Funke Akindele, an award-winning actress and deputy governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party in Lagos, has boasted that her followers on social media, numbering over 20 million, will come out en masse to vote for the party in 2023. Ms Akindele was convicted and sentenced in 2020 for violating Lagos COVID-19 protocols but was … [Read more…]
The Nigerian Correctional Service has recaptured 421 inmates who fled the its facility in Kuje Abuja, while 454 others are still at large, according to the House of Representatives’ Committee on Correctional Service. This is just as the committee said it had summoned the Minister of Interior, Rauf Aregbesola; and Comptroller-General of the NCoS, Haliru … [Read more…]
The military got fresh marching orders yesterday from President Muhammadu Buhari: wipe out terrorists. He said the last 12 years have been the most challenging due to insecurity. The North has been reeling under serious terrorism and bandit attacks which have taken a turn for the worse. There have been attacks on communities, kidnapping for … [Read more…]
Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom, has urged the Federal Government to release without delay, the detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu. He said Kanu’s release would allow the peace process in the country to be taken seriously. He stated this when he received in audience, the American veterans of Igbo … [Read more…]
The Peoples Democratic Party has instituted a lawsuit compelling the Independent National Electoral Commission to prevent All Progressives Congress Presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu; and Labour Party standard bearer, Peter Obi, from replacing their running mates with Senator Kashim Shettima and Senator Datti Baba-Ahmed respectively. The PDP is also asking the court to declare that Tinubu … [Read more…]
A former Nigerian president, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo has been awarded Zambia’s highest award, the Order of the Eagle by President Hakainde Hichilema. Two former Presidents, Ellen Sirleaf Johnson of Liberia and Ernest Bai Koroma of Sierra Leone also got similar honour at the colourful ceremony on Thursday, in Lusaka, the country’s capital. Obasanjo’s Special Assistant … [Read more…]
12 years after sack, Ugwuanyi reinstates Labour leader, Osmond Ugwu A Coalition of Civil Society Workers and Human Rights Defenders, COCSWAHD, has hailed the reinstatement to civil service of their leader, Comrade Osmond Ugwu, who was sacked from the Enugu State Civil Service in 2010 for his mobolisation of workers to insist on the implementation … [Read more…]
ECOWAS Court declares Twitter ban unlawful, cautions Buhari govt The ECOWAS Court has declared unlawful the suspension of Twitter by the government of President Muhammadu Buhari, and ordered the administration not to repeat it again. This development is coming on the heels of a suit by Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) and 176 concerned … [Read more…]
Nollywood Actor, Baba Ijesha, bags 16-year jail term for sexual assault An Ikeja Special Offences Court has convicted embattled Nollywood actor, Olanrewaju James, alias Baba Ijesha, for sexually assaulting a 14-year-old minor. In a two-hour judgment, on Thursday, Justice Oluwatoyin Taiwo, convicted Baba Ijesha of indecent treatment of a child, sexual assault, and handed him … [Read more…]
JUST IN: Kwankwaso picks Lagos pastor, Bishop Idahosa, as running mate Senator Rabiu Kwankwaso, the presidential candidate of the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) has chosen Bishop Isaac Idahosa as his running mate for the 2023 general elections. The party made the announcement on the official Twitter page on Thursday. “Our VP Pastor Bishop Isaac … [Read more…]
Loyalists of the All Progressives Congress presidential candidate, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, have said the party’s vice-presidential candidate, Kashim Shettima, will not be dropped in spite of criticism over his appointment. Various groups campaigning for the APC’s presidential candidate, in separate interviews with The PUNCH, faulted those, who berated the APC and its standard-bearer over the … [Read more…]
The Major Oil Marketers Association of Nigeria, MOMAN, said the regulated N165 pump price for Premium Motor Spirit, PMS, also known as petrol, was no longer realistic. Chairman, MOMAN, Mr Olumide Adeosun, stated this during a virtual consumer protection workshop for oil marketers by the Federal Competition and Consumer Protection Commission, FCCPC, in Lagos, yesterday. … [Read more…]