Gusau Re-elected AFN President For Another 4 Years

Engr Ibrahim Shehu Gusau was on Monday, re-elected President of the Athletics Federation at the 2021 Elective Congress held in Birnin Kebbi, Kebbi state. Gusau polled 20 votes to win his closest rival, Uche Muoma who got two votes from the 22 delegates present at the venue. The victory will see him oversee the affairs […]

Princewill congratulates Prof Benjamin Okaba on his emergence as INC President

A frontline APC chieftain in Rivers State, Prince Tonye Princewill has joined all well-meaning individuals and organizations to congratulate ProfBenjamin Okaba on his emergence as INC President and the National Executive Council, NEC of the Ijaw National Congress, INC the apex socio-cultural organization of the Ijaw ethnic nationality. Princewill in a statement said, “your victory in […]

Sir, Like Banning Twitter through Twitter, You Can End Corruption By Corruption

Hello Sir. President, I am writing this letter inspired by your ban or rather, suspension of twitter in Nigeria. A lot of issues and questions have been raised and are still being raised in relation to the ban. Was it necessary? Good or bad? Are the accusations sincere? Was it the most honorable way of […]

Meet Abdulla Shahid, New UN General Assembly President 

Foreign Minister of the Maldives, Abdulla Shahid, was on Monday elected the next President of the 76th session of the United Nations General Assembly.  This is a post held on an annual basis, rotated among various regional groupings. The 76th session (2021-22) is the turn of the Asia-Pacific group. This is the first time that […]

I Will Prioritize Youth, Women – Ex Transcorps President, Ozigbo Promises

Awka – Valentine Ozigbo, an aspirant of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) frontrunner ahead of the November 6, 2021, governorship election in Anambra state, has rounded off his three-day town hall meetings with over 2,000 PDP delegates from all the 326 wards in the southeastern state. The town hall meetings came to an end, when the […]

Why Next Nigeria’s President Must be Yoruba Muslim – MURIC

Islamic human rights organisation, the Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC), which recently declared that Nigeria’s next president must be a Yoruba Muslim, has clarified its position. According to the group, its demand is hinged on the condition that the political parties zone the presidency to the South West. In a statement on Monday by its director, […]

“Can our President operate Android Phone,” Fayose Mocks Buhari Over Genocidal Tweet

Former governor of Ekiti State, Ayodele Fayose has berated President Muhammadu Buhari over his genocidal threat tweet that has sparked reactions across the nation. Buhari had in the tweet which has been deleted by Twitter, said those misbehaving in certain parts of the country were obviously too young to know the travails and loss of […]

Moroccan Envoy Emerges 109th International Labour Conference President

Due to restrictions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, the 109th International Labour Conference (ILC) is taking place for the first time virtually. Omar Zniber, Ambassador and Permanent Representative of the Kingdom of Morocco to the United Nations Office and other international organisations in Geneva, was elected President of the Conference in its opening session, on […]

Okpe Union President General, Professor Igho Natufe, restates calls for restructuring

President General of Okpe Union, Professor Igho Natufe, on Sunday made a critical appraisal of the Nigerian State and concluded that restructuring of the Nigerian Federal System in accordance with the notion of federalism was inevitable. “Our contribution to Nigerian development shall be influenced by the tenets of federalism. As a component of the Nigerian […]

Your plan to drag Akinwunmi Adesina into presidency will not work, Yoruba Muslim must emerge next President – MURIC tells Obasanjo

The Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC) has decried the “rumours that ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo is trying to draft the current president of the African Development Bank (ADB), Dr. Akinwunmi Adesina, into the 2023 presidential race,” stating that the next Yoruba presidential ticket must go to a Yoruba Muslim in the name of fairness, justice and equity. […]