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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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Tinubu Makes Fresh Demand As Tribunal Moves Petition Against President-Elect to Thursday

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  A report by Channels TV has it that the president-elect, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, has asked the presidential election tribunal to drop the petition filed by the Allied Peoples Movement (APM) challenging his election victory. At the pre-hearing session on Tuesday, May 9, the APM informed the court that it had filed a pre-hearing information sheet TF 008, and had adopted the answers therein. Counsel to Tinubu, Akin Olujimi, told the tribunal, that their response contains a prayer seeking the dismissal of the petition over claims of it lacking merit.  The presidential election petitions tribunal, therefore, adjourned the pre-hearing till Thursday, May 11, Daily Trust report added.  Chairman of the panel, Justice Haruna Tsamani, who adjourned the petition, asked parties to draw out the issues for determination, Premium Times report further confirmed.  Chieftains of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) arrived at the tribunal on Tuesday, May 9, to know the fate of their candida
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Supreme Court Affirms Adeleke As Osun Governor

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  The Supreme Court, on Tuesday, affirmed Ademola Adeleke of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, as the validly elected Governor of Osun State. The apex court, in its lead judgement they were delivered by Justice Emmanuel Agim, dismissed an appeal that was lodged against Adeleke’s election victory by the former governor of the state, Adegboyega Oyetola, who was the gubernatorial candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC. It held that though Oyetola alleged that Adeleke won through over-voting that occurred in 774 polling units in the state, he, however, failed to produce any Bimodal Voters Accreditation System, BVAS, a machine that was used in any of the polling units to prove his allegation. “It is glaring that the Appellant did not provide in evidence, any BVAS, but sought to prove over-voting by means of a report of examination of INEC’s database or backend server”. The apex court held that since it was not in dispute that the BVAS contain a record of accredited voters, “it is,
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Knocks As Nigeria’s Debt Profile Races To N80trn Under Buhari Government

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  With Nigeria’s total debt stock racing to over N80 trillion, there is heightened concern in the country. Stakeholders are of the view that Nigeria’s economy is in an emergency situation and on the verge of collapse if nothing is done. Although the Debt Management Office has consistently dismissed fears surrounding Nigeria’s increasing debt profile, economic analysts have never kept mum, signalling the alarm bill. DMO, in its Fourth Quarter report of 2022, said Nigeria’s total debt hovers around N46.25 trillion. Specifically, the total domestic debt stock was N27.55 trillion, while external debt stock was N18.70 trillion (USD 41.69 billion) as of December 2022. Meanwhile, with the recent borrowing spree by the federal government and the National Assembly’s approval of the Central Bank of Nigeria’s Ways and Means advance to the federal government, the Nation’s external and internal wealth could have surpassed N80 trillion. At the inauguration of President Muhammadu Buhari’s administrat
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Couple Contending 'Ownership' Of 20-year-old Nigerian Woman Allegedly Stolen At Birth, Reject Inconsistent DNA Result

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  The family of Prof. Michael Ike Okwudili, who has expressed the belief that he is the father of one Juliet Agulanna, a 20-year-old woman allegedly stolen at birth, has rejected the results of the DNA test from LifeBridge Medical Laboratory which disproved a DNA that previously showed that he is the father. According to a source, the issues were raised about the result of the second DNA test conducted by the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP) at LifeBridge Laboratory to confirm the paternity of 20-year-old Juliet, which returned negative, contradicting the initial result which was positive. However, the allegations that Juliet was stolen at birth have not been disproved as Mrs Mariatha Chidinma Agulanna, who claimed to have adopted her has failed to provide any legal evidence to substantiate that she legally adopted Juliet. It had been reported that the letter from the National Red Cross Society, Imo state chapter, which she claimed was issued to he
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BREAKING: IPOB Declares May 30 Compulsory Sit-At-Home Day For Igbos In Lagos, Other Parts Of Nigeria

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  The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has declared May 30, 2023, as a day for compulsory sit-at-home for the Biafra Remembrance Day celebration. The separatist group said every ‘Biafran’ (someone who hails from Southeast Nigeria) must honour those who died in the civil war and Biafra Nation actualisation struggle. IPOB on Monday in a statement by its Media and Publicity Secretary, Emma Powerful, asked industries, companies, transport companies (air, land and sea), hotels, schools and churches across the Southeast region of Nigeria to shut down in adherence to the order. The secessionist group further asked people of the Southeast living in Lagos and other parts of Nigeria to join the sit-at-home order, warning all the residents of ‘Biafra territory’ not to endanger their lives or their businesses by disobeying the sit-at-home order as the directive is from IPOB leadership. He said, “This year's event will be special and the one day sit-at-home in Biafraland will be total and wil
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I Am Unable To Relate To Something Known As The Obidient Or Obidient Family - Wole Soyinka speaks about Peter Obi's visit to him

