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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…
Holders Barcelona take on seven-time champions Lyon on Sunday in Turin in a rematch of the 2019 final. Barcelona play Lyon in the 2022 UEFA Women’s Champions League final on Saturday at Juventus Stadium in Turin in what is perhaps the most eagerly awaited match ever in the female club game. Holders Barcelona have come a long way since losing 4-1 to Lyon in the 2019 Budapest final, when they conceded four including an Ada Hegerberg hat-trick before half-time. Last season they were 4-0 up at the break in Gothenburg against Chelsea, and held that scoreline to claim their first…
…As beneficiaries thank Gov. Ugwuanyi One of the first batch beneficiaries says experience is rewarding The administration of Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi of Enugu State through the State Scholarship Board has secured fully-funded scholarships for another 28 post graduate students who are indigenes of the state to study in Europe and America. Addressing newsmen when he led some of the beneficiaries to the Government House, Enugu, on Friday, to thank Gov. Ugwuanyi for the rare opportunity, the Executive Secretary of the Enugu State Scholarship Board, Barr. Levi Abonyi, disclosed that the scholarship mentorship programme was designed and developed by the Board…
Obasanjo said Nigeria would overcome its security challenges within two years if the leader was ready to make tough decisions. Former Nigerian President, Olusegun Obasanjo, has said the country needs to be ruled by a leader who is driven by passion and “a touch of madness” to move it forward. Obasanjo said this when he hosted a presidential aspirant under the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party, Mohammed Hayatu-Deen, in Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital. The former President also played host to former minister, Godswill Akpabio, who is running for the presidency on the platform of the All Progressives Congress.…
Lagos High Court on Friday sentenced a Danish man, Peter Nielsen, to death by hanging for killing his Nigerian wife Zainab and their three-and-a-half-year-old daughter Petra, four years after the murder. The Judge said “I hereby pronounce that you Peter Nielsen shall be hanged by the neck until death. May God have mercy on you.” Recall that Nielsen, 54, was arraigned on June 13, 2018, he pleaded not guilty to the two-count charge of murder contrary to Section 223 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2015. Lagos Attorney-General and Commissioner for Justice, Kazeem Adeniji, had told the court that…
The former president of US, George W. Bush has mistakenly condemned Vladimir Putin’s invasion of “Iraq”, before correcting himself by saying he was talking about Ukraine. Bush made the blunder during a speech at an event in Dallas, on Wednesday, where he was talking about the importance of fair elections. According to him, “the decision of one man to launch a wholly unjustified and brutal invasion of Iraq… I mean of Ukraine”. He jokingly blamed the mistake on his age as the audience burst into laughter. Recall that Bush was the president during the US-led invasion of Iraq in 2003…
Nollywood Actress, Kate Henshaw, has revealed that her cleaner was stabbed on her way to work on Wednesday morning. She said that the incident happened on Idowu Martins next to Mega Plaza on the Island. The Actress tweeted “My cleaner was stabbed this morning at 6am on her way to work on Idowu Martins next to Mega Plaza. She managed to get to a clinic nearby and was sent away that they do not treat knife wounds!! She is now receiving treatment at another hospital. No one is safe!! No one😡” She added that the suspects were on a motorcycle.…
