Peter Obi
21 Aug 2023
Internal crisis rocking the Labour Party (LP) is getting messier as factions have inaugurated different state executive members within 24 hours in Lagos State.
15 Aug 2023
Phrank Shaibu, the Special Assistant on Public Communications to Atiku Abubakar, says the destruction of billboards which put up adverts that read, “All Eyes on The Judiciary” was clear evidence of President Bola Tinubu’s authoritarianism and assault on freedom of speech. Shaibu said this while reacting to the directive by the Advertising Regulatory Council of…
14 Aug 2023
The embattled National Chairman of the Labour Party (LP), Mr Julius Abure, has inaugurated caretaker committees for the 20 local governments in Lagos State. Inaugurating the 16-member executive for each of the 20 council areas on Sunday evening in Lagos, Abure expressed confidence that the party would be victorious at the Presidential Election Petition Court.…
14 Aug 2023
The National Secretary of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Senator Ajibola Basiru, has said that all the petitions challenging the election of Bola Ahmed Tinubu as president are “terribly hopeless”. Basiru who was appointed as the new national secretary of APC on August 3, 2023 said this on Sunday, during an interview on Channels TV…
5 Aug 2023
Mr Peter Obi, the Presidential Candidate, Labour Party in the 2023 election, has decried the exit of the Pharmaceutical giant, GlaxoSmithKline (GSK), from Nigeria after 51 years of operations.
2 Aug 2023
President Bola Tinubu, yesterday, prayed the Presidential Election Petition Court (PEPC) sitting in Abuja to consider the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) as 37th state of the federation for the February 25 presidential election.
26 Jul 2023
There has been much talk about a Second Industrial Revolution for the Third World. The so-called Asian Tigers doggedly researched and produced themselves out of Third to First World, to believe Lee Kuan Yew.
19 Jul 2023
The All Progressive Congress (APC) in its final written address to the Presidential Election Petition Court, (PEPC) has claimed the document presented by the presidential candidate of the People's Democratic Party (PDP), in the February 25 presidential election, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar was fraught with inconsistencies and high variation. On the allegation of falsification of Chicago…
19 Jul 2023
Mr Peter Obi, Presidential Candidate of the Labour Party at the 2023 elections, says he can’t celebrate his 62nd birthday with over 327 Nigerians killed in Plateau and Benue this month.
17 Jul 2023
The lawyers to President Bola Ahmed Tinubu and Vice-President Kashim Shettima, have urged the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal (PEPT) to dismiss the petition of the Labour Party (LP) and its presidential candidate, Peter Obi. The counsel for the President and his vice led by Wole Olanipekun (SAN), said this in his final written address to…
17 Jul 2023
President Bola Tinubu has sent his felicitations to the Publisher of The Guardian newspaper, Lady Maiden Alex-Ibru, on the occasion of the newspaper’s 40th anniversary. In a letter signed by the Special Adviser to the President on Special Duties, Communications and Strategy, Dele Alake, and titled: ‘Salute to 40 years of outstanding journalism,’ the President…
16 Jul 2023
The Labour Party’s Presidential Candidate for the 2023 general elections, Peter Obi, yesterday said: “Nigeria is ill-prepared for development, if it does not address its 20 million out-of-school children.”
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Head Coach Bankole Olowookere has called up 25 players to the camp of Nigeria's U17 Girls National Team, Flamingos, in preparation for the upcoming FIFA U17 Women’s World Cup qualifying match against Burkina Faso. This squad selection is part of the lead-up to the third round of the African qualifying series. The list includes a…
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Telecommunications companies operating in Nigeria Airtel, MTN, 9Mobile, and Glo, are proposing an increment of tariff. The Association of Licensed Telecommunications Operators of Nigeria (ALTON) and the Association of Telecommunication Companies of Nigeria (ATCON) on Thursday, in a joint statement said the current price control mechanism is not at par with the economic realities. Consequently,…