The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has declared that the All Progressives Congress (APC) has no candidates for Yobe North and Akwa Ibom North West Senatorial Districts in the 2023 elections. The INEC’s National Commissioner, Festus Okoye, stated this in a Channels Television’s programme, Sunday Politics. He said the commission did not recognise any APC…
Abubakar Malami, attorney-general of the federation (AGF), rejected a move by Catriona Laing, UK high commissioner to Nigeria, to discuss the arrest of Nnamdi Kanu, Biafra separatist leader, when they both met on Thursday, TheCable understands. Kanu, who is also a British citizen and leads the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), was repatriated to Nigeria…
The United States Supreme Court ended the constitutional right to abortion in a landmark ruling recently. The conservative-dominated court overturned the landmark 1973 “Roe v Wade” decision that enshrined a woman’s right to abortion, saying that individual states can now permit or restrict the procedure themselves. “The Constitution does not confer a right to abortion;…
“But, even on the merit, the Kano case is dead on arrival. You cannot shave anybody’s head in his absence. Alex Otti’s name was not mentioned in that judgement even though I think he is the target.” A former Attorney General of Abia State and Commissioner for Justice, Chief Umeh Kalu (SAN), has dismissed a…
By Nik Ekechukwu- Uweru A new economic corridor appears to be opening from northern fringes of the West African sub region through to North Africa going by a new trade collaboration between Algeria and Mauritania, DDM has learnt. The two North African countries opened a gate at their border to strengthen ties and promote trade…
By Leadership SCORECARD Magazine, Sunday 7th August, 2022. It was jubilation galore and Naira rain on Sunday as the Spiritual Leader of “Jesus Never Fails Ministry,” Trans Ekulu, Enugu, Prophetess Nkemdilim U. Adu marked her birthday in grand stlye at a colourful ceremony that took place at the Amaedo Event & Recreational Centre, Enugu. The…
The President Bola Tinubu-led Nigerian government has stated that the immediate past Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Godwin Emefiele, would have been killed by a firing squad if it happened that he was living in China. This was stated by President Tinubu’s Special Adviser on Information and Strategy, Bayo Onanuga while reacting…
The chairman of the Birnin-Gwari Emirate Progressives Union (BEPU), Ishaq Usman Kasai has alleged that many bandits and their leaders have farmlands in some communities of Kaduna State. According to him, the notorious warlord, Dogo Kachalla Gide, is one of the bandit leaders that have farms, stating that his own is located in Mashigi area. The…
PDP Presidential aspirant and Rivers governor Nyesom Wike has said that he would replicate Rivers’ socio-economic growth and infrastructural development at the centre, if elected President in 2023. Wike said this on Saturday in Jos when he addressed delegates expected to decide the fate of Peoples Democratic Party aspirants ahead of the 2023 general elections….
A report by Management Newspaper has said that the Speaker of the Home of Representatives, Hon. Femi Gbajabiamila, is being thought of because the chief of employees to the president-elect, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu. Gbajabiamila was conspicuously absent on the International Conference Centre (ICC) Abuja venue of the presentation of Certificates of Return to Members-elect…
