Lionel Messi wins the 2023 men’s Ballon d’Or

Lionel Messi won the prestigious Ballon d’Or for the men’s category on Monday, a reward for his remarkable feat during last year’s World Cup. This is the eighth time the Argentine forward has won the trophy. He won it in 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2015, 2019, 2021, and now 2023. Messi, 36, was pitted against heavyweights like Manchester City’s Erling Haaland, his former PSG teammate Kylian Mbappe and Nigerian-born Napoli star Victor Osimhen, among others....

APC berates Atiku for holding press conference over S’Court’s verdict

The All Progressives Congress, APC, has described Atiku Abubakar’s speech during a press conference his party, the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, hosted on Monday as “long, windy, incoherent and preposterous.” Atiku, at the press briefing, said the presidential election tribunal and the Supreme Court dismissed his “incontrovertible evidence that Bola A. Tinubu was not qualified to contest the presidential election because he forged the qualifying academic certificate, which he submitted to INEC” and the “irrefutable...

ICPC indicts suspended UNICAL dean guilty of sexual harassment

The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission, ICPC, has found Professor Cyril Ndifon, the suspended dean of the University of Calabar’s (UNICAL) law faculty, guilty of sexual harassment, corruption and abuse of office. The ICPC’s spokesperson, Azuka Ogugua, in a statement, said the commission had subsequently filed a criminal charge against Ndifon following the conclusion of its investigation into the allegations against the professor by some of his students. The ICPC said Prof....

Atiku briefs the press after losing the election legal battle – Transcript

Following the affirmation of President Bola Tinubu’s election by the Supreme Court last Thursday, Atiku Abubakar held a press conference at the Peoples Democratic Party’s, PDP, headquarters in Abuja on Monday. Below is the transcript of Abubakar’s speech: Protocol. Gentlemen of the press. Someone asked me what I would do if I lost my election petition appeal at the Supreme Court. In response, I said that as long as Nigeria wins, the struggle would have...

Igwe K.O.N Orizu III marks 98th birthday and 60th year on the throne

Nigeria’s longest-serving monarch – since February 1963 – HRH, Igwe Kenneth Onyeneke Orizu III of Nnewi Kingdom, celebrated his 98th birthday on Sunday. The birthday coincided with the 60th anniversary being the Diamond Jubilee of his reign. Igwe Onyeneke flagged off the series of events to mark the double celebration by cutting a cake with members of his royal cabinet. While the birthday celebration has ended, the Diamond Jubilee celebration will run with multiple remarkable...

Gunmen kidnap Catholic priest in Taraba

Bandits have kidnaped Rev. Fr Thaddeus Tarhembe of the Diocese of Wukari. The Catholic priest was taken hostage to an unknown destination by unknown gunmen who stormed his rectory in the early hours of Sunday. The abducted priest serves at St. Ann’s Parish in Sarkin Kudu village in the Ibi County of Taraba State. The communications director of the Wukari diocese Rev. Fr John Laikei confirmed the abduction in a statement. “I am directed by...

DSS hands Emefiele over to EFCC for further investigation

Past governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, Godwin Emefiele has moved from the frying pan to fire in his ordeal with the federal government. The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, picked up the ex-CBN Governor shortly after he was released by the Department of State Services, DSS, last Thursday. It is to be recalled that Emefiele has been in the custody of the DSS since June 10, 2023, a day after President...

Rivers State House of Assembly set ablaze

An unexpected fire engulfed the State legislature complex in Rivers State on Sunday night. Hoodlums, suspected to be politically sponsored, reportedly broke into the building and set it on fire using Improvised Explosive Devices [IED] at about 10:00 p.m. on Sunday. Only the chamber of the assembly was affected as the swift intervention of the emergency response team stopped the inferno from razing the entire building. A lot of property was destroyed. The Sunday night...

DSS frees detained EFCC boss Abdrasheed Bawa

The Department of State Services, DSS, has freed the former chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Abdulrasheed Bawa. Bawa has been in DSS custody since June 14 after his suspension from office by President Bola Tinubu. Bawa’s suspension was due to “weighty allegations of abuse of office levelled against him,” according to the Secretary to the Government of the Federation [SGF]. The secret police detained him without charges until his release was...

Again, court refuses to sack Tinubu as president

The Supreme Court has defended the September 6 verdict of the Nigerian presidential election tribunal which affirmed Bola Ahmed Tinubu as the democratically elected president of Nigeria, a judgment that was the end of the road to Atiku Abubakar and Peter Obi’s quest to unseat Tinubu. Tinubu won the February 25 presidential election with 37 per cent of the votes, according to official results by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, extending the rule of...

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