wing what looks like medicine after death, the National Working Committee (NWC) of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has appointed the Deputy National Chairman (North), Ambassador Umar Damagum, as acting national chairman. The NWC of the party, which announced the appointment after a brief meeting, explained that the action was in line with the ruling of the court, even as Iyorchia Ayu stepped aside. Recall that a Makurdi High Court presided over by Justice Wilfred...

Following the push by Salihu Moh Lukman, a member of the All Progressives Congress (APC) National Working Committee (NWC) for the leadership of the 10th National Assembly to be zoned to the South-South geopolitical region, citing the overwhelming support for the APC in the just concluded general elections as reason. A proposal has already been made to the APC leadership by Lukman who stated that the South-East geopolitical zone should drop the clamour for the National...

The Director General (DG) of Voice Of Nigeria (VON) and founding member of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Osita Okechukwu, has said that Femi Fani-kayode, the former Aviation Minister and member of the APC Presidential Campaign Council, joined the ruling party from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and some of his comments especially on hate speech and ethnic profiling are not the views of the President-elect, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, or the party. The DG who...

Simon Ekpa, the self-proclaimed spokesperson of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, says plans are underway to activate sit-at-home in Lagos state. Disclosing this in a tweet on Tuesday, the controversial IPOB activist said the sit-at-home was in reaction to the recent attacks on Igbos of the South East region in Lagos. His tweet reads, “I have just watched another Igbo Biafran market in Lagos being burnt down in Balogun, Lagos today, and I am...

Habeeb Okikiola, the Nigerian singer known as Portable, trended on social media yesterday over his encounter with some police officers who stormed his ‘office’ to arrest him. The incident, captured live on Portable’s Instagram page, saw him challenging the authority of the policemen as they invaded his bar in Ogun state and attempted to take him away. The singer rebuffed the efforts of the police to arrest him, claiming that he works for the ruling...

The Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Prof. Isa Pantami, has expressed concern over cyberspace threats and attacks, saying cyberattacks have increased by over 300 percent in Africa. Pantami, while declaring open a two-day workshop organized by his ministry in partnership with World Bank for cybersecurity stakeholders at the Digital Economy Complex, Mbora, Abuja, said the workshop is to fine-tune and update the skills of stakeholders to enable them to tackle cybersecurity challenges effectively, stated...

Following the recently conducted selection process, President Muhammadu Buhari, has approved the appointment of six new federal permanent secretaries in the federal civil service. Dr. Folasade Yemi-Esan, the Head of the Civil Service of the Federation made this known on Wednesday in Abuja. According to Yemi-Esan, the appointed permanent secretaries and their states of origin, are as follows: Mahmud   Adamu Kambari (Borno), Esuabana Nko Asanye A. (Cross River), Lamuwa Adamu Ibrahim (Gombe), Yakubu Adam Kofar-Mata (Kano), Oloruntola...