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FIFA on Friday recommended that all international football matches scheduled for March and April be postponed due to the spread of the new coronavirus. Falling short of banning matches outright, world football’s governing body said that clubs would be allowed to refuse to send their players to national squad gatherings in March and April. FIFA […]

The coronavirus is spreading fast across the globe and taking its toll on the rich and powerful; and it seems no one is exempted irrespective of their race, gender or socioeconomic status. American actor Tom Hanks, the wife of Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, and Arsenal coach Mikel Arteta are among the rich and famous […]

A reliable source at the presidency confirmed to www.www.aso.rocks search engine yesterday that barring any last-minute unexpected change of plans, President Muhammadu Buhari has indicated to the party’s governors that he would attend the National Executive Committee (NEC) meeting of the All Progressives Congress (APC) scheduled for Tuesday, despite multiple conflicting court rulings banning it. The […]Read More

Kaduna State Governor, Nasir El-Rufai has explained the rationale behind the appointments offered to the deposed Emir of Kano, Muhammadu Sanusi II, by his administration. The Kaduna State Government appointed Sanusi as the Vice Chairman of the state’s Investment Board as well as Chancellor of the State University, barely 72 hours after his dethronement as […]

Kaduna State Governor, Nasir El-Rufai has confirmed that the deposed Emir of Kano, Muhammad Sanusi II, has left Awe, Nasarawa State, where he was banished after his dethronement by the Kano State government. Sanusi had been under house arrest since Monday in Nasarawa State, after he was dethroned as Emir of Kano. He left town […]

Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, the deposed Emir of Kano, on Thursday, dragged the Inspector-General of Police(IGP), Mohammed Adamu; Director-General, Department of State Services (DSS), Yusuf Bichi, to the Federal High Court, Abuja, over his alleged detention.       Also joined in a motion ex-parte with suit number: FHC/ABJ/CS/357/2020, filed by his team of lawyers led […]

In his reaction to the dethronement of the former Emir of Kano by the Kano State government, Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, yesterday described the conduct of Governor Abdullahi Ganduje against Lamido Sanusi as authoritarian, crude and pathetic. Soyinka, in a statement, said the Governor Ganduje lacked friends, who could have saved him from himself, […]

Despite circumstantial evidence to the contrary, President Muhammadu Buhari yesterday absolved himself of complicity in the deposition of former Emir of Kano Muhammadu Sanusi II by the Kano State government. Buhari said he “has no involvement whatsoever in the dethronement of HRH Muhammadu Sanusi II from the position of Emir of Kano,” stressing: “All such […]

The embattled National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, has been shut out of the party’s National Executive Council (NEC) holding next Tuesday in Abuja. It was gathered that the decision, endorsed by the acting National Secretary of the party, Victor Giadom, followed the suspension of the ex-labor leader by an […]

The federal government Wednesday opened its case in the trial of the convener of #RevolutionNow protest, Omoyele Sowore, by calling its first witness, one Rasheed Olawale, an operative of the Department of State Service (DSS). Sowore and Olawale Bakare are standing trial on a two-count charge bordering on treasonable felony. They were initially arraigned by […]

Two Senior Advocates of Nigeria, Chief Afe Babalola and Chief Wole Olanipekun, have formally protested against the N60 million penalty imposed on them by the Supreme Court for daring to ask for a review of the apex court’s judgment on the Bayelsa State governorship election dispute. Both lawyers had represented the All Progressives Congress (APC) […]

The World Health Organisation (WHO) yesterday finally declared the coronavirus outbreak a pandemic and urged countries to take urgent and aggressive action to contain the spread. There are now more than 118,000 cases in 114 countries while 4,291 people have lost their lives to the disease. WHO Director General, Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, who made […]