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PDP suspends ex-Abia Reps member, Abonta for alleged anti-party activities

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The quick past part who addressed Ukwa East and Ukwa West Government Voting demographic, Hon Uzoma Nkem Abonta, under the foundation of the People groups Progressive alliance (PDP), has been suspended from the party. This was spread the word for newsmen in Akwete today, Wednesday 28, in a proclamation by the PDP Ward Director and Secretary of the party in Akwete-Ohandu Ward. A portion of the reasons they claimed include: hostile to party exercises, factionalization of the party in the ward, proudly exposing the party to a few court suits with no response to the PDP inside system of resolving clashes and debates, his arrangement as the Representative Chief General of the All Reformists Fantastic Collusion (APGA) in the 2023 general political race and his public acknowledgment of the said arrangement, his refusal to surrender the bike given to the Ward Director by Congressperson Enyinnaya Abaribe, his conspicuous refusal to pay the party duty for quite a while at this point, and his open
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Supreme Court To Hear IPOB Leader, Nnamdi Kanu’s Appeal Today As His Lawyers Plead For Justice

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  Barrister Aloy Ejimakor, counsel for the detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, has asked the Supreme Court to be guided by equity, justice and good conscience while ruling on Kanu’s appeal on his continued detention by the Nigerian Government today (Thursday). This comes after the Court of Appeal ruling and order for his unconditional release.
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Fleeing Adamawa Resident Electoral Commissioner, Yunusa-Ari, Writes Police Boss, Others From Hideout, Insists Binani Won Gov. Poll

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  Hudu Yunusa-Ari, the fleeing Residential Electoral Commissioner in Adamawa State suspended for violating the provisions of the Electoral Act, 2022 has written to the Inspector General of Police from his hideout. The letter which was received by the Force Headquarters on April 20, was copied to the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, the Director General of the State Security Service (also known as the Department of State Services) and the National Security Adviser (NSA). The letter was obtained by an online newspaper, Peoples Gazette. SaharaReporters had exclusively reported that Yunusa-Ari was flown out of Yola, the state capital, in a private jet belonging to the vice-presidential candidate of the Labour Party in the 2023 elections, Yusuf Datti Baba-Ahmed, on Sunday, April 16. SaharaReporters investigation revealed that Yunusa-Ari was flown out of the city immediately after he illegally and wrongfully announced Aishatu Dahiru Binani, the candidate of All Prog
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Tomato Scarcity Looms As Farmers Lose N1.3bn And 300 Hectares Of Their Farm To 'Tomato ebola’

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  A scarcity of perishable food, Tomatoes, appears to be looming in Nigeria as farmers are currently battling Tuta Absoluta, also known as Tomato Ebola, which is currently ravaging tomato farms in parts of the country and causing farmers to record as much as N1.3 billion losses.   Tuta Absoluta is an insect which builds its home under the tomato leaves. Vanguard reports that the Secretary-General, the chairman of the National Tomato Growers, Processors and Marketers Association of Nigeria, Sani Danladi, disclosed this at an event recently held in Abuja. He lamented the huge losses over 500 farmers have incurred in Kano, while they are yet to know how many farmers are being affected in Katsina, Jigawa, Kaduna and Gombe. “This ‘war’ is not only for the government and farmers but for all Nigerians. When Tuta Absoluta enters the farmer’s farm it destroys everything there within three days no matter how big or small it is. It is very devastating because it destroys all investment in the far
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15-year-old student who fought her teacher in front of class gets one year behind bars

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The 15-year-old student who attacked her teacher in front of the entire class has been sentenced to one year behind bars at a youth detention center. Back in January 2023, video footage of the teenager, whose identity has not been publicly disclosed, circulated all over social media after she brutally attacked British literature teacher Tiwana Turner at Heritage High School in Conyers, Georgia . In the video posted online, the student can be seen yelling in Turner's face and slapping her cell phone out of her hand before the teacher tried to call for help as she walked out of the classroom. When Turner stopped the teen from closing the door on her, a scuffle breaks out and the girl grabs her teacher by her hair and pulls her to the ground. She continues to take several swings at Turner as the tussle carried on while students pulled out their phones to record. The attack left the teacher with a broken leg and she had to be wheeled out of school on a stretcher. According to FOX 5 Atl
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NANS gives MultiChoice Seven Days To Reverse Price Hike

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  The National Association of Nigerian Students, South-west Zone, has given MultiChoice Nigeria, a seven-day ultimatum to reverse its planned hike on DSTV and GOTV subscription rates. The student association made this known in a statement on Tuesday, signed by its Coordinator, Adejuwon Olatunji, Deputy Coordinator, Alao John, and Public Relations Officer, Opeoluwa Awoyinfa MultiChoice had announced an upward review of prices on its DSTV and GOTV packages by 17 per cent, in text messages sent to its subscribers. It stated that the new rates would take effect on May 1, 2023, explaining that rising costs of business operations was the reason behind the increase. Opposing the subscription hike, NANS said the South African company was bringing hardship on, and extorting Nigerians, without considering their standard of living. It also noted that tariffs should be charged on a “pay as you view” basis. The NANS statement remarked, “Today, we are aware that Multi Choice Digital Satellite has in
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LP Crisis: Apapa Denies Withdrawing Obi’s Petitions From Tribunal

