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Governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Mr. Osagie Ize-Iyamu has narrated how he and a few others braced the odds in 2007 to make Comrade Adams Oshiomhole the governor of Edo State. Ize-Iyamu, who said this in Auchi, noted that alongside Chief Tom Ikimi, he fought the battle that made Oshiomhole governor. He spoke at his party’s flagging-off …

Former Chairman of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Chief Vincent Ogbulafor, has blamed the party’s crisis on former President, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan. He also said PDP had a zoning pattern that had worked for it in the last 16 years, stressing that the best thing Jonathan should have done was to support a northern candidate in 2015. Ogbulafor, who spoke in …

Yunusa Dahiru, the young man accused of abducting 14-year Ese Oruru, a Delta State indigene based in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State, finally left custody at the weekend after spending over four months in Okaka Prisons in the state capital. A reliable source said that Dahiru was immediately taken to Kano, where he hails from, in company of a team of his …

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board on Sunday said the point system copied from its website as criteria for admission into tertiary institutions in the country and currently circulating was a mere illustration. This was contained in a statement by the board’s Head, Media and Information, Dr. Fabian Benjamin, in Lagos. According to the statement, the admission of candidates into …

A former Abia State Governor, Chief Orji Uzor Kalu, on Friday said that President Muhammadu Buhari’s anti-corruption war was not selective as being perceived in some quarters. According to him, the President has the right to demand explanation on how the nation’s money was spent by those being investigated. Addressing journalists after paying a visit to a former Military President, …

Abia State governorship crisis turned dramatic yesterday as two divisions of the same court gave conflicting orders on the fate of the embattled Governor Okezie Ikpeazu. While a Federal High Court Abuja which had on June 27 sacked the governor from office held that he remained sacked until a higher court decides otherwise, another Federal High Court sitting in Owerri, …

An Italian football hooligan has been arrested and charged with murder after beating to death a Nigerian asylum seeker, who reacted to racial insults against his partner, ANSA news agency reported yesterday. According to the La Republica newspaper, Emmanuel Chidi Nnamdi, 36, got into a fight on Tuesday after the man called his 24-year-old girlfriend, Chinyere, a monkey. He was …

ABUJA—The end may be in sight for the lingering crisis in the leadership of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, as factional leaders of the party, Senator Ali Modu Sheriff and Senator Ahmed Makarfi, have commenced negotiations on how to engender peace. The immediate past national vice chairman of the Party, PDP, for South-South, Dr. Cairo Ojougboh, who disclosed this at a …

Dallas has been plunged into chaos after five police officers were shot dead and at least seven others were wounded when dozens of shots were fired during an anti-violence protest. It was the deadliest day for law enforcement in the US since 9/11. One suspect died after a protracted standoff in a parking garage in which heavy gunfire was exchanged between …

CNN)  – Five officers in Dallas have been shot dead during a street protest against police violence on Thursday night. Here’s the latest: 3 alleged suspects are in custody Fourth suspect dead after standoff One suspect claimed bombs were planted downtown 2 suspects were snipers, shot from “elevated position” Obama: “Wretched reminder of sacrifice police make” Eyewitness: It looked like …