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IN TWO YEARS, TINUBU BORROWED MORE MONEY THAN THREE PRESIDENTS COMBINED – PETER OBI Presidential Candidate of the Labour Party (LP) in the 2023 election, Peter Obi, says President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has been driving democracy backward as the system has been in recession since he took over two years ago. He said this on Thursday in a statement titled …

NIGERIAN GOVT RESPONDS TOPETITION OVER TWO BOOKS WHICH CLAIM THE IGBO FOUNDED ILE IFE. The Nigerian Government has responded to a petition over two books which claim that Ile-Ife was founded or was first occupied by the Igbo. The petition, titled Petition to Defend Yoruba History from Ethnic Distortion in Nigerian Textbooks, was submitted by the Concerned Citizens of Yoruba …

PRESIDENCY APOLOGIZES FOR LISTING FASORANTI, MADUNAGU AMONG POSTHUMOUS HONOURS AWARDEES The Presidency has issued a formal apology after wrongly listing two living Nigerian icons, Pa Reuben Fasoranti and Dr. Edwin Madunagu, under the Posthumous Honours category during President Bola Tinubu’s Democracy Day speech at the National Assembly. The mix-up, which drew swift public attention and confusion, occurred during the President’s …

TINUBU GRANTS PRESIDENTIAL PARDON, CONFERS NATIONAL HONOURS ON “OGONI 9” President Bola Ahmed Timubu has conferred posthumous national honours on nine Ogoni activists who were brutãlly executed by General Sani Abacha in 1996 Those granted pardon were Ken Saro Wiwa (CON), the leader of the Ogoni Nine and his fellow travellers, Saturday Dobee (OON), Nordu Eawo (OON), Daniel Gbooko (OON), …

NIGERIA WON’T BECOME ONE-PARTY STATE -:TINUBU President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has ruled out the possibility of Nigeria becoming a one-party state under his watch. Addressing a joint session of the National Assembly on the occasion of democracy day celebration on Thursday in Abuja, Tinubu, however, said he would not advise opposition parties to put their house in order. He said, …

TINUBU CONFERS HONOURS AWARD ON HEROES OF JUNE 12 President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has conferred national honours on distinguished Nigerians who fought for June 12. Those honoured with posthumous national honours were: Shehu Musa Yar’Adua (GCFR), Prof. Humphrey Nwosu (CON), Rear Admiral Ndubuisi Kanu (CON), Alhaji Balarabe Musa (CFR), Pa. Alfred Rewani (CFR), Bagauda Kaltho (OON), Chima Ubani (OON), Dr. …

NO AMOUNT OF PRAYERS CAN ERASE THE DEATH OF SIX MILLION IGBOS – GROUP TELLS GOWON Igbo women under the aegis of Igbo Women Assembly, has berated the former Nigerian Military Head of State, General Yakubu Gowon over his comment on the Civil War, stating that no amount of his prayers would atone for the blood of over six million …

ENUGU ASSEMBLY PASSES 23 EXECUTIVE BILLS, 14 MOTIONS TO END SECOND SESSION The Enugu State House of Assembly has passed 23 executive bills and 14 motions in its second session. The Speaker of the House, Rt Hon Uche Ugwu, stated this at a plenary on Wednesday to formally end the second session of the Assembly. THE WHISTLER reports that the …

DEMOCRACY DAY TENSION: NIGERIANS MOBILIZE AS TINUBU ADDRESSES MASS A clash between protesters and security operatives looms on Thursday (today) as the Take It Back Movement, the rally organisers, has resolved to carry out a demonstration at the National Assembly, Abuja and 19 other locations across the country during the June 12 celebrations. President Bola Tinubu addresses a joint session …

JUNE 12, THE NIGERIAN DEMOCRATIC REALTY: A LEGACY IN QUESTION On June 12, 1993, millions of Nigerians trooped to the polls to vote in what is widely acknowledged as the freest and fairest election in the country’s history. The presumed winner, Chief Moshood Kashimawo Olawale (MKO) Abiola, became a symbol of democratic aspiration after the election was controversially annulled by …