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•6  southern aspirants in fierce battle against Lawan •Osinbajo, Onu,  Umahi , Tinubu, Amaechi, Nwajiuba fight to the finish in race for ruling party’s presidential ticket •Consensus option still on card Six top southern aspirants will today engage in a fierce battle for the presidential ticket of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) Though the party’s northern governors on Saturday backed …

“We are on the way towards winning our third straight victory since 2015,” President Buhari says. President Muhammadu Buhari has appraised the series of consultations held so far towards getting a widely acceptable presidential standard bearer for the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) Femi Adesina, the president’s special adviser on media and publicity, in a statement, said Mr Buhari stated this at …

Police say the attackers struck at about 11.30 a.m. during church service The police in Ondo State have given insight into how terrorists attacked the St Francis Catholic Church, Owo, Ondo State, on Sunday. It is believed that over 70 persons were killed and injured in the attack. But a statement by the Ondo State Police Command, on Sunday, signed by the …

• Adamu: Buhari didn’t discuss zoning with party leaders• Osinbajo, Umahi, and Akpabio deny stepping down• Tinubu ‘under pressure to withdraw from the race As all eyes are trained on the governing All Progressives Congress (APC) today for its national convention to elect its presidential candidate at Eagle Square, Abuja, the twists and turns that have characterised the last three …

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky met troops on the frontlines in Donbas Sunday as heavy fighting raged in the eastern industrial region that Moscow has focused its forces on taking. Zelensky visited command posts and frontline positions in Lysychansk, which sits across the Siverskyi Donets river from Severodonetsk, where Ukrainian troops were pushing back against Russian forces who had earlier appeared …

Mr Atiku said any attack on worshippers is a red line Former Vice President of Nigeria and presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Atiku Abubakar, has said he is devastated by reports of loss of scores of lives following the attack on St. Francis Catholic Church, Owa-luwa, in Owo Mr Atiku in a statement by his Media Adviser, Paul Ibe, …

Gov. Oluwarotimi Akeredolu has directed that flags should be flown at half-mast in all public buildings, facilities and official residences for seven days in honour of the victims of the Owo terror attack on Sunday. This is contained in a statement issued by the Akeredolu’s Chief Press Secretary, Richard Olatunde on Monday in Akure. ”In honour of the victims of …

The Vice-Chancellor, University of Abuja, Prof. Abdul-Rasheed Na-Allah, says the institution has gone tough on lecturers sexually harassing students, as two professors had been dismissed for the offence. Na’Allah told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Monday in New York that the university had introduced a policy on sex abuse on campus, which had been published. Na-Allah, who was …

There was pandemonium at Saint Francis Catholic Church, Owa-luwa Street, Owo,  the headquarters of the Owo Local Government Area of Ondo State as gunmen attacked the church on Sunday. The attack on the church in Owo,  the hometown of the state Governor, Rotimi Akeredolu, came barely a week after the Prelate of the Methodist Church of Nigeria, Bishop Samuel Kanu-Uche, …

Governors of northern extraction in the ruling All Progressives Congress APC have dumped two of their colleagues with presidential ambitions and instead called on President Muhammadu Buhari to support a presidential aspirant from the South. The position of the governors is an indication that they no longer support the Kebbi state Governor, Abubakar Badaru and that of Kogi state, Yahaya …