Author: Olukayode Oke

The All Progressives Congress (APC) on Thursday said that President-elect, Bola Tinubu, is resting in Europe ahead of his inauguration on May 29. Mr. Felix Morka, APC National Publicity Secretary, stated this on Channels Television’s Politics Today programme. According to Morka, Tinubu will swing to action immediately after he returns from Europe. When asked about the whereabouts of Tinubu, Morka said, “He [Tinubu] is probably in Europe. He’s fine. After the elections and all of the energy expended, he just decided to take a moment of rest. “Once he returns and he’s inaugurated on May 29, there will be no…

Akwa Ibom State House of Assembly, on Thursday, passed into law the Bill to provide for a Map for the State and other matters connected therewith. The new law, which is cited as the Akwa Ibom State Map Establishment Law 2023, was passed during the plenary and is expected to take effect from April 13, 2023. This followed a report of the Joint Committee on Lands and Housing, Boundary and Conflict Resolution and Local Government and Chieftaincy Affairs, presented by its Chairman, Sir Udo Kierian Akpan (Oruk Anam). According to the report, the Bill sponsored by Hon. David Lawrence (Eket)…

Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers, NUPENG, has warned the Federal Government not to contemplate the removal of the subsidy on petrol without local refining capacity, in view of its socio-economic implications on businesses and ordinary Nigerians. This is contained in a communiqué  by NUPENG leaders at the end of the Union’s National Executive Council, NEC, meeting in Lagos, which deliberated on the state of the nation, especially after the conduct of the 2023 general elections and the increasing statements from Nigerians on the intention of the Federal Government to end the Petroleum Motor Spirit, PMS, subsidy regime, among…

A former presidential aspirant of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Adamu Garba asserted that the APC-led federal government facilitated the release of the presidential candidate of the Labour Party, LP, Peter Obi from his detention cell in the United Kingdom recently. Peter Obi was last Friday, reportedly detained for hours at London’s Heathrow Airport, over alleged impersonation. The former Anambra State governor was later released after he was interrogated by UK immigration officials. Garba on Thursday claimed his release was facilitated by the Nigerians in Diaspora Commission headed by Abike Dabiri. In a tweet, he wrote: “Here is how the…

President Muhammadu Buhari performed the Umrah rituals amid tight security, at the Grand Mosque in Makkah early Thursday. In a terse statement on Thursday by Garba Shehu, Senior special assistant to the president on Media and Publicity, Buhari was received by several officials, including a delegation from the General Presidency for the Affairs of the Grand Mosque and Nigerian Embassy staff. A day earlier, President Buhari had also visited and prayed at the Prophet’s Mosque in the second Holy City of Madina. Buhari arrived in the Kingdom on an eight-day official visit on Tuesday.

Ghana on Thursday said it is the first country in the world to approve a new malaria vaccine from Oxford University, with children under the age of three-years-old in line to benefit. The mosquito-borne disease kills more than 600,000 people each year, most of them children in Africa, and scientists have been trying for years to develop vaccines. It is unclear when the Oxford vaccine will be rolled out in Ghana. Childhood vaccines in Africa are typically paid for by international organisations such as Gavi and UNICEF after they have been backed by the World Health Organisation (WHO), which is…

American magazine, Time, has named President-elect, Bola Tinubu, among the 100 most influential persons across the world in 2023.’American magazine, Time, has named President-elect, Bola Tinubu, among the 100 most influential persons across the world in 2023. Speaking on how Tinubu merit the list, the magazine said, “Winning an election in Africa’s most populous country is no easy feat. But Nigeria’s newly elected President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has had nearly two decades to prepare. “Called Jagaban, or “leader of the warriors,” by his supporters, the now 71-year-old ran in a presidential election for the first time this March. His campaign…

The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila has denied allegations that he is working against his Deputy speaker, Idris Wase and eight others Gbajabiamila in a tweet on Thursday insisted he has not endorsed any of the candidates battling for Speakership. The paper reported that Gbajabiamila is supporting Kaduna Lawmaker, Tajudeen Abass for the position. “Today, April 13, 2023, a national daily carried a cover story in which it reported that I was against the aspiration of my deputy, Ahmed Idris Wase and some other aspirants to the office of Speaker in the 10th House. I have not…

Al Nassr has announced that head coach, Rudi Garcia has left the club by mutual agreement. Garcia has been fired due to his poor relationship with the dressing room, which includes Cristiano Ronaldo. He recently confronted the players, a move which proved costly, as the Saudi Pro League club has taken the decision to dismiss him. Garcia has also failed to live up to the expectations set out in his club’s ambitious project. With seven fixtures left to play, Al Nassr is currently in second place, three points behind Al Ittihad.

Presidential candidate of Labour Party (LP), Peter Obi, has denied receiving any letter of apology from the British government over his detention by immigration officials at Heathrow Airport in London. Obi made the rebuttal through the Head, Media and Communications of the Obi-Datti Presidential Campaign Council, Diran Onifade.  A statement by Onifade reads, “We have been receiving enquiries with regards to a so called apology, purportedly issued by the British Government or any of its agencies, to our Principal Mr Peter Obi, in respect of a routine Immigration engagement with him, as he arrived London, for a brief visit, last…

A former Deputy Governor of Lagos State, Alhaja Sinatu Ojikutu, on Wednesday, raised the alarm that her life was being threatened over the emergence of the president-elect, Bola Ahmed Tinubu. Sinatu Ojikutu, first female democratically elected deputy governor in the country had prior to the 2023 general election, vowed to go on exile if the former Lagos Governor emerges winner of the election. Speaking with newsmen at her residence in Ikoyi, Lagos yesterday, the former deputy governor said her life is no longer safe since Tinubu was announced winner of the February 25 polls. She claimed that her rift with…

Nigerian doctors in Diaspora have reacted to the trending National Assembly’s bill seeking to curtail the brain drain in the country’s health sector. The House of Representatives has started working on a bill sponsored by Ganiyu Johnson, seeking to amend the Medical and Dental Council of Nigeria Act. Accordingly, the bill would mandate Nigerian-trained medical and dental practitioners to practice for at least five years in Nigeria before being granted a full licence. The bill which has scaled through the second reading has been criticised by practitioners in the health industry. Reacting to the controversial bill on Tuesday, Diaspora Medical…