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Mr Idahosa, an incident of Edo State, is a pastor at the popular Illumination Assembly. The New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) on Thursday announced a bishop, Isaac Idahosa, as the running mate of Rabiu Kwankwaso, for the 2023 presidential election. The choice of Mr Idahosa came almost six weeks after the collapse of an alliance talk with Peter Obi’s Labour Party (LP). …

Mr Rajapaksa, who was expected to resign on Wednesday, had fled Sri Lanka first to the Maldives and then to Singapore from where he sent his resignation letter via email to the parliament speaker. Sri Lanka President, Gotabaya Rajapaksa, resigned on Thursday following months of mass protests in the island country. Mr Rajapaksa, who was expected to resign on Wednesday, …

Edo State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), on Thursday, conducted a bye-election to select new candidates to fly the party’s flag in the forthcoming Egor/Ikpoba Okha Federal House of Representatives and State Assembly elections respectively. The election was to fill the vacancy created by the death of the lawmaker representing Egor/Ikpoba Okha Federal Constituency in the House of …

A Pan-African position articulated and promoted by leaders of the continent on the global Net-zero emissions target by 2050-2060 will further advance the quest for a just energy transition, Nigeria’s Vice President, Prof Yemi Osinbajo has said. Prof. Osinbajo (SAN) stated this today at a meeting with diplomats from the G-7 countries comprising the United States, United Kingdom, Germany, Canada, …

The choice of Mr Baba-Ahmed by Mr Obi shows the Labour Party is looking for politicians without baggage. Datti Baba-Ahmed, 53, is perceived as one of the few politicians in Nigeria without much “dirt” in their political career, despite a controversial stint at the Senate that ended within a year after his election was upturned by the court. Peter Obi’s …

• Another Owo attack victim dies in hospital Ondo State Governor, Oluwarotimi Akeredolu (SAN), has signed into law the first amendment to the Ondo State Security Network Agency Law. The governor, who assented to the bill on Wednesday, noted that the new amendment became imperative in light of the heightened insecurity across the state. He assured the residents of the …

The INEC headquarters in Abuja, a few days ago, affirmed that Mr Akpabio is not the APC candidate in Akwa Ibom North West, and that the commission would not revisit the case. A former minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Godswill Akpabio’s attempt to stop a retired deputy inspector general of police, Udom Ekpoudom, from being the senatorial candidate of the …

Chief Whip of the Nigerian Senate, Orji Uzor Kalu, has called on the Federal Government to immediately put up measures to end the prolonged industrial action by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU). In a statement he signed, yesterday, the lawmaker said incessant strikes by the lecturers could lead to poor quality of graduates. He called on both parties …

Mr Abacha, who connived with his family and associates, systematically plundered Nigeria between 1993 when the dictator seized power and 1998 when he died. The more than two decades international hunt for Nigeria’s billions stolen and stashed in various banks across the world by late dictator Sani Abacha and his family and associates yielded its latest result in early May: $23.5 …

An official said Nigerians in diaspora were free to come back home with expired or non-expired Nigerian passport. The Minister of Interior, Rauf Aregbesola, has directed the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS), to allow Nigerians in diaspora to return to Nigeria with their expired International Passports. Mr Aregbesola gave the directive on Wednesday, in Lagos, while responding to a complaint by a Nigerian-American …