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*Demands to pick choice of successor  *Urges Mark to speak up since he’s with chairman’s resignation letter   *Atiku paints gloomy picture of Nigeria, describes current statistics as grim, disappointing  *PDP group dismisses Tinubu’s presidency as Buhari’s third term Supporters of the Rivers State governor, Mr. Nyesom Wike, in the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) have given an “irreducible minimum condition” for …

Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has vowed to resist rigging and vote-buying in the 2023 general election. It said polling booths would be distanced from the public who are around the voting area. The reappointed Resident Electoral Commission (REC), Obo Effanga, stated at the 2022 annual general meeting, fund raising, dinner and flag off of the proposed lavatory/tree planning projects in …

In April this year, the Federal Government disclosed that the railway line it is constructing to Maradi, a city in a foreign country, Niger Republic, would start operation in 2023. The project costs Nigerian taxpayers $1.8 billion. It is being financed with foreign loans, meaning that we and our children will pay for it. The dog will eat excrement and …

The campaign organisation for the presidential candidate of the African Action Congress, Omoyele Sowore, has knocked the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Atiku Abubakar, over his comments on the strike action of the Academic Staff Union of Universities. Atiku Abubakar and Omoyele Sowore Atiku had, on Friday, at a youth programme to commemorate the International Youth Day 2022, …

INEC says APC risks not having candidates for the two senatorial district if it does not submit names of candidates that emerged from valid primaries. The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has again warned the All Progressives Congress (APC) against its choice of candidates for the Yobe North and Akwa Ibom North-west Senatorial seats. The commission said the names of the …

Ghana High Commission in Nigeria has asked Nigerians to leave Ghanaian President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo out of Nigeria’s internal affairs and politics. The High Commission in a statement yesterday  insisted that at no time did the Ghanaian president advised the Presidential Candidate of the All Progressives  Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Tinubu to excuse himself from his ambition to rule Nigeria and …

Details of the deal the North West caucus of the All Progresives Congress (APC) had with Bola Tinubu, presidential standard bearer,  shortly before he announced his running mate, Kashim Shettima, has emerged. Among others, it asked for the positions of vice president, secretary to the government of the federation, finance, works, agriculture, Federal Capital Territory and interior minister in exchange for its …

WHO renames monkeypox variants Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has refuted Marburg Virus Disease outbreak in Nigeria. Reacting to reports of the alleged existence of the ailment at the University of Abuja Teaching Hospital, Gwagwalada, the centre, on its Twitter handle, stated that though no case of the disease had been reported in the country, measures such as heightened …

In just about a couple of months time,Nigerians will go to the polls. The people will select new leaders across the nation and for the nation. Highlighting Nigeria’s woes on paper so as to inform the readers of this article or any other article, is to my own mind, a needless exercise. Everybody can see where we are. The deaf …

Data obtained from the National Universities Commission on Friday revealed that a total of 33 private universities were approved by the regime of the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.) within 16 months. The period under review is January 2021 and April 2022. Sunday PUNCH reports that while 21 of the private universities were approved in 2021; 12 were approved during …