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NNPP Offers Obi Vice Presidential Ticket - The Nation  The New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) is offering former Anambra State governor Peter Obi the ticket of running mate to the National Leader of the party, Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso, The Nation has learnt. The party is discussing with several lawmakers and aspirants from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and the All Progressives Congress (APC), who feel unhappy with the processes of their primaries. A source within the party told The Nation that while the party was willing to give him the position of vice president, his followers are insisting on the presidential ticket, with Kwankwaso serving as his running mate. The source, however, said the zoning of the presidential ticket of the APC and the PDP would determine the final decision of the NNPP. The source said Obi, Kwankwaso and some of the party leaders had met to discuss the issue ahead of the party’s presidential primary slated for June 2 in Abuja. Asked w...

2023: Police arrest two APC House of Assembly aspirants for allegedly refusing to step down May 26, 2022 Ebonyi State Police Command, Thursday arrested two sons of the foremost founding father of Ebonyi state, Late Senator Office Nwali over their alleged refusal to step down for another aspirant in the just concluded APC primaries in the State. It was gathered that the duo, Barr.  Offia Nwali and his brother Engr Alfred Offia Nwali were arrested on Thursday at Onueke in Ezza South Local Government Area of the State. .He had received so many threats over the election but he refused to step down preferring to go to the field. They arrested him because they saw that he was going to win as he had a large number following him in the constituency”, the source said The source further alleged that his supporters, including some of the delegates were chased out of the election venueElder Brother of the two brothers, Oguzor Offia Nwali confirmed the arrests of the brothers. He al...

I’VE NO PLAN TO TURBAN SERIKI HAUSA – EWI OF ADO-EKITI The Ewi of Ado-Ekiti, Oba Adeyemo Adejugbe has denied allegation that he was planning to turban a Seriki Hausawa for the community, describing it as baseless and handiwork of detractors. Oba Adejugbe, who said turbanisation activities would never be entertained in the palace since it was against the tradition in Ado Ekiti kingdom, said that the palace had only planned to install one Abdul Yusuf as the Asiwaju of Hausa in Ado community billed for June. Chief Bayo Ogunmodimu, the Odole of Ado-Ekiti and chairman of a seven-member committee of the Ewi-in-Council set up by the palace to address the misleading report, said at a press briefing in Ado-Ekiti on Thursday that following the misrepresentation, the palace had postponed the installation activity. Ogunmodimu said, “It is clear to any reasonable, thinking and proper Yoruba person, especially an Ekiti man, that Kabiyesi only installs a worthy recognised iconic man or wo...

BREAKING:  ALAAFIN OF OYO JOINS ANCESTORS AT 83 Sources from the Ancient Palace of Oyo town say, the highly revered monarch, Alaafin  Lamidi Adeyemi III has confirmed the demise of the Iku Baba Yeye.  Alaafin Adeyemi, the third from the Alowodu Ruling House, died in the late hours of Friday at the Afe Babalola University Teaching Hospital, Ado Ekiti. Alaafin Adeyemi III was born Lamidi Olayiwola Atanda Adeyemi on October 15, 1938 into the Alowolodu Royal House, and as a member of the House of Oranmiyan to Raji Adeniran Adeyemi (born 1871), who later became Alaafin in 1945, and Ibironke of Epo-Gingin. Kaabiesi Lamidi Adeyemi succeeded Alaafin Gbadegesin Ladigbolu II in 1970, during the governorship of Colonel Robert Adeyinka Adebayo, after the end of the Nigerian Civil War.  In 1975, the head of state General Murtala Ramat Muhammed included Oba Adeyemi in his entourage to the hajj.  He was chancellor of Uthman dan Fodiyo University in Sokoto from 1980...

NAMES FACILITY AFTER OYEBANJI All Progressives Congress (APC) House of Assembly aspirant for Ado Constituency 1 in Ekiti State, Mr. Ayodeji Adegbite, has donated an Information and Communications Technology Centre (ICT) Centre to Mary Hill Boys' High School, Ado Ekiti. Mr. Adegbite who sponsored the project in collaboration with a non-governmental organisation, Patent Pathways International, said the project was aimed at boosting the capacity of the students in digital education and giving them an incentive to do better in their studies. The Assembly hopeful said the donation of the project was in support of the giant strides being recorded in the education agenda  of the administration of Governor Kayode Fayemi. The donor of the project, Mr. Adegbite, has communicated his desire to the school authorities to name the facility BAO ICT Centre in honour of the APC governorship candidate, Mr. Biodun Oyebanji. The project which was inaugur...

Former Super Eagles forward Daniel Amokachi says the the glory days of the team will not return unless football administrators fix the major defects in the country’s football system. The Super Eagles failed to qualify for the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar after their early exit from the 2021 Africa Cup of Nations in January. Interim technical adviser Augustine Eguavoen and his assistants were disengaged by the Nigeria Football Federation in the aftermath of the team’s to qualify for Qatar 2022. The NFF announced new assistant coaches for the team on Thursday with the position of head coach still vacant. Amokachi however reckoned that simply coaches will not solve the team’s problems, and that larger structural issues affecting football in the country need attention. “Focusing too much on the coaching is like building a house from the roof downwards instead of starting with the right foundation and build upwards,” Amokachi told  BBC Sport Africa . “Do we have a solid deve...

Veteran highlife singer Orlando Julius is dead. Bimbo Esho of the Evergreen Music Company Limited confirmed the death of the 79-year-old highlife singer. The deceased’s wife, Lady Latoya, also confirmed the incidenent.  Orlando Julius, a native of Ijebu Ijesha, was one of Nigeria’s fathers of Afro/Highlife music and a fine saxophonist. In her eulogy while announcing Orlando Julius’ death, Esho wrote: “Bimbo Daddy has passed On… “This was the message I stumbled on waking up at exactly 3am to peruse my WhatsApp page.. It was a message sent in to me by Orlando Julius beautiful and supportive wife Lady Latoya. “Orlando Julius a native of Ijebu Ijesha succumbed to the cold hands of death and breathed his last few hours ago at the age of 79. We shall miss one of Nigeria’s fathers of Afro/Highlife Music , a gentleman and a fine Saxophonist. “May daddy Orlando Julius soul journey well . To the entire Ekemode family may God give you the fortitude to bear this irreplaceable loss....