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The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) says the visit by some All Progressives Congress (APC) governors to former President Goodluck Jonathan has further affirmed that Nigeria, as a nation, is better under the governance of the PDP. The PDP claimed that the visit shows that the APC has recongised the fact that all the negative things said against Jonathan’s government in 2015 were fabrications. In a statement by Kola Ologbondiyan, PDP national publicity secretary on Sunday the main opposition party urged Nigerians to be cautious of APC’s antics. “The visit, which is a clear endorsement of the acceptability of the PDP administration,…

Four persons were on Saturday crushed to death in an accident involving a DAF truck and a commercial bus on the Ijebu Ode/Oru Road in Ogun State. The accident occurred at about 1:15 pm and was caused by excessive speeding and loss of control on the part of the DAF truck driver, according to the spokesman of the Traffic Compliance and Enforcement Corps (TRACE), Mr Babatunde Akinbiyi. Akinbiyi said two other persons were injured in the accident. He said that the truck driver, due to excessive speeding lost control of the vehicle; left his lane and rammed into a bus…

Oyo State Police Command on Saturday said they had in their custody two suspects allegedly linked with the roasting and eating of the flesh of police officers burnt in Ibadan during #EndSARS protest. Police Spokesman at the Oyo State Command, SP Olugbenga Fadeyi, confirmed the arrests in Ibadan in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN). The suspects, a 34-year-old expectant mother and a 43-year-old man have been transferred to the Force Intelligence Bureau at the Force Headquarters in Abuja for further investigation, he said. The 34-year-old woman was alleged to have eaten some body parts of one…

The Insight by Lateef Adewole Nigeria’s political environment is always an interesting spectacle to watch for keen observers. The kind of shenanigans that play out every now and then can hold one spell-bound. This week, the most spectacular political “jigi-jaga” was the “formal” defection of the governor of Ebonyi state, Engr. David Umahi on Tuesday. He announced this while addressing a press conference in Abakaliki. He gave some reasons for taking such drastic decision among which is that the PDP has not been fair to the South-east since 1999 by not allowing an “Igbo presidency”. He claimed that he was…

Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has sent an open letter to President Muhammadu Buhari urging him “to put the country’s resources at the service of human rights, and to support the less well-off to enjoy an adequate standing of living through cutting the cost of governance and implementing bold transparency and accountability measures in your government’s response to Nigeria’s second recession in five years.” In the letter dated 21 November, 2020 and signed by SERAP deputy director Kolawole Oluwadare, the organization said: “This economic crisis provides an opportunity to prioritise access of poor and vulnerable Nigerians to basic socio-economic…

The Court of Appeal sitting in Calabar, Cross River state has ruled in a protracted land dispute involving two local government areas of Akwa Ibom in which no fewer than five persons were killed and properties destroyed since 2017. Two communities – Ifa Ikot Akpan in Uyo Local Government Area and Ibiaku Ishiet in Uruan Local Government Area led by their traditional rulers, Etteidung Edem Aniedi Ebong and Chief William Effiong Etim, had been locked in the land tussle in the last three years, forcing the matter to be taken to the Uyo Division of the High Court. The matter…

A judge in Pennsylvania has dismissed a lawsuit from the Trump campaign that sought to invalidate millions of mail-in votes in the battleground state. Judge Matthew Brann said the suit, which rested on allegations of irregularities, was “without merit”. The move paves the way for Pennsylvania to next week certify Joe Biden’s win – he leads by more than 80,000 votes. It is the latest blow to Donald Trump, who is trying to overturn his loss in the 3 November presidential election. He has refused to concede and made allegations of widespread electoral fraud, without providing any evidence. The lack…

The Federal Government has said the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) is not exempted from enrolling on the Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System (IPPIS) platform. The government made the clarification in a statement issued by the Minister of Labour and Employment, Chris Ngige, in Abuja on Saturday. The minister said the government was quoted out of context on the matter, saying there was no meeting where it was agreed that ASUU would be exempted from the IPPIS payment platform. The minister explained that at the meeting with the leadership of the university teachers, government agreed that ASUU members…

Former Ekiti state governor, Ayodele Fayose, has said the many subterranean plots to pull down the National Leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, by some politicians in the southwest, will fail. He said this while also urging the Ondo State Deputy Governor, Agboola Ajayi, to return to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) with his supporters. Fayose said he would never associate nor join the group of rebels to destroy Tinubu because the APC leader laboured for the country through his focused leadership which stimulated the growth of Yoruba socio-political space with some southwest politicians now occupying…

Army insists no one died at Lekki Toll Gate Adds that Governor Sanwo-Olu was misinformed An army general on Saturday confirmed to the Lagos State Judicial Panel of Inquiry and Restitution for Victims of SARS related abuses and other matters that soldiers deployed to Lekki Toll Gate on October 20 were armed with both live and blank bullets. However, only the blank ones were fired into the air, the Commander of 81 Division, Military Intelligence Brigade, Brig.-Gen. Ahmed Taiwo, said under cross examination at the resumed hearing of the panel. The committee granted a request by counsel to the #ENDSARS…