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Major-General Bernard Onyeuko (rtd), a former military spokesperson, is dead. The former Director, Defence Media Operations reportedly died on Saturday morning after complaining of a cold and was rushed to a private hospital. Reacting to the death, Garba Shehu, former spokesman of President Muhammadu Buhari, prayed that Onyeuko rest in peace. “Just read the shocking news that we have lost our friend, the former military spokesperson, Major-General Bernard Onyeuko (rtd). “May the Almighty grant fortitude to the family to bear the loss. RIP.” he tweeted.

Obi was issued the warning for recognising Abure as the national chairman of the LP during the flag-off of Athan Achonu’s campaign for the November 11 governorship election in Imo State. THE factional chairman of the Labour Party (LP), Lamidi Apapa on Friday issued a warning letter to the party’s 2023 presidential candidate, Peter Obi. The Apapa camp also, in a letter addressed to the Inspector General of Police, demanded the arrest of Julius Abure, the National Chairman of the Labour Party. Apapa and Abure have been engaged in a protracted legal battle over the leadership of the party. The…

President Bola Tinubu has appointed Mrs Mojoyinoluwa Dekalu-Thomas as the new Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of the Nigeria Electricity Liability Management Company for a term of four years. Aguri Ngelale, the Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, disclosed this in a statement on Friday. The development comes on the heels of the expiration of the tenure of Mr Adebayo Fagbemi on May 8, 2023. The statement added that Tinubu also approved the appointment of Mr Dimla Nchinney to serve in NELMCO as the substantive Executive Director, Liability Management.  

A social-cultural organization and the assemblage of youth in various clans and communities of Igbo extraction both home and in diaspora, known for promoting national unity and peace “Igbo Youth Assembly Worldwide demands for justice, fairness and equity for every ethnic group in Nigeria including the Igbo,” in the president Tinubu’s cabinet. The Igbo youth socio-cultural organisation, Igbo youth assembly worldwide disturbs by president Bola Tinubu’s appointment of only five persons from the South-east as ministers while some other regions had nine ministers. In a statement on thursday's signed by its president-general and secretary, Mr Casmir Irekamba and Comr Leo…

The National Assembly election petition tribunal in Lagos has nullified the victory of Seyi Sowunmi, a member representing the Ojo federal constituency, in the February election. The three-member panel led by Abdullahi Ozegya on Thursday declared Lanre Ogunyemi, candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), as the winner of the election. Other members of the panel are Ashu Ewah and Muhammad Sambo. The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) declared Sowunmi the winner of the Ojo federal constituency election in Lagos state. Displeased with the outcome of the election, the APC and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) approached the tribunal with…

The legal process initiated by the PDP presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, asking the Chicago State University (CSU) for a discovery of President Bola Tinubu’s academic records has got a new twist, as lawyers to President Tinubu in their fillings blamed the clerk of the 156-year-old institution for the errors in the APC presidential candidate’s academic documents and certificate. It will be recalled that the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois had given Tinubu up until August 23 to make a formal filing on why his records should not be released to the petitioner, Atiku Abubakar. According…

The Labour Party has debunked reports insinuating that the Court of Appeal in Owerri which sat in Abuja on Thursday nullified the candidature of Senator Athan Achonu as governorship candidate of the party for the Imo polls in November. National Publicity Secretary of the LP, Obiora Ifoh, in a statement, said: “It is another devastating blow for the Lamidi Apapa led dissident group as the Court of Appeal Owerri, sitting in Abuja today, Thursday August 24, 2023 dismissed the appeal filed by one Mr Basil Maduka, who is contending for the Labour Party governorship candidacy for Imo state. “The court…