South East/Igbo APC Progressives Roundtable, SIAPRO, has lauded President Muhammadu Buhari for the construction of the Second Niger Bridge, which was commissioned on Tuesday. SIAPRO, in a statement jointly signed by its Director General, Dr Uche Diala; National Secretary, Mr Emmanuel Molokwu; and the National Publicity Secretary, Mr Charles Kaye Okoye, described the Bridge as the “biggest and most significant singular infrastructural project in the Eastern region since after the civil war.” The group recalled...

Uncertainty over Bola Tinubu’s inauguration on Monday, May 29 looms as the Supreme Court has fixed Friday, May 26 to deliver its judgment in a suit seeking the nullification of the President-elect and the Vice President-elect, Kashim Shettima’s candidature in the 2023 presidential election. The suit was filed by the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, on July 28, 2022. The party challenged the validity of the Tinubu/Shettima ticket for the February 25, 2023, presidential election because...

United States President Joe Biden has released a list of officials to represent him at the upcoming inauguration of Bola Tinubu, the President-elect, on Monday, May 29. This is according to a press release by the White House on Monday. The nine-member presidential delegation are as follows: Honorable Marcia L. Fudge, secretary of the United States department of housing and urban development; Mr. David Greene, Chargé d’Affaires, a.i., U.S. Embassy, Abuja; The Honorable Sydney Kamlager-Dove,...

Cardinal John Onaiyekan, Archbishop of the Catholic Diocese of Abuja, and the Emir of Argungu, Alhaji Muhammad Samaila Mera, have urged the incoming government under Bola Ahmad Tinubu to continue with the Housing and Population Census. The religious leaders spoke during a round table engagement with traditional and interfaith leaders in Abuja on improving human capital development through girl-child education. According to Onaiyekan: “Census should be a regular thing and should be done properly. The...

The Presidential Election Petition Tribunal has dismissed the application for a live broadcast of the court proceedings. The Labour Party, LP, and the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, had requested for a live coverage of the court proceedings of their petitions against the president-elect, Bola Tinubu. Delivering the unanimous decision of the five-man panel on Monday, Justice Haruna Tsammani said the application by Atiku Abubakar and Peter Obi, presidential candidates of the PDP and LP lacked...

With the conclusion of the eight-year, two-term tenure of President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration, the State House’s media department has produced a documentary highlighting the outgoing administration’s achievements. In a press release on Sunday, the State House said the 55-minute documentary titled, ‘Muhammadu Buhari Was Here’ will be aired between Sunday, May 21, 2023, and Tuesday, May 23, 2023. On Sunday, the documentary was aired on Channels Television at 6:00 p.m. Yesterday, it was aired on...