INEC insists on working with MC Oluomo to distribute electoral materials in Lagos

NewsNigeriaPoliticsINEC insists on working with MC Oluomo to distribute electoral materials in Lagos

By Ezinwanne Onwuka (Senior Reporter)February 8, 2023

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has disclosed plans to engage the Lagos State Parks Management Committee for the distribution of election materials and transportation of electoral officials in the state. The West African Pilot News reports that Musiliu Akinsanya, popularly known as MC Oluomo, had written to INEC, requesting for the committee to assist the commission in the transportation of distribution of electoral materials on the election days in Lagos. According to him, this...

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Seun Kuti calls Peter Obi an opportunist, claims Obi can’t deliver Nigeria

NewsNigeriaPoliticsSeun Kuti calls Peter Obi an opportunist, claims Obi can’t deliver Nigeria

By Ezinwanne Onwuka (Senior Reporter)February 8, 2023

Nigerian singer Seun Kuti has described the presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Peter Obi as ‘an opportunist’ who has no plan for the country. Kuti, the last son of late Afrobeat legend Fela Anikulapo Kuti, made his stance on Obi’s presidential prospect known during an online interview with ‘TheMicOnPodcast’, hosted by Channels TV’s Seun Okinbaloye. The singer said the former Anambra governor, who only started a movement because he lost the presidential ticket...

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Naira scarcity: Aba residents cook, eat noodles at bank premises (Video)

NewsNigeriaPoliticsNaira scarcity: Aba residents cook, eat noodles at bank premises (Video)

By Ezinwanne Onwuka (Senior Reporter)February 8, 2023

With the lingering cash scarcity and queue at commercial banks, some Aba residents decided not to starve while waiting for their turn to dispense cash from a bank’s Automated Teller Machine (ATM) in the commercial city. The video shared on Twitter yesterday showed some men eating noodles from a pot at the bank premises while other bank customers watched. The voice behind the camera said the meal was prepared right on the bank premises, adding...

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Delta: APC Nat’l Youth Leader, Israel Inaugurates Jagaban Movement

NewsNigeriaPoliticsDelta: APC Nat’l Youth Leader, Israel Inaugurates Jagaban Movement

By Uzoamaka Ikezue (Staff Reporter)February 7, 2023

In a bid to mobilise support for its presidential candidate in the 2023 general elections, Hon. Dayo Israel, the National Youth Leader of the  All Progressives Congress  (APC), has inaugurated the Delta State chapter of Jagaban Foot Soldiers Movement, a special grassroots mobilisation unit of local canvassers and influential young members of the party commissioned to engage voters and secure their support for the party ahead of the general elections. Israel, who continued his nationwide...

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Sanwo-Olu, Lagos PDP sympathise with Funke Akindele on mother’s death

LifestyleNewsNigeriaSanwo-Olu, Lagos PDP sympathise with Funke Akindele on mother’s death

By Ezinwanne Onwuka (Senior Reporter)February 7, 2023

Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos State has sympathised with the deputy governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), in Lagos, Funke Akindele, over the death of her mother, Dr Adebanjo-Akindele. Sanwo-Olu commiserated with the Akindeles in a statement issued by his Chief Press Secretary, Gboyega Akosile, on Tuesday. The governor’s condolence message read partly, “On behalf of my family and the good people of Lagos State, I hereby express my heartfelt condolences to the...

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Fire Destroys IDPs Camp, Renders Many Homeless

NewsNigeriaPoliticsFire Destroys IDPs Camp, Renders Many Homeless

Hassan Umar Shallpella (Regional Correspondent)February 7, 2023

An inferno that occurred around 11:00 am on Monday at Muna Garage Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) camp in Maiduguri, Borno State destroyed food items and other valuables in the thatched houses. The situation had rendered many inhabitants homeless, according to reports. One of the IDPs, Modu Zarami explained that the exact cause of the fire is yet to be ascertained, though colossal damage was recorded in the inferno. “Nobody can say how the fire started,...

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2023: Yoruba council of elders, YCE  declares support for Tinubu

NewsNigeriaPolitics2023: Yoruba council of elders, YCE  declares support for Tinubu

By Uzoamaka Ikezue (Staff Reporter)February 7, 2023

With less than one month to the 2023 presidential election, a regional body in Nigeria, the  Yoruba Council of Elders (YCE) has declared support for the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Tinubu in the forthcoming general elections. The group has stated that it is convinced that the track record of the former Governor of Lagos State, his detribalized disposition, his resourceful capacity for good management and his love for humanity...

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New naira notes:  CBN, EFCC enforce cash circulation compliance in Gombe

NewsNigeriaPoliticsNew naira notes:  CBN, EFCC enforce cash circulation compliance in Gombe

By Uzoamaka Ikezue (Staff Reporter)February 7, 2023

To ensure proper circulation of the new naira notes, the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN)  in collaboration with the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission  (EFCC) visited some commercial banks in Gombe metropolis to monitor compliance with the circulation of the new naira notes in the State. Mr. Yusuf Philip-Yila, Director of, the Development Finance Department, CBN Directorate Headquarters, led the team, and also had in his team, personnel of the EFCC who were expected to...

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Anambra APGA Senatorial Candidate Declares Support For Peter Obi

NewsNigeriaPoliticsAnambra APGA Senatorial Candidate Declares Support For Peter Obi

PilotnewsFebruary 7, 2023

The Senatorial Candidate for Anambra Central Senatorial District in 2023 general election, under the All Progressive Grand Alliance (APGA), Honourable Dozie Nwankwo, said he is supporting the Presidential Candidate of the Labour Party, Mr Peter Obi, to actualize his quest to become the next President of Nigeria. Going back memory lane, he explained it was Peter Obi with Late Dora Akunyili that prevailed on him to join the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) years after...

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2023: DG NILDS charges security agencies to arrest, and prosecute violators of the electoral act

NewsNigeriaPolitics2023: DG NILDS charges security agencies to arrest, and prosecute violators of the electoral act

By Uzoamaka Ikezue (Staff Reporter)February 7, 2023

….Journalists tasked on credible election reports by German foundation Ahead of the 2023 general elections the Director General (DG)  of the National Institute for Legislative and Democratic Studies (NILDS), Prof. Abubakar Sulaiman has called on law enforcement agencies to arrest and prosecute offenders of the 2022 Electoral Act. The DG said that in Abuja on Monday while addressing participants at a training workshop for the National Assembly press Corps organized by Konrad Adenauer Stiftung (KAS)...

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