By Okoh Aihe The other night sleep went far away from me and I found comfort in my little phone as I tried to find out what the rest of the global community was saying about Nigeria after a mismanaged election. You see, in spite of the challenges of our world, in spite of how deep some highly placed people want to push us in the mire, they cannot stop the world from getting into our rooms through some increasingly miniaturised equipment like the mobile phones, iPad, tablets or simply some other crazy stuffs that would beep each time there…
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The Economic Community of West African States, ECOWAS, has said it will honour President Muhammadu Buhari with an award in recognition of his efforts in the defence and promotion of democracy in the subregion. The President’s spokesman, Garba Shehu, in a statement, said the ECOWAS Chairman, Guinea Bissau’s Umaro Embalo, stated this at a bilateral meeting with the Nigerian leader on the sidelines of the ongoing 5th UN Conference on the Least Developed Countries in Doha, Qatar. According to Mr Embalo, the leadership of the subregional body approved the award for the president as he prepares to leave office…
Ahead of the Saturday’s governorship and state assembly polls, Chieftains of the Labour Party (LP) in Kaduna have told Kaduna citizens to disregard any public announcement that its governorship candidate, Jonathan Asake, has withdrawn from the race and collapsed his structure for the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). Nine governorship candidates in Kaduna had on Monday endorsed the PDP candidate, Isa Ashiru, as the consensus candidate ahead of Saturday’s governorship election in the state. LP said its candidate was asked to step down for Ashiru but it declined. Also read: In Retaliation, Labour Party Dissolves Rivers Excos The party’s Kaduna State…
In Retaliation, Labour Party Dissolves Rivers Exco Labour Party chairman Julius Abure has dissolved the executive council of the party in Rivers State. Abure in a statement said the council was dissolved for gross anti-party activities and corruption in the management of Labour Party funds. The party’s action comes a few hours after the state council endorsed the Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP) governorship candidate, Sim Fubara, for the Saturday, March 11 election. The Labour Party noted that it is in its interest and that of “the Obidient movement in Rivers State that those who were at the helm of affairs…
The President-elect, Bola Tinubu, on Tuesday, urged the Court of Appeal in Abuja to order the Independent National Electoral Commission to grant him access to sensitive materials it used for the presidential election. Tinubu, through his lawyer, Mr Akintola Makinde, said he would need to inspect, scan and make photocopies of some of the electoral materials to enable him to prepare his defence against petitions that would seek to nullify his election. Also Read: In Retaliation, Labour Party Dissolves Rivers Excos Labour Party chairman Julius Abure has dissolved the executive council of the party in Rivers State. Abure in a…
Ahead of the March 11 elections, the Labour Party in Rivers State has endorsed the Peoples Democratic Party governorship candidate, Sim Fubara, for governor. The state Chairman of the Labour Party, Deinye Pepple, stated this at a news briefing in Port Harcourt on Tuesday, saying Fubara’s senatorial district had yet to produce a governor since the creation of the state. He stated, “Voting a riverine candidate in the person of Simimialayi Fubara from the South East Senatorial District of the state during the up coming governorship poll ensures that the Labour Party and her members are defenders and ambassadors of…
Ahead of the take-off of proceedings at the Presidential Election Tribunal, the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) has appointed a team of 12 Senior Advocates of Nigeria (SAN) to represent the party at the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal. The team is comprised of legal luminaries with vast experience in election petition matters, constitutional law and litigation. This team is aside from the 50 Senior Advocates of Nigeria led by Chief Wole Olanipekun (SAN) put together by the party’s Presidential Campaign Council. A statement by the National Legal Adviser of the governing APC, Barr. Ahmad Usman El-Marzuq in Abuja on…
Former governor of Ogun state, Olusegun Osoba has called on Lagos residents of Igbo extraction not to make the state’s gubernatorial election “an ethnic issue”. Osoba spoke in an interview with TVC on Monday. Since Peter Obi, candidate of the Labour Party (LP), defeated Bola Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Lagos during the presidential election, the heat of ethnic nationalism has increased between some of the state’s Yoruba and Igbo residents. Social media has been awash with ethnic slurs as residents count down to the governorship election billed for March 11. Babajide Sanwo-Olu, governor of Lagos…
North Korea warned Tuesday that it would be a “clear declaration of war” if its missiles were shot down during their test launches over the Pacific Ocean. The United States and South Korea have ramped up defence cooperation, including joint drills, in the face of growing threats from nuclear-armed Pyongyang, which has conducted a wave of banned weapons tests in recent months. North Korea has said its nuclear weapons and missile programmes are for self-defence, and has bristled over US-South Korea military exercises, describing them as rehearsals for an invasion. “It will be regarded as a clear declaration of war…
Chris Aburime, press secretary to Chukwuma Soludo, governor of Anambra, has dismissed an allegation of a plot to assassinate Peter Obi, presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP). A message has gone viral on social media claiming that Soludo has been offered money to assassinate Obi. “Hold Soludo Responsible If Anything Happens To Peter Obi,” the title of the message reads. “Yesterday, a Helicopter entered Awka by 1:30 am and took Soludo to a secret meeting at Government House, Owerri. The agenda of the meeting is Peter Obi and how to stop him physically, politically, and otherwise,” the message reads.…
Ahead of the inauguration of the 10th National Assembly in June, underground jostling for leadership positions in the federal parliament has commenced. INEC has said certificates of return will be issued to the senators-elect today while the House of Representatives members-elect will receive theirs tomorrow, Wednesday. Reports that the current 9th National Assembly was inaugurated in June 2019 and will come to an end in June 2023. In the same month, the 10th assembly will be inaugurated. According to the results so far declared by INEC, the ruling APC retained majority of both the Senate and House of Representatives seats,…
Football fans in Nigeria have slammed the Flying Eagles after their sluggish performance against The Gambia in Monday’s U-20 Africa Cup of Nations semi-final clash at Cairo Stadium in Egypt Meridiaspy learnt. After seven minutes, Adama Bojang scored for the Junior Scorpions after racing onto a defence-splitting pass from Ebrima Singhateh. Despite trailing by the early goal, Ladan Bosso’s team dominated possession but lacked the brilliance in midfield to create chances and score. Forwards Ibrahim Muhammad, Samson Lawal, Haliru Sarki and Francis Abubakar all failed to get their strikes on target, while substitute and Belgium-based forward Ahmed Abdullahi, who won…