Senate presidency: Battle day for Kalu, Akpabio, Yari, Abbass (Sun) The curtain would be drawn on the long drawn campaign for the office of the Senate president and Speaker of the House of Representatives today with the formal inauguration of…
*Tinubu appoints Adebisi Shonubi as acting CBN governor (Tribune)*Wike hails Tinubu for suspending Emefiele as CBN governor (Channels)
Tinubu appoints Adebisi Shonubi as acting CBN governor (Tribune) President Bola Tinubu has appointed Deputy CBN governor, Mr Folashodun Adebisi Shonubi as the acting Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria following Emefiele’s suspension. Until his appointment, he was the…
*Sanwo-Olu cancels Lagos public activities for train crash victims (Nation)*Court order on Temporary Voter Cards goes against Electoral Act – INEC (Vanguard)
Sanwo-Olu cancels Lagos public activities for train crash victims (Nation) Lagos State Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu has cancelled all of the State’s public activities scheduled for Thursday following the death of three persons in an accident involving a train and a…
*Vote-buying: EFCC intercepts N32.4m in Lagos (Punch)*Our logo missing on ballots, Ondo Labour Party laments (Vanguard)
Vote-buying: EFCC intercepts N32.4m in Lagos (Punch) The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission on Friday intercepted the sum of N32,400 million allegedly suspected to be used for vote buying in Lagos State. The spokesperson for the EFCC, Wilson Uwujaren, in…
Muslim/Muslim Ticket: Tinubu’s Wife is a pastor – Orji Kalu
The chief whip of the 9th Senate, Orji Uzor Kalu, has spoken on the alleged plan to field a Muslim as the running mate of the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Bola Tinubu. Kalu, while addressing newsmen at…
*All for Money: Rampaging teenage yahoo boys take over ritual killings, girls deploy charms on rich men (Vanguard)*Police foil lady’s attempted suicide over torture (Punch)
All for Money: Rampaging teenage yahoo boys take over ritual killings, girls deploy charms on rich men (Vanguard) About five years ago in Oshodi, Lagos, a young man- very fair in complexion and handsome, was seen walking stark naked. It…
Court stops former Abia Gov Kalu’s retrial
A Federal High Court in Abuja has ordered the federal government and the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) not to retry a former governor of Abia State, Orji Uzo Kalu, on the N1.7 billion fraud case he was earlier…
Gov Dave Umahi’s defection and the unfolding game of political musical chairs – Magnus Onyibe
What started as an act of defiance by former Senate president, Ken Nnamani, in 2016 when he withdrew his membership of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), before joining the All Progressives Congress (APC) in 2017, and an unusual step taken…
Orji Uzor Kalu released from Kuje Prison
Barely 24 hours after the Federal High Court sitting in Lagos ordered his release, Senate Chief Whip, and former Abia State governor, Dr Orji Uzor Kalu, has regained freedom after six months incarceration. He stepped out of Kuje Correctional Centre…