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Controversial Catholic priest and Spiritual Director of the Adoration Ministry Enugu, Rev. Fr. Ejike Mbaka has distanced himself from Sunday’s protests by his followers at the Adoration ground. The protest, which was targeted at the Enugu Catholic Bishop, Most Rev. Callistus Onaga rocked the capital city, as the demonstrators insisted that the Bishop must go. The protest was a reaction to the ban imposed on the Adoration Ministry by Bishop Onaga. But, in a statement personally signed by the priest Monday morning, Mbaka said he never knew about the protest and did not authorise it. He said rather he received in…

A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Rivers State, Hon. Innocent Ajaelu, has opined that there was nothing wrong with the party’s presidential candidate, Senator Ahmed Bola Tinubu, picking another Muslim from the North as his running mate for the 2023 elections. Ajaelu, who spoke with LEADERSHIP in Port Harcourt on Thursday, said it was the APC leadership that will decide who becomes the party’s vice presidential candidate. He said: “Let me congratulate Senator Ahmed Bola Tinubu for emerging victorious in the just concluded APC primaries. He has shown capacity and after winning, the steps he took to…

A chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Edo State, Barr. Kenneth Imasuangbon, has described the duo of Alhaji Atiku Abubakar and Governor Ifeanyi Okowa as good combination for the office of President and Vice President of Nigeria come 2023. Barr. Imasuangbon said Okowa has garnered the prerequisite experience over the years that will give victory to the party in the 2023 general election, adding that the combination of politicians has set the path for the country’s progress. Imasuangbon, in a statement issued in Benin City, Edo State, called on members of the PDP to rally support for the…

The Registrar, Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), Prof. Is- haq Oloyede, on Friday, urged the leadership of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) to call off the ongoing industrial action by the university lecturers in the country. Oloyede, who made the call in Ilorin, Kwara State, described the ongoing industrial strike action by ASUU members as unnecessary. The former vice chancellor of the University of Ilorin, spoke during the presentation of multi-billion naira medical equipment to the University of Ilorin Teaching Hospital (UITH) for improved healthcare delivery in the facility by JAMB. JAMB made the donation of the medical…

The immediate past national chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Prince Uche Secondus, has congratulated former Vice President Atiku Abubakar and Governor Ifeanyi Okowa of Delta State for emerging the Presidential and Vice Presidential flag bearer of the party for the 2023 general election, stating that the party’s journey of returning to Aso Rock has begun. Secondus, in a statement from his media office, commended the duo for the maturity they brought into the contest which must have been responsible for their eventual victory. The former national chairman described Atiku as a square peg in a square hole whose…

FIFA has announced the host cities for the 2026 World Cup which will be co-hosted by the United States, Canada, and Mexico. The list of host cities was revealed in a ceremony in New York on Thursday. Sixteen cities across the three countries were approved to stage the largest World Cup ever with 48 teams — expanding from its current format of 32. The US has Kansas City, Dallas, Atlanta, Houston, New York/New Jersey, Boston, Seattle, Philadelphia, Miami, San Francisco, and Los Angeles. While Mexico has Guadalajara, Monterrey, and Mexico City, Canada will be represented by just two cities, Toronto…

The Delta State All Progressives Congress (APC) Gubernatorial Campaign Organisation has raised the alarm that the Delta State governor and vice presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Dr. Ifeanyi Okowa, was allegedly planning to use his state funds to finance Alhaji Atiku Abubakar’s campaign and other political activities for 2023 elections. The campaign organisation, which belongs to the Delta State governorship candidate, Senator Ovie Omo-Agege, in a statement signed by its Director, Communications and Media Strategy, Ima Niboro, on Friday, said the alarm became necessary in the light of credible intelligence at its disposal that the 2023 general…

An investor in dogecoin, originally created as a joke but whose value increased and fell as it was promoted by Elon Musk, filed a $258 billion lawsuit Thursday against the billionaire and his companies Tesla and SpaceX. Keith Johnson, who says he lost money after investing in dogecoin, described himself as an “American citizen who was defrauded” by what he called a “Dogecoin Crypto Pyramid Scheme.” He is asking for his motion, filed in a New York court, to be classified as a class-action suit on behalf of those who have suffered losses by investing in dogecoin since 2019. Since…

Dr Adetokunbo Pearse, a Peoples Democratic Party(PDP) stalwart in Lagos State,says the choice of Gov. Ifeanyi Okowa of Delta as running mate of the party’s presidential candidate, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar is a wise decision. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Gov. Okowa was on Thursday unveiled by the PDP national leadership as the running mate to the former Vice President Abubakar for 2023. Reacting to Okowa’s emergence, Pearse, the Convener of Reset Lagos PDP, told NAN that the Okowa’s influence in South South and South East was an asset, saying it would enhance the party’s electoral fortune. “The…

Fiery Catholic priest and Spiritual Director of Adoration Ministry Enugu, Rev. Fr. Ejike Mbaka has given reasons why Labour Party presidential candidate, Peter Obi, can never win the presidency in 2023. The cleric who was speaking during one of his programmes in Enugu, described the former Anambra Governor as a stingy man, insisting that he would never become president. Mbaka, who had in an earlier viral video apologised to Obi over scathing remarks he made about him during the 2019 elections, said he did that under duress because of his bishop. According to the priest, it was better to have…