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President Muhammadu Buhari has congratulated the winner of the 2021 Nobel Prize for Literature, Abdulrazak Gurnah, a former lecturer at Bayero University, Kano (BUK). President Buhari, in a release on Sunday by his Media Adviser, Femi Adesina, believed that given the ignoble experiences of Africans and people of African descent in the past, all forms of race-related vices and injustices have no place in modern history. The president, therefore, hailed the bold African voices using the arts, music, literature and sports to stress that “our world is better when we treat one another with dignity and respect”. In winning the…

The National Leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Tinubu on Sunday said only God that can take his life since He is the only that also gives life Speaking at a welcome party organised by the Lagos State government for him, Tinubu, took time to identified and thanked all the political leaders and groups represented at the welcome back ceremony, said he was very happy to be back home. He also thanked God for sparing his life till the moment and seeing him through the medical trip. Tinubu said despite his medical trip he cannot praise God…

The Osun State governor, Adegboyega Oyetola has finally broken his silence over his alleged purchase of a controversial property raised by Pandora Papers. The Governor denied buying the London mansion, where the National leader of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, received top politicians and high-profile personalities during his recent stay in the United Kingdom. Oyetola, in a statement issued by his Chief Press Secretary, Ismail Omipidan, yesterday, also refuted links with Kola Aluko, the seller of the property, who is an associate of a former Minister of Petroleum Resources, Diezani Alison-Madueke, indicted in the U.S. and Nigeria for multi-million-dollar and…

Since the announcement of the 30-man 2021 Ballon d’Or shortlist on Friday by France Football, the football sphere has been agog with debates over who will walk away with the laurel when the winner is revealed on November 29 in Paris at a gala event at the Chatelet Theatre. The 30-man shortlist, taking into regard performances of the last 12 months, includes names like Robert Lewandowski, Kylian Mbappe, Lionel Messi, Jorginho, Riyad Mahrez, Neymar, Cristiano Ronaldo, and Mohamed Salah. The PUNCH talked to football writer and analyst, Clinton Mcdubus, to find out at whose feet the French award will land this…

Former presidential candidate of the Young Progressives Party (YPP), Kingsley Moghalu, yesterday said he had joined the African Democratic Congress (ADC), a platform on which he intends to relaunch his presidential ambition. Moghalu told journalists that he resolved to associate with ADC because he feels ideologically aligned and restated that he would make himself available to contest the presidency and to emerge as a competent 21st Century president. The former deputy governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria said, “I am pleased to announce to you today (yesterday) that I have joined the African Democratic Congress (ADC), which I feel…

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has dragged Cross River State Governor Ben Ayade to court seeking an order directing him and his deputy to vacate office being members of the All Progressives Congress (APC) that did not win the March 9, 2019 governorship election in the state. In the suit made available to some newsmen in Calabar, yesterday, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), APC and the deputy governor, Prof. Ivara Ejemot Esuas were joined as defendants. Ayade was elected on the platform of the PDP in 2015 and 2019, but decamped to APC on May 20, 2021 along with…

Real Madrid’s on-form striker Karim Benzema has been dreaming of winning the Ballon d’Or since he was a little boy, he told Spanish daily AS in an interview published on Saturday. Benzema was selected on the long list of 30 for the 2021 Ballon d’Or on Friday a day after scoring as France beat Belgium 3-2 and make the Nations League final. “I’ve been dreaming of winning it since I was a kid, we all do, all professional players,” said Benzema. “So I’ve been doing everything possible and will continue to do so, because I hope to win it and…

• Zoning not the solution to Nigeria’s problems says Atiku • Preaches fairness, justice at NEC meeting • Secondus explains the reason for sustaining court case The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has adopted the zoning of its national chairmanship position to the North, upholding recommendations of the Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi-led zoning committee. However, it didn’t foreclose that the much-coveted 2023 presidency would be zoned to the South as the party announced that a separate National Executive Committee (NEC) meeting will be convened at a later date to discuss the report of the Governor Bala Mohammed-led committee that had earlier recommended that…

• FG to raise $N90b from sales of power firms • Debts rising because we borrowed our way out of two recessions, says Buhari • Experts frown on non-compliance with full implementation, reliance on crude oil to fund budget • Point ways to reduce borrowing • APC urges speedy passage • Lawan cautions Buhari to reduce borrowing, explore other sources of funding President Muhammadu Buhari, yesterday, before a joint session of the National Assembly, unveiled a record N16.39 trillion ‘‘Budget of Economic Growth and Sustainability’’ for 2022, with a projected 25 per cent year-on-year rise in government spending as the economy…

Tanzanian-born novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah on Thursday won the Nobel Literature Prize for his writings on post-colonialism and the trauma of the refugee experience. Gurnah, who grew up on the island of Zanzibar but arrived in England as a refugee at the end of the 1960s, is the fifth African to win the Nobel Literature Prize. The Swedish Academy said Gurnah was honoured “for his uncompromising and compassionate penetration of the effects of colonialism and the fate of the refugee in the gulf between cultures and continents.” “His novels recoil from stereotypical descriptions and open our gaze to a culturally diversified…