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President Muhammadu Buhari has asked all members of his cabinet seeking elective office to resign on or before May 16. Tolu Ogunlesi, an aide to the president, disclosed this in a tweet on Wednesday. “Just in: All members of President Buhari’s cabinet vying for public office will have to resign on or […]

Olisa Agbakoba, senior advocate of Nigeria (SAN), says former President Goodluck Jonathan is eligible to contest for president in 2023. Recently, there have been varied legal arguments on the eligibility of Jonathan to contest in the 2023 presidential election. Jonathan was Nigeria’s vice-president between 2007 and 2010. He became the president in May 2010 […]

The appeal court says section 84(12) of the Electoral Act, 2022 as unconstitutional but still voided the judgment of the lower court against it. While nullifying the judgement on technical grounds, the three-member panel of appeal court judges said on Wednesday that, nonetheless, the provision violates the rights of a section of people. […]

Sherine Abu Akleh, an Al Jazeera journalist, has been reportedly killed while covering an Israeli raid in the occupied West Bank town of Jenin, a Palestinian city, in the early hours of Wednesday.  The 51-year-old journalist, who was born in Jerusalem began working for Al Jazeera in 1997 and had reported on-camera from across […]

Bill Gates, billionaire businessman and co-founder of Microsoft, says he tested positive for COVID-19. Gates announced this on Tuesday in a post on Twitter, adding that he is experiencing mild symptoms. “I’ve tested positive for COVID. I’m experiencing mild symptoms and am following the experts’ advice by isolating until I’m healthy again,” […]

Six soldiers have been reported dead in an attack by gunmen on Tati village in Takum LGA of Taraba state. The gunmen were said to have come in large numbers and invaded the village on Tuesday around 10pm. They were said to have engaged the troops of 93 battalions in a fierce gun […]

Garba Shehu, presidential spokesman, says President Muhammadu Buhari will hand over to his successor at the end of his tenure in 2023. On Monday, Robert Clarke, senior advocate of Nigeria (SAN), had said the Nigerian constitution allows Buhari to extend his tenure in order to tackle the country’s security challenges. Reacting to […]

Ahmed Yerima, former governor of Zamfara, says Christians in the state benefited from Sharia law when he was in power. Yerima said this on Tuesday when he featured on Channels Television’s ‘Politics Today’. The former Zamfara governor had, in October 1999, introduced Sharia law in the state, after which several other states in the […]