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The ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) has approved the inauguration of Ward executives elected at the recently concluded nationwide Ward Congresses. The decision was part of the resolutions reached at the 16th Meeting of the APC’s Caretaker Extraordinary Convention Planning Committee CECPC held Thursday at the Buhari House, its National Secretariat. Rising from more than three hours meeting at the party’s national headquarters in Abuja which has about four state governors in attendance, the party’s national leadership rectified and adopted the outcome of the Ward Congresses. Although the Governor Mai Mala Buni-led Caretaker Committee’s constituted Ward Congresses Appeal Committee recently,…

Six members of Anambra State House of Assembly belonging to All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), Wednesday, defected to the ruling All Progressives Congress. The lawmakers include Hon. Nonso Okafor representing Nnewi North; Hon. Timothy Ifedioramma representing Njikoka 1; and Hon. Cater D. N Umeoduagu representing Aguata 1. Others are Hon. Lawrence Ezeudu representing Dumekofia; Hon. Arthur Chiekwu representing Idemmih North and Hon. Edward Ibuzo, representing Onitsha North 2. APGA is the ruling party in Anambra State while APC is the ruling at the national level but opposition in the state. Five days ago, the former Minister of Aviation, Senator Stella…

Amid reports of his planned defection to the ruling All Progressives Congress, ex-Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan has kept mum on the rumoured defection. Though PDP leaders visited him in his Abuja residence on Tuesday, August 31, he did not come plain to debunk the news neither has he refuted the newspapers’ reports on the issue. Goodluck under PDP was defeated by President Muhammadu Buhari under APC in the 2015 Presidential elections. The acting National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, Yemi Akinwonmi led a delegation of party leaders consisting of Daisi Akintan, former caretaker secretary of the PDP in the South-West and…

What had prompted many Afghans and foreigners to flee the country and had made many to have fled is turning to a reality as Taliban are accused of going about executing civilians and perceived enemies. It is reported that as soon as US left the shores of Afghanistan, the Taliban are reportedly carrying out ‘house-to-house executions’ after terrifying new audio of gunshots raging across Kabul emerged. An Afghan man who worked with the US revealed the frightening audio which he said showed the sounds of gunfire ‘from everywhere.’ He claimed it also showed a ‘conflict between the Taliban.’ It comes…

Twenty US states have sued the Biden administration after the US Department of Education ordered schools to allow biological males to compete in girls’ sports teams. Tennessee Attorney General Herbert Slatery and his counterparts in 19 other states in the lawsuit filed in the US district court in Knoxville on Monday August 30, asked the judge to allow them to separate restrooms, showers and locker rooms according to ‘biological sex’.  The suit also seeks for schools to be able to separate sports teams based on ‘biological sex’ and enforce dress codes as such, and not have to use a transgender person’s preferred…

A 50-year-old South African pastor has been sentenced to five life terms in prison for raping minors. Setabo Elias Molepo of the Global Life Changing Ministry Church at Ga-Madiba Mashashane village outside Polokwane, Limpopo, was convicted on five counts of rape by the Seshego Regional Court in Polokwane on Tuesday, August 31. Spokesperson for the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) Limpopo, Mashudu Malabi-Dzhangi, said the incidents happened between 2016 and 2017. Malabi-Dzhangi said that both victims, aged 11 and 13 at the time, were parishioners at his church in Ga-Madiba Mashashane. Malabi-Dzhangi said the victims are from poor families in the…

Nollywood actor, Ime Bishop Umoh, has taken to Instagram to show off his new house located in Uyo, Akwa Ibom state capital. The exact street the one-storey exotic house is located in Uyo is unknown yet. Popularly known as Okon Lagos, he revealed that he conceived the idea sometime ago and now happy that he has achieved it. He advised his followers on the social media platform to work hard and not allow social pressure to drown them as appearance is not reality. Okon Lagos also shared a sign post, revealing that the street has been named after him. The…

House of Big Brother Naija season 6, Tega has vowed to move on with her life in event of her husband no longer interested in the marriage. Tega was reacting to what would happen after the Big Brother House, her husband does no longer want to marry her. In a conversation with Boma and Liqourose, she stated that she ‘’will move on with her life because she’s the one who has everything and the fame.’’ Prior to this conversation, the housemate had repeatedly said that she has her husband’s backing to do anything in the house. Her husband, Ajeboh Dominic,…

The intention of the two political gladiators is still in the duvet. The recent inauguration of ward chapters of All Progressives Congress while another is in the waiting is a clear pointer of division. The attention of the public is drawn to the fact that there is a gulf indeed a deep crack in the APC, Akwa Ibom chapter. Like a king and a queen in an anthill, the two factions dwell together in one party. Unlike king and queen in the same sandy mould, they are two different personages towing a different path and serving different interest of their…

Benue State Governor Samuel Ortom and a former two-term governor of the state and Minister of Special Duties and Inter-Governmental Affairs, Senator George Akume, have exchanged hot words over call for a state of emergency to be declared in Benue. Senator Akume who is the leader of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in Benue state, had in a press conference held Monday in Abuja castigated Governor Ortom for his outbursts over the worsening insecurity in the country and the failure of the President Muhammadu Buhari led federal government to stem the tide. The Minister also among others accused the Benue…