Category: News
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Nigerians React To Tinubu’s Choice of Running Mate
Reactions have greeted the choice of Sen Kashim Shettima as the running mate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu. Tinubu announced Shettima, on Sunday, as his running mate, in Daura, Katsina state shortly after paying a Sallah visit to President Muhammadu Buhari. Shettima is a Senator representing Borno Central District in…
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Five Things To Know About Tinubu’s New Running Mate, Kashim Shetima
The Presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, on Sunday announced former governor of Borno State, Senator Kashim Shettima as his running mate. Below are 5 Things To Know About Tinubu’s New Running Mate, Shetima. Shettima was a two-time Governor of Borno State and a close associate of Tinubu who has been a staunch…
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Minister of state for Education, Goodluck Opiah Gives Fresh Update on ASUU Strike
The Federal Government through the Minister of State for Education, Goodluck Opiah has assured teeming Nigerian Students that the President Muhammadu Buhari-led administration is committed to ending the lingering strike action by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) soonest. The Minister gave the assurance in Owerri at the weekend while fielding questions from newsmen…
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Just In: Tinubu Finally ‘Decides’ On Choice of Running Mate
Sen. Bola Ahmed Tinubu, 2023 presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has decided on his choice of running mate. A highly-competent source in the Tinubu Campaign Organisation who requested anonymity confirmed this to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Sunday in Abuja. The source said Tinubu would make the name of the…
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Why Governor Wike Can’t Leave PDP – Saraki
Former Senate President, Abubakar Bukola Saraki has stated reasons why the recent visit of three governors under the platform of the All Progressives Congress, APC, that’s, Kayode Fayemi of Ekiti, Ondo and Lagos governors , Dr Kayode Fayemi, Olurotimi Akeredolu, and Babajide Sanwo-Olu respectively, to their Rivers State counterpart, Nyesom Wike, is nothing but exercise…
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2023: APC fails to upload candidates for 25 NASS seats; INEC rules out Lawan, Akpabio
Vanguard News Following its inability to resolve several internal crises among its members, All Progressives Congress, APC, may not field candidates for 25 National Assembly, NASS, seats, Sunday Vanguard learned. At the end of the deadline for submission of candidates for NASS seats on June 17, APC was said to have been unable to upload…
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Police React, as Abducted Ex-president Jonathan’s Cousin Speaks From Waterlogged Shallow Grave (Video)
The Nigerian Police Force have reacted to the viral video showing the kidnapped Hon. Mike Ogiasa, cousin to Former President Goodluck Jonathan, pleading for ransom to be paid to his abductors for his release. The video, which was released by unknown persons, showed the abducted Hon. Mike Ogiasa in a six feet hole dug in…
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Just In: Again, 7 More Kidnapped Train Passengers Regain Freedom
Leadership Newspaper After actively negotiating and participating in the dialogue that led to the release of 11 passengers of the Abuja-Kaduna train kidnapped on March 28, 2022, Kaduna-based publisher and Media Consultant to Sheikh Dr. Ahmad Abubakar, Mal Tukur Mamu (Dan-Iyan Fika) has again negotiated the release of another seven of the kidnap victims on…
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NSCDC Uncovers Plan By ISWAP Terrorists To Attack Schools, Churches, Others in Abuja
Leadership Newspaper Plans by members of the ISWAP terrorist group to launch coordinated and spontaneous attacks on soft and hard targets in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) have been uncovered by the FCT Command of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC). The NSCDC FCT commandant, Peter Maigari, who issued the Red Alert in…
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Tragedy as Heavy Flood Sweeps Away Commercial Bus Driver in Lagos
Tragedy struck on Friday at Yaya Hassan Street, Egbe-Idimu Local Council Development Area, LCDA, when a commercial driver, simply identified as Ugo, 48, Alias, “Gunners” was swept away to his death by heavy flood during the persistent rainfall in Lagos. According to eyewitnesses, the unfortunate incident occurred at about 4pm, during the heavy downpour. The…