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Group ignores Southern govs, backs Atiku Ex-VP urges AFDB, others to withhold loans for FG Former member of the House of Representatives, Mr. Karimi Sunday, has explained why the North should still produce the occupant of Aso Villa when President Muhammadu Buhari leaves office in 2023. Sunday, who represented Yagba Federal Constituency of Kogi State from 2011 to 2019, urged well-meaning Nigerians to key into the smooth arrangement on ground and not over heat the system with unnecessary controversy as to which part of the country should produce the next President. Sunday spoke against the backdrop of the call by…

The All Progressives Congress (APC) has appointed governors of Lagos and Kwara states to head its reconciliation efforts on Anambra governorship election. Sen. John Akpanudoedehe, National Secretary APC Caretaker and Extra-ordinary Convention Planning Committee (CECPC) announced this in a statement on Sunday in Abuja. He said the decision to appoint the governors followed the recently concluded APC primaries to elect the party’s candidates for the forthcoming Nov. 6 Anambra governorship election. “The CECPC has appointed the Governor of Lagos State, Mr Babajide Sanwo-olu and the Governor of Kwara, Alhaji AbdulRasaq AbdulRahman to unify and strengthen the party in the state…

Arsenal have signed left-back Nuno Tavares from Benfica on a long-term contract, the Premier League club announced on Saturday. The Portugal Under-21 international is the Gunners’ first signing of the transfer window in a deal reportedly worth around £8 million ($11 million). “We welcome Nuno to the club,” said Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta. “He is a young player with great promise who has developed very well with Benfica in recent seasons and has also shown his quality by being part of Portugal Under-21s. “Nuno’s arrival will give the squad extra strength and options in defence, particularly with this energy on…

Gov. Yahaya Bello of Kogi has described the clamour for rotational presidency as unconstitutional, saying that Nigerians should be allowed to make their choices for the best candidate to emerge for the top post. Bello was speaking at the maiden edition of the Governor Yahaya Bello seminar for political and crime correspondents in Abuja on Friday. He argued that the criteria on who should be Nigeria’s next president should be centered on someone who would unify the country and solve the problems plaguing the nation. Bello pointed out, however, that if rotational presidency was to be considered, it should be…

United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has signed an agreement with Janssen Pharmaceutica NV to supply up to 220 million doses of the Johnson&Johnson single-dose vaccine for all  55 member states of the African Union (AU) The delivery which is planned for the end of 2022, will get some 35 million doses to the African countries. According to the UN agency yesterday, the agreement between UNICEF and Janssen Pharmaceutica NV will help implement the Advance Purchase Commitment (APC) signed between the African Vaccine Acquisition Trust (AVAT) and Janssen in March of this year. The statement revealed that the agreement secured an option to order another…

The Ekiti State Government has appealed to residents to maintain Covid-19 safety protocol as the Nigerian Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has confirmed cases of Delta Variant of the SARS-CoV-2 virus in the country. The state government urged the residents to use their masks and sanitisers in public places, as well as main social distancing to avert the spread of the deadlier and more infectious and transmissible virus in Ekiti. In a statement jointly signed by the Commissioner for Health, Dr Oyebanji Filani, and Coordinator, Covid-19 Response Task Force for in the state, Prof. Mobolaji Aluko, on Saturday, the state…

A 90-year-old man has been arrested in Katsina State for selling drugs to youths. The man, Yusuf Yarkadir was arrested by operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) in Yarkadir Village of Rimi Local Government Area of Katsina State. According to a statement yesterday by the spokesman of NDLEA, Femi Babafemi, the nonagenarian was full of regrets under interrogation, and confessed he had been selling cannabis sativa to the youths in his community for eight years due to their demand for the illegal substance, although he failed to disclose his source of supply. He however vowed that with…

More 5 million Abia kids to benefit free meals The Federal Government has pledged to increase the number of schools that will benefit from the National Home Grown School Feeding Programme (NHGSFP) in Enugu State. Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development, Sadiya Umar-Farouq, who stated this after a meeting with Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi, disclosed that about 799 schools had enrolled for the programme in the state. Umar-Faouq, who was represented by Director, Special Needs in the ministry, Mrs. Nkechi Onwukwe, said after a recent stakeholders meeting and launch of enumeration of beneficiaries, government thought of scaling up…

CAN urges Buhari to rescue cleric, save country There were protests by youths of Sabon Tashan, Chikun Local Council of Kaduna State, after bandits abducted 15 persons, including a pharmacist landlord and his tenants. Besides, the bandits, who drilled holes on residential fences and walls of houses, started shooting sporadically around 10.30p.m. before taking their victims away. Journalists, who visited the scene of the attack, gathered that although 15 people were initially taken, two breast-feeding mothers whose husband were taken away and two elderly and hypertensive women whose husbands and children were also taken away, said they were left to…

Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, yesterday, warned blackmailers and those bent on creating confusion in the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), to desist, saying such indulgence will not fetch them the party’s ticket for the 2023 governorship election. Wike maintained that he would only support someone with the vision and political clout to champion the cause of the state progressively to succeed him in 2023. He stated this during the inauguration of the official residence of Speaker of Rivers State House of Assembly, Ikuinyi-Owaji Ibani, at the Old GRA, Port Harcourt. He said he was more concerned about the continued progress…