SUPER Seven-time champions Nigeria will square up to host nation Egypt, Senegal and Mozambique in the group stage of the 2023 Africa U20 Cup of Nations finals scheduled for Egypt, February 19 – March 11. The four teams are in Group A. The draw held in Cairo on Friday evening …
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CHRISTMAS address by the President and Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces Federal Republic of Nigeria, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), delivered on December 24, 2022. I heartily rejoice with our Christian brothers and sisters on the occasion of this year’s Christmas. Many of us look forward to this festive season …
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SOCIALIST Labour in a statement by its National Secretary, Biodun Olamosu, said Tinubu had never been friend of the workers. Socialist Labour, a Nigerian labour group, has warned Nigerian workers against supporting the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Bola Tinubu. Tinubu had recently met with the leadership …
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IN the suit numbered FHC/ABJ/CS/1114/2022 which had Tinubu, the APC, and the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) as co-defendants, Nwajiuba had urged INEC to disqualify the former Lagos State Governor and recognise him as the APC candidate. AFederal High Court sitting in Abuja on Friday dismissed a suit filed by …
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FORMER President Goodluck Jonathan has stated that Nigeria is extremely divided, noting that the next Nigerian president must work towards uniting the nation. Jonathan made this assertion on Friday when the presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Peter Obi, met with him at his Yenagoa residence in Bayelsa State. …
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ANSLEM Eragbe, the suspended National Youth Leader of the Labour Party, has demanded N10 million in refunds from the party’s leadership in order to offset some embarrassing online debts he incurred during their mobilization campaign. Eragbe made the demand in a letter to the party’s presidential candidate, Peter Obi; his …
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ROTIMI Akeredolu, Governor of Ondo State, has condemned the continuous agitation for a Yoruba nation by some groups in the South-West, saying such agitation would undermine the efforts of those who had laid their lives for Nigeria’s unity. The chairman of the Southern Governors Forum, Akeredolu, vowed that no state …
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Rivers State Governor Nyesom Wike slammed a former senator representing Rivers South-East, Lee Maeba, on Friday for his contributions to Ogoniland despite his alliance with Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential candidate Atiku Abubakar. Wike, speaking at the commissioning of the Bori-Kono Road in the state, said that as a minister, …
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Ademola Adeleke, the governor of Osun State, approved the appointment of Dr. Adebayo Faforiji as the new Alamuye of Amuye Faforiji in the state’s Atakunmosa East Local Government Area on Friday. Between 2003 and 2010, Faforiji served as the state Commissioner for Works in the administration of Governor Olagunsoye Oyinlola. …
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THE Court of Appeal sitting in Abuja, on Friday, affirmed Chief Ikechi Emenike as the authentic candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, for the 2023 governorship election in Abia state. In a unanimous judgment delivered on three appeal cases before it, the appeal panel led by Hon Justice Peter …
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