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The National Chairman, Caretaker Extraordinary Convention Planning Committee CECPC of the ruling All Progressives Congress APC, Gov. Mai Mala Buni has refuted an earlier statement which discarded the National Convention Sub-committees as recomposed in his absence by the acting CECPC Chairman, Gov. Abubakar Sani Bello. It was not immediately clear if the endorsement included the decision to sack the CECPC …

*Threatens street protests, blockade of access roads if demands not met The National Association of Nigerian Students, NANS, has given the federal government and the striking Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, two weeks deadlines to resolve their differences and return students to classrooms. This came as the umbrella body of Nigerian students flayed the extension of a four-week strike …

The Minister of Power, Abubakar Aliyu, on Wednesday spoke to journalists on the current power outage and why the country has yet to make real progress in raising power generation and supply. Mr Aliyu blamed the outage and the collapse of the national grid on maintenance problems and gas shortages. Read his remarks below: The issue we’re currently facing now, just …

Anambra State will today, enter a new phase as the democratically elected governor, prof. Charles Soludo takes over the governorship mantle from Willie Obiano who has successfully ruled the state for 8 years under the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA). The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) had declared Chukwuma Soludo of APGA the winner of the November 6 governorship election in the …

An agent, who claims to be working under the Federal Bureau of Investigation of the national government of United States has alleged that Instagram celebrity Hushpuppi has received fresh charges as US prosecutors submitted court documents showing that he committed fraud and laundered over $400k while in prison. The documents which were presented before the United States District Court of …

Professor Charles Soludo who was on Thursday sworn-in as Governor of Anambra State, has vowed to end the activities of touts and revenue collectors in the state. Soludo, a former Central Bank of Nigeria governor said this during his inauguration as the governor of the state. Pic 2. Prof. Chukwuma Soludo taking Oath of office before the Chief Judge of …

Drama ensued on Thursday at the inauguration of Charles Soludo as the governor of Anambra State when the wife of the outgoing Governor Willie Obiano, Ebelechukwu, slapped Bianca Ojukwu at the event. Mrs Ojukwu is the widow of the late Biafran leader, Odumegwu Ojukwu. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) correspondent who was at the scene of the event reported that the incident occurred immediately …

Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, the All Progressives Congress (APC) national leader on Wednesday, met with the APC Senate caucus over his plan to succeed President Muhammadu Buhari in 2023, saying that his ambition is not for power. “This (presidential ambition) is not about gaining power. It is about securing good government for the nation,” Tinubu told the senators. On the reason …

*VP adds: Africa will need world-class young people who have strong interpersonal, innovative, entrepreneurial, critical and creative thinking skills Nigeria’s Vice President, Prof Yemi Osinbajo has called on the West African Examination Council to design its curriculum further to test for and support core skills, such as Critical Thinking, Creativity, Imagination which are imperative for the future of young Nigerians. …

President Joe Biden called Russian President Vladimir Putin a “war criminal” Wednesday, a rhetorical leap that came as civilian deaths mount in Ukraine. It was the harshest condemnation of Putin’s actions from any US official since the war in Ukraine began three weeks ago, the CNN reported. Previously, Biden had stopped short of labeling atrocities being documented on the ground …