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I possess neither the intellect of Albert Einstein nor the anointing of Apostle Matthew, the tax collector and Jesus’ disciple. I’m only a Lagos-born hunter from Igbajo, the Citadel of the Brave — an inheritance of Osun State. Unlike Einstein and Matthew, I’m no Jew, no scholar, no philosopher. Never can I hold a candle […]
Continue ReadingTwo weeks after he returned to the country from a trip to France and London, Nigeria’s President-elect, Bola Tinubu, on Wednesday, left Nigeria for Europe again, purportedly on a working visit. This was contained in a statement signed by his media aide, Tunde Rahman. The statement read: “Already, meetings with multi-sectoral actors in Europe’s business […]
Continue ReadingAs the hearings of presidential election petitions started on Monday, DEBORAH TOLU-KOLAWOLE examines the profiles of five justices who are members of the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal The Presidential Election Petition Court on Monday began hearing the election petitions filed by five candidates in the last presidential poll. The candidates are challenging the victory of the President-elect, […]
Continue ReadingAction Alliance (AA) and its Presidential candidate, Solomon David Okanigbuan, on Monday, withdrew their Petition challenging the declaration of Bola Tinubu as the winner of the February 25 presidential election. At the commencement of the pre-hearing session of the Presidential Election Petition Court sitting in Abuja, counsel to the petitioners, Oba Maduabuchi SAN moved a […]
Continue ReadingIn Port Harcourt, Rivers State last week, as guest of Governor Nyesom Wike, President-elect Bola Tinubu promised to fight corruption. To delink judicial officers’ minds from corruption, Tinubu’s blueprint of fighting this goblin, he said, would be to further incentivise judicial officers. “You don’t expect your judges to live in squalor, to operate in squalor and […]
Continue ReadingAkinyemi Onigbinde, a professor of political philosophy with a speciality in public policies, politics and governance, has stated that the election that produced President-elect Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu was not free and fair. Onigbinde, who is also the Executive Secretary, Centre for Development and Policy Studies, in an interview with Nigerian Tribune, said the elections […]
Continue ReadingLabour Party (LP) has on Tuesday raised the alarm over an action taken by a self-acclaimed factional chairman of the party, Lamidi Apapa, asking the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal (PEPT) to dismiss all cases by his party’s presidential candidate, Peter Obi against the victory of Bola Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the […]
Continue ReadingNigerian president-elect, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, has arrived Abuja, the Federal Capital Territory, on Monday. His flight touched down at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja, and was welcomed by a crowd of supporters. Tinubu arrived from France in the company of his wife, Oluremi Tinubu, at the presidential wing of the airport to a rousing […]
Continue ReadingPresidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and Nigeria’s president-elect, Bola Tinubu, is currently finding himself at the center of a fresh controversy as allegation of holding dual citizenship has surfaced. A photo of the bio-page of a Guinea Conakry passport allegedly belonging to Mr. Tinubu has surfaced online after popular influencer, David Hundeyin […]
Continue ReadingReport by Premium Times says results uploaded on the INEC Results Viewing Portal (IReV) indicate that the candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Peter Obi, won the 25 February presidential election in Obio/Akpor Local Government Area of Rivers State, South-south Nigeria. According to the report, Obi’s votes in the area implies he, and not Bola Tinubu […]
Continue ReadingEbonyi State governor, David Umahi, has said no power can deprive the President-elect Bola Tinubu of his mandate. Mr Umahi made the assertion in Abakaliki on Tuesday while dedicating the victory of the All Progressives Congress in the state and across the country to God. According to him, those seeking to upturn the victories at […]
Continue ReadingCatholic Bishop of Sokoto Diocese, Nigeria, Matthew Hassan Kukah, has issued a powerful message to Nigeria’s President-elect, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, as the world celebrates Easter Sunday. The fiery cleric said, Nigeria’s most pressing need is not infrastructure, but rather, ensuring the safety and well-being of Nigerians. Bishop Kukah’s Easter message also extended to the […]
Continue ReadingPresidential Election Petition Court (PEPC) sitting in Abuja, Nigeria, on Friday, ordered that the President-elect, Bola Tinubu, should be served with copies of petitions seeking to nullify his election, through substituted means, on APC. The ruling followed separate ex-parte applications that were brought before the court by the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, […]
Continue ReadingAll Progressives Congress (APC) presidential campaign council (PCC) has said there was no plan for a meeting in London between Bola Tinubu, president-elect, and Olukayode Ariwoola, chief justice of Nigeria (CJN). In a statement on Thursday, Bayo Onanuga, media director of the campaign council decried an attempt to create doubt about the legitimacy of the […]
Continue ReadingWhen the People’s Democratic Party was in power for 16 years, from 1999 to 2015, many Nigerians, especially members of the opposition, complained of the party’s haughtiness, highhandedness and fixation with victory. PDP was accused of seeing election as a “do-or-die affair.” The President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), was a member of the opposition […]
Continue ReadingPresidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP) Mr. Peter Obi on Monday responded to claims that he helped the President-Elect, Bola Tinubu, win the just-concluded presidential election. Obi said he contested the presidential election to win and not to help Tinubu’s emergence. He was reacting to a remark by the Minister of Labour and Employment, […]
Continue ReadingPresidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Mr. Peter Obi, on Monday replied to the recent comments by members of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and religious leaders that the victory of Bola Tinubu at the just-concluded presidential election, should be accepted as the will of God. Mrs. Aisha Buhari, wife of Nigerian President, Muhammadu […]
Continue ReadingBitter, sweet and curious creature, the honeybee. When the honeybee stings, its abdomen tears up, its mouth opens and closes, hitting the ground in a final kiss of death. That is the fate of the honeybee and its stinger – a weapon it uses for protection and the harbinger of its ultimate death. Hey, the […]
Continue ReadingWhen cornered by death or stalked by danger, an insect called the Malaysian Exploding Ant turns against its assailant, ruptures its abdominal muscles, causing its poisonous glands to explode. With the explosion of the poisonous glands, the ant releases an irritating substance in all directions. The released secretion is capable of immobilising or entangling the […]
Continue ReadingThe Pan Yoruba Socio-Political Group, Afenifere, has rejected the emergence of APC presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu, as the president-elect, insisting that Labour party’s Peter Obi won the election. The group stated this in a statement signed and released by its National leader and Secretary General, Pa Ayo Adebanjo and Chief Sola Ebiseni, after its Special […]
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