One person has been killed and dozens of others injured in a stampede that broke out outside a football stadium hours before the Gulf Cup final on Thursday in Iraq. Thousands of fans without tickets reportedly gathered outside the stadium in Iraq’s main southern city of Basra since dawn in …
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The Southern Kaduna Peoples Union, SOKAPU, has raised an alarm over issues concerning the collection of Permanent Voters Cards, PVCs, in Kaduna State. Elisha Rosi, the acting president of SOKAPU, in a statement, said: “We have been inundated with complaints that officials of INEC at some PVCs collection centres in …
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Pandemonium broke out at the Rumuwoji Playground in Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital on Thursday following a twin explosion that rocked the campaign rally of the All Progressives Congress, APC. It was gathered that at least three persons were seriously injured in the unfortunate incident. According to reports, two …
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The Ogun 1 Area Command of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) said it impounded smuggled items worth over N5 billion in the year 2022. This is as the command also generated a revenue of N97,887,777.50 in the year under review. Customs Controller, Bamidele Makinde, said this while presenting the 2022 …
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Nigerian rapper and producer, Abdulrasheed Bello, known professionally as JJC Skillz, has returned to Islam, his father’s religion. The estranged husband of popular actress turned politician Funke Akindele, made the announcement in a series of posts accompanied by an interview with an Islamic online platform, Muslims News, on his Instagram …
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The Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar said he will not descend to the level of the All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu. Atiku who said he is committed to his contract with Nigerians, claimed Tinubu resolved to personal attack …
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The Speaker of Adamawa State House of Assembly, Aminu Iya Abbas, has asked the Court of Appeal to set aside a judgement of the Federal High Court voiding his Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) ticket for the State’s Central Senatorial election. The Speaker whose ticket was voided on November 28 last …
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Former peoples Democratic Party PDP Chairman of Dabaza ward in Kazaure Local Government, Jigawa State, Abubakar Sani alongside other party executives have decamped to the All Progressives Congress. Chairman, Kazaure local government council Muhammad Mukhtar Zanna stated this while receiving the defectors in Jigawa. He said the APC is the …
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One of the spokespersons for the presidential candidate of the Labour Party, LP, Ndi Kato, has called out the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, for engaging in what she described as “shady dealings.” The statement was contained in a post via her Twitter handle on Thursday. Kato alleged that the …
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A Federal High Court in Abuja on Thursday struck out a suit instituted against President Muhammadu Buhari to challenge an alleged lopsidedness in the appointments into the Board of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC). The Suit instituted by an Abuja-based businesswoman and NDDC stakeholder, Chief Mrs Rita Lori Ogbebor …
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