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“Our objective must be the victory of our party and our choice of candidate must be someone who would give the Nigerian masses a sense of victory and confidence even before the elections,” Mr Buhari said. President Muhammadu Buhari has told governors of his party, APC, that he would want to pick his successor and needs the governors to support him to do so. Mr Buhari said this Tuesday at a meeting with governors elected on the APC platform at the State House, Abuja. “In keeping with the established internal policies of the Party and as we approach the Convention…
Divorce: My wife denied me sex, deserted family, actor Kalu Ikeagwu tells court Nollywood actor, Kalu Ikeagwu, on Monday told an Ikeja High Court how his estranged wife, Ijeoma, allegedly deserted their matrimonial home and denied him sex after welcoming their son. The News Agency of Nigeria reports that Ikeagwu, in the suit marked LD/8939HD/2021, is seeking a dissolution of his six-year-old marriage to Ijeoma. The actor is also seeking full custody of his three-year-old son and ten-year-old step-daughter. Under cross-examination by the respondent’s counsel, Mrs S.I. Amedu, Ikeagwu said his wife packed out of his matrimonial home and sent…
PDP Presidential flag bearer Alhaji Atiku Abubakar paid a courtesy visit to River State Governor after Saturday primaries. In a post he shared on his official Facebook page he said “In continuation of my commitment to bring everyone on board in ensuring that the PDP stands as one united party, earlier today, I visited His Excellency Gov Nyseom Wike at his Abuja residence. This is a continuous process”. -AA
The University of Benin (UNIBEN) has been thrown into mourning as former Vice Chancellor of the university, Prof Osayuki Godwin Oshodin has been confirmed dead. TheNewsGuru.com (TNG) reports the Public Relation Officer of UNIBEN Alumni, Kelvin Omokaro confirmed the death of Prof Oshodin on Sunday morning. Recall that UNIBEN also lost its first female VC, Prof. Grace Alele-Williams to the cold hands of death only recently. At the time of filing this report, the cause of Oshodin’s death is still unknown. However, reports had it that he had been sick. Meanwhile, no official statement from the management of UNIBEN nor…
Over 100 motorcyclists have attacked Same Global Estate in the Lokogoma area of Abuja to avenge the death of two colleagues. The incident happened after a motorist reportedly hit the Okda riders on Sunday and ran into the estate for safety. The Okada riders set fire to two buildings in the estate. Residents of the estate told our correspondent that the motorcyclists attacked the estate in their bid to apprehend an unknown motorist. They noted that the motorist was chased by a mammoth crowd of motorcyclists after he overran two motorcyclists. The security operatives had arrived at the estate to…
The operatives of Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, (EFCC) today arrested the former Governor of Imo State, Senator Rochas Okorocha. They broke into his Maitama, Abuja residence after laying siege to it for nine hours. After sporadic shooting to disperse a crowd supporters who came to show their solidarity, they were able to pick him up. The anti-graft agency laid siege to his Maitama home from 11.30am, the entrance gate was barricaded with vehicles while heavily armed policemen were stationed at all strategic locations inside and outside the premises. Briefing journalists before he was arrested, Okorocha described the siege at…
A former lawmaker representing Kogi West, Senator Dino Melaye, has lost the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) ticket to a serving House Representatives member, Hon. T.J Yusuf. There was a deadlock in the Kogi West PDP Senatorial primary election where Dino Melaye scored 88 and TJ Yusuf polled 88 votes, which led to a rerun election on Tuesday. In the rerun election conducted on Tuesday, Hon. T. J. Yusuf defeated Sen. Dino Melaye by 163 to 99 votes to pick the PDP ticket Dino blamed gang up for his defeat, he said “The Primary has been fought and won. I congratulate…
Gunmen have killed at least 12 people, including a pregnant woman and her four children in Anambra State, the BBC reported on Tuesday. The State Governor, Charles Soludo and the police have reacted to the killings but did not specify the number of persons killed. A community leader told the BBC that the pregnant woman and her children were returning home on a motorcycle taxi when gunmen ambushed them in the Orumba area of the state. The killings come about 24 hours after gunmen beheaded a lawmaker in the state, Okechukwu Okoye. But the latest killing appears to have taken…
Nollywood actress, Eucharia Anunobi, has said she urgently needs a man to settle down with. The 56-year-old thespian said this in a recent interview with BBC Igbo. It would be recall that Eucharia’s marriage to her ex-husband, Mr Charles Edwu, ended in 2006 after six years of marriage. The union produced only one child, Raymond Ekwu, who sadly d#ed from complications associated with sickle cell anaemia at age 15. According to her, “Please, I use this opportunity and tell the world that I want to marry urgently. A great man should show himself and put a ring on this finger…
His Excellency, President Muhammadu Buhari, on Friday, approved the appointment of Semiu Adeniran as the substantive Statistician-General of the Federation and Chief Executive Officer of the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS). This was contained in a statement issued by Sufuyan Ojeifo, the special assistant (media) to the Minister of State, Budget and National The new appointment follows the demise of the former Statistician-General of the Federation, Simon Harry, on April 13, 2022. According to the statement, Mr Adeniran is a professional statistician of repute with a bias for Demography and Social Statistics. He has over three decades of statistical hands-on…
