Obaseki has no right to order my arrest – Oshiomhole
“When I read initially on social media… that Obaseki has ordered the police to arrest me, I had a very good laugh. First, because Obaseki doesn’t know that he doesn’t have the power to order the arrest of a citizen. And that’s the reason why some people have reservations about what people like Obaseki talk about state police."
Nnamdi Kanu needs urgent ear surgery, lawyer cries out
“Kanu needs to undergo an urgent ear surgery to salvage whatever is left of his left ear, which was badly impaired on account of the torture he received in the hands of his abductors in Kenya.”
Alcaraz into Argentina Open semi-finals
Top seed Carlos Alcaraz shrugged off damp, cold conditions to sweep into the semi-finals of the Argentina Open with a straight sets victory over Serbia’s Dusan Lajovic on Friday. The Spanish world number two, who is making his return to tennis at this week’s event in Buenos Aires after a four-month injury layoff, eased into […]
Ex-Gov-elect, David Lyon picks N50m APC form for Bayelsa
Mr David Lyon, a former Bayelsa Governor-elect, has purchased the All Progressives Congress (APC) Expression of Interest and Nomination forms at the cost of N50 million to re-contest the governorship election.
Understanding the Governors fight for old Naira Notes
By Emmanuel Aziken Many are still grappling to understand the undercurrents that led Governor Nasir El-Rufai of Kaduna State to take on his onetime mentor, President Muhammadu Buhari. The relationship between Buhari and El-Rufai had not too long ago been projected by the graphics of the governor kneeling to greet the president during recent encounters. […]
Polls: Nothing’ll make me work for Tinubu — Ex-Gov, Oni
Ex-Gov. Segun Oni of Ekiti has denied working to actualise the Presidential bid of Sen. Bola Tinubu, the All Progressives Congress (APC) Presidential candidate in the coming 2023 general election.
Former Burkina Faso leader Sankara to be reburied February 23
The body of Burkina Faso’s revolutionary leader Thomas Sankara is to be buried Thursday alongside 12 comrades at the spot where they were assassinated in a coup three decades ago, the country’s junta has said. No date had previously been set for the reburial, announced earlier this month. “The burial of the remains of Captain […]
Oloibiri National Oil Museum: 40 years after
Long before the creation of Bayelsa State on October 1st 1996, the Oloibiri Oil Museum Tower was designed by the Federal Government in conjunction with an Italian Consortium for the construction of a world class oil museum complex
Abort plans of disrupting elections — Gen Yahaya warns thugs, miscreants
The Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Lt.-Gen. Faruk Yahaya has warned criminals and thugs to stay away from and desist from causing infractions in the 2023 election’.
Tinubu, most competent candidate to refix Nigeria-Maritime workers
Workers in the Maritime Sector, have expressed support for the All Progressives Congress, APC, Presidential Candidate, Bola Tinubu and his running mate, Kashim Shettima, describing him as the most competent among the contestants in the 2022 February 23 presidential poll to refix Nigeria.
APC unveils timetable for governorship elections in Bayelsa, Imo, Kogi
The Senator Abdullahi Adamu-led National Working Committee NWC of the ruling All Progressives Congress APC has unveiled its timetable and schedule of activities for the governorship primary elections in Bayelsa, Imo and Kogi states later in the year.
