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The military junta in Niger has named a former economy minister, Ali Mahaman Lamine Zeine as the Prime Minister of the country. The appointment of Zeine is coming nearly two weeks after the military took over power from the democratically elected President Mohamed Bazoum. A spokesman for the military junta made the announcement on television late on Monday night. Read …

Former presidential aide, Reno Omokri, has urged Nigerians to shun calls for mass civil disobedience over the judgement of the Presidential Election Petitions Tribunal (PEPT), which dismissed the case filed by Labour Party (LP) presidential candidate, Peter Obi, in challenge of President Bola Tinubu’s victory at the February 25 presidential election. Omokri, who is a big critic to Obi, made …

The Nigeria Security and Civil Defense Corps (NSCDC) has arrested two suspected cattle rustlers in Jigawa State. The NSCDC spokesman in the state, Adamu Shehu, confirmed the development in a statement on Monday in Dutse. He said one of the suspects was arrested on July 29 while attempting to steal a cow at the residence of one Alhaji Umar Mande …

Dr Livy Uzoukwu, SAN, the lawyer of the Labour Party presidential candidate, Mr Peter Obi, has hinted that his client and team might resort to other means of seeking justice. This assertion was made by Uzoukwu on Wednesday, after the judgement of the Presidential Election Petitions Tribunal, that upheld the election of President Bola Tinubu. He emphasised that litigants who …

Unarguably, the 7th edition of the National Youth Games (NYG) hosted by Delta State, would have been the best, since the multi-sport fiesta, which was first held in 2013 in Abuja, the nation’s capital. Sadly, the games held between September 20 and 30, was challenged by the twin and related menace of age falsification and age-cheating. The presence of the …

The New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) has challenged the Appeal Court ruling which sacked Abba Yusuf as governor of Kano State. A three-member panel of the appeal court led by Justice M. U. Adumeh on November 17 upheld the verdict of the state governorship election petition tribunal which nullified Yusuf’s victory in the March 18 election. The court declared the …

Police operatives in Kano State on Wednesday arrested seven people protesting the Appeal Court judgment that sacked Abba-Kabir Yusuf as governor of the state. A large group of protesters took to the streets of Kano on Wednesday and demanded a review of the judgment. This followed the discovery of the Certified True Copy (CTC) of the judgement which had caused …

The shortlist for world football’s most prestigious individual award has been revealed ahead of the ceremony in Paris on October 30 The Ballon d’Or. Love it or loathe it, it’s the award every footballer in the world dreams of one day winning. And now, after a memorable and unique 2022-23 campaign, the shortlist of nominees for the 2023 Golden Ball …

Dele Momodu, the Director of Strategic Communications for the Atiku/Okowa Presidential Campaign Council, on Wednesday night, said the judges of the Presidential Election Petition Court (PEPC) turned the constitution upside down to uphold the election of President Bola Tinubu. Momodu, a journalist, was reacting to the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal verdict that upheld the victory of President Bola Tinubu on …

Rev Agbadamashi Emmanuel, an Anglican pastor, together with his wife and children have been reported kidnapped by gunmen along the East-West Road by Evwreni Junction, Warri, Delta State. The incident, which was confirmed to journalists in Warri on Monday morning by the Public Relations Officer of the Anglican Communion, Ughelli Diocese, Hon. Justice Iyasere, was said to have happened on …