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The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in South-East has aligned itself with the position of the Southern Governors’ Forum that the next president of Nigeria should come from the southern part of the country. The PDP South-East also directed that the existing zoning pattern in states and constituencies of the zone must be strictly adhered to. Briefing newsmen after the Zonal Executive Committee (ZEC) Meeting of the PDP held in Enugu on Sunday, the National Vice-Chairman (South-East), Mr. Ali Odefa, disclosed that it was unanimously agreed that the PDP should zone the presidency to the Southern part of the country, ahead…
Russian opposition politician Boris Nemtsov was shadowed by an agent linked to a political assassination team for almost a year before he was shot dead, an investigation has found. Nemtsov was a fierce adversary of President Vladimir Putin. His murder in 2015 is the highest-profile political killing since Putin came to power. The authorities deny any involvement. Bellingcat, The Insider and the BBC found evidence that Nemtsov was shadowed on 13 trips before his murder. Boris Nemtsov rose to prominence in the 1990s, served as deputy prime minister under President Boris Yeltsin, and was widely tipped to be Yeltsin’s successor.…
Will Smith slapped Chris Rock in the face on stage at the Oscars after the comic made a joke about the actor’s wife Jada Pinkett Smith. “Jada, can’t wait for GI Jane 2,” he said, in an apparent reference to her shaved hairdo – which is a result of the hair loss condition alopecia. Smith walked on stage and struck Rock before returning to his seat and shouting: “Keep my wife’s name out of your [expletive] mouth.” He later apologised on stage. “I want to apologise to the Academy. I want to apologise to my all my fellow nominees,” he…
The management of a popular retail outlet, Shopprite in Ibadan has sought an amicable settlement with popular Actress, Toyin Adegbola (popularly called Toyin Tomato) after her daughter was allegedly molested at the Ring Road, Ibadan and accused of shoplifting. Adegbola had gone online in a viral video where she stormed the mall demanding for evidence against her daughter to confirm the allegation. NPO had reported on Sunday that some of the staff were seen pleading with Adegbola not to pursue the matter further just as she insisted her lawyer would take up the matter over the act of intimidation and…
The newly elected National Youth Leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Mr.Dayo Israel, has described his emergence as “a new dawn for Nigerian youths to spread greatness”. The 36-year-old Israel emerged unopposed at the Saturday’s National Convention of the APC, after all other contenders for the office withdrew from the contest. “It’s a New Dawn. We came into the race with the sole objective to spread greatness to all young people of our great party, and Nigeria as a whole, through the office of the National Youth Leader of the APC. “It was not an easy feat, neither do…
An aide to the Governor of Kwara State, Mr. Musibau Esinrogunjo, has been arrested by the police for assaulting a traffic official and violating traffic regulations. Esinrogunjo, who is the Special Assistant on Rural Mobilization to Gov. AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq, had allegedly assaulted a traffic warden on duty along Ahmadu Bello Way, Ilorin. A video clip on how the governor’s aide was allegedly caught by policemen with a cartridge and substance suspected to be hard drug had gone viral on social media. In a statement on Sunday in Ilorin, the command’s Spokesman, SP Okasanmi Ajayi, however said Esinrogunjo was not arrested…
(CNN)Race organizers confirmed the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix will take place this weekend despite an attack claimed by Yemen’s Houthi rebels on an oil storage facility near the track on Friday. A joint statement from Formula 1 and the sport’s governing body FIA said that “following discussions with all the teams and drivers,” the race at the Jeddah circuit would go ahead. The Saudi Grand Prix is the second race of the new season and comes on the seventh anniversary of the start of the civil war in Yemen. “Following the widely reported incident that took place in Jeddah on…
CNN)Director, composer and actor Lin-Manuel Miranda, who is Oscar nominated for best original song for his work on the film “Encanto,” said he will skip Sunday’s Academy Awards because his wife has tested positive for Covid. Vanessa Nadal, Miranda’s wife, is “doing fine” since testing positive, according to the Oscar nominee. “Kids and I have tested [negative], but out of caution, I won’t be going to the Oscars tomorrow night,” Miranda said in a tweet on Saturday. “Cheering for my TickTickBoom & Encanto families w my own family, alongside all of you, ALL of you,” Miranda added. Miranda is nominated…
Ukraine has accused Russia of forcibly relocating thousands of civilians from Mariupol, the strategic port city devastated by Russian shelling. Russia is housing an estimated 5,000 at a temporary camp in Bezimenne, east of Mariupol, seen in satellite images. Ukraine’s Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk said 40,000 had been moved from Ukraine to Russian-held territory without any coordination with Kyiv. A Mariupol refugee, now in Russia, said: “All of us were taken forcibly”. Some Ukrainian officials describe Russia’s actions as “deportations” to “filtration camps” – an echo of Russia’s war in Chechnya, when thousands of Chechens were brutally interrogated in…
Over the past week, US President Joe Biden has made a series of unscripted remarks that have upped the temperature of US-Russia relations to near boiling point. However, his ad-libbed line at the end of what was billed as a “major speech” in Poland on Saturday – seemingly calling for President Vladimir Putin to be removed from power – may have landed the hardest. In his speech to a crowd of assembled Polish government officials and dignitaries at the Royal Castle in Warsaw, the US president once again warned that the world was in the midst of an era-defining conflict…