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• Asks PDP Atiku to face consequence of losing 5 Governors BY JAMES AKINOLA Benue State governor,  Samuel Ortom, yesterday, said unless issues raised by the five aggrieved Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governors were duly addressed, he cannot guarantee that the state would work for Atiku Abubakar in the 2023Continue Reading

BY GODDY OBINWA Leader of Pan-Niger Delta Forum (PANDEF), Chief Edwin Clark, Arewa Youths Consultative Forum (AYCF), Middle Belt Forum (MBF) and other concerned citizens have described President Muhammadu Buhari’s decision not to transmit power to Vice President Yemi Osinbajo prior to his departure to London, United Kingdom, for medicalContinue Reading

BY GODWIN OBI Officials of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission on Tuesday stormed areas in Abuja where dealers – Bureau de Change operators – trade foreign currencies against the Naira. The raid came as the Naira continued its decline against the US dollar, exchanging for as high as N850Continue Reading

BY ADOLPHUS DURU The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) says it will work with relevant stakeholders to track campaign finances, vote buying and other anomalies before, during and after the general elections. Mrs Hauwa Kangiwa, INEC Administrative Secretary in  Sokoto State, said this at a stakeholders meeting on Monday inContinue Reading

BY GODWIN OBI The Arewa Youths Consultative Forum (AYCF) has called on the Federal Government to take a firm stand in support of the President of Air Peace Limited, Dr. Allen Onyema, in the case of alleged indictment by the United States in 2019. National President of the group, AlhajiContinue Reading

By Martins Duru World Igbo Congress (WIC), an association of all Igbo in the Diaspora, has on behalf of its members extolled the Judiciary over the judgments delivered by the Federal High Court in Umuahia, Abia State and the earlier one delivered by the Court of Appeal, Abuja Division onContinue Reading

. BY GODDY OBINWA Nigerians have continued to react to the frank call by a former Army Chief and Minister of Defence, Lt. Gen. Theophilus Yakubu Danjuma (rtd), for his people of Taraba state to adopt self-defence in the wake of serial massacres. The elder statesman had spoken last weekendContinue Reading

BY GODWIN OBI President Muhammadu has urged the nation’s security establishment and citizens to continue being vigilant and careful with security, saying it is important to avoid panic. He urged citizens to remain calm in the wake of the recent changes in travel advice from the US and UK governments,Continue Reading

BY GODWIN OBI Police in Katsina State on Friday rescued at least 21 kidnap victims comprising 15 women and six children in Dutsinma Local Government Area of the State. The victims were rescued at about 0430hrs, after the Police Command received a distress call that terrorists in their numbers onContinue Reading