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•Says current ‘touch and go response’ will not help•Presents Kaduna as the next Lagos The uncertainties surrounding the forthcoming general elections seem to be growing wider by the day, especially with President Buhari’s refusal to sign the Electoral Act Amendment Bill into law. His rejection of the Electoral Bill because of the section bothering on direct primaries which he does …

“Ingratitude is a crime more despicable than revenge; which is returning evil for  evil; while ingratitude returns evil for good.” William George Jordan. Chief Edwin Clarke and all the elders of the Niger Delta still reeling from the blow delivered by former President Olusegun Obasanjo with regard to ownership of crude oil have my sympathies. If it will help, let me …

President Muhammadu Buhari has said his party, the All Progressives Congress (APC), may lose the 2023 presidential election to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) or another opposition party if the ruling party does not put its acts together.. Mr Buhari stated this in an interview with the Nigerian Television Authority (NTA) on Thursday. He spoke against the backdrop of disagreement on …

President Muhammadu Buhari has again quoted wrong figures of Nigeria’s average crude oil revenue between 1999 and 2014 while speaking of his administration’s effort to build the economy with lean resources. The president, in the interview aired by Channels TV on Wednesday, said Nigeria’s crude oil production from 1999 to 2014 averaged 2.1 million barrels per day at an average …

The Chairman of the Northern Governors’ Forum, Governor Simon Lalong of Plateau State, has said the region is happy with the declaration of bandits as terrorists He also added that the region commends the deployment of the recently acquired Super Tucano jets to fight the bandits. Governor Lalong was speaking to State House Correspondents on Friday, after he met behind …

Since Friday last week when President Muhammadu Buhari signed the 2022 Appropriation Bill into law at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, crisis may have started brewing between the Presidency and the National Assembly over what was described as ‘worrisome changes’ and inclusion of new provisions totalling N36.59 billion in the budget by the lawmakers. President Buhari, who said the action of …

Senior Advocates of Nigeria, civil society organisations and the opposition Peoples Democratic Party have said the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), should be ready to account for his actions when he leaves office next year. Their views came as a response to the President’s statement during his interview on Channels Television on Wednesday that anybody who asks him to come and …

• No evidence Sylvester was tortured, bullied – Lagos CP Sylvester Oromoni, the father of the late 12-year-old pupil of Dowen College, Lekki, Lagos, Sylvester Oromoni Jnr, has restated the family’s commitment to get justice, saying that he would not bury his son even if it takes 30 years to get justice. He also kicked against the report of the …

Three White men who chased and murdered 25-year-old Black jogger Ahmaud Arbery in south Georgia were sentenced to life in prison Friday, with two having no chance of parole. Travis McMichael, 35, his father, Gregory McMichael, 66, and neighbor William “Roddie” Bryan were convicted in November on a raft of charges, including felony murder, for Arbery’s death. Judge Timothy Walmsley …

Edo State College of Nursing Sciences has commenced application for admission into the Basic Midwifery Programme for the first cohort of its 2022 session. In a statement, the institution’s registrar, Osayuki Jackson Obaseki, said the application opens on Tuesday 11th, January and closes Tuesday 25th, January 2022, at 12:00 pm. Obaseki disclosed that the qualification examination for the programme will …