A strong ally of Peter Obi, the Presidential Candidate of the Nigeria Democratic Congress (NDC), Aisha Yesufu, rejected the offer of a House of Representatives ticket. This revelation was made by the National Leader of the NDC, Senator Seriake Dickson, in an interview. He said Aisha insisted on being offered the Senate ticket. Prompt News Online reports that Yesufu and other allies dumped the African Democratic Congress (ADC) for the NDC alongside Peter Obi. But, rather than being offered the senatorial ticket, another aspirant, Amanda Pam got the ticket, leading to Yesufu alleging irregularities. Dickson said the NDC had made…
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As Nigerians prepare to commemorate another Democracy Day on June 12, we do so under the darkening shadow of a systematic assault on the democratic space by the Bola Ahmed Tinubu-led APC administration. What ought to be a celebration of freedom, popular sovereignty, and constitutional governance has instead become an occasion for sober reflection on the steady dismantling of the very ideals that inspired our struggle against military dictatorship. Over the past three years, Nigerians have witnessed a deliberate and coordinated effort to weaken, fragment, and neutralise opposition political parties ahead of the 2027 general elections. Through manufactured leadership crises,…
***Asks Tinubu to explain whereabouts of undeployed funds By Harry Awurumibe, Editor, Abuja Bureau The 2027 Presidential Candidate of the Nigeria Democratic Congress (NDC) Peter Obi, has alleged stark impropriety in President Bola Tinubu’s three-year reign and asks for an explanation. Obi, who took a holistic look at the borrowing habit of the APC-controlled federal government from the Muhammadu Buhari era, writes in his X handle on Tuesday that “President Bola Tinubu’s administration has engaged in remarkably imprudent borrowing, escalating Nigeria’s total debt to approximately N200 trillion. “This represents an increase of over N100 trillion within a mere three years,…
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has congratulated Rangers International FC on winning the Nigeria Premier Football League (NPFL) title for a record ninth time. The President congratulates the managers, players, and fans of the Enugu-based football club for finishing the last campaign at the top of the table with 68 points in 38 matches, ahead of their closest rival, Rivers United. President Tinubu recalls the incredible run of Rangers in the 1970s and 1980s, when the club won multiple league and FA Cup titles, especially in 1975, when they reached the finals of the African Cup of Champions Clubs, and in…
By Harry Awurumibe, Editor, Abuja Bureau Respite may have come the way of Nigeria’s political parties ahead of the 2027 general election after a Federal High Court in Abuja invalidated the timeline that the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) issued for the conduct of primaries and the nomination of candidates. This is even as the court, in a judgment delivered by Mr. Justice Mohammed Umar, also set aside the Commission’s May 10, 2026 deadline given to the political parties to submit their membership register and database of all their members as a condition for qualifying to participate in the general…
History occasionally hides its deepest ironies in names. More than two thousand years after Zacchaeus, the biblical tax collector of Jericho climbed a sycamore tree in search of Jesus, Nigeria finds itself in the middle of an intense national conversation on taxation under the supervision of a modern tax administrator bearing a remarkably similar name – Zacch Adedeji. The coincidence is striking, but the deeper significance lies not in personalities or names. It lies in the enduring suspicion societies often reserve for those who stand between the state and the pockets of the people.From ancient Rome to modern Africa, taxation…
THE late Muhammadu Buhari wrested power from upset of an incumbent in Nigeria precisely because of the northern establishment’s strategic coalition with the Southwest political establishment led by Bola Ahmed Tinubu. And Tinubu is president today because of the North’s requital, sort of, for Tinubu’s gesture. I qualify the requital with “sort of” because Muhammadu Buhari, the chief beneficiary of the coalition, along with a significant number of the cabal that puppeteered him, didn’t want Tinubu to be president. That was the spark for Tinubu’s famously impassioned “Emi lokan” speech in Abeokuta. However, northern governors collective, full-throated, unambiguous support for…
Shell Nigeria Gas (SNG) recently hosted a Business and Investment Forum in Port Harcourt, bringing together key industry stakeholders to explore opportunities to reduce operating costs, enhance productivity, unlock investment returns, and strengthen competitiveness through the adoption of natural gas. The forum coincided with the onboarding of two new industrial customers in Agbara, Ogun State—Intercontinental Distillers Limited II (IDL) and Rumbu Industries Limited—into SNG’s expanding gas distribution network. These additions bring the total number of companies leveraging SNG’s cleaner and more cost-effective energy solutions to over 150, many of whom are already experiencing improved operational efficiency and financial performance. The…
Ahead of the 2026 world cup, the United States, Wednesday, said it would ease its system of demanding bond payments from visa applicants for certain fans seeking to come for the World Cup. Recall that under one of President Donald Trump’s many initiatives to crack down on migration, the United States has begun asking people from 50 developing countries to hand over anywhere from $5,000 to $15,000 for a US visa, refundable once they return home. The State Department said it would waive the bonds for team members competing in World Cup matches in the United States, as well as…
I hear a lot about sex-starved marriages, where couples have less sexual activity than the desired. Such could be like once in two months, three months, or in some cases, six months. When such is the situation in a marriage, it can be said that the marriage is lacking in sexual intercourse than is required. Sexual activity in a healthy marriage should be a weekly affair, depending on the health condition of the couple. Anything short of this is an indication that the marriage is sex starved. Reasons for a sex starved marriage: Busy schedule of one or both partners.…