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DASH THEM 50 – SANDRA DURU RELEASES VIDEO SHOWING NATASHA AKPOTI MANIPULATING KOGI SENATORIAL ELECTION Controversy surrounding Kogi Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan deepened as activist Sandra Duru released a new video purportedly capturing Akpoti at a collation centre during the 2023 Kogi elections, allegedly instructing her agents to “dash them 50” votes — a phrase many interprete as an attempt to …

POPE LEO XIV CELEBRATES FIRST MASS AFTER HISTORIC ELECTION AS POPE Pope Leo XIV, history’s first North American pope, celebrated his first Mass as pontiff on Friday, presiding in the Sistine Chapel with the cardinals who elected him to succeed Pope Francis and follow in his social justice-minded footsteps. Wearing white vestments, Leo processed into the Sistine Chapel and blessed …

AWOLOWO’S GRAND-DAUGHTER RESIGNS AS LP EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE MEMBER Pastor Funke Awolowo, late Obafemi Awolowo’s grand-daughter, has resigned her membership of the Labour Party Executive Committee in Lagos State. Until her resignation, Awolowo was the party’s Head of Mobilisation and Integration Team in Lagos. In the statement she signed and addressed to Dayo Ekong, Lagos State Chairman of the party, Awolowo …

FOREIGN HERDSMEN RESPONSIBLE FOR MOST ATTACKS IN PLATEAU, BENUE – DEFENCE HEADQUARTERS The Defence Headquarters (DHQ) has attributed the surge in violent attacks on farming communities in Plateau, Benue, and other parts of the country to foreign herders who exploit Nigeria’s porous borders. This disclosure was made on Thursday by the Director of Defence Media Operations, Major General Markus Kangye, …

ENUGU LGA LAUNCHES DIASPORA DESK Nsukka Local Government Area of Enugu State has launched a diaspora desk to engage with Nsukka indigenes in the diaspora towards the development of the local government area. The office, tagged Nsukka Local Government Council Diaspora Desk, has as its terms of reference to bridge the gap between indigenes in the diaspora and the local …

BILL GATES TO SHUT FOUNDATION IN 2045 AFTER DONATING 99% of FORTUNE Bill Gates announced on Thursday that the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation will officially shut down by the end of 2045—decades earlier than originally planned—as he reiterated his pledge to donate nearly all of his remaining fortune to the foundation’s work. Established in 2000, the Gates Foundation will …

SOLUDO’S IGNORANCE OR DELIBERATE FALSEHOOD Governor Chukwuma Soludo of Anambra State made a statement, either through ignorance or deliberate falsehood during President Tinubu’s visit, which must be corrected.. According to him,, “the last time a president visited for a commissioning was in 2012 for a brewery” The statement is viewed as an attempt to attack Peter Obi who Governor Soludo …

24 FEDERAL TERTIARY INSTITUTIONS POWERED BY SOLAR ENERGY – MINISTER The Minister of Education, Tunji Alausa, says 24 federal institutions have been powered by solar energy under the “Energising Education Project” of President Bola Tinubu’s Administration. Alausa, who disclosed this on Wednesday in Abuja at the Collaboration Agreement Signing Ceremony with the vice chancellors of beneficiary institutions, added that eight …

I WAS KIDNAPPED, NOT ARRESTED – NNAMDI KANU DEFENDS HIMSELF The leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, appeared today, May 8, 2025, at the Federal High Court in Abuja as his trial resumed, with both defense and prosecution continuing arguments over his alleged involvement in terrorism-related offenses, ABN TV reports. Kanu, who looked calm and …

SUSPENSION: OUR FORMER NATIONAL CHAIRMAN HAS GONE MAD AGAIN – LP REPS TO ABURE Three Labour Party members of the House of Representatives have dismissed their purported suspension from the party, describing it as “laughable” and a desperate attempt by a “dethroned emperor” to cling to power. Barrister Julius Abure, the factional chairman of Labour Party chairman yesterday announced the …