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  The APC National Leader, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, on Thursday night made nonsense of the recently created Caretaker/Extra-Ordinary National Convention Planning Committee of the APC by President Muhammadu Buhari; saying with ostrich evasion that “there is no crisis in the party, hence, no fight to reconcile,” hence there were no differences to be sorted […]

The main opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) yesterday joined the Nigeria Labor Congress (NLC) to reject the new petrol pump price of N143.80 announced by the Petroleum Products Pricing Regulatory Agency (PPPRA), saying it was inhumane and unjustifiable and should be reversed immediately to the status quo ante.    “The actions of the APC administration […]

Nigeria’s High Commissioner to the United Kingdom, Justice George Oguntade, and the Nigerian Ambassador to the United States, Justice Sylvanus Nsofor have been sacked from their positions over what President Muhammadu Buhari considered as their “unsatisfactory performance” in the execution of their duties.   Presidential spokesman, Garba Shehu, in a statement yesterday said the president […]

  The African Development Bank (AfDB) has appointed three eminent personalities from Ireland, Gambia and South Africa to a panel that will independently review its investigative committee report on whistleblower allegations against the bank’s embattled president Akinwumi Adesina.   They are chair of the elders and former Irish President Barrister Mary Robinson, former Gambia attorney […]

FC Barcelona captain Lionel Messi has called off negotiations over renewing his contract with the club, according to a report by Spanish radio station Cadena Ser on Friday. The report added that the Argentina captain was even ready to leave the Catalans when his current deal expires in 2021.   It said Messi and his […]

Adams Oshiomhole, who was removed last month as the All Progressives Congress (APC) National Chairman, has been named a member of the party’s governorship election campaign council for Edo State.   The 49-member council is headed by Kano State governor, Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, who was named by the Caretaker/Extra-Ordinary National Convention Planning Committee of the […]

The African Development Bank will launch its African Economic Outlook 2020 Supplement on July 7, it said in an emailed statement Thursday.   The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in economic disruptions that have changed the strong growth projections that the bank reported in January in the 2020 African Economic Outlook.   “The supplement revises the […]

In one of the highest price hikes since the government said it had fully deregulated the downstream sector, the federal government Wednesday raised the pump price of petrol to between N140.80 and N143.80 for the month of July. The government said with the removal of the existing cap on fuel prices, prices would be fully […]

The Federal Government yesterday announced July 8 as resumption date for domestic flights even as Nigeria recorded 790 new cases of the deadly Coronavirus, bringing the total number of confirmed cases in the country to 26,484. The latest number of infections is the highest daily spike of Covid-19 cases.    “I am glad to announce […]

The trial of notorious Taraba kidnap kingpin, Hamisu Bala, aka Wadume, and six co-defendants will resume next Tuesday, July 7, 2020 after Justice Binta Nyako of the Abuja Division of the Federal High Court, on Wednesday denied bail in the terrorism and kidnapping charges brought against them by the federal government.   The bail rejection […]

In a stinging rebuke to Imo State Governor, Hope Uzodinma, the Federal High Court in the Imo state capital, Owerri, yesterday ordered the immediate reinstatement of chairmen and councilors of the 27 local government councils in the state.   Delivering judgment yesterday, Justice Tijani Garba Ringim said the governor had no right to “dissolve local […]

  Miffed at the myriad of life and death challenges bedeviling the nation with no possible end in sight, no fewer than 30 prominent political activists, academicians and professionals have formed a new political party called the National Consultative Front (NCF).   A communique issued by the new group’s national secretariat in Abuja on Wednesday […]