2023: YPP summons presidential candidate over ‘slow campaign’
Malik Ado-Ibrahim, presidential candidate of the Young Progressives Party (YPP), has been summoned by the party over the “slow build-up” of his activities for the 2023 elections. Egbeola Wale-Martins, YPP national secretary, disclosed this on Sunday in a statement issued at the end of the party’s 20th national working committee (NWC) meeting in […]
FG nominates Fayemi for CON again — eight years after Jonathan awarded him
The federal government has again nominated Kayode Fayemi, governor of Ekiti, for the commander of the order of the Niger (CON) national award. This comes eight years after the administration of former president Goodluck Jonathan nominated Fayemi for the same award. Although the governor reportedly did not attend the award ceremony held […]
Airport cleaner, security guard who recovered lost money nominated for national honours
The federal government is set to confer national honours on a bank security guard, airport cleaner and gateman. The trio will receive the title of the Federal Republic Medal II (FRM II) on October 11 alongside other Nigerians who were nominated for the national honours. Musa Usman served as a gateman to […]
VIDEO: ‘174’ killed in stampede at Indonesia football match
At least 174 people have been feared dead in a stampede at a football match in Indonesia — in one of the world’s worst stadium disasters. The tragedy occurred on Saturday night after a football match between Arema FC and Persebaya Surabaya at Kanjuruhan Stadium in the eastern city of Malang. Police […]
INSIDE STORY: How 25-year erosion crisis in Lagos community keeps pupils out of school
Esther Olarenwaju was 10 years old when she was returning home from an errand to buy a sachet of pure water on a rainy day in June 2019. Unfortunately, she slipped and fell inside one of the huge gullies that dominated the landscape of the Gafaru community located in the Ikotun axis, Alimosho LGA […]
Newspaper Headlines: Parties must disclose sources of campaign funds, says Mahmood Yakubu
The national dailies are inundated with reports of the crisis in the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), the main opposition party in Nigeria. Source: Top Stories
FULL LIST: Okonjo-Iweala, Abba Kyari, former COS… FG nominates 437 persons for national honours
A total of 437 persons have been nominated by the federal government to receive national honours. The awards will be presented by President Muhammadu Buhari on October 11, at an event scheduled to hold at the state house in Abuja. According to the list, five persons — Senate President Ibrahim Lawan, Olukayode […]
Okowa: PDP is home to aggrieved governors — issues will be resolved
Ifeanyi Okowa, governor of Delta and vice-presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), says he is optimistic that the issues causing grievances in the party will be resolved. Okowa spoke on Saturday after a meeting with Adolphus Wabara, acting chairman of the party’s board of trustees (BoT), in Abuja. There has […]
‘Fake beggars’: Police nab four for ‘injecting minors to make their stomachs swell’
Benjamin Hundeyin, spokesperson of the Lagos police command, says four men have been apprehended in the state for allegedly parading minors as beggars. In a post on Twitter on Saturday, Hundeyin said the men got the minors from villages and brought them to Lagos to seek alms. According to the police spokesman, […]
It’s all politics, can’t you see?
May I herein solemnly bear witness that Nigerian politicians are geniuses at playing politics. They can scheme and strategise, manipulate and manoeuvre, plot and politick for 40 days and 40 nights non-stop just to score a political goal. They, however, do not know — or care about — the core purpose of politics and […]