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Former President Olusegun Obasanjo, yesterday, debunked reports that he was floating a new political party ahead of the 2023 general elections. There have been reports that the former president has commenced plans to form a new political party. The former president, in a statement by his media aide, Kehinde Akinyemi, maintained that he has no plan to float a new political...

The United Arab Emirates (UAE) General Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA) has replied to the Federal Government of Nigeria over the reason it offered for the suspension of flights to Dubai in the past four months. The Minister of Aviation, Senator Hadi Sirika had during a briefing by the Presidential Steering Committee on COVID-19 described the protocol introduced by the UAE...

Governors of the 17 southern states have unanimously agreed that the next President of Nigeria should emerge from their region, puncturing the ambition of prominent politicians from the North. This was the resolution of the Southern Governors’ Forum at the end of a meeting, which held at Lagos House, Alausa, on Monday. They also resolved that the presidency of Nigeria be...

The Lagos House of Assembly has passed an amended version of the Criminal Justice Law of the State barring the Police from parading suspects before the media henceforth. Section 9(A) of the bill, which was passed after a voice vote at a sitting presided over by the Deputy Speaker, Wasiu Eshilokun-Sanni, states that the Police must from the commencement of...

President of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan, says the National Assembly is working towards passing the Electoral Act Amendment Bill in the next two weeks. Lawan said this at the inauguration of Mr Abimbola Yusuf, as Chief Commissioner of the Public Complaints Commission (PCC) and 37 other Commissioners from the 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) on Monday in...

South Africa’s ex-president Jacob Zuma, on Sunday, lashed out at the judges who gave him a 15-month jail term for absconding from a corruption inquiry. Zuma compared them to the white minority apartheid rulers he once fought. He spoke at his home in Nklandla, in a rural part of Kwazulu Natal province, where hundreds of his supporters, some of them armed,...

The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has exceeded its N36 billion projected revenue from spectrum license fees for 2021,after recording over N150bn revenue in the first five months of this year. NCC’s Executive Vice Chairman, Prof Umar Garba Danbatta, stated this  in a statement on Sunday. The figure represents an over 400 percent increase in revenue budget performance in respect of spectrum...

The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Geoffrey Onyeama, said on Sunday the forthcoming state congresses of the All Progressives Congress (APC) would provide the platform for the party to become competitive in Enugu State. Onyeama stated this during a meeting of APC stakeholders from Enugu West Senatorial zone. The minister said the state chapter of the party had passed through several challenges over...

Montenegro’s government may be forced to cede a portion of the country to China after failing to repay a $1 billion loan for road construction. Dubbed “the road to nowhere” by European media, the highway which has been under construction since 2014 leads to a mountain tunnel above a sleepy Montenegrin village. The project is originally designed to connect the country...

The Registrar of the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB), Prof. Is-haq Oloyede, on Sunday blamed the poor performance of candidates in this year’s Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) on the COVID-19 pandemic. Oloyede, who featured on the Nigerian Television Authority’s programme, “Weekend File,” said 99.65 percent scored 120 marks and above out of the possible 400 this year. He added...