Hajiya Aishatu Yan Guru Bungudu Nahuche, a woman from Zamfara, was honoured by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu for her integrity after she returned $80,000 (about N60 million) that she had found while undertaking the 2023 pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia. The president was pleased to be informed of the incident and directed the National Hajj Commission to organise a national press conference with the lady for record-keeping, as reported by Alhaji Musa Mallaha, chairman of the Zamfara State Hajj Committee, during a press briefing in his office. The lady had already been transported back to her native state in Nigeria when…
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According to a media source on Saturday, the Afghan Taliban have encouraged the Pakistani government to start new negotiations with the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan terror organization, which is outlawed. A top Afghan Taliban leader has reportedly advised Islamabad to choose peace over conflict. The Express Tribune daily said that Pakistan’s most recent efforts to persuade Kabul to take action against the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) failed to garner traction. This week, Pakistan sent a special envoy on a three-day mission to Kabul to make it clear that the interim Taliban administration in Afghanistan must take serious action against the TTP, which is…
Some PDP supporters from the state’s Idanre Local Government Area have been welcomed by the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Ondo State. Members of the Social Democratic Party, or SDP, also defected to the ruling party in the same area. The main driving force behind the defectors’ choice to join the APC was the underwhelming showing by their various former parties in the most recent general election. They claim that their search for a new political platform was prompted by their discontent with the incapacity of their prior parties to successfully run their affairs. The State Chairman of the APC,…
Alhaji Abubakar Bawa, the embattled leader of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Taraba State, announced that he has appealed the most recent ruling of the State High Court. According to Infostride News, Justice Nuhu Adi, the presiding justice of the State High Court, recently removed Bawa from his position on the grounds that his nomination as the party’s substantive chairman was “unconstitutional.” Bawa said on Sunday in Jalingo, the state capital, that he had filed an appeal with the Court of Appeal of Nigeria, Yola Judicial Division, over the ruling. His notice of appeal includes the following sentence: “That…
Dr. Kachi Nwoga, candidate for governor of the Action Democratic Party (ADP), has spoken out against the Imo State government’s decision to charge opposition parties N54 million to put up campaign billboards before the election on November 11. On Monday, Nwoga met with a small group of journalists in Abuja, where he expressed his frustration that the state’s ruling party did not give its political opponents any room to operate. It was an immoral and repulsive fee, he said. The candidate for governor said, “The opposition is not permitted to breathe. If I wanted to put up a billboard right…
Abdulkarim Abdussalam Zaura of the All Progressives Congress (APC) lost his case against Rufai Sani Hanga of the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) because he could not prove that the NNPP had violated the Electoral Act of 2022. Zaura brought the complaint because he believed that Ibrahim Shekarau, a former senator from Kano Central and former governor of Kano, should have been the NNPP candidate instead of Hanga. However, Justice I.P. Chima ruled that the NNPP had acted within the electoral act’s 14-day limit by replacing Shakarau with Hanga, hence the lawsuit was thrown out. The judge also ordered the…
The current administration has guaranteed constitutional roles for traditional rulers. On Monday, while hosting the royal fathers of the 36 states of the federation and the Federal Capital Territory, Senate President Godswill Akpabio made the announcement and noted that this will be made possible through a constitutional modification. The traditional rulers had asked for such an assurance, stressing the significance of the royal fathers’ duties in governance generally and in security issues in particular. Having grown up in a constitutional democracy, Akpabio remarked, “Your request for constitutional role in governance is not strange to us.” One of the warrant officers…
Prof. Ben Ayade, a former governor of Cross River State, has argued that the election of Jarigbe Agom Jarigbe as senator for Cross River North should be nullified before the Election Petition Tribunal in Calabar. To back up his demand, Ayade submitted data from 310 polling locations in which he claimed electoral inconsistencies occurred during the election on February 25, 2023. The petition, with the case number EPT/CR/SEN/02/2023, was heard by the tribunal on Monday. The tribunal is presided over by Justice M. A. Sambo and includes Justices A. C. Akabua and J. Zululu. Ayade is represented by Mike Ozekhome,…
On Monday, people in Enugu State ignored the governor’s directive for everyone to stay indoors. Thousands of locals came out to defy the Monday stay-in-your-home directive. Banners reading “Enough is Enough” were carried by demonstrators as they marched through the streets. A group calling themselves the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has been enforcing a sit-at-home policy on the Southeast for the past two years. IPOB launched the stay-at-home campaign initially to demand Nnamdi Kanu’s freedom. However, the effort was taken over by Simon Ekpa, who is accused of arming criminals to generate chaos in the area under the name…
Bala Mohammed, governor of Bauchi State, has sent his nominees for commissioner to the Bauchi State Assembly for review. Abubakar Suleiman, the Assembly’s Speaker, delivered the governor’s statement during Monday’s plenary. In accordance with the requirements of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria (1999 as amended), he said the governor had requested that the House vet and approve the nominees for appointments to the State Executive Council. House Majority Leader Saleh Hodi Jibir read off the list of nominees, and the chamber voted to conduct interviews with them on August 2, 3, and 4. Nominee names [COMPLETE LIST]…
Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, INEC chairman, has stated unequivocally that the commission received no financial aid from overseas development partners in order to hold the 2023 general election. Prof. Yakubu elaborated during a 2023 general election discussion with civil society organisations. It was crucial, he said, to debunk the misconception that INEC received large payments from foreign assistance agencies for the election, and he asserted that the federal government was the only source of INEC’s financial support. To the contrary, and for the record, the Commission did not receive any direct financing or cash support from international development partners, he emphasised.…
China, other developing countries, and Western countries all put pressure on Russia at the UN Security Council on Friday to rapidly restore Ukrainian grain imports and prevent a worldwide food crisis. Moscow was condemned by the United Nations and council members for bombing Ukrainian ports and destroying port infrastructure after Moscow backed out of a year-long grain contract on Monday. Following Russia’s declaration of large sections of the Black Sea as off-limits to commerce, the United Nations issued a dire warning about the potential disaster that could result from a military incident there. Russia said it was suspending the Black…
Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential candidate Atiku Abubakar’s purported attempt to blackmail the court would fail, according to President Bola Tinubu. Tinubu claimed that Atiku’s latest comment proved that he still hasn’t gotten over the shock of losing the 2023 presidential race. He challenged Atiku to show proof that his administration was attempting to subvert the judicial system. The president’s spokesman, Dele Alake, released a statement in which he called Atiku’s allegations “full of innuendo, insinuations, and outright lies.” We have read the ridiculous and jejune statement by former Vice President and Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party in…
Ademola Adeleke, governor of Osun State, has urged his constituents to take safety seriously. This is because, he said, his government has taken safety measures to protect the state. On Sunday, in a message to the people of the state signed by his Spokesperson Olawale Rasheed, Governor Adeleke said he had ordered the heads of the state’s security agencies to implement preventative measures against crime and terrorism in light of recent intelligence community warnings. According to him, the safety of everyone in Osun State has been restored after the service chiefs took decisive action. There is no need for alarm…
Atiku Abubakar, the presidential candidate for the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has claimed that the All Progressives Congress (APC) is attempting to influence the independence of the court. The APC’s Bola Tinubu was declared the winner of the 2023 presidential election by the Independent National Electoral Commission, which Atiku and Peter Obi of the Labour Party (LP) are contesting. Tinubu was challenged in part because he did not win the majority of the votes cast in the FCT (Federal Capital Territory). Tinubu’s lawyer, Wole Olanipekun, contended, however, that the FCT should be counted as the 37th state for voting purposes…
The All Progressives Congress (APC) claims that Atiku Abubakar’s (the PDP’s presidential contender in 2023) baseless allegations. Atiku’s claims were dismissed as “arrant nonsense” in a statement released by the party’s National Publicity Secretary Felix Morka on Saturday. He claimed that the ruling party would have no reason to respond to Atiku’s statement. According to the spokeswoman, Atiku’s statement claimed that the APC and its government are involved in a scheme to intimidate members of the judiciary in order to unjustly influence the result of ongoing cases. Morka emphasised that despite Atiku and his henchmen’s wild, empty, and mischievous charges,…
The new Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Taoreed Lagbaja, has been given the backing of former Kaduna State governor, Nasir El-Rufai, who claims that Lagbaja will eradicate terrorism and banditry in Nigeria. This was announced by El-Rufai on Saturday via his Twitter account. According to him, Lagbaja inspires fear among criminal organisations like Boko Haram, bandits, and the outlawed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB). “I am very familiar with the new COAS. My final GOC as governor of Kaduna State was General Taoreed Lagbaja. He is always the one to take the initiative and lead the way. He single-handedly led…
The Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC) has urged Nigerians to wait for the benefits of the government’s economic policies to trickle down gradually. Prof. Ishaq Akintola, the group’s executive director, issued the call in a statement on Friday in Lagos. Experts have praised the deregulation of Nigeria’s oil industry, but this positive development must not be free. It has forced the pricing of petroleum products to be set by competitive markets around the world. Since the Nigerian government was not responsible for the most recent price hike from N488 to N617, this suggests that it is no longer in a position…
Workers in Nigeria are experiencing “the worst moment in their lives,” according to the Trade Union Congress (TUC), and as a result, many of them are going to work hungry. In an interview with the media on Friday, Sule Ahmed Tijani, chairman of TUC in Kogi State, made the request. Tijani, bemoaning the plight of employees after the elimination of the gasoline subsidy, stated that Nigerians can no longer withstand the increase in prices of transport and commodities in the country, and that workers are losing their lives and loved ones as a result. He criticised the administration for not…
Abdullahi Sule, governor of Nasarawa State, has said that the N8,000 subsidy from the federal government will help people cope with the loss of their gasoline subsidies. The Governor stated his opinion on N8,000 being a significant amount for many low-income families in the country during an appearance on Politics Today on Channels Television on Friday. He recalled that initially only N5,000 was given out as palliatives, and that many people had come to rely on that sum. He emphasised its importance, saying that many families counted on it to improve their lives, and that some communities had even pooled…