Ex-President of the Senate, Dr. Iyorchia Ayu has emerged as consensus candidate for the National Chairmanship of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).The Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi Zoning Committee had zoned the position to the North ahead of the opposition party’s convention on October 30-31. Ayu, ex-Minister of Internal Affairs from Benue State, was chosen on Thursday after a second meeting of a northern caucus at Bauchi State Governor’s Lodge in Abuja. The three Northern zones presented a candidate each for screening for a consensus candidate. Ayu was chosen as North Central’s candidate while former Katisna State governor Ibrahim Shema and PDP Deputy

The National Economic Council, NEC, has appealed to those planning to stage a protest to mark the first anniversary of the #EndSARS protests to consider other lawful alternative means of engagement. NEC argued that with the current security situation across the country, there was the possibility of such protests being hijacked by armed hoodlums and other opportunistic criminals to cause mayhem at such protest events and venues. Governor of Nasarawa State, Abdullahi Sule, who briefed State House correspondents after the meeting, said that government has taken various actions to address the allegations of human rights violations made against the Nigerian

  The Federal Government has approved the payment of gratuity and other emolument of 102 ex-Biafran soldiers who were granted Presidential pardon by President Muhammadu Buhari. The Minister of Defence, Maj.-Gen. Bashir Magashi (Rtd), disclosed this at Army War College Abuja on Friday at the ministerial briefing to flag-off the 2022 Armed Forces Remembrance Day celebration. He noted that although most of the personnel involved in the war are no longer alive, hence the reason only 102 war veterans are selected, saying those who are still alive with genuine complaints will be attended to in due time. “It will interest

The National Economic Council says the Ministry of Health is establishing oxygen plants across the 36 states of the federation. Gov. David Umahi of Ebonyi made this known to State House correspondents after a virtual NEC meeting on Friday. The virtual meeting anchored from the Presidential Villa was presided over by Vice President Yemi Osinbajo. Umahi said that Gov. Ifeanyi Okowa of Delta, who chaired the NEC Adhoc committee interfacing with the Presidential Task Force (PTF) on COVID-19 to ease the lockdown of the economy, presented a report to the council. “The Federal Ministry of Health is establishing oxygen plants

  The pan-Yoruba socio-cultural group, Afenifere has rubbished President Muhammadu Buhari’s spokesman, Femi Adesina for comparing his principal with Nigeria’s late nationalists. Afenifere’s spokesman, Jare Ajayi said it’s mischievous and a mistake for Adesina to compare Buhari with Obafemi Awolowo and Nnamdi Azikiwe. Adesina had compared Buhari’s popularity to that of Awolowo, Azikiwe, Shehu Shagari and MKO Abiola. Reacting, Ajayi said Buhari is attractive to people because he is a sitting president. In a statement he issued on Friday, the Afenifere’s mouthpiece said: “For sure – and for various reasons – a person occupying a leadership position is always an

Conservative British lawmaker David Amess was killed on Friday after being stabbed “multiple times” during an event in his local constituency in southeast England, in the second death of a UK politician while meeting voters since 2016. Local police did not name Amess but said a man had been arrested “on suspicion (of) murder” after the stabbing in Leigh-on-Sea. “We are not looking for anyone else in connection with this incident,” said Essex police, adding that the man in custody was aged 25, and a knife was recovered. The force said officers had earlier responded to “reports of a stabbing”