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As the page turns to herald a new year, 2022 has not been without its share of the good, the bad, and the jaw-dropping unexpected across the world. From the United Kingdom’s double change of guard within weeks, to the death of Queen Elizabeth II, and the one-day-one-trend drama following Elon Musk’s Twitter […]

Bola Tinubu, the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), has reacted to the recent reports on an alleged meeting involving some governors of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). There have been reports in recent days that the G5 governors, who are PDP members, recently met with Tinubu in London, and agreed […]

President Muhammadu Buhari says any activity designed to disrupt the 2023 general election will be met with “full force of the law“. Buhari said this in his 2023 New Year message to Nigerians, which was released on Saturday. On February 25, 2023, Nigerians will go to the polls to elect a new […]

Abdullahi Ganduje, Kano governor, has sacked Tahar Adam, the state’s commissioner for religious affairs, over “unguarded utterances”. According to a statement on Saturday by Muhammad Garba, Kano commissioner for information and internal affairs, the commissioner was also found guilty of running the affairs of his office as personal business. The information commissioner […]

Femi Falana, the human rights lawyer, says the best tribute lawyers can pay to Bolanle Raheem is to mobilise Nigerians against police brutality. Falana said the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) must ensure that Raheem did not die in vain like other victims of police brutality. Last Sunday, Raheem was allegedly shot dead […]

Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI has died at the age of 95, the Vatican announced on Saturday. Pope Francis recently informed the world that the former pontiff was “very sick”. The German-born late pope passed away on Saturday morning in his residence at the Vatican’s Mater Ecclesiae Monastery. Born Joseph Aloisius Ratzinger, […]

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) says 1,693,963 permanent voters cards (PVCs) are yet to be collected in Lagos state. According to a document released by the commission’s Lagos office on Friday, the number of old PVCs received from the national headquarters is 6,570,291, out of which 5,653,330 have been collected and 916,961 […]

Don Pedro Obaseki, a media consultant to Atiku Abubakar, presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), says it will be “political suicide” if the G5 governors endorse any candidate outside the PDP. Obaseki spoke on Friday during an interview with Channels Television. The media consultant is also the director of research, […]