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,…
The Senate has on Wednesday, approved a bill that grants a 300 per cent salary increase for judicial officers at the federal and state levels. The Red Chamber approved the report presented by the Senate Committee on Judiciary, Human Rights, and Legal Matters, chaired by Senator Mohammed Tahir Monguno (APC- Borno North), to the lawmakers….
The Nigerian Army authorities have finally issued a warrant to commit a former Group Managing Director and Executive Vice Chairman of the Nigerian Army Properties Limited, Maj. Gen. Umaru Muazu Mohammed, to prison. Mohammed’s warrant of committal to prison came a week after he was illegally put in Kuje Prison. A top military source on Tuesday…
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…
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…
Pastor Enoch Adeboye, the General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, RCCG, has urged Nigerians experiencing hard times to call on God for help. Adeboye stated this at RCCG headquarters in Ebute-Metta on Sunday during the June thanksgiving service with the theme, ‘Lifter Up of My Head’.He said, “If you need provision, if…
Three young Federal lawmakers have rejected the official Sports Utility Vehicle, SUV, given to the lawmakers by the Federal Government and demanded for the money to build factories in their communities. Last year, November 2023, there was an uproar when the Federal Government approved for all members of the Federal House of Representatives brand new…
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo recently shared a story about the kindness he received from a traditional ruler, Lamido, while he was in prison. He explained that during his time in Adamawa, late Lamido treated him like his own child. In a video recently shared on YouTube, Obasanjo said while he was in prison, Lamido gave…
Gospel singer Yinka Ayefele has clarified that he fathered his triplets contrary to what many people think. He explained that though it was rare for people with spinal cord injury to impregnate a woman, but he happens to be one of the few exceptions. He made the clarification during the ‘Curiosity Made Me Ask’ show…
The Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) says the “labour union has shut down” the national grid, resulting in a blackout nationwide. The national grid shut down occured at about 2.19 am on 3rd June 2024. The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and the Trade Union Congress of Nigeria (TUC) kicked off their indefinite nationwide strike today,…
