Opposition Wins Historic Rerun of Malawi’s Presidential Vote

Malawi — The opposition has won Malawi’s historic rerun of the presidential election, the first time a court-overturned vote in Africa has led to the defeat of an incumbent leader. Lazarus Chakwera’s victory late Saturday was a result of months of determined street protests in the southern African nation, and of a unanimous decision by the Constitutional Court that widespread irregularities in the May 2019 election — including the use of correction fluid on ballots...

Edo Guber Election: PDP Presents Certificate of Return to Obaseki

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Saturday presented Certificate of Return to Gov. Godwin Obaseki, as its flag bearer for the Sept.19 Edo gubernatorial poll. The PDP National Chairman, Mr Uche Secondus, who presented the certificate to Obaseki, commended the party electoral committee for holding a peaceful and successful primary in Edo. Secondus pledged that PDP would continue to do more with its primaries and congresses to give confidence to the people and for them...

We Will Not Rest Until Nigeria is Safe For All – COAS

The Chief of Army Staff, Lt.-Gen. Tukur Buratai, has said that the Nigeria Army would remain on its feet in the battle against security challenges until Nigeria became safe for everyone. Buratai, represented by Lt.-Gen. Lamidi Adeosun, Chief of Policy and Plan, Army Headquarters, stated this on Saturday during the Passing Out Parade of the 79 Regular Recruit Intake (79 RRI), in Zaria. He regretted that Nigeria was facing numerous security challenges with Boko Haram...

Buhari, Tinubu’s Relationship Intact, Says Presidency

The Presidency has dismissed reports insinuating that President Muhammadu Buhari and APC chieftain Bola Tinubu have fallen apart, following the dissolution of the party’s National Working Committee (NWC) on Thursday. Malam Garba Shehu, the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity in a statement in Abuja on Saturday, condemned the reports, saying that those behind the reports needed to get their facts right. He explained that the resolutions of the party’s emergency...

DAILY UPDATES: COVID-19: Nigeria Records 684 New Cases as Total Number of infections hits 23, 298

Nigeria has recorded 684 new cases of COVID-19, bringing the total number of infections in the country to 23, 298. The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) announced this on Friday through its official Twitter handle. NCDC said that the 684 new confirmed cases were from 19 states, with five deaths as at June 26. The health agency said that no new state reported a case in the past 24 hours. The NCDC said that...

Watch Out for ‘Ikorodu Bois’: When Little Means More

Before the Ikorodu Bois started getting attention and admiration from big music and movie stars in Hollywood, a quick google search of Ikorodu – a suburb of Lagos, Nigeria – would return search results which would include a poorly developed town and crime-prone. But that’s one side of the story. The other side of the story of the bustling Ikorodu town is the emerging cultural and entertainment phenomena known as the Ikorodu Bois. Since 2019,...

Obasanjo Warns Serious Insecurity Makes Restructuring Imperative

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has said that the problem of insecurity in the country is enough to make restructuring imperative. The former President says insecurity is one common enemy to Nigerians, regardless of tribe, language, religion, location, gender, age or social position. He added that without reforming the federating units, Nigerian would remain insecure, unstable, unprogressive, stagnated and, at worst, disintegrate. Obasanjo said this on Friday at this year’s edition of the Sobo Sowemimo Annual...

APC NWC Members Accept Dissolution, Say They’re Not Taking Legal Action

Members of the recently dissolved national working committee (NWC) of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has said they are no longer considering legal action in addressing their grievances. The West African Pilot News reported that the aggrieved NWC members had decided to take legal action after the committee was dissolved at a national executive council (NEC) meeting of the party that was held at the presidential villa on Thursday. Speaking on Friday, Waziri Bulama, former...

Future of Nigeria Would be Worse if We Fail to Act Now —Obasanjo

The former President of Nigeria, Olusegun Obasanjo has said the future of the country would be worse if the government and the people failed to act now. Obasanjo said this on Friday while speaking at the 2020 edition of the Annual Sobo Sowemino Lecture “For us in Nigeria, we have no alternative but to get it right, otherwise, the future will be worse than the present that is uncertain and bleak with economic downturn and...

What Every Man Must Know About Prostate Gland

Every man has a pair of kidneys. The job of the kidney is to remove waste from the body. Every day, your blood passes through your kidney several times to be filtered. As the blood is filtered, urine is formed and stored in a temporary storage tank called the urinary bladder. If there is no urinary bladder, as you walk around urine will be dropping. And to avoid this, God in His wisdom ran a...

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