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President Muhammadu Buhari is set to Confer the second national honours on General Tukur Yusuf Buratai and other retired service chiefs. General Buratai is the current Nigeria’s Ambassador to Republic of Benin. other retired service chiefs to be honored are,Air Marshal Sadique Baba Abubakar, ex Chief of Air Staff, General Gabriel Olanisakin who is the former Chief of Defence and current Nigeria’s Ambassador to Republic of Cameroon. The Ministry of Special Duties and Inter Governmental Affairs has already sent the notification to the respective awardees for their acknowledgment. The event is expected to hold at the international conference center in…

PDP DELTA GOV’SHIP TICKET: S’COURT OPENS HEARING ON EDEVBIE VS OBOREVWORI CASE The Supreme Court on Thursday opened hearing on the people’s Democratic party’s Olorogun David Edevbie versus Sheriff Oborevwori on the battle for the party’s Governorship ticket The case effectively entered the last lap with Thursday’s hearing although, after the filing of briefs, the Supreme Court granted Edevbie the order for substituted service to the respondents. The matter was however adjourned till September 30 for the consideration of other preliminary issues. You will recall that, after the PDP primaries in May, Olorogun David Edevbie challenged the qualification of Sheriff…

Worried by NigerIa’s state of governance, a group, Big Tent coalition of Political Parties, social movements and civil society that constitute the Third Force for national retrieval and transformation, is inaugurating a national Policy Review and Future view Team. This was made known in a statement signed by the groups spokesman, Thursday in Lagos. The statement read:”This is to enhance the functionality of Democratic Institutions and to begin to restore legitimacy to government at a time when Governors are pointing to large areas of ungoverned spaces, ways and means money creation that has repeatedly violated the law and set the…

The peoples democratic party(PDP) presidential candidate, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar’ has urged members of the party who have resolved to withdraw from the party’s 2923 Presidential Campaign Council to rethink and retrace their steps. Atiku has reacted as Wike’s camp pulled out of the PDP presidential campaign. The former Vice President’s reaction comes on the heels of the decision of some party chieftains especially the wike’s camp to pull out of the 2023 campaign team. The PDP presidential flagbearer also faulted their insistence on the National Chairman, Iyorchia Ayu to vacate office. In his reaction, Atiku said he was “surprised by…

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has recognized candidates produced by the Dan Orbih faction of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) as qualified standard bearers of the party in the forthcoming 2023 elections. Recall that the party has been engulfed in supremacy battle between Governor Godwin Obaseki’s faction and the faction led by the party National Vice Chairman South South, Dan Orbih, leading to the conduct of parallel primaries in May this year. The parallel primaries resulted in litigations and a high court ruling recognized those that emerged from Orbih’s faction primaries. However, Obaseki-led camp had appealed the judgement and…

Senate President Ahmad Lawan’s name has been Missing in the final list of contestants published by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). Lawan and Bashir Machina have been locked in a long drawn battle over the ticket of the ruling party for Yobe North which Lawan currently represents. Meanwhile,former Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Godswill Akpabio, made the list as the APC candidate for Akwa Ibom North-West Senatorial District. A Federal High Court in Abuja, earlier in the week had ordered INEC to accept and publish Akpabio’s name as the candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) for the Akwa…

FG/ASUU IMPASSE: GBAJABIAMILA ASKS BOTH PARTIES TO SHIFT GROUND Speaker of the House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila, has asked the federal government and the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) to shift grounds towards ending the prolonged strike by the university lecturers. Gbajabiamila said this while addressing ASUU president, Prof Emmanuel Osodeke, and top members of the union, minister of state for education and other stakeholders during a conciliatory meeting held on Tuesday. The speaker who described the strike as a national embarrassment,, stressed that,“We are not here to rehash the problem, we all know what the issues are. Government…

The National Association of Online Security News Publishers (NAOSNP) has concluded plans to host this year’s annual Security Conference with the theme, Crime Prevention and Intelligence: Institutionalizing Citizen Participation, Technology and Way Forward. This was disclosed Wednesday, in a statement signed by the Association’s Public Relations Officer,Eric Elezuo. According to the statement,prominent security experts and strategists have been lined up to give the best of security lectures at theevent slated for September 21, 2022 to hold at the Civic Centre, Victoria Island, Lagos. On his part,President of the Association Samson Oki, stated that, “this year’s conference topic was drawn against…

President Muhammadu Buhari in separate letters of requests has sought Senate’s approval on Tuesday for issuance of promissory notes totalling over N402billion. The first of such requests read in plenary by senate President, Ahmad Lawan was N375billion meant for settling outstanding claims owed various exporters . Other similar debts payment requests to be routed through Debt Management Office ( DMO ), are N6.706billion for Kebbi State Government on construction of federal road in the State and N2.706billion for Taraba State Government to construct federal roads. President Buhari in another request as read in plenary by senate President Ahmad Lawan, also…

Veteran “juju” musician, Sunday Adegeye also known as King Sunny Ade (KSA), has agreed to meet 52-year-old Elizabeth Ayeni, who claims to be his daughter. King Sunny Ade’s lawyer, Donald Ajibola, who disclosed this on Monday, said the meeting which would be set up with Ayeni, will be possible only at the musician”s free time. Ajibola stated,“I contacted Ayeni some days back and told her that I had spoken with Sunny Ade. What I told her, was that I spoke with him and he agreed to meet her. “The only thing is that he is too busy and cannot meet…