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The Convener of Lagos4Lagos Movement, Abdul-Azeez Olajide Adediran, popularly called ‘Jandor’, has won the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governorship primary election to emerge as the party’s candidate for the 2023 elections in Lagos State.Jandor defeated Dakova Kolawole after having 679 votes out of 709 available votes. Kolawole could only manage 20 votes while 10 votes…
Relatives of the abducted passengers of the Abuja-Kaduna train who were picked during an attack on the train on March 28 on Tuesday again appealed to the Nigerian government to save their beloved ones held captive by the terrorists who had made a fresh death threat. The terrorists on Tuesday threatened that they would starve and…
It came like a bolt out of thunder. After months of sponsored speculations, it finally dawned on Nigerians that they had entrusted their biggest vault into the hands of a politician. Not that politics in itself is so bad. After all, politicians are the ones ruling us. But never did we anticipate that the inner…
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Bandits have reportedly sacked villagers from their farmlands for failing to jointly raise N30 million levy in Zamfara State, Northwest Nigeria. SaharaReporters learnt that residents of Kairu community In the Bukuyum Local Government Area of the state were on Saturday, forcibly evicted from their farms for failing to deliver the N30 million peace levy as…
The Kano State Police Command on Saturday intercepted a car loaded with bomb-making devices and sophisticated weapons in the state. According to a police statement, the command’s spokesperson, DSP Abdullahi Haruna Kiyawa, who confirmed the incident, said its operatives were still investigating the matter. According to the PPRO, the command on May 19 through credible…
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Emmanuel Garba, the father of Deborah Samuel, a student of the Shehu Shagari College of Education, Sokoto State, who was killed by a mob over alleged blasphemy, has said her mother and one of her siblings are down with sickness over her sudden death. Garba, who hails from Tungan Magajiya in the Rijau Local Government…
A female presidential aspirant on the platform of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), Uju Ken-Ohanenye, has said that she will take Nigeria as her child if elected as president because the country needs a mother. Ken-Ohanenye made the statement during a press conference on Thursday in Abuja. The legal luminary who is the only…
Bruce Fein Bruce Fein, International counsel and spokesperson for Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), has asked the popular social media platform, Facebook, to ban the Nigerian government. He described the President Muhammadu Buhari-led government as a criminal enterprise engaging in genocide and crimes against Biafrans and other ethnic or political groups. …
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has arrested a former Speaker of the Nigerian House of Representatives, Patricia Etteh. Etteh is being grilled by EFCC’s special duties unit for her alleged involvement in a solar power electrification scam in Akwa Ibom State worth N240 million. The former speaker was said to have received N130m through…