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The Minister of Women Affairs, Pauline Tallen, today announced her withdrawal from the senatorial race ahead of the general elections in 2023. Tallen, who initially announced to contest for the Plateau South senatorial seat in the National Assembly, had picked the expression of interest and nomination forms of the All Progressives Congress APC.
The Supreme Court today invited President Muhammadu Buhari to appear before it on Thursday, May 19 for a hearing in a suit he instituted against the National Assembly challenging Section 84 subsection 12 of the Electoral Amendment Act 2022. Also invited to be in court on the same day are the National Assembly and its leadership to defend various constitutional breaches raised against them by the Presidency. A hearing notice […]
Big Brother Naija season seven has officially commenced with the announcement of its auditions. The show’s organizers, in a minute-long video shared via their social media handles, announced that the free auditions will require participants to upload a three-minute video telling Big Brother about themselves. The auditions usually followed by prize details and show date, are the first stage of the annual TV show. Last year’s winner Hazel ‘Whitemoney’ Onou […]
Super Falcons and Barcelona Femeni striker, Asisat Oshoala has celebrated her Pichichi win as the Primera Iberdrola was concluded yesterday with her side winning the 2021/2022 title with a perfect record of 30 wins from 30 matches, with 159 goals scored and 11 conceded. Barcelona Femeni defeated Atletico Madrid 2-1 on the final of the season with the goals scored by Irene Paredes and Aitina Bonmati, while Amanda Sampedro scored […]
The Nigeria Football Federation NFF has confirmed the appointment of Jose Peseiro as the new head coach of the Super Eagles with immediate effect, subject to the signing of agreed terms between both parties The 62 year old is a Portuguese who played as a striker in his days and has wide and varied experience coaching top Clubs and National Teams across four different continents, including Europe, Asia, Africa and South America. The NFF […]
Former President of Somalia, Hassan Sheikh Mohamud has been re-elected after a final vote that was only open to the country's Members of Parliament MPs. Mohamud defeated the current president, Mohamed Abudallahi Farmajo, who has been in office since 2017. The ballot was limited to Somalia’s 328 MPs due to security concerns over holding a wider election, and one of them did not cast a vote. He received […]
The Igbo youth council led by Okwu Nnabuike has expressed outrage over the reported attack on the Igbo residents in Sokoto State on Saturday. Several reports in the media indicated that businesses of the Igbo in Sokoto were subjects of attack as Muslims protested the arrest of two suspects involved in the killing of Miss Deborah Samuel , a female student accused of blasphemy. The protesters were said to have […]
The immediate past Minister of State for Education Chukwuemeka Nwajiuba the Federal Government is working on a funding structure for public universities in the country as part of moves to tackle the incessant strikes by lecturers in these institutions. Nwajiuba who noted that the government’s funding of public universities is unsustainable, yesterday said he has proposed a new scheme in which universities have a different way of earning money to […]
The Independent National Electoral Commission INEC has raised concerns about the security challenges in the country ahead of the 2023 general elections in about nine months’ time but dispelled fears that the elections might not hold due to security threats. The Chairman of INEC, Professor Mahmood Yakubu, in his remarks yesterday in Abuja at the second quarterly meeting of the Inter-Agency Consultative Committee on Election Security ICCES, believes there is […]
President Muhammadu Buhari has strongly condemned the resort to self-help by the mob in Sokoto, which resulted in violence, destruction and killing of a second-year student of Shehu Shagari College of Education, Sokoto, Deborah Samuel. Deborah, was accused of making a social media post that blasphemed the Holy Prophet Muhammad, a crime for which a mob, mostly made up of fellow students, killed her. Reacting to the incident, Buhari said the […]
