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I’m not sitting on letters of senators planning to defect from APC – Lawan
Chukwu David, Abuja The President of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan, has refuted media reports that he was sitting on letters submitted to him by Senators who have opted to defect from the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) to other political parties. According to a statement signed Saturday by Ola Awoniyi, Special Adviser (Media)
US Pastor robbed during service charged for stealing member’s $90,000
A Brooklyn-based pastor in New York, Bishop Lamor Whitehead, who was robbed of more than $1 million in jewellery during a livestreamed church service, has been charged with stealing $90,000 from a member of the congregation in 2021. A lawsuit filed in Brooklyn Supreme Court accused Whitehead of persuading Pauline Anderson, a 56-year-old woman,
Ukraine seeks UN, Red Cross prison deaths probe
Ukraine has called for the United Nations and the Red Cross to be allowed to investigate the deaths of more than 50 Ukrainian prisoners of war (POWs) in an attack in occupied territory. The Red Cross said it is seeking access to the prison in order to help with evacuating and treating the wounded,
Mother held captive for 17 years speaks of ordeal
A Brazilian woman has spoken of her ordeal of being imprisoned – along with her two children – by her husband for 17 years, local media report. The family was rescued from a house in the Guaratiba neighbourhood, in the west of Rio de Janeiro on Thursday, police said. The husband has been arrested,
Two soldiers, civilian killed in Lagos
Two male soldiers and one female civilian have been killed in an auto crash around Obadeyi Bus Stop, Ijaiye, Lagos-Abeokuta Expressway, Lagos State, on Friday. The accident involved a truck and a Mitsubishi saloon car with registration number RNG396AA. According to a statement by the Lagos State Emergency Management Agency, one male adult, who
FG reacts to report on Team Nigeria’s kit crisis at C’wealth Games
The Federal Government has reacted after MG Sportswear, a British sportswear manufacturer, disclosed that it was contacted by Nigeria at the last minute to produce kits for the country’s athletes at the ongoing Commonwealth Games. According to BBC, Gino Ruffinato, manager of the company, revealed that he was contacted on Tuesday to produce
PDP crisis deepens as Wike labels Atiku liar
The Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, has described the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, as a liar over some of the comments he made recently on Arise TV, on issues concerning the party. Wike, who spoke on Friday at the Port Harcourt International Airport in Rivers State shortly after he
Same faith ticket: APC harbours anti- Christian agenda–Babachir
Christians in the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the North have unanimously rejected the Muslim-Muslim presidential and vice-presidential candidates’ ticket of the party, and said that it was orchestrated to further marginalise them from national political leadership. Speakers at a summit in Abuja on Friday decried alleged educational, economic and political exclusion of the Northern
CBN allays fears, moves to halt naira’s slide against foreign currencies
The leadership of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has expressed its resolve to halt the continuing slide of The Naira against other foreign currencies. The naira has gone on a steep down ward slide in value in relation to the United States’ dollar and other international currencies. Speaking with newsmen on Friday in Abuja,
Senate impeachment move: Buhari must go now, say NEF, Afenifere, Aka Ikenga
Benue State Governor, Chief Samuel Ortom alongside leaders of the various socio-cultural groups have backed calls by some members of the National Assembly for the impeachment of President Muhammadu Buhari over worsening state of insecurity in the country. The Peoples Democratic Party, (PDP) caucus in the Senate led by the Senate Minority Leader, Philip Aduda
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