Africa

Atiku Abubakar Victor Ogunje in Ado Ekiti Associates of the late Gen. Shehu Musa Yar’Adua under the platform of the Yar’Adua/Atiku Political Family and Friends have regrouped in Ekiti State ahead of 2019 presidential election with the sole objective to rally support for former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar in the impending …

Senate passes new Electoral Act Amendment Bill The Senate on Tuesday passed a new and fourth version of the Electoral Act 2010 (Amendment) Bill, 2018. President Muhammadu Buhari had declined assent to the bill three times, citing some constitutional and drafting issues. During the just-ended annual recess of the National …

No fewer than nine persons are feared dead in an accident involving a Mercedes-Benz Marcopolo bus and an Iveco truck at Aseese area on the Lagos/Ibadan Expressway, on Tuesday. Clement Oladele, Ogun Sector Commander, Federal Road Safety Corps, confirmed the figure to the Raidar Gist in Abeokuta. Mr Oladele said …

Lai Mohammed Adedayo Akinwale in Abuja The Atiku Presidential Campaign Organisation (APCO) has described the Minister of Information, Alhaji Lai Muhammed, as the high priest of the All Progressives Congress (APC) cult of liars. This may not be unconnected to the news story on a national daily of Saturday, October …

Jamal Khashogg: Global outrage over his brutal murder fails to stop Saudi Investment Summit Saudi Arabia kicked off an investment summit Tuesday despite a wave of cancellations from policymakers and business titans over the brutal murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi. However, Turkey’s threat to reveal the “naked truth” over Khashoggi’s …

The vice presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Peter Obi, on Monday said Igbo leaders and governors of the zone never disagreed with his nomination but disagreed with the process. Mr Obi who visited Governor David Umahi in the Government House Abakalikii said he was in the state …

Alex Enumah and Adedayo Akinwale in Abuja The Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Justice Walter Onnoghen, and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential candidate, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, have expressed their sadness over the death of former CJN, Justice Idris Legbo Kutigi. Kutigi was reported to have passed on in a …

  Ibrahim Magu, Acting EFCC Chairman of EFCC By Ibrahim Kado The Economic and Financial Crime Commission (EFCC) says it has set up a team to commence investigation of abandoned government projects across the country. Acting EFCC Chairman, Alhaji Ibrahim Magu, stated this in an interview with newsmen in Gombe …

Bello Adoke, a former Nigeria’s attorney general, has extolled the virtues of deceased former Chief Justice of Nigeria, Legbo Kutigi. Mr Kutigi, CJN from January 2007 to December 2009, was announced dead in London by his family on Sunday. He was 78. Tributes have poured in from all classes and …

Laleye Dipo in Minna A former Niger State Governor, Dr Muazu Babangida Aliyu, has declared that all the candidates of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) that emerged from the national convention and state primary elections “are sellable candidates that will win the 2019 general election”. Dr Aliyu made this known …