Sokoto State governor Aminu Waziri Tambuwal, has declared, with immediate effect, a 24 hours curfew in the state following protests by youths. The protests followed arrest of suspects in the killing of Deborah Yakubu Samuel, who was a student of the Shehu Shagari College of Education, Sokoto. The Office ...
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2023 and the Contentious Issue APC Must Confront
2023 and the Contentious Issue APC Must Confront For the APC, the 2023 presidential elections present a real test of its ability to survive and forge a unified front as a political organisation. The Buhari era is about to end, and the hitherto unifying figure of a Buhari that appears ...
Read More »UAE Announces 40 Days Mourning Over President’s Death
The United Arab Emirates Government has announced a 40-day state mourning over the death of the country’s President, Highness Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan, on Friday. The official news agency of the United Arab Emirates tweeted on Friday that he passed on at the age of 73. “The ...
Read More »ASUU: Students To Remain At Home As FG’s Meeting With Union Ends In Deadlock
The meeting held between representatives of the Federal Government and the Academic Staff Union of Universities on Thursday has ended in a deadlock. The Chief of Staff to the President, Prof Agboola Gambari, and the Minister of Labour and Employment, Chris Ngige, were unable to convince the union to ...
Read More »JUST IN: Elon Musk Puts Twitter Acquisition On Hold
Elon Musk has announced that he will be putting his $44 billion dollar Twitter acquisition deal on hold. In a tweet on Wednesday, Musk said he took the decision pending when he’s able to confirm Twitter’s claim that spam and fake accounts indeed represent less than 5% of total ...
Read More »Buhari Approves Withdrawal Of Nigeria Basketball Teams From International Competitions
The recent and unending crisis that has rocked the Nigeria Basketball Federation, NBBF, has prompted the President of Nigeria to approve the withdrawal of the country’s basketball team in all international competitions for two years. Mr Sunday Dare, the Minister of youth and sports, disclosed Buhari’s decision. This withdrawal ...
Read More »Atiku deletes Facebook, Twitter posts on Deborah’s killing after receiving threats on his 2023 ambition
Most of the comments were from fundamentalists who warned the politician to stay away from condemning the murder of the Christian student. Atiku Abubakar has deleted a post he made syndicated on his Facebook and Twitter pages about slain Deboral Samuel after coming under a barrage of threats from ...
Read More »Deborah Samuel: Video Of Man Confessing To Her Murder Goes Viral Online
A video of a man openly boasting of being responsible for the murder of Deborah Samuel has gone viral online. Recall that it was earlier reported that the internet went agog yesterday after a disturbing video surfaced showing moments a mob lynched and set ablaze a lady identified as ...
Read More »El-Rufai Declares Support For Bola Tinubu’s Presidential Ambition
Governor Nasir El-Rufai of Kaduna State has openly endorsed the Presidential ambition of the national leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu. The Kaduna governor openly backed Tinubu’s ambition at the Murtala Square in Kaduna on Thursday. It was gathered that Tinubu alongside the former Governor of ...
Read More »2023: what will happen to Ministers, Appointees Who Fail To Resign – Presidency reveals
The Presidency has said ministers and political appointees who are seeking elective office but refused to resign would be sacked. Naija News reports that Presidential Spokesman, Garba Shehu, made this known in an interview on Channels Television on Thursday. Recall that President Muhammadu Buhari had directed members of his ...
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