Peter Obi, the Labour Party’s nominee for president in the February 25 election, has arrived at the location of the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal as it begins hearing cases today. In the election, Bola Tinubu, the president-elect of the All Progressives Congress, defeated Obi and other candidates from other parties. The results of the presidential election on February 25 are being contested by five political parties and their respective candidates on the grounds that they did not follow the rules set forth by the Independent National Electoral Commission and the electoral laws. Meridianspy reports that the Justices who will…
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The Civil Society Legislative Advocacy Centre has queried the $800m World Bank loan taken by the Federal Government as a palliative to cushion the effect of the proposed fuel subsidy removal, scheduled for June 2023. The Executive Director of CISLAC, Auwal Musa-Rafsanjani, in a statement on Sunday, lamented what he described as the “nonchalant attitude” of the President Muhammadu Buhari administration, towards the country’s crippling debt crisis. According to him, borrowing to fund post-fuel subsidy removal palliatives is strange, noting that “if the fuel subsidy removal process has been suspended as announced by the Minister of Finance after the…
NAFDAC Raises Concern Over Importation Of Banned Pesticides From U The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control says it has received an alert from the Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development cautioning on the possibility that the European Union and the United Kingdom were exporting banned neonicotinoid pesticides to Nigeria and other poorer countries. NAFDAC Director-General, Mojisola Adeyeye, in a statement yesterday, said the dangers posed by pesticides are of immense concern to the agency. She also cited the report of the study conducted by Heinrich Boll Foundation which claimed that 40 percent of pesticides used…
Divine Ikubor, better known as Rema, a Nigerian music icon has entered the Guinness World Records. The singer’s smash hit, “Calm Down,” created history by becoming the first No. 1 Hit on The Official MENA Chart, the first regional streaming chart in the history of the world. This statement was disclosed in a post that the artist published on his statistics Twitter account on Saturday. “Calm Down by #heisrema marks entry into the Guinness Book as it has won the First No. 1 Hit on The Official MENA Chart (the world’s first regional streaming chart) Record,” the statement stated. Rema’s…
There was anxiety at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport in Abuja on Sunday when a Max Air aircraft crash-landed after the tyre allegedly caught fire. The incident occurred as the airplane was landing after taking off from Yola, Adamawa State. The Aerodrome Rescue and Fire-fighting Service (ARFFS) operates at the airport were swiftly mobilised to put off the fire. Former President of the Nigeria Medical Association (NMA), Dr. Mike Ogirima, who gave an account of the incident said the tyre burst occurred after takeoff at Yola Airport. H owever, the aircraft crash-landed in Abuja with emergency officials already on…
The Fourth batch of 410 stranded Nigerians, evacuated from the conflict-ridden Sudan, has arrived at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja. NAN also reports that more Nigerians, on board an Azman and Tarco Airline, are expected back into the country today. Dr Sani Gwarzo, Permanent Secretary, Federal Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs, said 732 persons would arrive today from the Egypt borders. According to him, no Nigerian is left at Ethe gypt border, as all Nigerians at that point had been evacuated. “I am very happy to announce that no single Nigerian is currently at the Egyptian border, we have completed…
Elon Musk, one of the world’s richest men, has taken a trip down memory lane as he opened up about his childhood. According to the billionaire, his childhood was not a happy one. In a tweet, Musk noted that despite his wealth, he was not born with a silver spoon nor was any inheritance handed to him. The Tesla boss revealed to his over 138 million followers on Twitter that he grew up in ‘a lower, transitioning to an upper, middle-income situation, but did not have a happy childhood.’ He wrote, “I grew up in a lower, transitioning to an…
Princewill Chimezie Richard, the leader of the Biafra Nations League, has given the Nigerian federal government 14 days to free Nnamdi Kanu. The organization threatens to stop oil development along the maritime border between Nigeria and Cameroon. They also give the government same deadline to remove military personnel from the South-East zone. At a press briefing in Calabar, they also called on Cameroon authorities “to desist from forcing and collecting proliferated taxes from Nigerians living in the Bakassi Peninsula.” Richard said, “We want to use this medium to reiterate our decisions to shut down maritime borders if our demands are…
The All Progressives Congress (APC) and the President-elect, Bola Tinubu, may have adopted a former Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Godwill Akpabio, as President of the Senate in the coming 10th National Assembly. Politic Digest reported from a reliable source at the meeting which was held at the Defence House on Friday that the leadership of the APC and top members of the party have also endorsed Hon. Tajudeen Abbas, as Speaker of the 10th House of Representatives. According to the source, Senator Ahmed Lawan, the outgoing Senate President, had shown interest in retaining his position, but he was was…
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) says President-elect Bola Tinubu has no moral justification to speak on the issue of corruption. The party said this while reacting to Tinubu’s promise to fight corruption. While addressing a press conference at the party headquarters in Abuja on Friday, National Publicity Secretary of the PDP, Debo Ologunagba, said the statement by Tinubu is “completely sacrilegious and an assault on the sensibility of Nigerians, having regards to his records of alleged corruption and having been described variously as an embodiment of corruption in his public life.” The main opposition party also warned the “Judiciary to…
Charles III on Saturday finally met his date with destiny after a lifetime as heir to his late mother Queen Elizabeth II, as he was officially crowned king in the first coronation in Britain since 1953. At 12:02 pm, the Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby placed the solid gold St Edward’s Crown on Charles’s head as a sacred and ancient symbol of the monarch’s authority. Cries of “God Save the King” rang out from the 2,300-strong congregation at Westminster Abbey and trumpet fanfares sounded at the climax of the solemn religious confirmation of his accession. Outside, ceremonial gun salutes blasted…
A video of sworn testimony given by former president Donald Trump in a US rape and defamation lawsuit against him was made public Friday. The footage, some of which was aired in court this week, shows Trump being asked about his infamous comments in the “Access Hollywood” tape leaked before the 2016 election. Trump says during the deposition recorded in October 2022 that his comments that famous people had license to sexually assault women was “historically” true “over the last million years.” “I guess that’s been largely true. Not always, but largely true. Unfortunately or fortunately,” Trump says under questioning…