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Former Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof Attahiru Jega has urged the electoral umpire to resist pressure by politicians who oppose to the deployment of the Bimodal Voter Registration System (BVAS) for the 2023 elections. Jega, who […]

THE International Monetary Fund, IMF, has projected that Nigeria’s economic growth will slow  to 3.0 per cent  in 2023 while  the  inflation rate drops to 17 per cent. Making these projections in the IMF October World Economic Outlook, WEO, released […]

President Muhammadu Buhari has sworn-in Justice Olukayode Ariwoola as the substantive Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN). The swearing-in ceremony that took place before the commencement of the week’s Federal Executive Council, FEC, meeting, was witnessed by Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, […]

Co-chair Interfaith Peace and Dialogue Forum, Bishop Sunday Onuoha, has said that negotiations to release the Leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu; and politically resolve every issue surrounding his continued incarceration, were still on. The cleric who disclosed […]

The Federal Government, yesterday, arraigned a Lagos State monarch, the Onikosi of Ikosi, Oba Alami Oloyede Onikosi, before the Federal High Court in Abuja over his alleged complicity in the forgery and falsification of a judgement of the Supreme Court. […]

Ahead of the 2023 general elections, Mr Peter Obi’s emergence as the presidential candidate of the Labour Party has been described as a rare chance for Nigeria. In an article published on Monday, The Economist recalled that some polls had tipped Obi […]

A former Deputy Governor of Sokoto State, Mukhtar Shagari, has revealed that he was contacted by the Labour Party to become Peter Obi’s vice presidential candidate. Shagari, speaking on Channels Television’s Politics Today on Tuesday, said he declined the opportunity […]

Owerri—The lead counsel to the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Ifeanyi Ejiofor,  yesterday, dismissed reports that IPOB’s  leader, Nnamdi Kanu, would be in court today the 11th Day of October 2022. Ejiofor  stated  this  in a  statement he issued in Owerri, […]

The Independent National Electoral Commission on Tuesday said new Permanent Voter Cards will be made available by November. INEC Chairman Prof Mahmoud Yakubu said this at a National Endowment for Democracy event in Washington DC in the United States. Yakubu […]

Pan Yoruba Socio-Political Group, Afenifere and the chairman of the South-West Governors Forum, Rotimi Akeredolu have traded words over endorsement of the Presidential candidate of Labour Party, Peter Obi.null Speaking yesterday during a Twitter session on the topic, ‘Asiwaju Bola […]