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Labour Party’s (LP) Presidential Candidate, Peter Obi, has said the 2023 presidential election must not be based on entitlements, religious, ethnic and other sentiments but purely on capacity that would change the fate of the country. He spoke  at the party’s ongoing leadership in Abuja. “Election next year must not be based on religion or ethnicity. It must not be based in …

To address growing concerns over prisons congestion and inmates’ welfare, Minister of Interior, Rauf Aregbesola, has said that his ministry will make an appeal to President Muhammadu Buhari for special intervention funding for the completion of three out of six mega custodial centers across the geopolitical zones. Aregbesola and his team while on inspection of the Karshi special custodial center. …

The lives of 600 million people in Africa are at risk because of the growing severity and frequency of droughts, according to a report. This is contained in a report “Africa is Doubling Down on Climate Adaptation. Here’s Why it Deserves Support” obtained by the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), on Monday. The Report was co-authored by the President of …

“Gas is critical as a transition fuel to power Africa’s industrialisation, solve energy poverty and generate resources for energy transition” is a phrase you would hear often at the Africa Pavilion at the UN’s Conference of Parties (COP) or anywhere climate justice and energy transition is being discussed. In preparation for COP 27, Nigeria’s government recently launched its Energy Transition Plan (ETP), which …

Nine yet-to-be-identified ladies who were trapped when a storey building around Akinwunmi Street, Mende, in the Maryland area of Lagos State, sunk due to torrential rainfall, were rescued on Monday. The Lagos Territorial Coordinator, National Emergency Management Agency, Ibrahim Farinloye, confirmed the development in a statement. He said the agency’s officials were deployed to rescue the victims after receiving a …

The ongoing strike by lecturers in public universities, which began on 14 February, took a turn for the worse when their umbrella body, the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) declared it total and indefinite on 29 August. A series of meetings between the Union and the Federal Government to resolve the impasse had always ended in a fiasco largely because sincerity …

ASUU President, Prof Emmanuel Osodeke and Minister of Labour and Employment, Chris Ngige The suit against the Academic Staff Union of Universities which was filed by the Minister of Labour and Employment, Chris Ngige, has been adjourned, The PUNCH reports. The matter came up before Justice Polycarp Hamman of the National Industrial Court of Nigeria in Abuja. The PUNCH reports that The Federal …

A graduate of Ladoke Akintola University of Technology (LAUTECH), Ogbomosho, Oyo State, Osunleke Alaba, who recently returned his certificate to the institution requesting refund of his fees during his studentship, has received N500,000 start-up fund support from the alumni association. Mr Alaba, who graduated from the Department of Agricultural Extension and Rural Development, had complained about the “worthlessness” of his certificate following …

The First Republic Minister of Aviation, Chief Mbazulike Amechi, has condoled with the government of the United Kingdom on the passing of their monarch, Queen Elizabeth II. Queen Elizabeth II Amechi described the late British monarch as a great friend of Nigeria, who he said played a very significant role in the country’s march towards independence. The foremost nationalists who …

I admire and respect the energy and passion of the Obidients and, like I said in an earlier write-up titled ‘Who Are These Obidients?’, I believe that they wish to effect a social and political revolution which those of us in the larger political parties have to be very wary of. I also believe that, if they stay together and …