the Labor Party. LP Supporters, popularly known as Obidients, had vowed to vote for Oworu to defeat Desmond Elliot. The lawmaker…
BARELY two days before the house of assembly election in Edo state, the State Deputy Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Jarret Tenebe has been arrested allegedly on the orders of the deputy governor of Edo state Hon Philip Shaibu. He was said to have been arrested in Ikabigbo his home town in Etsako West…
Saheed Aderinto, a Nigerian professor at Florida International University, who recently won the 2023 Dan David Prize, was quoted to have told Nigeria’s president-elect, Bola Tinubu, to return his alleged stolen mandate. A Twitter handle “Saheed Aderinto” on Monday, March 13, had stirred reactions after reacting to Tinubu’s congratulatory message on the blue app.The now-viral…
The Akwa Ibom State Government has announced the suspension of all daily ticket levies on tricycle and minibus operators in the state for five days, IGBERETV reports. In a statement released by the state Commissioner for Transport, Uno Etim Uno, the state government said the gesture was to cushion the ongoing cash crunch and other challenges suffered by…
The National Chairman of All Progressives Congress, Senator Abdullahi Adamu, has admitted that the conduct of the February 25 Presidential and National Assembly poll was not perfect, IGBERETV reports. Adamu admitted this while giving his speech during a parley of APC National Working Committee with the president-elect, Bola Tinubu; vice president-elect, Senator Kashim Shettima and members-elect of…
A human rights lawyer, Femi Falana (SAN), has said that the 2023 presidential election was marred by result manipulations. Falana stated this during an interview on Channels TV’s Politics Today. Other factors, according to the lawyer, that marred the elections included insecurity, late arrival of materials, violence and thuggary.Recall INEC has declared Bola Ahmed Tinubu of…
Governor Nasir El-Rufai of Kaduna State has challenged his predecessors in the State to come out and swear thart they have never pilfered the state treasury. He said in an interview in Hausa monitored on a local TV and Radio station that his philosophy in governance was not to steal as he.was aware there would…
The Nigeria police has declared a member of the House of Representatives, Bauchi Federal Constituency, Yakubu Abdullahi Shehu, wanted, IGBERETV reports. A gazette citing CRO Form 5 issued from the Office of the Inspector General of Police, says Yakubu is being wanted in connection with a case of criminal conspiracy, causing grievous hurt, inciting disturbance of public…
The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) on Monday said old N200, N500, and N1,000 banknotes remain legal tender Till December 31, 2023. The apex bank’s Acting Director of Corporate Communications, Isa AbdulMumin stated this in a statement on Monday. “In compliance with the established tradition of obedience to court orders and sustenance of the Rule of Law…
A group of protesters on Monday staged a demonstration in the federal capital territory (FCT), warning Atiku Abubakar and Peter Obi, presidential candidates of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), and the Labour Party (LP), against intimidating the judiciary. The group known as The Natives said both candidates should allow the courts to address their grievances…