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The Labour Party has dissociated itself from a viral letter signed by the self-acclaimed factional national chairman of the party, Lamidi Apapa, asking the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal to dismiss all cases by the party’s presidential candidate, Peter Obi, against the emergence of the All Progressives Congress Bola Tinubu, in the February 25 general election. According to a statement made …

Edo State Governor, Mr. Godwin Obaseki, has called for increased global effort for the prevention and treatment of malaria, which is responsible for the loss of over 600,000 lives yearly, ensuring better funding for research and development, deployment of new tools and expanding access to services for the most-at-risk population. Obaseki made the call in commemoration of 2023 World Malaria …

United States Department of State, through the Transnational Organized Crime Rewards Program (TOCRP), today announced a reward offer of up to $5,000,000 for information leading to the arrest and/or conviction of Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) national Sim Hyon-Sop.  The State Department said in a statement released by its Spokesperson, Matthew Miller that the US was also offering separate …

New York (AP) — A former advice columnist’s nearly 30-year-old rape claim against Donald Trump went to trial Tuesday as jurors in the federal civil case heard her allegation of being attacked in a luxury department store dressing room. The former president says nothing happened between them. E. Jean Carroll will testify that what unfolded in a few minutes in …

Washington (AP) — President Joe Biden on Tuesday formally announced that he is running for reelection in 2024, asking voters to give him more time to “finish this job” and extend the run of America’s oldest president for another four years. Biden, who would be 86 at the end of a second term, is betting his first-term legislative achievements and …

New York (AP) — Harry Belafonte, the civil rights and entertainment giant who began as a groundbreaking actor and singer and became an activist, humanitarian and conscience of the world, has died. He was 96. The Associated Press reports that Belafonte died Tuesday of congestive heart failure at his New York home, his wife Pamela by his side, said publicist …

Stakeholders in the petroleum industry, weekend, frowned over the Federal Government’s proposed $800 million fuel subsidy palliative to be shared with Nigerians. As part of a palliative targeted at easing the pains of Nigerians, $800 million has been proposed for distribution to 10 million households. But in an interview with Energy Vanguard, Executive Director of Emmanuel Egbogal Foundation, Professor Wumi …

• 55% of recurrent health budget goes to malaria care  • Epidemic affects 51 million Nigerians, 207,000 deaths a year  Despite a series of intervention programmes against the malaria epidemic in recent times, Nigeria is apparently not winning the war against the deadly scourge, with an estimated sum of N2.04 trillion still routinely spent on treatments yearly.The conservative estimate of …

As the demand for African gas increases in Europe, new research conducted by an international non-governmental organisation – Stakeholder Democracy Network (SDN) – has identified possible socio-economic challenges Nigeria may face in its plans to expand gas production. Following the ongoing war between Russia and Ukraine, and the resulting energy crisis in Europe and the UK due to disrupted gas supplies from …

The National Emergency Management Agency, NEMA, has confirmed plans to evacuate over 2,000 Nigerians in crisis-hit Sudan this morning. This came on a day management of Air Peace expressed its willingness to evacuate Nigerians stranded in the Horn of Africa country free of charge. This is even as Chairman/CEO of Nigerians in Diaspora Commission, NIDCOM, Abike Dabiri-Erewa, also yesterday encouraged …