Politics

Funke Akindele, an award-winning actress and deputy governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party in Lagos, has boasted that her followers on social media, numbering over 20 million, will come out en masse to vote for the party in 2023. Ms Akindele was convicted and sentenced in 2020 for violating Lagos COVID-19 protocols but was granted a pardon by …

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Kemi Badenoch has made it to the final five for the conservative party tussle to succeed Boris Johnson as Prime Minister. She declared her candidacy for leadership on Twitter, writing; “I have the conviction, the guts, and the clarity of thinking to achieve that change.” The 42-year-old is competing against Tom Tugendhat, Penny Mordaunt, Liz Truss, the former chancellor …

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A suicidal army sergeant, Kabiru Aliyu, attached to the 159 battalions, Geidam in Yobe, on Wednesday shot his colleagues, killing one and wounding another, Peoples Gazette has learnt. A military source told The Gazette that Mr Aliyu, who had wounds on his head and arm and claimed to be drunk, shot his colleagues identified as …

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Luck smiled on four families occupying a two-storey building at Onipanu area of Lagos on Tuesday night  as they escaped to safety before the building collapsed to the ground. Ibrahim Farinloye, South-West Coordinator of the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), confirmed this in a statement on Wednesday in Lagos. Mr Farinloye said that the building, …

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At least sixteen passengers went missing in another boat accident on Friday night around the Mile 2 area of Lagos. The incident occurred barely three days after the boat accident around the Ikorodu area of the state, leading to the death of two passengers. Sarat Braimah, Lagos area manager, the National Inland Waterways Authority (NIWA), …

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President Muhammadu Buhari has donated 10 rams, two cows and N1 million to the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) members serving in Daura, Katsina State. The president made the donation during the Sallah celebration with the NYSC members on Saturday in his hometown of Daura. He commended the scheme for keeping up the dreams of …

Eid–el-Kabir: President Buhari gifts N1m, 10 rams, 2 cows to Daura corpers! Read More »

The Sultan of Sokoto and president-general of Jama’atu Nasril Islam (JNI), Sa’ad Abubakar, has urged Muslims to offer special prayers for God’s intervention end bandits’ and Boko Haram’s attacks. The call is contained in a statement by Khalid Aliyu, JNI secretary-general, on Thursday in Kaduna. Mr Abubakar also urged Nigerian pilgrims in Saudi Arabia to …

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The Westminster Magistrate Court has adjourned the trial of Nigerian senator Ike Ekwerenmadu and his wife, Beatrice till August 4, for continuation of hearing. The Ekwerenmadus are standing trial over allegations of human trafficking an proposed organ harvesting. On Thursday, lawyers to the defendants successfully argued that the alleged victim, David Ukpo, is not a …

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Giving up on the push for a better Nigeria is not on his table, says Vice President Yemi Osinbajo who reiterated his intention to remain active in politics on Friday. The vice president made the assertion to “representatives of the Diaspora Professionals for PYO” in a virtual meeting, a statement by his media aide Laolu Akade …

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THE University of Lincoln, United Kingdom, has banned Senator Ike Ekweremadu from the recent appointment it gave him as visiting professor of Corporate and International Linkages. The ban followed the arrest and arraignment of Ekweremadu and his wife, Beatrice, in London for alleged conspiracy to harvest the kidney of Ukpo Nwamini David alleged to be …

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