Israel launched rare strikes in southern Lebanon early Friday and pressed on with bombing targets in the Gaza Strip, marking a widening escalation in the region following violence this week at Jerusalem’s most sensitive holy site. The cross-border fighting erupted during a time of heightened religious fervor — when Jews are celebrating the Passover holiday … [Read more…]
Julius Abure has rejected what he described as “illegitimate” executive members of the Labour Party (LP) and maintained he remains the National Chairman of the party. Some members of the LP National Working Committee led by the Deputy National Chairman of the party (South) Lamidi Apapa on Thursday took over the affairs of the party … [Read more…]
Some members of the National Working Committee of the Labour Party (LP) led by the Deputy National Chairman of the party (South) Lamidi Apapa have taken over the affairs of the party following a court judgment restraining Julius Abure and three others from parading themselves as national officers of the party. The development took place … [Read more…]
The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed has condemned the attack on him by the pan-Yoruba socio-political organisation, Afenifere, for stating Federal Government’s position on the 2023 elections. The minister responded to the organisation’s attack in an interview with newsmen on Thursday in Washington. Afenifere had berated the minister for admonishing Peter Obi, … [Read more…]
The National Chairman of All Progressives Congress, APC, Abdullahi Adamu, said the party’s loss in the March 18 governorship election in Kano state was as a result of selfishness. Adamu made this known in an interview with BBC Hausa on Wednesday. Recall that the APC governorship candidate, Nasir Yusuf Gawuna, lost to Abba Yusuf of … [Read more…]
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo said the incoming administration must explore all avenues at ending ethnic division that emanated from the 2023 general elections. Obasanjo stated this while speaking at a conference, themed, “From Elections to Governance and Performance,” organised by Nextier and the Ibadan School of Governance and Public Policy in Abuja on Thursday. The … [Read more…]
Chelsea Football club has announced Frank Lampard as their caretaker manager until the end of the season. Lampard, who played for Chelsea for over a decade and already has a stint as a manager with the London club is momentarily replacing Graham Potter who was recently sacked after a run of disappointing results. Chelsea have … [Read more…]
The Federal government has declared Friday, April 7 and Monday, April 10, 2023, as Good Friday and Easter Monday respectively as public holidays to mark this year’s Easter celebration. The minister of interior, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola, made the announcement yesterday in Abuja. Aregbesola, in a statement signed by the ministry’s permanent secretary, Dr Shuaib Belgore, … [Read more…]
Benue State governor-elect, Rev. Fr. Hyacinth Alia, has described the state civil service as one in very bad and critical condition which can be likened to a patient in hospital’s Intensive Care Unit (ICU). The Catholic priest-turned-politician, who spoke to newsmen on Wednesday after a courtesy visit to President Muhammadu Buhari, at the State House, … [Read more…]
The Federal government has approved the 2023 disbursement guidelines for the sum of N320,345,040, 835 as intervention to public tertiary institutions across the country. The Executive Secretary of TETFund, Sonny Echono, at a workshop organised for beneficiary institutions, disclosed that on the basis of this, each university shall get for the 2023 intervention cycle, the … [Read more…]
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has pleaded with the Central Criminal Court of England, otherwise known as the Old Bailey, to temper justice with mercy in the May 5 sentencing of convicted Deputy Senate President Ike Ekweremadu; and his wife Beatrice. After a six-week trial at the Old Bailey, last month, the couple and their doctor … [Read more…]
…NCC refutes allegations of tracking, leakage of telephone calls The presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi, has distanced himself from a purportedly leaked phone call between himself and the founder of Living Faith Church Worldwide aka Winners Chapel, Bishop David Oyedepo. An online medium had published the audio clip, prompting tensions between Obi’s … [Read more…]