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https://youtube.com/shorts/1M_bUdm2Slg A member of the Ekiti State House of Assembly, Olugboyega Aribisogan, has members of his constituency who booed him in a viral video have listed lack of patronage through government contracts is the reason for their action. A video had gone viral where some people at a local political meeting booed Aribisogan, who is the Leader of Government Business when he visited the community to ask for support for a third term. The parliamentarian, in a statement made available to the NPO Reports, said he was attacked by some youths in Ward 3, Ikole Local Government because of his position…
Various reactions have trailed the invitation by the wife of the President Mrs. Aisha Buhari to presidential aspirants of all political parties. Mrs. Buhari has asked presidential aspirants to join her on Saturday April 23 at the presidential villa at 6:30pm for the breaking of fast (iftar). Specifically stated on the invitation is the instruction to the invitees not to come to the venue of the event with their phones. Many Nigerians have asked the purpose of the invitation and under what capacity she has issued the invitations? Prominent presidential aspirants of major political parties include Vice President Yemi Osinbajo;…
*Says Current Govt Has Failed The failure of the current Muhammadu Buhari administration has compelled me to call for an Interim National Government; eminent lawyer, Chief Afe Babalola said on Thursday. He said while featuring on an Arise TV programme that now that Nigerians are no longer save at airports, on the train and campuses have been shut and the Naira is suffering, Nigerians have enough signs that the country has failed under them. This was just as Babalola queried the N100m nomination fee for the presidential contest on the platform of the All Progressive Congress. He asked Nigerians to…
The two candidates for the French presidency have gone head to head in their only televised debate, ahead of Sunday’s second-round run-off vote. Far-right leader Marine Le Pen has fallen behind centrist Emmanuel Macron in the opinion polls but millions of voters are still undecided. It did not take long for the two-hour-45-minute clash to burst into life. The candidates confronted each other on the cost of living, Russia, climate change and immigration. Around 15.6 million viewers watched the debate, in which Mr Macron accused his rival of being dependent on Russian power while Marine Le Pen called him a…
A Russian tycoon has lambasted the country’s “massacre” in Ukraine and called for an end to the “crazy war”. Oleg Tinkov wrote in a profanity-littered Instagram post that he did not see “any beneficiary” of the conflict. Mr Tinkov is one of Russia’s most well-known entrepreneurs and founded the global online bank Tinkoff Bank and owned the cycling team Tinkoff-Saxo. He is also one of the most high profile Russians to publicly condemn President Vladimir Putin’s actions. Two of the country’s most prominent oligarchs Mikhail Fridman and Oleg Deripaska have made separate calls for peace, but have stopped short of…
The Independent National Electoral Commission again on Thursday insisted that permanent voters cards don’t expire. The commission said all those claiming PVCs have expired are only misinforming Nigerians. This was just as INEC said that security still poses challenges to the smooth conduct of the elections in 2023, adding that it can only organize elections but don’t have control over securing the country. Addressing journalists in Abuja at the public presentation of the 2022-2026 Strategic Plan (SP) and the 2023 Election Project Plan (EPP) INEC Chairman, Prof Yakubu Mahmood, said there was need to emphasise this fact to discourage multiple…
UN Secretary-General António Guterres has written separate letters to leaders of Russia and Ukraine to request meetings with them in their respective capitals in efforts to end the war in Ukraine. UN Spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric on Wednesday, said that Guterres had asked the Russian President, Vladimir Putin to receive him in Moscow and the Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to receive him in Kyiv. Dujarric said the letters were handed over to the countries’ UN Missions in New York on Tuesday. “The secretary-general said he would like to discuss urgent steps to bring about peace in Ukraine and the future of…
The U.S. Department of Justice on Wednesday announced charges against 21 persons, who allegedly participated in COVID-19 medical fraud schemes that earned them almost 150 million dollars. The 21 defendants were charged in nine federal districts across the country. Kevin Chambers, Director for COVID-19 Fraud Enforcement, in a statement, said COVID-19 healthcare fraud enforcement involved extraordinary efforts to prosecute some of the largest and most wide-ranging pandemic frauds detected to date. “The scale and complexity of the schemes prosecuted on Wednesday illustrate the success of our unprecedented interagency effort to quickly investigate and prosecute those who abuse our critical health…
As we reported earlier, World Bank President David Malpass has warned of a “human catastrophe” as food prices rise sharply in the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Like the Covid-19 pandemic, he said, the food crisis would hit the poorest people in the world the hardest because they will “eat less and have less money for anything else, such as schooling”. In an interview with BBC economics editor Faisal Islam, Malpass said that global food stockpiles are large by historical standards and there is enough food in the world to feed everybody – but there will have to be…
The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), Enugu State Command, has arrested a four-man vandalism gang that specialises in vandalising rail line materials within Enugu State. The NSCDC Command’s Public Relations Officer, CSC Denny Manuel, disclosed this in a statement made available to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Wednesday in Enugu. Manuel said that the suspected vandals were arrested on April 19 by a combined team of NSCDC operatives and Hunters and Forest Security Services at locations within Aninri Local Government Area of the state. “The kingpin of the group, who gave his name as Monday Onyeabor,…