President Bola Tinubu has celebrated his longtime ally and friend, former Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, on his 68th birthday.Osinbajo was Nigeria’s vice president from 2015 to 2023.The president, in a statement issued yesterday by his Adviser on Information and Strategy, Mr Bayo Onanuga, noted that Osinbajo, a Professor of Law
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The media office of former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has dismissed reports suggesting that he is planning to leave the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for a new political platform ahead of the 2027 general elections.In a statement issued in Abuja on Saturday, Atiku’s team refuted the claims, emphasizing his continued
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The administration of United States President, Donald Trump, has canceled a $600,000 federal grant intended to fund a study on menstrual cycles in transgender men.According to public records on USAspending.gov, the grant had been awarded to Southern University Agricultural & Mechanical College in Louisiana and was scheduled to remain active
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The Office of the Accountant General of the Federation (OAGF) has explained that there were no shortfalls in salaries paid to Federal Workers in January and February 2025.The OAGF said the salaries that workers received in January and February 2025 were their normal salaries after the various arrears that were
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The Chief Judge of the Federal High Court in Abuja, Justice John Tsoho, has reassigned the case of the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu, to another judge.This was disclosed by Kanu’s lead counsel, Aloy Ejimakor, in a statement on Saturday in Abuja.Kanu had requested the recusal
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The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Governors Forum (PDP-GF) has strongly condemned the actions of those it described as financiers of “low-willed factions” within the party promoting a rumoured 2027 presidential ticket featuring former Kaduna State Governor, Nasir el-Rufai, and Labour Party’s 2023 presidential candidate, Peter Obi.In a statement issued on
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Members of the Obidient Movement on Saturday visited the family of the late Doyin Okupe, a former presidential aide to Goodluck Jonathan and Olusegun Obasanjo.Okupe, a former Director General of the Labour Party’s 2023 Presidential Campaign Organisation died on Friday during a surgery in a Lagos hospital.Despite dumping the movement
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Controversial singer, Habeeb Okikiola, popularly known as Portable, has slammed social media commentator, Martins Otse, also known as VeryDarkMan, for attempting to involve him in a diss track against gospel singer, Mercy Chinwo.VDM had announced plans to release a track titled “Body of Christ” in response to Chinwo’s N1.125 billion
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A human rights activist Omoyele Sowore and the leader of a Port Harcourt-based church, Dynamic Flame of Fire and Miracle Ministries, Prophet Umueke Miracle, have agreed to a live demonstration of miracles.Sowore, in a recent interview, called out Nigerian pastors, dismissing their claims of supernatural wonders as deceptive theatrics designed
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The Nigerian Senate has suspended Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan, representing Kogi Central, for six months. The suspension, effective from March 6, 2025, follows recommendations from the Senate Committee on Public Conduct, Ethics, Privileges, and Public Petitions, which found her in “total violation” of Senate rules.The controversy began on February 20, 2025,
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