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The supreme court has affirmed David Umahi, Ebonyi governor, as the candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) for Ebonyi south senatorial district. In a unanimous judgment delivered on Friday, a five-member panel of the apex court led by Kudirat Kekere-Ekun, dismissed the appeal filed by Ann Agom-Eze, an aspirant for the senatorial […]

President Muhammadu Buhari has condemned the alleged abduction of babies from a hospital in Anambra state. However, the Anambra police command and the state government said such an incident did not happen in the state. BACKGROUND On Thursday, there were claims that  babies — some reports had four while others had […]

The Labour Party (LP) has announced the dissolution of the executive council of the Ogun state chapter of the party. Umar Farouk, LP national publicity secretary, announced the development in a communique on Friday. He said the decision was taken during a meeting of the party’s national working committee (NWC). Farouk […]

On Thursday, Nana Akufo-Addo, President of Ghana, presented a draft of the 2023 budget to the parliament. The draft, presented by the ministry of finance, contains the budget statement and economic policy of the government for the year ending December 31, 2023. Akufo-Addo, seeking the parliament’s approval, anchored the 2023 budget on […]

Thousands of university and college staff in the United Kingdom, including lecturers, librarians and researchers, have declared a strike to demand pay increase and improved working conditions. The University and College Union (UCU), the UK trade union for university staff, said the strike, referred to as the biggest in decades, is to improve […]

Bola Tinubu, standard bearer of the All Progressives Congress (APC), says if elected president of the country, he will protect businesses of the Igbo. Tinubu spoke on Thursday at the APC presidential campaign rally in Ebonyi. The former Lagos governor also said he would not tolerate any form of discrimination against the […]

A federal high court sitting in Port Harcourt, Rivers state, has disqualified Tonye Cole, the governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the state. Emmanuel Obile, the presiding judge, gave the ruling on Thursday according to PUNCH. In May, Cole, a former executive director of Sahara Group, won the APC […]

Nigeria’s gross domestic product (GDP) grew by 2.25 percent year-on-year in Q3 2022, down from 3.54 percent in Q2. The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) said this in its latest GDP report for the third quarter of 2022. The slow growth was due to the country’s low oil production, as output slumped […]

The five governors of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) dubbed as G5 have accused some “enemies of progress” of frustrating the party’s quest for the presidency in 2023. Governors in the G5 group led by Nyesom Wike, Rivers governor, are Seyi Makinde of Oyo, Samuel Ortom of Benue, Okezie Ikpeazu of Abia, and […]