Alhaji Ibrahim Musa Gusau has been elected the new President of Nigeria Football Federation (NFF). He was elected at NFF’s 78th Elective Congress in Benin, the Edo State capital. In the first ballot, Gusau polled 21 votes to finish first ahead of former Ist Vice President Barrister Seyi Akinwunmi who got 12 votes while the erstwhile League Management Committee (LMC) Chairman Shehu Dikko got just six votes. Peteside Idah and Abbah Yola got one vote each. While the quartet of Akinwunmi, Dikko, Yola opted out of a possible rerun since Gusau did not get the mandatory 22…
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The Yobe State chapter of the All Progressives Congress on Friday says it will appeal Wednesday’s court ruling recognising Bashir Machina as the APC candidate for its North Senatorial District ahead of the 2023 National Assembly election. It was reported a Federal High Court sitting in Damaturu directed the leadership of the APC and the Independent National Electoral Commission to recognise Machina as the Yobe North senatorial candidate of the party. The presiding judge, Justice Fadima Aminu, nullified the parallel primary election that produced the Senate President, Ahmed Lawan, on June 9, 2022. Aminu also ordered the…
Minister of Transportation Mu’azu Sambo has said the Federal Government would soon make a ‘Port Declaration’ of the proposed Ondo deep seaport, which would begin other processes at the port. He hoped the port would be established before the end of the tenure of President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration. Sambo spoke during a meeting with Ondo State Governor Oluwarotimi Akeredolu, SAN. The minister, who hailed the steps taken by the state government to prepare for the port declaration, said once the requirements were met, the Federal Government would not hesitate to make the declaration, under Section 30 of the…
The Supreme Court has dismissed two appeals filed some ad-hoc delegates of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Edo State, loyal to the Dan Orbih faction of the party led by Hon. Monday Iyore Osagie. In a judgment on Friday, a five-member panel headed by Justice Amina Augie, affirmed the earlier judgment of the Court of Appeal and held that the subject of the appeals were issues on which the court lacked jurisdiction, because they relate to the internal affairs of political party. The judgment was on the appeal marked: SC/CV/980/2022 between Hon. Monday Iyore Osagie & others v.…
Chizzy has finally won Innoson car task after hours of gruelling. The housemates were asked to search for the words”Innoson IVM connect” inserted into what seemed like a thousand balloons. They had all got every letter save the letter “T” which gave then a hard time finding and after a tiresome search Chizzy seamlessly came out with the letter “It may seem like a Chizzy week” big brother had said after his second big win this week.
The Nigerian Governors Forum (NGF) yesterday opposed the Federal Government’s proposal to privatise National Integrated Power Plants (NIPPs). The plants are: Benin Generation Company Ltd, Calabar Generation Company Ltd, Geregu Generation Company Ltd, Olorunsogo Generation Company Ltd and Omotosho Generation Company Ltd. Outgoing NGF Chairman and Ekiti State Governor, Kayode Fayemi, who addressed reports in Abuja on Thursday after the forum’s meeting, said the proposal was opposed because all stakeholders were not carried along in the scheme of things. He said: “We examined the issues relating to the proposed privatisation of the power project and we took a…
Peter Obi, the presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), has advised politicians to invest in human capital development instead of sharing money to voters during elections. Obi said this on Thursday in Ibadan, the Oyo capital, after a meeting with Seyi Makinde, governor of Oyo state. According to the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), the number of unemployed youths in Nigeria increased by nine million between 2015 and 2020. The former governor of Anambra said the monetisation of the political space has resulted in high rate of unemployment in the country. “The money that they…
Former President Goodluck Jonathan has called on all candidates in the 2023 general elections to strive to make their campaigns issue-based, clean and violence-free. Jonathan made the call in his virtual goodwill message read on Thursday in Abuja at the signing of the first National Peace Accord on the 2023 general elections which was attended by presidential candidates and their parties. He also urged candidates, their promoters and supporters to exercise restraint and to run their campaigns based on issues that affected Nigerians. “We are at a critical stage in our national life where we have no choice but…
The leadership of the House of Representatives will seek an audience with President Muhammadu Buhari on the resolution of the ongoing face-off between the Federal Government and the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) with the outcome of its interactions with stakeholders in the dispute, Speaker Femi Gbajabiamila said on Thursday. This is as the office of the Accountant General of the Federation (OAGF) revealed its readiness to accommodate issues of concern to ASUU over the payment platforms, Integrated Payroll Personnel Information System (IPPIS) and the University Transparency Accountability Solution (UTAS) that constituted a major part of the issues…
The Presidential candidate of Labour Party, LP, Peter Obi, Thursday, pledged to turn Nigeria from being a consuming to producing country if elected in 2023. Obi made the pledge in Ibadan, after a closed-door meeting with Governor ‘Seyi Makinde in his office at Agodi, Secretariat, Ibadan. He said, despite Nigeria has performed poorly in the last sixty-two years but survived as a nation, there was still need to celebrate, adding that, the next election should be how to start building a new Nigeria everybody would be proud of. Obi said: “At this time in Nigeria, I’m going over…