Dear senator Ireti Kingibe, The news that you are the winner of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Senate seat makes us extremely happy. Our heart is overflowing with contentment at your overwhelming success. Please accept our heartfelt preeminent wishes for further and everlasting success. You must be quite pleased with your winning since you obviously worked very hard to get here. You earned this position, thanks to your hard work and devotion. With you, several things that have been off for a while may be put back on track now. Your desire to make a difference for the…
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The electoral commission, INEC, has declared Bola Tinubu, the candidate of Nigeria’s ruling party, APC, as the winner of Saturday’s presidential election. Mr Tinubu defeated 17 other candidates who took part in the election. He scored a total of 8,794,726 votes, the highest of all the candidates, thus meeting the first constitutional requirement to be declared the winner. He also scored over 25 per cent of the votes cast in 30 states, more than the 24 states constitutionally required. INEC Chairman Mahmood Yakubu, who announced the final results in the early hours of Wednesday in Abuja, said Atiku Abubakar of…
A Federal High Court in Abuja has dismissed a suit seeking to stop the general election over the exclusion of Nigerians in diaspora from voting. Delivering judgment on Wednesday, Inyang Ekwo, the presiding judge, held that the suit lacked merit. judge also held that the right to vote in elections was not guaranteed by the country’s laws for Nigerians living abroad, the Cable News reports. “The court does not enact laws. It cannot also expand the law in order to accommodate an issue before it, no matter how sympathetic or humanitarian the cause or situation is,” the court held. “It…
Governor Godwin Obaseki has asked security agents to arrest his predecessor, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, over the naira scarcity protest which lead to the deaths of some persons in the state. Addressing journalists in Benin, the state capital, Obaseki, who spoke through the Commissioner for Communication and Orientation, Chris Nehikhare, said from investigations, the protest was politically motivated. He said the call for Oshiomhole’s arrest and questioning became necessary following a viral video where the former national chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC) instigated the people to go on rampage. “We have been around the city all day,…
Bendel Insurance Football Club of Benin Wednesday evening continued their impressive run in the Nigeria Premier Football League as they defeated Nasarawa United of Lafia by a lone Goal to remain leaders of the Group A of the abridged league. The Benin Arsenals’ right back Ebuka Akobundu delivered the judgement that separated the two sides in the 52nd minute with his trademark powerful shot from the flank after picking up the ball from Vincent Augustus and fired it beyond the reach of Goalkeeper Jerry Isaac. Thanks to substitute Vincent Augustus for the assist that pave the way for the scorer…
Creating a food-secure world: Tingo sites $1.6b food factory in Delta, to create 12,000 jobs Tingo Foods, a division of Tingo International Holdings Inc., has set out to establish its food processing factory in Delta State which is expected to create over 12,000 direct employment. Dozy Mmobuosi, the company’s founder, said in a statement yesterday that the initiative would significantly help the economy by creating jobs and distributing wealth. Additionally, it will support the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the United Nations, which aim to eradicate hunger and combat climate change.. Mmobuosi expressed optimism that the project will save…
The world’s oldest footballer, Kazuyoshi Miura, moved to a Portuguese lower division club Wednesday, weeks before his 56th birthday. Yokohama FC in Japan said Miura, 55, joined Oliveirense on a loan deal The Japanese forward previously said he plans to play until he is 60. Miura returned to Europe from Japan in 1999 when he was signed by Dinamo Zagreb in Croatia. He won titles in Japan and Croatia. Miura played for the Japanese national team between 1990 and 2000 and scored 55 goals in 89 international caps. He will be 56 on Feb. 26.
Governor Nasir El-Rufai of Kaduna State has dared the Aso Rock “cabals” he believes are opposed to the Presidential ambition of Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) for the 2023 presidential election. El-Rufai had sparked a controversy on Wednesday when he said some persons in Aso Rock were working against Tinubu. While responding to a question in a yet to be fully released interview with BBC Hausa, El-Rufai said, “Respecting people is not fear, I swear we don’t fear anyone in this country, so we are not fearful, we are respectful but if…
Justice Olalekan Oresanya of an Ikeja High Court has awarded N5million damages against a singer, Ikuforijimi Olaitan Abdulrahman, aka Oxlade over a leaked s3x tape with a woman on social media In a judgement dated 24th January 2023, and trending online, Justice Oresanya described the action of the singer, in secretly recording an explicit s3x with a woman and thereafter leaking it online as “d espicable, horrendous, distasteful and classless. The sex tape of the singer had surfaced online in February 2022, without the knowledge and consent of the woman involved in the video. The leaked video sparked…
Air Peace Airline has urged the aviation authorities to look into the ground handling equipment that collided and damaged its aircraft elevator at the Murtala Muhammed Airport (MMA), Lagos. Spokesman of Air Peace, Mr Stanley Olisa, who confirmed the incident in Lagos on Wednesday, said the aircraft was scheduled to transport passengers to Owerri from Lagos. Olisa explained that the aircraft was an Airbus A320 aircraft belonging to Air Peace with the registration number: A320 ES-SAZ. He said that the incident had led to disruption of scheduled flight operations after one of the ground handling company’s…
