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Habu Gumel, President of the Nigeria Olympic Committee (NOC), has urged the country’s sports federations to ramp up preparations for the three major games that Nigeria will be attending this year. According to media reports, one of the three major Games will be the African Games, which will be held in Ghana. The Africa Beach Games will be held in Hammamet, Tunisia, and the World Beach Games will be held in Bali, Indonesia. The Africa Beach Games will be used to qualify athletes for the Bali Games. Tony Nezianya, the Public Relations Officer (PRO) of NOC, in a statement on…

The Code of Conduct Bureau (CCB) has announced that it will conduct a special investigation into public officers’ participation in the conduct of the 2023 general elections. Prof. Isah Mohammed, Chairman of the CCB, disclosed this during a press conference on Thursday in Abuja. He stated that the monitoring exercise, which will begin on Saturday, is a commitment by President Muhammadu Buhari to leave a legacy of conducting the freest, fairest, and most credible election in the country’s history. He also stated that the bureau would collaborate with relevant stakeholders to achieve the desired results in the 36 states and…

A security officer and one other person were discovered dead in the Ugbolu community, close to Asaba, 24 hours before the general election in Delta State, which caused unrest in the Asaba areas. Invading thugs who are thought to be Indigenous People of Biafra entered the neighborhood early on Friday and killed two people. The policeman allegedly died after being beheaded and set afire with a motorcycle on Ugbolu Mi-5 route. It was discovered that the IPOB members were shouting “no election” and shooting, which led to the deaths of two people: a security guard and a bystander who was…

According to the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), it is best to dismiss any false claims regarding network outages in the nation. This was said in a statement released on Thursday in Abuja by Dr. Reuben Muoka, director of public affairs for the NCC. According to Muoka, false and misleading material that was spreading on several social media sites caught the NCC’s attention. He claimed that the platforms implied that all telecom networks and pertinent ICT Units, including the banks’ online transfer services, were going to be shut down starting today, Feb. 23. “The Nigerian public, consumers of telecommunications services, and…

A US judge sentenced R. Kelly, the R&B musician to 20 years in jail on Thursday for child pornography and other offenses, but the majority of that time will be served concurrently with a previous sentence. For racketeering and sex trafficking, R.K is already serving a 30-year sentence after being convicted in a prior federal trial by a Brooklyn jury. All but one year of the new sentence will be served concurrently with the old one, according to the Chicago judge’s ruling. Both of Kelly’s federal convictions are being challenged by his attorney, Jennifer Bonjean. The initial convictions R. Kelly…

Financial experts have urged the Federal Government to address domestic production and food insecurity challenges in order to contain the country’s rising inflation. They stated this in separate interviews with the Newsmen in Lagos on Friday. Mr. Sunny Nwosu, the founder of the Independent Shareholders Association of Nigeria, stated that the government should address food insecurity, which is fueling inflation. “The Federal Government should address food insecurity by building more strategic grain reserves and fixing the moribund ones in the country. “This will ensure that more food produced will be absorbed into our national silos to ensure food self-sufficiency,” he…

There were rumors on Friday that the  Democratic Party Campaign Council (PDP PCC) had given some of its members in Rivers State a whopping N1.5 billion in US dollars in order to deliver Atiku Abubakar on Saturday. Chinyere Igwe, a member of the PDPPCC and the House of Representatives, was detained by the Rivers Police command on Friday morning in Port Harcourt with around $500,000. According to reports, a police crack unit on stop and search duty detained Igwe, who represents Port Harcourt II Federal Constituency, at about 2:45 pm along the busy Aba Road in Port Harcourt. Around $1.5…

Dr. Chinyere Igwe, a member of the House of Representatives and supporter of Atiku Abubakar, was allegedly detained in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, with $500,000 in his possession. Osinbajo’s supporters endorse Atiku for president Igwe, the federal candidate for Port Harcourt Constituency 2, was apprehended on Friday during a stop and search along Aba Road. The arrest was verified by Rivers Police Command spokesperson Grace Iringe-Koko, who added: “A statement on it will be published soon.”

John Mahama, a former president of Ghana, and Boni Yayi, a former president of Benin, have arrived in Abuja as part of the West African Elders Forum (WAEF) election mediation mission to monitor this weekend’s presidential and national assembly elections This was revealed in a statement released on Thursday in Abuja by Mr. Wealth Ominabo, the Goodluck Jonathan Foundation’s communications officer. Ominabo also announced the accession of Dr. Erastus Mwencha, a former deputy chair of the African Union, and Kadre Ouedraogo, a former prime minister of Burkina Faso and president of ECOWAS. Fatoumata Tambajang, a former vice president of The…

Mr. Boni Haruna, a former governor of Adamawa, says Christians in Nigeria have nothing to fear if Alhaji Atiku Abubakar is elected president. Haruna made the assurance while answering reporters’ questions late Thursday in Abuja. Haruna was quoted in a statement signed by Mr. Ilemona Onoja, the head of the PDP Presidential Campaign Council’s New Media Department, as saying that Christians were crucial to President Muhammadu Buhari’s electoral success in 2015. Haruna stated that Christians could take control of their destiny by voting massively for Atiku in the upcoming elections. “Atiku had exhibited remarkable affinity and respect for all segments…