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The Labour Party acting National Chairman Lamidi Apapa, has denied claims that it approached the presidential election tribunal to withdraw the petition filed by the party's presidential candidate, Mr Peter Obi.  It was declared in a press statement issued on Wednesday by Dr Arabambi Abayomi, National Publicity Secretary, in response to Julius Abure's camp's claim that a letter emanating from the Lamidi Apapa-led faction of the party had asked the court to withdraw Obi's petition against Tinubu. According to the statement, the Lamidi Apapa-led faction challenged Abure and his people to produce any evidence to substantiate their claim, reinstating their support for Obi towards his mission to reclaim his alleged stolen mandate in court. The Lamidi Apapa-led faction added that Abure, who has been suspended as the Chairman of the party by the court, resorted to spreading misinformation and false news to gain public sympathy. The statement read, "The attention of Labour
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REVEALED: FG spends $1.2m to evacuate Nigerians to Egypt from Sudan

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  The Federal Government, on Wednesday, said it has spent $1.2m to deploy 40 buses for the evacuation of about 2,400 stranded Nigerians out of Sudan. The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mr Geoffrey Onyeama, disclosed this while briefing State House correspondents at the end of the Federal Executive Council, FEC, meeting presided over by President Muhammadu Buhari, at the Council Chamber, Presidential Villa, Abuja. The Minister said the amount for the evacuation includes the provision of security cover for the eight-hour journey from Luxol to Cairo and the eleven-hour trip from Aswan to Cairo, Egypt. He said that the outcome of the proceedings at the council meeting was overshadowed by plans of the Nigerian government to safely evacuate its citizens from the war-torn sudan. Although the Sudanese Armed Forces and the Rapid Support Forces agreed to halt hostilities at midnight Monday, local media reports that fighting had resumed even as a hospital was shelled on Wednesday. Onyeama, who note
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MultiChoice Nigeria Adjusts Tariffs for DSTV, GOTV Subscribers

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  Some pay television companies in the country have adjusted tariffs, with others expected to do the same as they battle rising operational costs. MultiChoice Nigeria yesterday announced new tariffs, few days after StarTimes, the Chinese-operated television company announce new prices for its packages. MultiChoice Nigeria announced adjustment of prices on both its DStv and GOtv packages via a text message to its subscribers. A sample of the message sent to DStv Premium subscribers’ decoders read: “Dear Customer, due to rising costs of business operations, please note that from May 1, your monthly subscription (Premium) will be N24,500. To retain your old price of N21,000 for up to 12 months ensure you are active by April 30.” The new regime would also see the price on the Compact+ bouquet move to N16,600 from N14, 250 monthly. Subscribers on the Compact bouquet would under the new price regime, pay N10,500 as against N9,000, with those on Confam set to pay N6,200 as against N5,300. Tho
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APC Governorship Candidate, Binani Defends Suspended Adamawa Resident Commissioner, Yunusa-Ari, Says Returning Officer ‘Disappeared’

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  The Coordinator of the Campaign Council of Aishatu “Binani” Dahiru of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the Adamawa State governorship election, Vrati Nzonzo has said that the suspended Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC), Hudu Yunusa-Ari, declared Binani winner of the election because the Returning Officer, Mohammed Mele “disappeared” when collation resumed on April 16, 2023. Speaking on Channels Television’s Politics Today programme on Tuesday in defence of Yunusa-Ari, the APC/Binani Campaign Council Coordinator said that “The Returning Officer disappeared.”
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BREAKING: Gate Collapses On Female Athlete At Opening Of 7th Nigerian Youth Games In Delta State

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The pandemonium followed the sudden collapse of a gate to the main bowl of the Stephen Keshi Stadium, Asaba on a middle-aged woman said to be one of the athletes. There was turmoi l  on Saturday immediately after the commencement of the opening ceremony of the 7th National Youth Games (NYG) in Asaba, the Delta State capital. The bedlam followed the sudden collapse of a gate to the main bowl of the Stephen Keshi Stadium, Asaba on a middle-aged woman said to be one of the athletes. The victim, SaharaReporters gathered was immediately rushed in an ambulance to a yet-to-be-disclosed medical facility within the capital city. According to eyewitness accounts, the condition of the victim could not be handled by medical personnel at the clinic stationed at the stadium for the ongoing National Youth games. Last week before the commencement of the National Youths Games in Asaba, the state capital, some Delta State athletes camped for the National Youth Games (NYG) had protested against what they
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I Repeat, Peter Obi, Atiku Did Not Win 2023 Presidential Election; They Donated The Outcome Before Voting – Wole Soyinka

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   A Nigerian playwright, novelist, poet, and essayist in the English language,  Akinwande Oluwole Babatunde Soyinka Hon. FRSL known as Prof.  Wole Soyinka , has insisted that Peter Obi of the Labour Party and Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) did not win the 2023 presidential election in Nigeria. Soyinka on Saturday noted that Obi “jointly with his erstwhile colleague of the PDP donated the outcome (of the presidential election) even before the voting.” SaharaReporters had during the week reported how Soyinka stated categorically that Peter Obi, who came third at the presidential polls, did not win the 2023 presidential election. Soyinka had stated this while speaking as a guest speaker at the 2023 ‘Africa in the World’ event, a festival that brings together the world’s most innovative thinkers and top leaders to platform invigorating ideas for fresh changes and sustainable solutions for African people. The event started on Tuesday, September 12 and was scheduled to
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