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HOPE2023 Campaign Organization and all its affiliate organizations have unanimously condemned any machination and gang up towards using money politics to discourage capable and qualified candidates from running for any elective office from the grassroots to the presidency in Nigeria. The condemnation was contained in a statement signed on Monday by the Director-General of HOPE2023 Campaign Organisation and Dr. Philip …

Edo State Governor, Mr. Godwin Obaseki, has said his administration is collating the data of residents in the state to help the government in planning, ensuring the delivery of essential services to the people. Obaseki disclosed this when he received the template of the pilot phase of the Edo Identification Scheme, at the Government House, Benin City. The governor noted, …

…Urges the public to come forward with accurate information about extortion By Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku Abuja, Nigeria – Extortion of the Nigerian public at gun point by any member of the Police Force is tantamount to armed robbery, Force Headquarters Public Relations Officer, CSP Olumuyiwa Adejobi said on Monday on his Twitter handle. The Police spokesman therefore urged the public …

• Jonathan’s backers in dilemma over APC’s past attacks on ex-President, fear rejection • Aspirants looking for consensus are lazy, nobody will impose candidate – Tinubu group • VP will emerge candidate – Supporters • Yahaya Bello’ll beat GEJ – Campaign council The consultation between former President Goodluck Jonathan and some leaders of the All Progressives Congress for Jonathan to …

In a statement by his spokesperson, Garba Shehu, on Sunday, Mr Buhari described the incident as “a catastrophe and a national disaster.” President Muhammadu Buhari has directed Nigeria’s security agencies to intensify the clampdown on illegal refineries in the country. The directive follows the explosion that rocked an illegal refinery, Friday night, at Abaezi forest in Ohaji-Egbema Local Government Area …

* Leaders mourn monarch President Muhammadu Buhari and former Presidents Olusegun Obasanjo and Goodluck Jonathan have mourned the Alaafin of Oyo, Oba Lamidi Adeyemi III, who died on Friday night at the age of 83, after 52 years on the throne.The remains of Oba Adeyemi, who passed on at the Afe Babalola University Teaching Hospital, Ado Ekiti,  were committed to mother …

• Nigeria, DR Congo, Tanzania, Mozambique account for over half of all malaria deaths worldwide• Country received N176bn worth of aids from development partners to fight malaria, says Adeyanju• No single tool available today will solve the problem of malaria, say WHO, experts• Why it is likely current vaccines would eliminate malaria, by Adegboro, Ashiru Today is World Malaria Day …

An estranged wife of the late Alaafin of Oyo, Olori Badirat Olaitan Adeyemi, has mourned the monarch, Oba Lamide Adeyemi, who died late Friday night, aged 83. In an Instagram post on Monday, Olori Badirat shared an emotional tribute to the late monarch, revealing that they shared a strong bond as she married him when she was 19. Badirat noted …

The billionaire drug baron behind the N3billion Tramadol deal involving the embattled suspended Deputy Commissioner of Police, DCP Abba Kyari-led Intelligence Response Team, IRT, Chief Afam Mallinson Emmanuel Ukatu has been arrested by operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA. After months of surveillance and evading arrest, Ukatu who is Chairman of Mallinson Group of Companies has eventually …

The Academic Staff Union of Universities has condemned the Federal Government’s handling of the negotiation on its demands and nonchalant attitude towards the ongoing strike. The ASUU rollover strike is in its 10th week today and will end in two weeks. Last week, Minister of Labour and Employment, Chris Ngige, while featuring as a guest on Channels Television’s ‘Politics Today’, …