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Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has vowed to reclaim Presidency come 2023, noting that, the party would also win 28 of the 36 states across the federation. The declaration was made in Abuja on Friday by Governor Ahmadu Fintiri of Adamawa State after the inauguration of the party’s Convention Organising Committee at the PDP national secretariat. Fintiri boasted that the PDP would not only win the presidency but would also re-enact it’s pre-2019 standing by winning 28 states. According to him, the upcoming October convention of the PDP would be the starting point for the party to return to power in…

A combined effort of the Nigerian Army, Airforce and other security agencies has resulted in the rescue of Major Christopher Datong who was abducted during the attack by bandits on the Nigerian Defence Academy (NDA) Kaduna on August 24, 2021. Maj Datong’s rescue was disclosed by the Deputy Director, Army Public Relations, 1 Division, Nigerian Army, Kaduna, Col Ezindu Idimah, in a statement issued in Kaduna. According to Col Idimah, the abducted officer regained his freedom on Friday, September 17, 2021. He said the Chief of Defence Staff and Service Chiefs had earlier issued a directive after the abduction of…

A founding member of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Chief Chukwuemeka Eze has described the ongoing scheme by some northern leaders to return former President, Goodluck Jonathan to Aso Rock in 2023 as deceitful and a grand conspiracy against the South. Eze, in a statement in Port Harcourt on Friday, said the plot was a packaged trick by some northern leaders to make Jonathan President for one term and retake power in 2027 thereby denying the southern part of the country a complete term of eight years. Eze said that the northern schemers knew that with President Muhammadu Buhari successfully…

The Arewa Progressives Assembly (APA) has cautioned the Finance Minister, Zainab Ahmed to “desist from introducing bad economic policies that are contrary to the Federal Government’s intended economic stabilization measures.” The group in a statement on Friday, issued and signed by Musa Ibrahim Barnawa said there was no justification for the Minister’s “one-step-forward- two-steps-backward” policies being initiated so far. According to the group: “We are watching everything that is going on in the finance ministry. Instill core values in your children, Finance Minister tells parents “We are not persuaded by the appearance of innocence she is giving because we know…

France on Friday recalled its ambassadors to the United States and Australia in a ferocious row over the scrapping of a submarine contract, an unprecedented step that revealed the extent of French anger against its allies. President Emmanuel Macron made the exceptional decision due to the “gravity of the announcements on September 15 by Australia and the United States”, said French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian in a statement. The rare diplomatic backlash against France’s allies came two days after Australia announced the scrapping of a major purchase of French conventional submarines in favour of US nuclear-powered submarines. The announcement…

•Governor To Contractors: ‘Deliver or your deals will be terminated’ Contractors engaged by Lagos State Government to handle the construction of 1,188-unit LagosHOMS in Sangotedo area of Eti Osa now have a final completion date to deliver the project. After defaulting previous deadlines, Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu mandated the contractors to finish up the 744 flats being developed in Scheme 1 of the housing project by the end of next month (October). The governor, on Friday, handed down the new deadline when he inspected the housing project to assess the pace of construction work. The project, sited on 16.9 hectares, took…

US real estate heir Robert Durst, subject of HBO crime documentary The Jinx, has been convicted of killing his best friend Susan Berman. Durst was found guilty of killing Ms Berman in 2000 to stop her talking to police about his wife’s disappearance. Then aged 55, she was found shot in the head in her Beverly Hills home. In The Jinx’s final part, Durst is heard muttering to himself: “What the hell did I do? Killed them all, of course.” Hours before the last episode aired, authorities arrested Durst in New Orleans for Ms Berman’s murder. Jurors were played the…

Georgian chess icon Nona Gaprindashvili has filed a defamation lawsuit against Netflix, saying she was incorrectly portrayed in the hit series The Queen’s Gambit. The case refers to a sequence in the drama’s final episode which says Gaprindashvili, now 80, had never played competitive chess with men. The document says that by 1968, the year in which the episode is set, she had faced at least 59 male players. Netflix said the claim had “no merit”. The company said it had “only the utmost respect” for Gaprindashvili and her “illustrious career” but that it would “vigorously defend the case”. The…

Vice President Yemi Osinbajo says the obligation of successful people to write their stories, to share the histories of phenomena they have become, in order to instruct, to admonish, and to inspire, would change the world to a better society. Prof. Osinbajo stated this today in Lagos, at the presentation of the biography of the General Superintendent of the Deeper Christian Life Ministry, Pastor W. F. Kumuyi, jointly written by Banji Ojewale, Segun Babatope, Emeka Ezeze and Tunde Opeibi. According to him, “every person, especially those who succeed in their endeavours in life, owes society three taxes. The first is…

A group of youth organisations in the Southeast comprising the National Association of Nigerian Student, NANS, National Youth Council of Nigeria, NYCN, Ohaneze Ndi Igbo Youths, today September 17, 2021 pledged their support for the fight against economic and financial crimes in the southeast region. They made the pledge during a visit to the Enugu Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC. The leader of the delegation and Vice president of the NYCN, Comrade Innocent Nduanya, who thanked the Zonal Commander, Oshodi Johnson for receiving them at short notice, said the groups were in Enugu to deliberate…