By Nosike Ogbuenyi The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, Thursday afternoon, announced Delta State Governor, Ifeanyi Okowa, as his running mate for the 2023 election, thus bringing a climax to the suspense and speculations that had attended the choice for weeks. Mr Abubakar, a former vice president of Nigeria between…
Salvation Proclaimer Ministries Limited, more commonly known as SPAC Nation, was wound up in the public interest in the High Court on 9 June 2022 before Judge Burton. The Official Receiver has been appointed as liquidator of the company. The court heard that SPAC Nation was incorporated in 2012, a charity set up to advance…
By Biodun Busari A subtle campaign carried out by a petroleum economist, Dr Ahmed Adamu to portray former Vice President and Peoples Democratic Party’s presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar as a simple man to teeming Nigerian youths has received backlash on Twitter. Adamu had posted on Twitter in the early hours of Wednesday that he booked…
Netflix is looking for recruits to compete for millions of dollars. Unlike the original ultra-violent fictional show from South Korea, which became one of the biggest-ever hits on Netflix last year, losing contestants would not be killed. “With the largest cast in reality TV history, 456 real players will enter the game in pursuit of…
This will be in the absence of any extension made by INEC. It said this was to enable more Nigerians to register and vote at the 2023 general polls. The call was contained in a resolution the House passed during plenary in Abuja on Wednesday. The session was presided over by the@SpeakerGbaja, Rep.@Gbajabiamila.The resolution followed…
A teacher who sexted two vulnerable schoolboys and forced their hands down her trousers has been jailed after being labelled the “master of deceit.” Carol Ann White, 39, carried out her “predatory campaign” against the pupils under the age of 12 while employed in two separate North Lanarkshire primary schools. A police investigation was launched…
IGNORE MANIPULATED VIDEO, I’LL NEVER LEAVE PDP-WIKE Our attention has been drawn to a manipulated video circulating on Social Media, purporting that the Governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Ezenwo Wike intends to defect from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). It will be recalled that in June 2021, Governor Wike was interviewed on Arise Television, following…
Support for former Anambra State governor, Peter Obi, has grown in leaps and bounds since he defected to the Labour Party (LP), under whose platform he intends to contest the 2023 presidential election. TEMIDAYO AKINSUYI reports: Since the 2015, the presidential election has always been a two-horse race between the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC)…
They signed the Peace Accord at an event held in Ado-Ekiti under the auspices of the National Peace Committee (NPC) led by a former Head of State General Abdulsalami Abubakar (GCFR), who was represented by the Catholic Bishop of Sokoto Diocese, Most Rev. Matthew Hassan Kukah. The accord was signed by the eleven candidates vying…
A man, identified only as Kayode, has committed suicide after his neighbour’s daughter accused him of raping her twice at their house in the Oja-Amukoko area of Lagos State. PUNCH Metro gathered that the victim’s mother, who had a stroke, was taken to the Ikorodu area for treatment. The suspect, who was put in care…