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Tajudeen Abbas, speaker of the house of representatives, says Nigeria will be great again and “doomsayers will be disappointed”.  In a statement on Saturday, Musa Abdullahi, special adviser on media to the speaker, said Abbas congratulated Nigerians as they celebrate the country’s 63rd independence anniversary.  He called on fellow citizens to keep […]

Atiku Abubakar, former vice-president, says Nigerians must strive to pull the country from a “place of uncertainty to safety”. In an independence message to Nigerians on Saturday, Abubakar said the youths have triumphed beyond imagination in various professional fields across the world. Nigeria will mark its 63rd independence anniversary on October 1. […]

The Taraba governorship election petition tribunal has affirmed Kefas Agbu, candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), as the duly elected governor of the state.   In a judgment delivered on Saturday, the tribunal dismissed the petition filed by Muhammad Yahaya and the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) for lacking in merit. Agbu […]

Mohammed Usman, Nigerian ambassador to the Niger Republic, has denied reports that the military junta prohibited President Bola Tinubu’s jet from flying in its airspace. The military junta in Niger was said to have asked the plane conveying Tinubu, who had just returned from the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) in New York, […]

Some members of the Christ Apostolic Church (CAC) in Oke Igan, Akure, Ondo state capital have been abducted. The Ondo police command confirmed the abduction on Saturday. The church members were reportedly travelling for a burial ceremony when they were attacked and abducted by gunmen at Ifon in Ose LGA of the […]

Ovie Omo-Agege, a former deputy senate president, said the judgment of the Delta state governorship tribunal which dismissed his case against the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) is unexpected. The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) had declared Sheriff Oborevwori, the PDP candidate, as the winner of the Delta state governorship election held on March […]

The Akwa Ibom electoral petition tribunal has affirmed the election of  Umo Eno as the governor of the state. In a judgement delivered on Friday, the tribunal dismissed the petition marked EPT/AKW/GOV/01/2023 instituted by Albert Bassey and his party, the Young Progressives Party (YPP), which challenged the election of the Akwa Ibom state […]

The meeting between the federal government and the leadership of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) scheduled to hold on Friday to prevent the looming nationwide strike by the union failed to take place. Femi Gbajabiamila, chief of staff to President Bola Tinubu, and Simon Lalong, minister of labour and employment, were at the presidential […]