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School teacher, Pedro Castillo has been declared Peru’s president-elect, six weeks after elections during which the results were delayed by claims of electoral fraud from his right-wing rival, Keiko Fujimori. Jorge Luis Salas, head of the JNE elections jury, announced his victory in a brief virtual ceremony on Monday night, …

Yoruba Nation agitator, Sunday Adeyemo also known as Sunday Igboho, has been arrested in Cotonou, Benin Republic. He was arrested at an airport in Cotonou on Monday night, a top source familiar with the matter told our correspondent. Igboho was arrested by the security forces in Benin Republic about three …

Bishop David Oyedepo, President and founder of the Living Faith Church Worldwide, has described President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration as evil filled with wilderness. The world’s second richest pastor made the remark on Sunday during a sermon at the church’s headquarters, Canaanland, Ota in Ogun State. Oyedepo who was speaking on …

Malam Garba Shehu, presidential spokesman, made references to at least two biblical passages in his response to Bishop Matthew Kukah’s latest criticism of President Muhammadu Buhari.During his virtual presentation to the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission in Washington DC earlier in the week, the cleric had alleged that Christians were being …

Speaker of the House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila has reminded his colleagues that they have a responsibility of doing whatever they believe is in the best interest of Nigeria as they pass the electoral amendment bill.   Gbajabiamila who addressed legislators during a heated plenary on the electronic transmission of poll results …

The Federal Government has declared Tuesday, July 20 and Wednesday July 21, 2021 as public holidays to mark this year’s Eid-el-Kabir celebration. Minister of Interior, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola, who made the declaration on behalf of the Federal Government, congratulated all Muslim faithfuls and Nigerians at home and in the Diaspora …

Detained leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu, has filed an application before the Federal High Court in Abuja, seeking to be transferred from the custody of the Department of State Service, DSS, to the Nigerian Correctional Service Centre in Kuje. Kanu, in the application he …

Governor Nasir El-Rufai has expressed regret of his administration’s investment in security not manifesting in defeat or considerable degradation of criminals in Kaduna state.   Speaking during the presentation of the Kaduna State Security Incidents Report for the Second Quarter of 2021, El-Rufai noted that there have been a total of 222 …

Bishop David Oyedepo, the General overseer of the Living Faith Church aka Winners Chapel, has stated he loves all Ministers of God but he is not friends with every one of them. The clergyman said this on Sunday, July 11 while delivering a message in his church and advising them …

The Senate on Tuesday bowed to pressure from Civil Society Organisations, the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP and other Nigerians and refused to confirm the Special Assistant on new media to President Muhammadu Buhari, Lauretta Onochie from Delta as a Commissioner of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC. The refusal was …