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Rivers Governor Nyesom Wike has explained that the decision of the Assembly to delist Sir Celestine Omehia as a former Governor is devoid of politics. The Governor said it was not true as being insinuated in some quarters that the decision was taken because Omehia was in the presidential campaign council of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). Wike insisted that the 2015 recognition of Omehia by the lawmakers against the judgement of the Supreme Court was an error, which they had mustered courage to correct in 2022. The Governor spoke on Friday when he signed a legal instrument into law…

BREAKING: APC Expels Senator Elisha Abbo For Criticising Muslim/Muslim Ticket Senator Elisha Ishaku Abbo, the Senator representing Adamawa North Senatorial District in Adamawa State, has been expelled by the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Adamawa. Abbo was expelled on Friday when some party members accused him of anti party activities. According to a press statement sent to THE WHISTLER on Friday, Abbo was accused of making disparaging remarks on AIT against the APC presidential candidate, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, and his running mate, Kashim Shettima. The statement signed by Adamu Umaru, the APC spokesperson in Mubi North, partly reads: “The All…

Barely a month after the Ooni of Ife Ile-Ife, Oba Adeyeye Enitan Ogunwusi Ojaja II, married his fourth wife, Olori Mariam Anako from Ebira land in Kogi State, the monarch is set to take two more wives in October. Ahead of his 48th birthday celebration, Oba Adeyeye will marry two more wives, Tobi Phillips, and Princess Ashley Adegoke. Tobi Phillips was a former Beauty Queen and a graduate of Marine Science from Lagos State University, while Princess Queen Ashley is a chartered accountant and founder of an NGO, Ashley Adegoke Foundation. Before his coronation in 2016, Oba Adeyeye was previously…

The Court of Appeal has ordered the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, to call of the strike immediately as it is the only condition that the union’s request to appeal the ruling of the National Industrial Court which ordered the union to call off it’s strike will be given effect. The court, however, granted the application on the condition that the union obeys the ruling of the lower court and calls off the strike immediately pending the determination of the substantive suit. The court gave ASUU seven days within which to file the appeal following the obedience of the…

Security has been beefed up at the main gates to the National Assembly as President Muhammadu Buhari presents the 2023 budget estimate of N19.76 trillion to a joint session of the Assembly. A crop of security agents including the Nigeria Police Force, NPF, State Security Service, S SS, Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, NSCDC, and Sergeant at Arms were seen manning the entrances to the complex. The only accredited journalists with tags, covering the assembly and essential staff of the national assembly were granted access to the building. The joint session will begin by 10 a.m at the temporary…

Emeritus Professor J. K. Onoh yesterday described Senator Orji Uzor Kalu as a leader who is striving for the good of the people of the senatorial district. The Ututu-born don in a social media post monitored by our correspondent appreciated Kalu who is the Senator representing Abia North senatorial district for showing great interest in the maintenance and development of new rural roads in Abia North senatorial district. He said, "Senator Orji Uzor Kalu has shown great interest in the maintenance and development of new rural roads in the Ihechiowa and Ututu regions. The new NDDC roads, which he attracred…

The Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC) Limited has uncovered an illegal oil connection from Forcados Terminal that operated for nine years. NNPCL Chief Executive Officer, Mele Kyari, disclosed this on Tuesday at the Senate’s joint committees on Gas and Petroleum (Upstream and Downstream), where he also apologised for skipping the last briefing on health grounds. “Oil theft in the country has been going on for over 22 years but the dimension and rate it assumed in recent times is unprecedented,” Kyari said. According to him, a four-kilometer illegal oil connection line from Forcados Terminal into the sea which had been…

President candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu has returned to Nigeria after observing a 10-day rest in the United Kingdom. He was received by a delegation led by his running mate Senator Kashim Shettima, former APC chair Adams Oshiomhole and others. He alighted from the plane that conveyed him to a shout of ‘’Jagaban’’ and ‘’Asiwaju’’ in a video shared by the spokesman of his Presidential Campaign Council, Festus Keyamo. Details Shortly…  

Pickpockets on Thursday stole the mobile phone of a former Nigerian vice president, Namadi Sambo, at the NAF Conference Center, Abuja. The former VP was invited as a guest of honour at the public presentation of biography and launching of Solomon Lar Leadership Institute. The news of of the theft was revealed by one of the invited guests, Shehu Sani, on his verified Twitter handle. “It’s incredible that someone can breach the tight security line and steal the phone of the former VP Sambo at the ongoing late Governor Solomon Lar Book launch in Abuja,” Mr Sani tweeted. In reaction…