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IPOB Not Funded Through Sports Betting – Nnamdi Kanu’s Lawyer, Ejimakor Replies FG

IPOB leader, Mazi Nnnamdi Kanu and his lead counsel, Aloy Ejimakor
Aloy Ejimakor, the lead counsel to the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu, on Saturday, reacted to reports that the group is funded through sports betting and crowd-funding. He described such claims as false and laughable. The Nigerian Financial Intelligence Unit, NFIU, had revealed that global crowdfunding, online transactions, and sports betting fund terrorist organizations in Nigeria like Boko Haram, ISWAP, IPOB, bandits, and other such groups. In its newsletter, NFIU revealed how IPOB and Eastern Security Network, ESN, received funds through affiliates in 22 countries that have registered at least 27 entities under the group’sRead More

National Grid Collapse: Obi Knocks Buhari, APC

Former Anambra State governor, and presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Mr Peter Obi
Atiku proposes innovative solution to address power sector challenges Presidential candidate of Labour Party (LP), Mr. Peter Obi yesterday berated the President Muhammadu Buhari- led administration over the collapse ofRead More

LP Receives Defectors, Unveils Candidates

Labour Party (LP)
Ahead of the 2023 general election, over 200 members of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) have defected to the Labour Party (LP) in Ibadan NorthRead More

Another Rivers APC Chieftain, Tolofari, Resigns

Former Rivers State Commissioner for Transport, George Fubara Tolofari
Former Rivers State Commissioner for Transport, George Fubara Tolofari, has dumped the All Progressives Congress (APC). Tolofari in a resignation letter addressed to the Chairman of his APC Ward 12,Read More

Winners And Losers: How They Shaped Osun Governorship Poll

Osun Governorship Poll
Last weekend’s governorship election in Osun State, was a keenly contested exercise, which threw up quite a surprise, and further left in its trail, natural expectations – winners and losersRead More

Lawal: Tinubu Is Cornered, He’s Taken Sides Against Christians…To Your Tent Oh Israel!

A former Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Babachir Lawal
Warns the gods want to destroy ex-Lagos governor, ruling party Urges Buhari to invoke his powers to revoke vice-presidential nomination Says ex-Borno governor is overambitious, Machiavellian Shettima complicit in ChibokRead More

Poverty, Unemployment Bane Of Vote Buying, Says NYCN President

National Youth Council of Nigeria (NYCN)
The National President, National Youth Council of Nigeria (NYCN), Mr. Sara-Igbe Sukubo has attributed poverty and unemployment among the people of the country as major cause of voting buying thatRead More

Clark: Muslim-Muslim Ticket: I Suspect An Agenda

Bola Ahmed Tinubu and Senator Kashim Shettima
Blames PDP for everything Elder statesman and Convener, Pan-Niger Delta Forum (PANDEF) Chief Edwin Clark, has said the choice to pick a Muslim as running mate by the presidential candidateRead More

Tinubu Rewards Loyalty Over Competence, Electoral Value, Religious Balance

President Muhammadu Buhari with Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu
Says ‘spirit of 1993 is upon us in 2023’ Briefs Buhari in Daura, Masari stands down Governors angry over decision, meet president in home state today Senator pulls out ofRead More

Rewane: 2023 May Be Nigeria’s Costliest Elections Ever In History

Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer of Financial Derivatives Company Limited, Mr. Bismarck Rewane
Estimates N6trn to be spent to win presidential election Says moneybags ready to pay whatever price to secure victory A member of President Muhammadu Buhari’s Economic Advisory Council and ManagingRead More

2023: You Can’t Snatch Wike From PDP, Saraki Tells APC Governors

Bukola Saraki
Ayu to meet PDP govs as plot for his removal thickens Former Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki, has described last Friday’s visit by the Governors of Ekiti, Ondo and LagosRead More