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Agency Report The All Progressives Congress (APC), on Monday, asked the Presidential Election Petition Court (PEPC) in Abuja to dismiss the petition filed by the Labour Party (LP) and its presidential candidate, Peter Obi, against the emergence of Bola Tinubu as the president-elect in the 25 February election. The APC, the 4th respondent, urged the PEPC to reject the petition in its notice of preliminary objection marked: CA/PEPC/03/2023 and filed at PEPC’s Secretariat, Monday night, by Thomas Ojo, a member of the party’s legal team led by Lateef Fagbemi in Abuja. The party asked the tribunal to dismiss the…

Lawrence Nwimo, Awka A public policy analyst, Chima Christian, has called for multi-stakeholder audits and integrity tests on the systems and processes of Nigeria’s National Population Commission (NPC) ahead of the country’s planned census exercise from May 3 – 5, 2023. In a social media post, Christian endorsed Nigeria’s gradual migration to tech-based solutions but expressed concern about the NPC’s “digitisation” of the upcoming census exercise. He pointed out that the systems and processes NPC will be relying on to conduct the exercise have not been audited or subjected to integrity tests, especially by those who stand to be most…

By Ike Okonta If you want to know the secret of Bola Tinubu’s long and continuing grip on the politics of Lagos State, examine closely the utterances of two of his key lieutenants – Bayo Onanuga and M.C. Oluomo. Bayo Onanuga is the chief executive officer of The News magazine and latterly Head of Media of the Bola Tinubu Presidential Campaign Council. M.C. Oluomo is a glorified motor park tout who has been Tinubu’s right hand man in everything political in Lagos since the advent of the Fourth Republic in May 1999. Some commentators have written that Bayo Onanuga’s ethnic…

Lawrence Nwimo, Awka Delta State Government has denied reports that it deported Anambra woman who was allegedly begging for alms in Asaba, the state capital. Ikengaonline reports that the woman, identified as Ogochukwu Nwabude, who was said to have roamed the Delta state capital for about two weeks with a baby at Inter Bau Roundabout in the state was arrested and deported to Anambra State. In a statement signed by Mr. Olisa Ifeajika, the chief press secretary to the governor, and made available to newsmen on Monday, the Delta State Government said the woman was not deported but handed over to the ministry of…

Ben Ezechime, Enugu A Non-Governmental Organization (NGO), Enugu Clean Team Project, says it has been a major contributor to financial empowerment among youths in Enugu State. Rev. Michael Ogbu, the coordinator of the project disclosed this to newsmen in Enugu on Monday. According to him, since inception of the project in May 2018, it had gainfully employed about 1,000 youths in the state. According to him, the project has remained a source of succour to numerous families in Enugu State as it engages the services of 1,000 youths whose responsibility it is to keep the streets tidy and package the waste…

Lawrence Nwimo, Awka The presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Mr Peter Obi,  has said that efforts of his political opponents to demarket and delegitimise his support group, ‘the OBI-dient’ Movement, will fail. Obi was congratulating Christians on their Easter celebration and Moslems on their forthcoming 2023 Eid El Fitr, when he lamented that his supporters are unnecessarily being attacked. He regretted that such attacks come in form of fighting words surprisingly from those supposed  to be civic leaders of the country. Taking to his Twitter on Monday, the former Anambra State governor, however, encouraged the people to endure towards…

By Rudolf Ogoo Okonkwo I will chop Professor Wole Soyinka’s $1000. I am ready to lead him to the underground caves where my fellow “unlettered and uncultured” people who write all the fake news about him reside. The question now is, will the Nobel Prize winner come with me? For people like me who go far to collect quotable quotes, apart from the indomitable Robert Mugabe, Wole Soyinka has emerged as the leading African who dishes out words of wisdom daily. I don’t know how he does it, but I am delighted whenever I see another of his great saying…

Stephen Ukandu, Umuahia Catholic Archbishop of Sokoto, Matthew Hassan Kukah, has said that Nigeria’s critical need is not infrastructure but security, social justice and respect for human rights. Archbishop Kukah who stated this in his Easter message, urged the incoming administration to  guarantee the security of,  and social justice for Nigerians whom he regretted, are still frustrated by the outcome of the general election. The cleric further regretted that never in the history of Nigeria was the country so divided along ethnic and religious lines as currently witnessed. He, therefore, urged the incoming Government to as a matter of urgent priority, strive…

Stephen Ukandu, Umuahia Popular Nigerian UK-based Pastor and founder of RIG Nation and Pioneer Church, Prophet Tomi Arayomi, has fled Nigeria with his family after his ordeal with the Department of State Services, DSS, which quizzed him on Friday. The  cleric and his wife were  on Good Friday, picked up at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport Abuja, upon their arrival to Nigeria for a preaching engagement in one of their local branches. They were taken to the DSS headquarters where they were detained along with one of their aides. But the Pastor and his wife were later released apparently following pressures from…

Stephen Ukandu, Umuahia The Catholic Bishop of Umuahia, Bishop Michael Ukpong, has accused the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, of crucifying the hope of Nigerians for a new country following the failure of the electoral umpire to conduct a credible poll at the just-concluded general elections. Bishop Ukpong who made the allegation in his Easter message, however, urged Nigerians not to give up, expressing hope that as Jesus resurrected from death three days after his burial against the wishes and opposition of Jewish leaders and Roman soldiers, justice will ultimately prevail over falsehood. “That Jesus rose again from death on…