Ex-Minister Prof Adedoja Quits PDP, Joins APC
Crisis rocks the major opposition party in Nigeria, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), again as a former Minister of Sports and Special Duties and chieftain of the party, Professor Taoheed Adedoja resigned from the party. Adedoja, who was a formidable contender for the chairmanship seat of the party last year submitted his letter of resignation to […]
Fintiri’s Election New Dawn for Adamawa -Atiku
Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and former Vice President of Nigeria, Atiku Abubakar says the election of Rt. Hon. Ahmadu Fintiri as governor of Adamawa State is a dawn of a glorious new era for the state. The former Vice President remarks that he is particularly delighted that the PDP came victorious […]
Two Lives and a Mission, By Dare Babarinsa
Were Chief Obafemi Awolowo still with us, he would now be 110 years old now. All over the world, there are very few people of that age on this side of the Great Divide. But Awolowo’s thoughts and deeds are still with us. His works, as the Leader of Government Business and later Premier of […]
Woman with Two Wombs Gives Birth Twice, Month Apart
A 20-year-old Bangladeshi woman gave birth to twins — 26 days after giving birth to her first child. Arifa Sultana gave birth to a boy in late February, according to Dr. Sheila Poddar, a gynecologist at Ad-Din hospital in Dhaka. After a normal delivery, the mother and baby were released from a different Dhaka hospital. […]
Fayemi Greets Tinubu at 67
Ekiti State Governor, Dr Kayode Fayemi has congratulated former Lagos State Governor and National Leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu on his 67th birthday celebration. The Governor, in a personal tribute to Asiwaju Tinubu, described him as the leading light of progressive politics in the country, a fact which he […]
Economic Storm Looms, Tinubu Warns Buhari at Colloquium
Full text of the speech inside ‘I would be a most wicked friend if I knew a storm was approaching yet convinced you to ready your family for an outdoor picnic under the tallest tree’ It was a convivial atmosphere. A festive atmosphere fit for the royalty. An event that paraded a preponderance of Nigeria’s […]
PDP’s Fintiri Wins Adamawa Governorship Election
Candidate of the People’s Democratic Party, PDP, Ahmed Umar Fintiri, has won the Adamawa State governorship election. The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, declared Fintiri victorious having polled 376, 552 votes to beat the incumbent Governor and candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Jibrilla Bindow, who scored 336, 386 votes. Prof. Andrew Haruna, the […]
Jay-Z To Receive Presidential Award At NAACP’s 50th Anniversary
American Rapper, Shawn Carter, who answers Jay-Z, as his stage name, would on Saturday, receive the National Association for the Advancement of Coloured People (NAACP)’s Presidential Award. The award would form part of the activities marking NAACP’s 50th anniversary. It would be in recognition of Jay-Z’s special achievements and distinguished public service. The NAACP’s president, […]
Dokpesi Accuses Buhari, Says You’re Behind My Travails
Chairman of DAAR Communications, Chief Raymond Dopkesi, has accused President Muhammadu Buhari of being behind his arrest and detention last Friday on arrival from his medical trip to Dubai. Speaking to journalists in Abuja after an interrogation by the Nigeria Immigration Service, NIS, which lasted about two hours, Dokpesi also accused the Federal Government of […]
Tribunal Verdict on Osun Guber Poll Can’t Stand –Aregbesola
Former Osun State Governor, Rauf Aregbesola has described the judgment of the Election Petition Tribunal last Friday, which nullified the election of Governor Gboyega Oyetola as very strange and unknown to Nigerian law. Aregbesola, in a statement by his media adviser, Sola Fasure, said the report of the split judgment came to every watcher of […]
