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Minister of Transportation and a presidential aspirant on the platform of the All Progressive Congress, Rotimi Amaechi, has said took to running around the Adokiye Amasimaka Stadium during his declaration to run for presidency to test his fitness as an aspirant. The former Rivers State Governor disclosed this in Ile-Ife, Osun state, during a visit to the Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Ogunwusi, as part of consultation on his 2023 presidential ambition. “Age will not be an issue. I am like a bridge between the young and the old,” Amaechi said. “People have asked me why I ran round the…
Evhen Ryabukon patted the coffin gently, and appeared to be having a final conversation with his son. He broke down, over and over again, before he could finish. His wife Inna, steeling herself, adjusted the framed photo of a smiling, young boy placed on the coffin – a mother’s last act of care. The boy was Elisei Ryabukon. He would have been 14 in May. Just over a month after he was killed in firing by Russian soldiers, his family, friends, neighbours and classmates gathered at a church in the city of Brovary in the east of Kyiv, to say…
Officials of the Federal Capital Territory Administration on Tuesday sealed up the entrance to the Ministry of Works and the Federal Character Commission’s offices in Abuja. The officials who also sealed the Merit House Maitama said the action was to enforce payment of about N10bn waste collection bill owed the Abuja Environmental Protection Agency. Details later ..:
*Says Zoning Was Political Spinal Chord of PDP for 16 Years Former Deputy National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, Chief Olabode George, has said that removing zoning would amount to removing the spinal chord of the party. He said the PDP would be roundly defeated should the party throw away zoning. George said when you remove the spinal chord of a human being, you finally decapitate him. He said zoning, as was employed, was used by the PDP to ensure that all six geo-political zones were carried along in the scheme of things. Speaking on an Arise TV on…
Catholic Bishop of Sokoto Diocese, Mathew Hassan Kukah, has said that there is nothing that he said on his Easter message to Nigerians that should be a surprise to the Muhammadu Buhari administration. Kukah, while speaking on an Arise TV programme on Tuesday said he would not be the first Nigerian to raise issues bordering on the crisis in the country. “Even President Muhammadu Buhari has said so,” Kukah said on Tuesday. Kukah had taken a swipe at the government condemning the economic crisis, security challenges and other problems facing the country. Saying that he is “political but not a…
Fidelity Bank on Tuesday explained the presence of “a musical band” in front of one its branches which was reported to be that of an aggrieved customer who was wrongly debited. The bank, while reacting to the trending video of a group of men singing and dancing, said as against media reports that a customer had organized musical show to embarrass the bank, it was a labour union, the Amalgamated Union of Public Corporations, Civil Service Technical and Recreational Employees that organized the show. In its reaction, Fidelity Bank said, “Our attention has been drawn to a video circulating online…
The rising cost of living in Britain has led to households cancelling their streaming subscriptions, new research suggests. A total of 1.51 million services were canned in the first three months of 2022, market research firm Kantar said. It said more than half a million cancellations were attributed to “money saving”, with households budgeting for higher prices and energy bills instead. About 58% of Britain’s homes now have at least one paid streaming service. The height of coronavirus pandemic and lockdowns saw surges in subscriptions for platforms such as Netflix, Disney+ and Amazon Prime. But researchers said the proportion of…
Two British men reportedly captured by Russian forces while fighting in Ukraine have appeared on Russian state TV appealing to Boris Johnson for help. Shaun Pinner, 48, and Aiden Aslin, 28, were shown in two separate videos on Monday, asking to be exchanged with a pro-Russian politician held in Ukraine. It is not clear if their pleas to the prime minister, shown on the Rossiya 24 channel, were made under duress. The Foreign Office called on the Kremlin to treat prisoners humanely. A source from the department condemned “the exploitation of prisoners of war for political purposes”. In the two…
Nigeria and Mauritius have retained their seats to serve for another four years in the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (CESCR) from 2023 to 2026. The UN correspondent of the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the candidates from the two countries are re-elected to occupy the two remaining vacant positions for Africa in CESCR. CESCR is the body of 18 independent experts that monitors implementation of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights by its States Parties. Egypt and Morocco were elected to occupy two seats of the four seats for African Group…
The Nigerian Meteorological Agency (NiMet) has predicted sunshine and cloudiness from Tuesday to Thursday across the country. NiMet`s weather outlook released on Monday in Abuja predicted sunny skies over the northern region on Tuesday with patches of clouds visible over Adamawa and Taraba throughout the forecast period. According to it, the North Central region should be predominantly cloudy with intervals of sunshine all through the day. “ Cloudy skies are anticipated over the inland and coastal region of the south with prospects of morning thunderstorms over parts of Bayelsa, Rivers and Akwa Ibom. “During the afternoon and evening hours, isolated…