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Presidential Candidate of Labor Party (LP), Peter Obi, has unveiled a campaign website to enable supporters fund his campaign. The former Anambra governor made the announcement in a tweet via his verified Twitter handle. Obi, who encouraged his supporters to visit the official campaign website for the Obi-Datti Campaign organisation, disclosed that donations from willing donors could also be made through the platform. He tweeted, “I invite every member of the OBIdient Family, and every supporter of our march to a new Nigeria to visit. You can use that medium to support and donate in cash &…
The Trade Union Congress of Nigeria (TUC) has called for speedy development in the country. The Union is worried over the country’s slow pace of development 62 years after independence. President of the Congress, Comrade Festus Osifo, expressed the concern in a statement to commemorate Nigeria’s Independence Day. He noted that the country had high hopes at independence in 1960. “However, corruption, insecurity, high cost of living, decayed infrastructure, among others, have eroded the gains of our heroes past. “According to National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) the unemployment rate has hit 33.3 per cent and…
The Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, has threatened to sue the Federal Government over the registration of the Congress of Nigerian Universities Academics and the National Association of Medical and Dental Academics. ASUU’s lawyer, Femi Falana, said this on Channels Television, on Thursday. The minister of labour and employment, Chris Ngige, had on Tuesday presented certificates of registration to CONUA and NAMDA. Ngige, who spoke while presenting the certificate of registration to the two unions, explained that the two bodies will exist along aside ASUU. ASUU embarked on strike since February 14, 2022, as lecturers of public universities protest…
Gunmen has kidnapped a community leader, Mr Gashon Leks, in Daika community, Panyam district, Mangu Local Government Area of Plateau State. The victim is the elder brother of a retired military officer in the locality, Air Vice Marshal Leks. Some residents, who spoke to PUNCH Metro, said the incident had been reported to security agents. One of them, Mathew Chai, said the retired military officer’s brother was at his compound when the kidnappers stormed the village around 10pm on Monday and took him away while scaring residents with gunshots. Chai said, “We have not seen the man since he was…
The Managing Director of Sleek Trading Nigeria Limited (STNL) Kubwa, Abuja has taken to his social media handle calling for the arrest of one Alex Damisa Aliu for allegedly defrauding his company the sum of N155,800 naira only (one hundred and fifty-five thousand naira) since September 2021. According to the complainant, after absconding for more than a year the accused person paid the sum of 140,000 naira as part payment of goods purchased from his company’s warehouse and has vehemently refused to remit outstanding balance. The last known address of Aliu is around Dakwa, Dei-Dei axis of the Federal Capital…
The NNPP Presidential candidate, Sen. Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso, PhD, FNSE on Wednesday, 5th Oct, 2022 inspected the Presidential campaign office located in Asokoro, Abuja. See photos below:
Again the Catholic Archbishop Emeritus of Abuja Archdiocese, Cardinal John Onaiyekan, have kicked against the choice of Muslim-Muslim ticket by the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC. Onaiyekan vowed to vote against the party in 2023 General Election. The Archbishop further explained that he won’t vote for APC due to its Muslim-Muslim presidential ticket. The clergy made the pronouncement when addressing the first synod of the Catholic Diocese of Osogbo at Our Lady and St. Kizito Pastoral Centre, Oke Gada Ede, on Wednesday. Onaiyekan also stressed that the APC’s Muslim-Muslim ticket was a political miscalculation. According to Onaiyekan: “You will note…
News reaching SPY REPORTERS has confirmed the release of the remaining 23 victims of the Kaduna train terrorists attack. This was disclosed by the Secretary of the Chief of Defence Staff Action Committee, Usman Yusuf. Yusuf said that the hostages were released at about 4pm on Wednesday, 5 October, 2022. He said the committee secured and took the custody of the victims who were kidnapped by Boko Haram terrorists during an attack on a passenger train in Kaduna on March 28, 2022. Part of the statement read: “I am pleased to announce to the nation and world that at 1600hrs…
A former chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Attahiru Jega, has slammed the Minister of Labour and Employment, Chris Ngige, for turning the industrial action by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) into a personal banter. Reacting on Tuesday while featuring a programme on Arise TV, Jega said Ngige is creating more problems than solutions. The federal government of Nigeria has registered parallel unions in the academic community. The unions are the National Association of Medical and Dental Academics, NAMDA, and the Congress of Nigerian University Academics, CONUA. “Unfortunately, right now, the minister of labour is not…
The Director General of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) National Campaign Management Committee (NCMC), Aminu Waziri Tambuwal has said the presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar’s campaign will kick off on Monday, 10 October 2022 in Akwa Ibom State. Tambuwal who stated this, Tuesday while briefing journalists at Atiku’s campaign office in Wuse, Abuja described the PDP Presidential candidate as the most prepared. The Sokoto State Governor said “only Atiku can provide the required leadership that this country needs at this time. He has experience in governance at the federal level, which I believe none of the rest of the candidates can…