Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu says the same faith ticket featuring two Muslims, Bola Tinubu and Kashim Shettima, as presidential and vice-presidential candidates of the All Progressives Congress caused the party’s defeat in the state in the February 25 presidential election. Sanwo-Olu, in an interview with Arise TV on Wednesday morning, added that ethnic sentiment and internal…
A Nigerian woman, Joy Jeff, who has been wanted in Italy since 2010 has been flown from Abuja back to Rome where she has been sentenced to 13 years in prison for crimes including running a prostitution ring, Italian police said on Wednesday. The 48-year-old was one of the few women on Italy’s most-wanted list,…
The Presidential Election Petition Tribunal sitting at the Court of Appeal, Abuja, has granted leave to the president-elect, Bola Tinubu, to access sensitive materials used by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) for the conduct of the 2023 presidential election. On Tuesday, Mr Tinubu approached the Court of Appeal, seeking leave to obtain the election…
Checks at some banks in Abuja on Wednesday revealed that customers thronged banks to collect the notes while some rejected them. Ifeanyi Udenna, a customer who collected the old N1,000 notes from First Bank, said he accepted them because they were issued to him by a commercial bank, People Gazette reports. ”Although we have not…
Despite missing out on the FIBA World Cup, Nigeria’s men’s basketball team, D’Tigers, retained their position as the number one team on the continent and 19th in the world in the latest FIBA World rankings. At the recently concluded window of the African qualifiers for the World Cup in Luanda, D’Tigers won two games, defeating…
