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Senate Named Philip Aduda New Minority Leader, Whip
The Senate on Tuesday named Senator Philip Tenimu Aduda (FCT) as the new Minority Leader. Senator Chukwuka Utazi was also named the Senate Minority Whip. Senate…
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Politics
2023: Voters Registration Must Continue, Court Tells INEC
The Federal High Court in Abuja has stopped the Independent National Electoral Commission from ending voter registration on June 30, 2022. Justice Mobolaji Olajuwon (Court 10)…
Global Rights Fumes Over Subjective Sections of Amended CAMA Act 2020
Kenny Folarin, Abuja The Executive Director, Global Rights, Abiodun Baiyewu has expressed concern over the subjective section (Part F) of the Amended Companies and Allied Matters…
Opinion
The beauty of Nigeria’s recent delegate elections
Tonnie Iredia The pain of Femi Gbajabiamila, Speaker of the House of Representatives that many of his colleagues would be unable to return to the National…
Politics
Biodun Oyebanji Wins Ekiti Governorship Election
The Independent National Electoral Commission has declared the candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Biodun Oyebanji, the winner of the Ekiti State governorship election. The Returning…
Politics
2023: Don’t set Nigeria on fire, DHQ warns Politicians, Supporters
The Defence Headquarters (DHQ) has warned politicians, especially those seeking political offices and their supporters not to set the country on fire with their utterances and…
Politics
Just In: Atiku picks Okowa as running mate
Delta State Governor, Ifeanyi Okowa, has emerged as the running mate to the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar. Mr. Okowa’s nomination…
Opinion
Mbaka: The Pulpit Buccaneer and a religious Ponzi Master
It was in 2002 that Reverend Fr. Ejike Camillus Anthony Mbaka first unraveled. That year, he would gather his congregation at the Adoration Ministry and ask…
Politics
2023: Pick SGF Mustapha As Running Mate, Coalition Urges Buhari, APC
A coalition of pro-democracy and civil society groups, has appealed to President Muhammadu Buhari and the All Progressives Congress (APC) to settle for the Secretary to…
Implications of attacking prospective Alaba voters
Tonnie Iredia Last Thursday, some hoodlums reportedly attacked traders who had shut down their shops at the Alaba International Market, Ojo, Lagos to register to collect…