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Opposition members-elect of the House of Representatives have setup a committee to screen and selected candidates to run for Speaker of the 10th Assembly. In a statement on Monday, the members-elect announced Rep. Nicholas Mutu as Chairman, and Rep. Victor Ogene as Secretary of the 11-man committee. The statement which …

The presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi, on Sunday visited nobel laureate Wole Soyinka. Sharing photos of the visit on his Twitter page late Sunday, Obi said he visited Soyinka to clear the air concerning the relationship between the literary icon and the OBIdient Movement. Obi wrote, “Today, …

On the 13th memorial of the death of former President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua, his wife Hajiya Turai, has stated that her husband lived a simple and corrupt-free life. Turai spoke in an interview with the BBC Hausa Service monitored in Kaduna, yesterday, by Sunday Vanguard. “He was simple. He was …

  Forty-seven-year-old Nigerian based in the United Kingdom (UK), Mrs Abigail Marshall Katung, has been elected to represent Little London and Woodhouse Ward in the 2023 Leeds City Council elections for the second term.     Mrs Katung, wife of the elected Nigerian Senator, Barr. Sunday Marshall Katung got re-elected …

Sonia Ekweremadu, the 25-year-old daughter of former Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu has reacted to the sentencing of her parents by the United Kingdom, UK court for organ-harvesting.       Recall that the UK court on Friday, sentenced Ekweremadu to nine years and eight months imprisonment while his wife, Beatrice …

Nigerian Actress, Ronke Oshodi-Oke, has disclosed that her daughter has returned to the school where she was poisoned.     Recall, Ronke recently took to social media to cry out after her daughter was poisoned at the university.   According to the movie star, bleach was poured into her daughter’s …

An officer in the Nigeria Police Force has revealed why many of his colleagues take bribes and extort Nigerians at every opportunity.       According to security personnel who spoke to SaharaReporters about the matter, many police officers, particularly thousands recently recruited into the force, have been demoralized and …

  A UK court has on Friday sentenced former deputy senate president, Ike Ekweremadu to nine years and eight months in jail for plotting to harvest a man’s kidney for his sick daughter. Meanwhile, Ekweremadu’s wife Beatrice was handed four years, six months sentence while Obinna Obeta, a medical doctor got …

A manhunt order has been passed by the Kano State Commissioner of Police, Mohammed Usaini, for Ibrahim Musa, the 22-year-old who allegedly stabbed his biological mother, Hajara Mohammed, 50, to death.     The Public Relations Officer (PPRO) of the Kano State Command, SP Abdullahi Haruna-Kiyawa, made this known in a …

Senator Magnus Ngei Abe, the Social Democratic Party’s (SDP) candidate for governor of Rivers State, has provided an explanation for his decision to withdraw his lawsuit contesting the Peoples Democratic Party’s (PDP) victory in the state. Senator Magnus Ngei Abe, the Social Democratic Party’s (SDP) candidate for governor of Rivers …