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Femi Falana, human rights lawyer and senior advocate of Nigeria (SAN), says the Labour Party (LP) needs to intensify efforts in mobilising Nigerians to defeat other parties in the 2023 polls. Falana advised Peter Obi, LP presidential candidate, to stop visiting those who destroyed the country to seek their support. Speaking during the LP national […]

Students under the aegis of the National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS), South-West zone, on Tuesday blocked the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway, protesting the ongoing strike by members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU). The students, who gathered at the Sagamu interchange as early as 9am, blocked both sides of the highway preventing traffic flow […]

Labour Party’s (LP) presidential candidate Peter Obi, has stated that Nigerians will choose a leader they can trust as it is not the turn of anyone to lead the nation. Obi seems to be making light of All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate Bola Tinubu for a statement he made a few months back. In a […]

The National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) has threatened to block the Lagos-Ibadan expressway on Tuesday, September 13 over the failure of the Nigerian government to address the lingering strike action of the Academic Staff Union of Universities and other staff unions. ASUU has been on strike since February 14 due to several unresolved issues, […]

Ahmad Gumi, a Kaduna-based Islamic scholar, has asked the Department of State Services (DSS) to either charge Tukur Mamu, publisher of Desert Herald, to a court or release him from detention. Mamu, an aide to Ahmad Gumi, a popular Islamic cleric, negotiated the release of persons abducted on a train to Kaduna in March 2022. […]

The campaign team of Atiku Abubakar, presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has explained why Iyorchia Ayu, the party’s national chairman, cannot be removed from his position. There have been calls for the resignation of Ayu, especially by those in the camp of Nyesom Wike, governor of Rivers state. Wike’s camp is demanding […]

The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has declared Tuesday, September 13, as sit-at-home in the South-East, as it warned President Muhammadu Buhari not to visit Imo State on Tuesday. The directive, according to the pro-Biafran group, was issued in support of Nnamdi Kanu, their incarcerated leader, who will be appearing in court on that day. […]

Seyi Makinde, governor of Oyo state, says the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) will be unable to restructure Nigeria if it cannot restructure itself. Makinde spoke on Friday after he commissioned the Umuakatawom-Osaa-Okea-Ohuru road in Obingwa LGA of Abia state. The major opposition party has been battling an internal crisis in the last few months. As […]

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) says its result viewing (IReV) portal has come under attack from hackers across the world. Mahmood Yakubu, INEC chairman, said this while delivering a keynote address at a stakeholders’ conference on election result management on Friday in Abuja. The conference was organised by YIAGA Africa, a civil society organisation […]

The Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Timipre Sylva, has been dragged before a Federal High Court in Abuja over allegations of certificate forgery. In the court documents obtained by Reporters on Friday, a civil society organisation, Transparency Advocacy For Development Initiative, TADI, which is the plaintiff, is seeking the court to ascertain the true […]

Nigerian rapper Panshak Zamani, popularly known as Ice Prince, has been released on bail. The Nigeria Police Force, Lagos State command, had arraigned the singer before a Magistrate Court sitting in Ajah, Lagos State, on three-count charge bordering on assault, obstructing a policeman from carrying out his statutory duties, and abduction. The court had granted […]

Hushpuppi has appealed to stay in the U.S after he’s eventually released from prison over fears that he might be targeted by the disgraced police officer Abba Kyari. Nigerian internet fraudster, Ramon Abbas popularly known as Hushpuppi, has appealed to a United States court to be kept in the country beyond his prison term. Hushpuppi’s […]