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The National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Dr Iyorchia Ayu, has admitted collecting N100 million from a governor. Governor Nyesom Wike had accused the party national chairman of corruption, saying aside the N100 million taken from the governor, Ayu also collected N1 billion from a Presidential aspirant in Lagos. Answering questions from journalists after a meeting of the Board of Trustee (BoT) at the party headquarters in Abuja, Ayu said the issue of N1billion started when the came into office and needed money to hit the ground running. He said the party wanted to take a loan, but…

The National Security Council has clarified the Federal Government's position on the status of the case against leader of proscribed Indigenous Peoples of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu. It said Kanu still has a case to answer. An Appeal Court, in Abuja on Thursday, thrashed the case of terrorism leveled against Kanu, a decision which sent a frenzy out to various quarters. It was translated to mean his likely immediate release from detention. However, the Attorney-General and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, said Kanu had not been acquitted as there are other cases against him. Towing same line of reason, the…

A Federal High Court sitting in Yola, Adamawa state has nullified the governorship primary election of the All Progressives Congress (APC) that produced Senator Aihatu Dahiru Binani as the governorship candidate of the party. The Tribune reports that Justice Abdul-aziz Anka on Friday declared as null and void the election conducted on May 26, 2022 by the APC and accordingly annulled the purported victory of Binani as the winner of the election. During the primary election, Binani polled 430 votes to defeat her closest contender, Nuhu Ribadu, who scored 280 votes, as reported by SaharaReporters on May 27, 2022. Justice…

The Academic Staff Union of University (ASUU) has suspended its eight-month-old industrial action conditionally, a member of the union’s National Executive Committee told Channels TV early Friday. The union decided to suspend the strike during a meeting of its leadership that started on Thursday night and lasted into the early hours of Friday. The meeting was called by the union to determine its next line of action after its state branches met over the Court of Appeal ruling last week. The Court of Appeal had ordered ASUU to suspend the strike before its appeal of the ruling ordering lecturers to…

AHEAD of the 2023 elections, Governor Nyesom Wike says he has accepted Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar and running mate, Governor Ifeanyi Okowa, but will never ever accept party national chairman, Sen Iyorcha Ayu to remain in office before the elections. Wike who asserted this while hosting Cross River State PDP governorship and all state and national assembly candidates along with local government chairmen of his private residence in Port Harcourt, Rivers state, Wednesday night, also said genuine efforts to amicably resolve the impasse in the PDP were being frustrated by rent-seekers in the party. Addressing his…

Former President Goodluck Jonathan has declared support for the candidacy of Ifeanyi Okowa, vice-presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). According to TheCable, at a meeting with some members of the PDP on Wednesday night, Jonathan addressed Okowa as Nigeria’s incoming vice-president. The meeting was attended by party stalwarts, including Bala Mohammed, governor of Bauchi state. “Our incoming vice-president — he has served two tenures as a governor,” Jonathan told Okowa as he held his hand. The former president also wished those contesting for various positions in the 2023 elections “more success”. This is Jonathan’s first public statement backing…

The lead counsel of the detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu, Chief Mike Ozekhome (SAN), has said the discharge of his client is too complex for human understanding. THE WHISPERER reported earlier that the Appeal Court, Abuja Division on Thursday discharged Kanu on all seven counts charge bordering on terrorism and treasonable felony brought against him by the Federal Government. But reacting to the judgment, Ozekhome said the lower court glossed over the case placed before it on the “kidnap, torture and extraordinary rendition” of Kanu from Kenya back to Nigeria which the Appellate Court…

The Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, on Thursday reacted to the decision of the Appeal Court to discharge leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu. In a statement signed by spokesperson, Dr. Umar Jibril Gwandu, Mr Malami said the appeal court only discharged Kanu and did not acquit him. “The Office of the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice has received the news of the decision of the Court of Appeal concerning the trial of Nnamdi Kanu,” the statement said. “For the avoidance of doubt and by the verdict…

Rivers State governor, Nyesom Ezenwo Wike, on Thursday, reviewed the list of his newly appointed Special Assistants and increased the number to 50,000. The governor, had in a statement issued in Port Harcourt on Wednesday announced the appointment of 28,000 special assistants and 359 local government and Ward liaison officers. The number of recent appointments by the governor, was outside the appointment of 14,000 special assistants last Tuesday. Wike, in a statement issued in Port Harcourt on Thursday by his media aide, Kelvin Ebiri, said all the appointments take immediate effect.

Award-winning Nigerian author, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, who was recently decorated with Harvard University’s iconic W.E.B. Du Bois Medal, has broken her silence over her non-appearance at the conferment of national honours ceremony by President Buhari on Tuesday, October 11. Putting the records straight, a member of Chimamanda’s communications team, Omawumi Ogbe, told The Guardian that she declined the honour.⁣ ⁣ “Following the recent conferment of national awards by the President, there have been conflicting reports about one of the announced recipients, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. Some social media users say the award-winning writer rejected the award, while others say she accepted…