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• Southeast APC seeks unity All hopes that leaders of Southeast geopolitical zone would play as united team towards the 2023 general election cycle were shattered yesterday, when stakeholders from the zone met in Owerri. Apart from the most recent joiner to the party, Ebonyi State Governor Dave Umahi, who …

Nigerians are to be blamed for the ongoing rowdy exercise to link their sim cards to the National Identity Numbers (NIN), the government has said. Nigeria’s communication and digital economy minister Isa Pantami said the government gave everyone about 12 months to complete the exercise but many ignored. Pantami argued …

Arewa leader, Chief Audu Ogbeh, has alerted the Federal Government to the use of camels by insurgents and bandits in ferrying weapons into Nigeria. The former Minister of Agriculture urged the current administration to urgently look into the matter. In a statement yesterday, the one-time PDP national chairman said during …

• Song Makes Biden-Harris Inauguration Playlist • Joins Sia On Revamped Version Of Jazzy Pop Single Hey Boy Afrobeats star, Damini Ogulu professionally known as Burna Boy again made headlines during the week, as his song, Destiny, a track off his 2019 and Grammy-nominated album, African Giant, was among the …

Basketball fans gathered across Los Angeles on Tuesday to remember Kobe Bryant, one year to the day after the former NBA superstar perished in a helicopter crash with daughter Gianna and seven others. Fans laid flowers and Los Angeles Lakers memorabilia at a makeshift memorial outside the Staples Center, the …

Fifty-one years after the Nigerian civil war, former President Olusegun Obasanjo, Catholic Bishop of Sokoto Diocese, Most Rev. Matthew Hassan Kukah and First Republic Minister of Aviation, Chief Mbazulike Amaechi, among others are to share ideas at the second Never Again conference in Lagos. In a statement, chairman of the …

A former Speaker of the House of Representatives, Sabur Dimeji Bankole, will, on Friday, January 15, tie the nuptial knot with Miss Aisha Shinkafi Saidu, daughter of the Governor of Kebbi State, Alhaji Atiku Bagudu.  Bankole, who divorced his first wife in 2017, had, in the past few years, been …

The choice of the topic ‘Onodu Anyi bu Igbo taa’ (The State of Igbos in Contemporary Society) stirs mixed feelings in me and I believe that this is true of any Igbo son and daughter who is conscious of our history and journey as a nation within a country.   …

We’re reconstructing roundabouts to ease transportation, says gov Former Imo State Governor, Rochas Okorocha, yesterday, appealed to Governor Hope Uzodinma to stop demolishing his legacy projects during his eight-year administration in the state. In a statement issued by his Special Adviser on Media, Sam Onwuemeodo, he (Okorocha) described the demolishing …

From the Archbishop of the Enugu Province (Anglican Communion), Emmanuel Chukwuma, has asked the Federal Government to address growing insecurity and hunger pervading the country to avoid a revolution. Speaking in Enugu shortly after being conferred with ‘Grand Ambassador of Peace’ award by the Global Society for Anti-Corruption (GSAC) at …