Pa Vincent Ali Ojoh passes on
Pa Vincent Ali Ojoh, father of Mr Christopher Ali .a retired senior civil servant with Kogi State Government, is dead. He passed on recently at his Idah resident at the age of 90. A statement by his son Christopher Alii who is currently based in Ottawa,Ontario, Canada described his late father as a caring, and compassionate dad, as well...
Nigerian Newspapers: 10 things you need to know this Friday morning
Good morning! Here is today’s summary from Nigerian Newspapers: 1. The military has again warned against plans to sabotage the handover of power to the President-elect, Bola Tinubu on May 29. The Director of Defence Media Operations, Major General Musa Danmadami handed down the warning on Thursday in Abuja. 2. Archbishop of the Abuja Catholic Archdiocese, John Onaiyekan, yesterday said that...
Election dispute: Allow judiciary to decide, Gowon tells Atiku, Obi, others
•Urges Nigerians to accept tribunal’s verdict As legal fireworks begin on petitions challenging the outcome of the 2023 presidential election, former military Head of State, General Yakubu Gowon, yesterday, implored aggrieved candidates to allow the judiciary to decide their fate. Gowon, who was a special guest at the 15th Edition of Punuka Annual Lecture and Symposium, organised in honour of a...
Tinubu Vows to Make Corruption Unattractive, Says Unity of Country Not Negotiable
*There can only be one president at a time, I cannot commit to expenditures *Pledges to fulfil all political promises With exactly 24 days to his inauguration, the president-elect, Bola Tinubu, yesterday, said his administration would put in place incentives and policies that would make corruption unattractive to Nigerian workers, especially, judges. Tinubu said the unity of the country was not open...
Ekweremadus know fate today
…as kinsmen, beneficiaries plead for mercy AHEAD of today’s sentencing of former Deputy Senate President Ike Ekweremadu and his wife, Beatrice for organ harvesting, prominent Nigerians and Africans have continued to appeal to the UK Court for clemency on the troubled Nigerian Senator. In a last-minute plea, members of the Ikeoha Mpu Pacesetters League IMPL have joined their voices in calling...
Nigerian Newspapers: 10 things you need to know this Thursday morning
Good morning! Here is today’s summary from Nigerian Newspapers: 1. The Labour Party, LP, leadership crisis escalated further yesterday with the Julius Abure and Lamidi Apapa groups holding separate National Working Committee (NWC) meetings in Abuja and Bauchi. At the Abuja meeting, the Abure group warned that any elected member of the LP found to be in support of Apapa...
Sudan: We were sexually harassed, paid to urinate — Nigerian students recount ordeal
Returnee Nigerian students who were airlifted back to Nigeria from Egypt, have recounted their ordeal, alleging that some females were sexually harassed and were so broke to the extent of picking things from shops and ran away. A returnee female student told journalists on arrival at the International Airport Abuja that they faced humiliation and slept in the open. “We spent...
Ohanaeze: IPOB warns Arewa group for advising Buhari against releasing Nnamdi Kanu
The Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, has condemned the call by the Arewa Community in Southern Nigeria that President Muhammadu Buhari should not release its leader, Nnamdi Kanu before May 29. IPOB warned the Arewa community to stop talking trash against Kanu’s release. The leader of the Community, Musa Saidu, made the call while faulting the remark by the President-General of...
NLC, TUC kick as Senate okays FG’s N22.7trn ‘Ways and Means’
The Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, and Trade Union Congress of Nigeria, TUC, yesterday, picked holes in the Senate’s approval of President Muhammadu Buhari’s controversial N22.72 trillion Ways and Means request, describing it as shocking and suspicious. The Senate had, yesterday, caved into pressure and approved President Buhari’s request to restructure the sum of N22.72 trillion Ways and Means advances made...
Nigerian Newspapers: 10 things you need to know this Wednesday morning
Good morning! Here is today’s summary from Nigerian Newspapers: 1. The Presidential Election Petitions Court has fixed Monday for the hearing of the petitions challenging the declaration of the All Progressives Congress standard bearer, Bola Tinubu as the president-elect. With this development, the expected legal battle by candidates disputing the outcome of the 2023 presidential poll will commence from May...