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  Nobel laureate, Wole Soyinka has spoken about  Labour Party presidential candidate, Peter Obi's visit to him . Obi's visited the literary icon on Sunday May 7, weeks after his supporters  – known as Obidients – tackled Soyinka after the renowned playwright faulted Obi's running mate, Datti's comment about the election exercise. Following the visit, many reports claimed it was a reconciliatory move by Obi towards Soyinka. However, in a statement on Monday evening, May 8, Soyinka said the visit was not for such, adding that the word “reconciliation” as reported in some quarters is an “inappropriate invocation.” “Before it gains traction and embarks on a life of its own, I wish to state clearly that the word ‘Reconciliation’, inserted into some reports of Peter Obi’s visit to me yesterday, Sunday, May 7, is a most inappropriate, and diversionary invocation,” Soyinka said in a statement he captioned “A visitation and the allure of Reconciliation”. “Let me clarify: I know
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Tinubu’s Appointees ‘ll help Nigeria Recover Stolen Assets — Aliyu Abubakar

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  A Senior Political Analyst, Aliyu Abubakar, on Monday, said he has uncovered a list of notable Nigerians that the President-elect, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, has pencilled down to serve in different capacities after his inauguration on May 29, 2023. The list he said comprised experts and professionals from different walks of life who will help him revamp the economy and bring cash on board. According to him, the experts were chosen based on their pedigree and qualifications, not political affiliations, adding that while some of them were tested before in revamping the economy, others are equally new to most Nigerians but are think tanks. He said it is expected that the professionals will assist the new President and his team in driving an economically robust administration that will meet the yearnings and expectations of Nigerians within the first year in office. He listed the Tinubu’s list includes Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, Abayomi A. Adebayo, Nuhu Ribadu, Bismarck Rewane, Kingsley Moghalu, A
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Brilliant 16-year-old female student emerges overall best in UTME 2023

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  Ejikeme Joy , a student of Anglican Girls Secondary School (AGSS) Nnewi, Anambra state, has emerged as the overall best student in the 2023 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) with an aggregate score of 362. Joy’s scores in English Language, Physics, Biology, and Chemistry were broken down as 98%, 89%, 94%, and 81%, respectively. The commissioner of  education  in Anambra state, Prof Ngozi Chuma-Udeh, commended her performance, describing it as “excellent and very outstanding”. The state government also reacted to the news, with a statement by the Chief Press Secretary to Governor Charles Soludo, Christian Aburime, saying that Ejikeme’s  excellent feat   brought joy and celebration to her school and Anambra state as her teachers, parents, and fellow students were thrown into a euphoric and exhilarating mood. The statement reads; “ Anambra state has once again demonstrated its pride of place as the cradle of academic excellence in the country. “Following the outstanding
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Tinubu: Court Adjourns Hearing On Peter Obi’s Petition Till Wednesday

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  The Presidential Election Petition Court sitting in Abuja has adjourned further pre-hearing session on the petition the Labour Party and its candidate, Peter Obi filed to nullify Tinubu’s election victory, till Wednesday. The court equally fixed the same date for another petition by the Action Peoples Party, APP, while it adjourned the case of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and its candidate, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, till Tuesday. While adjourning the cases, the court urged the parties to identify all the witness statements and documents they would rely on or object to during the actual hearing of the petitions. Among those in court to witness the proceedings included the presidential candidate of the LP, Mr Peter Obi. Meanwhile, the court, on Monday, barred Governor Simon Lalong of Plateau State from standing before it as the representative of the President-elect, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu. The Plateau state governor had, immediately the first petition that was lodged against the outcom
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BREAKING: Gate Collapses On Female Athlete At Opening Of 7th Nigerian Youth Games In Delta State

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Road to Wole Soyinka train station in Ogun collapses, residents cry for help

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  Various portions of the road leading to the Wole Soyinka Train Station in Ogun State have collapsed, DAILY POST reports. The Wole Soyinka Train Station is one of the 10 stations that make up the 156km Lagos-Ibadan standard gauge rail commissioned in 2021 by former President Muhammadu Buhari. However, when the state-of-the-art train station was completed by the Federal Ministry of Transportation, government did not take into cognisance, the need to fix the access road that goes to the station. Today, the road has become a nightmare to train users, who are now considering returning to the roads instead of teavelling to Lagos and Ibadan through the railway. When our correspondent visited the train axis on Saturday, it was noticed that the 3km Kenya/Olokuta/Idi-Aba road is in shambles. Different portions of the road have been washed away by erosion, giving the people no other option than to cry to both the state and federal governments for succour. One of the community leaders, Chief Eze
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