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The Oluwo of Iwo, Oba Abdulrosheed Adewale Akanbi, has described Bola Ahmed Tinubu, the All Presidential Congress (APC) as the solution to Nigeria’s challenges. He also described Tinubu as a unifier whose conducts have been instrumental to the sustenance of one Nigeria. In a statement signed by Alli Ibraheem, his …

Members of the minority caucus in the Senate and the House of Representatives have given conditions under which they would backdown on the current impeachment move on President Muhammadu Buhari. Key among the conditions is evidence that the president has tackled the frightening dimension of insecurity in the country. The minority …

Ohanaeze Ndigbo, the apex Igbo socio-cultural organisation, has claimed that there is a grand conspiracy to keep Senator Ike Ekweremadu away from Nigeria due to the 2023 general elections. Therefore, it requested that the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) step in and secure the lawmaker’s immediate release. The …

Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, the APC Presidential candidate, has congratulated Team Nigeria on a successful campaign at this year’s Commonwealth Games in Birmingham, United Kingdom. At the Commonwealth Games, which ended on Monday, Team Nigeria finished seventh with 35 medals, including 12 gold. The Nigerian team won more medals than teams like …

The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has postponed its caucus and National Executive Committee, NEC, meetings earlier scheduled for Wednesday and Thursday, respectively. A notice of the postponement by the party’s National Secretary, Senator Samuel Anyanwu, on Monday, cited “unforeseen circumstances” as reason for the shift in date. He wrote, “This …

Four months after they were granted state pardon by the National Council of State (NCS), the former Governor of Plateau State, Senator Joshua Dariye and the former Taraba State Governor, Jolly Nyame, yesterday, were released from prison. They were released together with 159 convicts who were also pardoned by the …

A member of the Adamawa State House of Assembly, Shuaibu Babas, has resigned his membership of the All Progressives Congress (APC). Shuaibu Babas, who represents the Fufore/Gurin constituency in the Assembly, announced his defection to Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) He cited irregularities in the last House of Assembly primary election as …

The military taskforce in charge of maintaining peace in Plateau State has disclosed that its fight against bandits in the state is yielding positive results. The spokesperson for the Operation Safe Haven, Major Ishaku Takwa made this known while speaking in Jos in Monday after the troops of the taskforce …

Kogi State Governor, Yahaya Bello, has admonished commercial institutions to fix high-tech Close Circuit Television cameras around their branches, covering the banking premises and the neighbourhood. The governor made this call while receiving the committee of bankers in Kogi State at the Government House in Lokoja on Monday. He told the …

Ohanaeze Ndigbo, the apex Igbo socio-cultural organisation has slammed President Muhammadu Buhari over his recent utterances on the killings in the South East. The Igbo group while condemning the security situation in the South East said the utterances of the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of the Federal Republic of …