The National Emergency Management Agency has received a batch of 150 Nigerians repatriated from Niamey, Niger Republic. It was learnt that the returnees were voluntarily brought back to Nigeria in a chartered aircraft, Sky Mali UR-CQX with registration number FMI 6001, which landed at the Cargo Wing of the Murtala Muhammad International Airport, on Tuesday….
The Ondo State Governor, Mr Rotimi Akeredolu, has called on the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd), to order the Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria, Mr Godwin Emefiele, to reverse the controversial new naira design policy. Akeredolu decried the alleged non-obedience of the CBN to the court order on the old notes’ deadline extension,…
Ukraine’s allies are in a race against time to produce enough ammunition, fuel, and spare parts to thwart an offensive by Russian forces that NATO’s chief said is already under way. Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg again urged Ukraine’s Western allies to ramp up their military support. Asked Monday when he expects Russia’s so-called spring offensive to…
The North-West zone of the All Progressives Congress, on Sunday, says the defection of notable politicians from the opposition parties and reconciliation of aggrieved APC stakeholders signal an imminent victory for its presidential candidate, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu. The National Vice Chairman of the APC (North-West), Salihu Lukman, said this in a statement in Abuja on…
The Christian Association of Nigeria, on Sunday, distanced itself from the alleged N2bn claimed to have been given by the presidential candidate of Labour Party, Peter Obi, to churches under its umbrella. The Christian body also said it would probe the source of the petition, in which the allegation was made, describing its content as…
The Aare Onakakanfo of Yoruba land, Gani Adams, has described the presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi, as a man of integrity but said he has not endorsed him yet. The duo met in Lagos on Monday and Adams said Obi’s visit was an opportunity for the LP candidate to present the blueprint…
Two weeks before the presidential election, the Labour Party in the South-West has collapsed its entire structure in the region into the All Progressives Congress. The group also declared its support for the presidential candidate of the APC, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu. Speaking with journalists in Akure, the Ondo State capital, on Monday, the South-West Chairman…
Leader of the pan Yoruba socio-political organisation Afenifere, Chief Ayo Adebanjo, has dismissed the claim of emi lokan, a Yoruba expression translating to “my turn”.According to him, the purported claim to presidential succession is nothing more than a personal agreement between the presidential candidate of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu, and President…
By Ayomide Otitojui The vice presidential candidate of Labour Party, Datti Baba-Ahmed, thrilled party faithful in Lagos State on Saturday with a rendition of a cover of Fela Anikulapo Kuti’s 1976 Afrobeat hit, “Yellow Fever”.Baba-Ahmed, while giving his address at the party’s presidential campaign rally held at Tafawa Balewa Square (TBS), described Fela as the…
