COWS ARE NOT NIGERIANS, AKPABIO

During a heated Senate session on Wednesday, Senate President Godswill Akpabio made a striking statement, declaring, “Cows are not citizens of Nigeria,” while addressing a senator’s controversial remarks regarding the ongoing farmer-herder clashes in the country. The remark came amid discussions surrounding the proposed National Animal Husbandry and Ranches Commission bill, which aims to control…

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OBASANJO A TIMELESS STATESMAN, MONARCH

The Olowu of Kuta, His Imperial Majesty, Oba Adekunle Oyelude Makama (CON) has described former President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo as a timeless statesman whose presence will be felt many years after his generation. Oba Makama, who congratulated Chief Obasanjo for enjoying a healthily long life, asserted that God purposely…

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EMEFIELE TO FORFEIT ANOTHER #11.14B

A Federal High Court in Lagos has granted an order for the interim forfeiture of property valued at N11.14 billion allegedly linked to former Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, governor, Mr. Godwin Emefiele. Trial judge, Justice Chukwujekwu Aneke, granted the order following an-ex parte application filed and argued by Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC,…

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‘PDP NOT IN MERGER TALKS’

The People’s Democratic Party, PDP, has said that it is not in merger talks with any political party ahead of the 2027 elections. It will be recalled that former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar and Peter Obi, presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP) in the 2023 elections, had a private meeting in Abuja on May 13,…

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APC DISOWNS AREGBESOLA

Osun State chapter of the All Progressives Congress, APC, has disowned a former governor of the state, Rauf Aregbesola.Chairman of the party, Mr. Tajudeen Lawal disclosed this in a communiqué after a stakeholders’ meeting at the state secretariat in Osogbo on Tuesday. According to the chairman, the former minister of interior had committed various anti-party…

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FG NAMES HIGHWAY AFTER SOYINKA

President Bola Tinubu has approved the naming of the full-scope Arterial road N20 from Northern Parkway to the Outer Northern Expressway (otherwise called the Murtala Mohammed Expressway) as the Wole Soyinka Way. The President stated this during his address at the inauguration of the road in Abuja on Tuesday, where he described the 89-year-old playwright…

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