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23 ANAMBRA INDIGENES ON DEATH ROW IN INDONESIA OVER DRUGS – SOLUDO Anambra State Governor, Chukwuma Soludo, said 23 indigenes of the state are currently on death row in Indonesia for drug-related offences. Soludo made this known on Wednesday while addressing a group of All Progressives Congress members who defected to the All Progressives Grand Alliance in support of his …

AKPABIO PETITIONS POLICE OVER ASSASSINATION PLOT, WANTS NATASHA PROSECUTED Senate President Godswill Akpabio has formally petitioned the Inspector General of Police, IGP Kayode Egbetokun, requesting an investigation into an alleged assassination plot against him by Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan. The petition, dated April 3, 2025, comes after Akpoti-Uduaghan’s public outburst on April 1, 2025, in which she accused Akpabio of instructing …

WE ERRED OVER LIST OF TINUBU’S APPOINTMENTS: – PRESIDENCY The presidency has acknowledged errors in an earlier released list said to be a compilation of appointments made by President Bola Tinubu since assuming office in 2023. The previous list was released on Wednesday night by the Special Adviser to President Tinubu on Media and Public Communication, Sunday Dare. Dare was …

COURT SUMMONS RIVERS ADMINISTRATOR OVER LGA APPOINTMENTS The Federal High Court in Port Harcourt has summoned the Rivers State Administrator to appear before it and justify why an interim order should not be issued to halt the proposed appointment of Sole Administrators across the state’s 23 Local Government Areas. Justice Adamu Turaki Mohammed issued the directive on Monday, April 7, …

COURT SUMMONS RIVERS ADMINISTRATOR OVER LGA APPOINTMENTS The Federal High Court in Port Harcourt has summoned the Rivers State Administrator to appear before it and justify why an interim order should not be issued to halt the proposed appointment of Sole Administrators across the state’s 23 Local Government Areas. Justice Adamu Turaki Mohammed issued the directive on Monday, April 7, …

LAGOS PROBES DEATH OF A LADY KILLED BY OVERHEAD WATER TANK The Lagos State Government has announced plans to launch an investigation into the tragic death of 30-year-old Cynthia Oguzie, who was reportedly killed when an overhead water tank collapsed onto her apartment in the Lekki area of the state. The spokesperson for the Lagos State Safety Commission, Adewunmi Okoh, …

US FORMER FIRST LADY, MICHELLE, SPEAKS ON RUMOURED DIVORCE WITH BARACK OBAMA Former US First Lady Michelle Obama has addressed divorce rumours circulating around her marriage to Barack. Michelle also claimed that it was time for her to start asking tough questions. According to her, women “struggle with disappointing people.” “They couldn’t even fathom that I was making a choice …

FG STOPS ACTING VCS, RECTORS, PROVOST’S FROM CONTESTING SUBSTANTIVE POSITIONS Following recent crisis which trailed appointment of institutional heads in certain public universities and other tertiary institutions nationwide, the Minister of Education, Dr. Maruf Alausa, on Thursday approved the implementation of a guiding policy on eligibility for the appointment of Vice Chancellors, Rectors and Provosts. The policy, which was announced …

NATASHA AKPOTI: LESSONS FOR POLITICIANS Politicians have a lot to learn from the embattled senator representing Kogi central senatorial district, writes MONDAY PHILIPS EKPE In just few weeks, the senator representing Kogi central senatorial zone, Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan, has assumed a somewhat mixed image in the minds of people. That comes from a cocktail of characters either expressed herself or …

‘FROM ICU TO MORGUE – PDP SPOKESPERSON QUITS, DUMPS OPPOSITION PARTY The spokesperson for the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Ondo State, Kennedy Peretei, has announced his resignation from the party.In his resignation letter addressed to the party’s chairman of Arogbo Ward I in the Ese-Odo Local Government Area on Wednesday, Mr. Peretei expressed his belief that the PDP is …