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The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) says its presidential ticket will not be zoned to any region. Debo Ologunagba, PDP spokesperson, announced this on Wednesday night after the national executive committee (NEC) meeting at the party’s headquarters in Abuja. He said the decision aligns with the recommendation of the party’s zoning committee. […]

Godswill Akpabio, minister of Niger Delta affairs, and Ogbonnaya Onu, minister of science and technology, have resigned their appointments. The ministers resigned following President Muhammadu Buhari’s directive ordering members of the federal executive council seeking elective offices to resign on or before Monday. Jackson Udom, media aide to Akpabio, confirmed the resignation […]

Ndi Igbo. We know how to jinx a good thing. Perhaps, it is our seeming indomitability, boisterousness and Thanos-will that seduce us to think everyone must believe in what we believe in and must act and think in consonance with our disposition. Anyone who does not support us or share in our sentiments is […]

The federal government has scheduled a meeting with the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) for Thursday. The details of the meeting were contained in a letter from the office of the ministry of labour and employment, which was addressed to various stakeholders on Wednesday. According to the letter dated May 11 […]

The Lagos government has ordered the immediate stoppage of approval for structures above three floors in Ebute Metta east and west axis of the state. Idris Salako, the state commissioner for physical planning and urban development, in a statement on Wednesday, said the decision followed an audit of buildings in the area. […]

The Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics (ASUP) has declared a two-week strike over the non-implementation of its demands by the federal government. The union announced its resolve to embark on the industrial action in a statement after an emergency national executive council (NEC) meeting on Wednesday. In the statement signed by Anderson […]

Chukwuemeka Nwajiuba, minister of state for education, has resigned from his position. His resignation was said to have been announced at the federal executive council (FEC) meeting presided over by President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday. Nwajiuba had, on April 27, announced his intention to run for president in the 2023 general election […]

Ken Nnamani, presidential hopeful on the All Progressives Congress (APC) platform, has described the trend of support groups buying the party’s presidential nomination forms for some contenders as “a big lie”. The former president of the senate spoke in a chat with AriseTV on Wednesday. Over 20 aspirants have declared their interest […]

The second episode of Our Two Kobo, ‘Domestic Violence, Divorce and the Burden of Religion’, centres on the roles played by religion, society and the law in cases of domestic violence in Nigeria. Drawing insight from the death of Osinachi Nwachukwu, a gospel singer alleged to have been abused by her husband, Jam […]