Senate presidency: Yari, Kalu’s leadership will be reliable, Northern leader tells Tinubu

Senate presidency: Yari, Kalu’s leadership will be reliable, Northern leader tells Tinubu

A Northern leader, Dr Bashir Lamido, has said it will be easier for former Zamfara and Abia governors, Abdulaziz Yari and Orji Uzor Kalu, to win the Senate leadership election, saying the president, Bola Tinubu, would have a reliable National Assembly under their leadership. According to him, both lawmakers complement each other and would help President Bola Tinubu succeed in office. Lamido, while speaking with journalists in Abuja on Wednesday, […]

June 8, 2023 44

BUSINESS

Foreign airlines plan meeting with FG over trapped funds

The Switzerland-based global airline body-International Air Transport Association-on Sunday warned that rapidly rising levels of blocked funds were a threat to airline connectivity in Nigeria and some affected countries. IATA disclosed that the industry’s blocked funds had increased by 47 per cent to $2.27bon in April 2023 from $1.55bn in April 2022. “Airlines cannot continue to offer services in markets where they are unable to repatriate the revenues arising from […]

June 5, 2023 110

SPORTS

Zlatan Ibrahimovic retires from football

Zlatan Ibrahimovic announced his retirement from football on Sunday after AC Milan’s final match of the Serie A season. “It’s the moment to say goodbye to football, not just to you,” said Ibrahimovic on the San Siro pitch following Milan’s 3-1 win over Verona. Ibrahimović is renowned for his acrobatic strikes and volleys, powerful long-range shots, and excellent technique and ball control. He is regarded as one of the greatest […]

June 5, 2023 28

NEWS

Don’t set Nigeria on fire, APC chieftain tells El-Rufai

A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress in Plateau state, Samuel Kwamkur, on Sunday cautioned former Governor of Kaduna State, Nasir El-Rufai, not to set Nigeria on fire with his utterances Kwankur, who is a former National Director of the Christian Association of Nigeria, stated this at a press conference in Jos on Sunday. He was reacting to statements allegedly credited to the former Kaduna governor in which he allegedly […]

June 5, 2023 119

SPORTS

Falconets eye goal fest against Benin

Sixteen-goal Super Falconets of Nigeria will be the favourites when they take on their counterparts from Benin Republic in the second semi-final of the ongoing WAFU B U20 Women Championship in Kumasi, Ghana on Wednesday (today). The encounter starts at 6.30pm local time (7:30pm in Nigeria), hours after the first semi-final between hosts Ghana and Burkina Faso at the same Baba Yara Stadium starting at 3 pm. Falconets’ Opeyemi Ajakaye […]

May 31, 2023 44

SPORTS

Lagos, Ijebu-Ode to host Federation Cup semis

The Mobolaji Johnson Arena in Lagos and Otunba Dipo Dina Stadium in Ijebu-Ode will be the host venues for the semi finals of men’s edition of this year’s NFF/TINGO Federation Cup competition. Bendel Insurance FC and Warri Wolves will lock horns at the MJA on Lagos Island, and whichever side is able to climb higher on the land will be eligible to play for the prestigious trophy next month. Rangers […]

May 31, 2023 31

POLITICS

Atiku presents 118 exhibits in case against Tinubu

A total of 118 exhibits have been presented before the five-member panel of the Presidential Election Petition Court by the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Atiku Abubakar, in his case against President Bola Tinubu. Atiku and the PDP approached the tribunal to challenge the Independent National Electoral Commission’s declaration of Tinubu, who contested under the All Progressives Congress, as the winner of the February 25 election. Tinubu emerged as […]

May 31, 2023 120

NEWS

Tinubu did not remove subsidy – Keyamo

The Chief Spokesman for the All Progressives Congress Presidential Campaign, Festus Keyamo, has said President Bola Tinubu did not remove fuel subsidy. According to him, a section of the media is “mischievously twisting the narrative to read that Tinubu’s government has removed subsidy,” despite President Tinubu proclaiming that subsidy was gone while giving his inaugural speech on May 29. Keyamo, who is also a former Minister of State for Labour, […]

May 31, 2023 138

BUSINESS

Fuel subsidy: FG to meet NLC

Representatives of the Federal Government are expected to meet with the Nigeria Labour Congress today by 2pm over the planned removal of fuel subsidy. The NLC National President, Joe Ajaero, made the disclosure during an interview with channels television on Wednesday morning.

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