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Youths of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in South-East and South-South regions who claimed to have left Yenagoa enroute Lagos to drum support for the party’s presidential candidate, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, on Monday arrived Ogun. The youths, under the auspices of “South-East/South-South Jogging for Tinubu Campaign Initiative”, claimed to have constituted a team of fitness enthusiasts to embark on the exercise. According to a statement issued on Monday by Mr Samuel Adaga, the Coordinator of the exercise, the 25-member team is already in Ogun and approaching Lagos to terminate the expedition on Tuesday. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports…

The Ebonyi Police Command has confirmed the attack on a section of Ezza North Local Government Headquarters by unidentified gunmen.
The hoodlums had set the property on fire on Monday morning and left valuables worth millions of naira destroyed.
The command’s Spokesman, SP Chris Anyanwu, said in Abakaliki on Monday that the command was aware of the incident.
Anyanwu said: We are aware of the attack but yet to get the full details.
“Right now, investigation is ongoing to get the details but no arrest has been made.”
Narrating the incident to newsmen in his office, the Chairman of the council, Mr. Ogodo Nomeh, said…

Ex Gov Willie Obiano, of Anambra has commiserated with Gov. Chukwuma Soludo and people of the state over the both mishap in Ogbaru Local Government Area of the state. Obiano conveyed his message in a statement made available to newsmen by Mr Tony Nezianya, his publicity Secretary on Monday. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the ill-fated boat was ferrying flood victims from Umunankwo Community of Ogbaru LGA to upland area when it capsized leaving an unconfirmed persons dead. Obiano said the incident was a sad addition to the destructive flooding which had displaced people from their homelands,…

Doctors recruited from some of the poorest countries in the world to work in hospitals in the UK say they are facing exploitation and are so overworked they worry about putting patients’ health at risk. A BBC investigation has found evidence that doctors from Nigeria are being targeted by a British healthcare company called NES Healthcare. It found they are expected to work in private hospitals under conditions that are not allowed in the National Health Service – the UK’s publicly funded healthcare system. NES Healthcare disputes the BBC findings and insists it provides a safe and supportive career route.…

Nigerian model Favour Rufus was diagnosed with glaucoma at the age of seven but she still had a clear vision of becoming a beauty queen. Favour recently competed against 18 other models for the crown in Miss Port Harcourt City, the biggest state beauty pageant in Nigeria. She finished second and, in a subsequent beauty contest, was crowned Miss Port Harcourt City Humanity 2022. “A lot of people discouraged me from contesting. Most were not even family members,” Favour told the BBC. She says it was one of her teachers who first noticed that she had eye problems after her…

The Presidential Campaign Council, PCC of the ruling All Progressives Congress has described the People’s Democratic Party(PDP) campaign flag-off on Monday in Uyo, Akwa-Ibom as shameful and a disaster foretold. Minister of State, Labour and Employment, Mr Festus Keyamo SAN made this assertion in a statement released in the early hours of Tuesday on behalf of the APC Presidential Campaign Council. Keyamo noted that the launch of PDP’s presidential campaign in Uyo, Akwa Ibom State, was, as expected, a disaster waiting to happen. “Once again, the delinquent PDP continued to treat the now discerning Nigerian public with disdain and disrespect”,…

The Labour Party (LP) on Monday disowned a campaign rally timetable being circulated in the media. Mr. Arabambi Abayomi, the party’s National Publicity Secretary, said in a statement in Abuja that the timetable was neither authorised by the LP leadership nor its presidential candidate. “Labour Party’s attention has been drawn to a purported OBI -DATTI presidential campaign rallies timetable in circulation. “I hereby deny the authenticity of this campaign council programme, as Labour Party’s leadership is not aware of it,” he added. According to Abayomi, the party’s presidential candidate, Mr. Peter Obi has also not authorised anyone to issue…

Nigeria has opened a new office in Cairo, Egypt, to provide visa application, passport, Bank Verification Numbers (BVN) and National Identity Number (NIN) services in the country. Mr Abdul-Razaq Musa, the Executive Assistant to the President on Nigeria-Egypt Cultural and Socio-Economic Forum (NESCEF), made this known in a statement made available to newsmen on Monday in Abuja. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) that the Centre was opened as part of activities of the ongoing Nigeria–Egypt Trade Conference and Exhibition (NETCE) holding in Cairo, Egypt, from Oct. 10 to Oct. 11. According to Musa, the centre will facilitate administrative tasks…

A Chinese national, whose name has not been revealed has been killed after some gunmen stormed a mining site in Otam Nwogba Village, Izzi Local Government Area of Ebonyi State. The gunmen had shot sporadically at workers in the process of which a Chinese and a policeman sustained gunshot injuries. The Chinese national later died in the hospital. The Police vowed on Monday that they would track down the gunmen. The incident happened at the border of the state with Benue State. Police spokesman, SP Chris Anyanwu, stated on Monday at Abakaliki that the gunmen besieged the area and shot…

The Presidential Candidate of African Action Congress (AAC), Omoyele Sowore has accused the Nigerian Navy of having skeleton in their cupboard by setting the vessels caught with stolen crude oil up on fire. Officers of the Nigerian Navy in Delta State had on Monday destroyed an illegal oil bunkering vessel arrested with stolen crude oil aboard Niger Delta creeks. It was gathered that operatives of the newly-contracted private oil pipeline surveillance team, Tantita Security Services, effected the vessel’s arrest alongside its seven-member crew, on October 6, 2022, on the creeks of Escravos, while crude oil was being loaded illegally into…