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Vice President Kashim Shettima has reiterated his commitment to retire former vice president and presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, from politics. Shettima said he won’t retire Atiku to Dubai but Fombina. He promised to buy the former vice president goats, broilers and layers so that he can spend his days rearing goats and broilers. …

Nigeria Premier Football League (NPFL) club Heartland have appointed Kennedy Boboye as their new head coach. This was announced by the club on Wednesday through their official X handle. “We are pleased to announce that we have reached an agreement with two-time NPFL winning coach Kennedy Boboye,” reads a statement. Read Also: Boboye takes over at Akwa Utd after Obuh’s …

A Peer-to-Peer (P2P) crypto trader, Lawrence Success Karinate has been convicted by a Federal High Court sitting in Ikoyi, Lagos for computer related fraud. According to a statement issued by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC)on Monday, Justice Nicholas Oweibo convicted Karinate who was prosecuted by its Lagos Zonal Command. According to the EFCC statement, Karinate was prosecuted on …

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 …