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Ahead of the 2023 presidential elections, the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) has said there will be no automatic ticket to defectors to the party. APC Caretaker Extraordinary Convention Planning Committee (CECPC) Secretary, Senator John James Akpanudoedehe, in a statement released on Friday, September 17, said defection into the party by any person does not confer the status of an automatic candidate of the party on such individual. Akpanudoedehe, who was reacting to a misrepresentation of his views on the waiver granted new entrants and defectors by the party’s National Executive Committee (NEC) at its December 8, 2020 meeting in a…

After 25 days in the bandits’ den, Major Christopher L. Datong, abducted by bandits at Nigerian Defence Academy (NDA) in Kaduna has breathed fresh air. Bandits attacked the NDA on August 24, 2021, killing two senior officers in the process. On Friday night, the Deputy Director Army Public Relations 1 Division, Nigerian Army, Colonel Ezindu Idimah, announced the rescue of Datong from the kidnapper’s den. Idimah said the operation leading to his rescue brought about the destruction of several identified bandits’ camps in Afaka- Birnin Gwari areas of the state. According to him, scores of bandits were killed during the operation,…

As popular Nigerian singer, Innocent Idibia better known as 2baba, marks his 46th birthday, he has used social media to reconcile with his wife, Annie and his family members. Recall that Annie Macaulay Idibia had taken to her official Instagram page a week ago and called out her husband. The Nollywood actress then accused him of sharing the same house with his ex-baby mama, Pero Adeniyi during vacation. The accusation led to a plethora of backlash between Annie and the Idibia family as they kept revealing other things to the public hearing. This led to a bitter online battle between…

Ondo Governor, Rotimi Akeredolu says rush to the National Assembly for an amendment of the Value Added Tax  (VAT) law is dead on arrival. In an interview on Channels Television after he presided over a meeting with his Southern colleagues who agreed that states should collect VAT, Akeredolu believes those resisting the collection of VAT by states in place of the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) would fail. He said “Our (the states’) position is that having looked at the law, it is there clearly for us to see that taxation, or what we call consumption taxes, falls within the…

The United States military has apologised after its drone strike on a vehicle in August  killed 10 civilians including children. In the final week of the US’ chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan, ISIS-K launched suicide bomb attacks in Kabul, killing 11 US soldiers and more than 90 Afghans. Two days later, the US claimed it had retaliated against ISIS-K using a drone strike against a vehicle that was loading bombs heading to the Kabul airport, killing at least one ISIS-K terrorist. But on Wednesday, September 15, an investigation by the New York times found out that the drone strike did not…

Chief Femi-Fani-Kayode, former Aviation Minister, has been taken to cleaners over his outbursts on the defection of former Akwa Ibom governor, Senator Godswill Akpabio to APC. FFK, as he is popularly known, had described  Akpabio who left Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to APC as a ‘coward and a traitor.’ After the defection of former Aviation Minister to APC, Akwa Ibom businesswoman based in Abuja, Blessing Osom shared screenshot of a piece allegedly written by Fani-Kayode. “Politicians and their words. So self centred. Now what can you say about yourself??? So embarrassing! Welcome to the same APC,” she wrote. The 2018…

South Africa’s top court, Friday, ruled that former President Jacob Zuma had failed in his bid to have his 15-month jail sentence for failing to attend a corruption inquiry overturned, Al Jazeera reported. The sentence was handed down in June after Zuma failed to testify at an inquiry probing corruption during his nine-year rule, seen as a test of post-apartheid South Africa’s ability to enforce the rule of law, particularly against powerful politicians. Zuma, recuperating in hospital after undergoing surgery for an undisclosed illness, asked the court in July to revoke its sentence for contempt arguing it was excessive, and…

The National Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) has directed its lawyers to appeal a ruling ordering its members to return to work. This was contained in a statement jointly signed by NARD President, Dr Uyilawa Okhuaihesuyi, and the union’s Secretary-General, Dr Jerry Isogun, on Friday The doctors said they have begun the process to appeal the ruling. “As we are all aware, especially those that were present in court today (Friday), the NIC has given a ruling on the application for interlocutory injunction filed by the Federal Government,” the statement said, noting ”We are not satisfied with the ruling.” “After…

Nigerian government has stated its readiness to appeal the judgment of an Oyo State High Court which awarded N20 billion damages to Sunday Adeyemo also known as Sunday Igboho. The Yoruba Nation agitator had sued Directorate of State Security (DSS) following the invasion of his home by the security agency at about 1:30 am on July 1, 2021. Justice Ladiran Akintola gave the order Friday, September 17, in a suit filed by Igboho who had demanded N500 billion for the damages done to his home. The court declared the raid illegal and criticized the DSS for “arbitrary aggression and prejudices,” dismissing…

Less than one day the former Minister of Aviation, Femi Fani-Kayode defected to All Progressives Congress (APC), he has started to court controversy. FFK who announced his defection to the APC Thursday had mentioned David Umahi of Ebonyi state; Ben Ayade of Cross River, and Bello Matawalle of Zamfara as Governors, he helped to facilitate their defection to the ruling APC. However, in an interview on Channels Television on Friday, September 17, Governor Umahi of Ebonyi State dismissed the claim as an insult to his person and other Governors. According to him, FFK has to withdraw the statement because he didn’t even…