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Bola Tinubu, presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), says Atiku Abubakar, standard bearer of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), should endorse him for the presidency. Speaking on Monday at an event organised by the Arewa joint committee in Kaduna, Tinubu said he supported the former vice-president when he contested the presidency […]

Nyesom Wike, governor of Rivers, says the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) needs to apologise to Nigerians over the recent comments of Atiku Abubakar, its presidential candidate.  In a statement issued by Kelvin Ebiri, Wike’s spokesperson, the governor spoke on Monday at the Omagwa international airport in Port Harcourt, Rivers state, when he returned […]

Atiku Abubakar, presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), says he will get the highest number of votes from Kaduna in the 2023 presidential election. Polling 613,318 votes, Kaduna gave Atiku his highest tally from a state in the 2019 presidential election — although President Muhammadu Buhari of the All Progressives Congress […]

An inquest into the death of Jumoke Oyeleke, a lady killed during a ‘Yoruba Nation’ rally in Lagos, has ruled that she died of a bullet shot from a police weapon. On July 3, 2021, ‘Yoruba Nation’ agitators converged on the Ojota area of Lagos to demand an independent state for the south-west […]

Peter Obi, presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), on Monday, paid a courtesy visit to Ahmad Gumi, the Islamic cleric. Obi and Datti Baba-Ahmed, his running mate, visited the cleric in his official residence in Kaduna state. The LP standard bearer announced the meeting on his Twitter handle, sharing photos from […]

President Muhammadu Buhari says his administration has delivered remarkable projects across the country. The president spoke at his last ministerial performance review retreat organised to evaluate the progress made in the implementation of his administration’s nine-priority agenda. Speaking at the event on Monday, Buhari highlighted the progress his administration has made in […]

Here are the seven top business news you need to track this week — October 17 to October 21 AFRICAN ENERGY WEEK (AEW) 2022 CONFERENCE AND EXHIBITION The African energy week (AEW) 2022 conference and exhibition, Africa’s premier event for the oil and gas sector, will take place from October 18 to […]

Emmanuel Osodeke, president of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), says the main reason lecturers decided to resume teaching is because of a court order asking them to do so. ASUU had been on strike since February 14 to press home the demand for improved funding for universities, a review of salaries […]