EKO HOT BLOG reports that some aggrieved Senators serving on the platform of the All Progressives Congress met with President Muhammadu Buhari in Abuja on Tuesday
EKO HOT BLOG reports that President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday met with aggrieved Senators of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) who are contemplating dumping the party ahead of the 2023 general elections.
EKO HOT BLOG reports that a Federal High Court sitting in Abuja has rejected a motion seeking to disqualify Bola Tinubu and Atiku Abubakar as the presidential candidates of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
EKO HOT BLOG reports that the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and the Trade Union Congress of Nigeria (TUC) on Tuesday pledged to support, campaign and do everything within their powers to ensure that the Labour Party candidate, Peter Obi, wins the 2023 presidential election.
EKO HOT BLOG reports that Kabiru Masari, running mate to Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, Presidential Candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), has told the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) that his original certificates are missing.
EKO HOT BLOG reports that due to the National Hajj Commission of Nigeria’s (NAHCON) inability to acquire requested seats for Nigerians planning to attend this year’s Hajj, the Lagos State Government has committed to refund individuals who were negatively impacted.
EKO HOT BLOG reports that 250 vulnerable, indigent women from four riverine communities of Lagos State have received training and empowerment in nine different tuition-free professions from the Lagos State Ministry of Women Affairs and Poverty Alleviation (WAPA).
EKO HOT BLOG reports that 70 beneficiaries of deceased employees of the State Universal Basic Education Board (SUBEB), Local Governments, and Local Council Development Areas in the State have received payments totaling N179 million from the Lagos State Government.
EKO HOT BLOG reports that at the second annual Teachers Merit Award, scheduled for today, Wednesday, June 29, 2022, the Lagos State Government will present 12 cars as gifts to deserving teachers and school officials in keeping with its tradition of honoring excellence
EKO HOT BLOG reports that the Governor of Lagos State, Mr. Babajide Sanwo-Olu, urged the private sector to keep working with the state government to improve the quality and overall performance of MSMEs for commercial success and economic growth on Tuesday.
EKO HOT BLOG reports that the lawmaker representing Epe Federal Constituency, Hon. Wale Raji, on Tuesday, donated utility vehicles to party Chairmen of the Epe Chapter of the All Progressives Congress, APC.
EKO HOT BLOG reports that Ghislaine Maxwell has been sentenced to 20 years in a US prison for helping former financier Jeffrey Epstein abuse young girls.
EKO HOT BLOG reports that up until now, the congressional committee investigating the 6 January attack on the Capitol was missing a key piece of the puzzle – the testimony of someone who could offer a first-hand account of the situation in the White House in the hours before and during the attack.
EKO HOT BLOG reports that the Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, Tuesday tells the United Nations Security Council that Russia’s President Vladimir Putin is a “terrorist” and calls for Russia to be expelled from the UN.
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EKO HOT BLOG reports that Manchester United boss, Erik ten Hag has reintroduced compulsory team meals with the aim of boosting camaraderie ahead of the new season.
EKO HOT BLOG reports that Manchester United have agreed on a deal to sign Feyenoord left-back Tyrell Malacia with his move to Old Trafford now ‘imminent’
EKO HOT BLOG reports that Chelsea have agreed a £55million fee with Leeds United for Raphinha, stunning Arsenal in the race to sign the Brazilian winger.
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The Oyo State Deputy Governor, Rauf Olaniyan, has dragged the State House of Assembly to court over the impeachment move against him by the lawmakers.
The deputy governor was represented in court by his counsel, Chief Afolabi Fashanu, SAN, in the case which came up before Justice Ladiran Akintola at the Oyo State High Court, Ring Road, Ibadan, on Tuesday.
The judge ordered that the Speaker of the state House of Assembly, Adebo Ogundoyin, and the Clerk of the House be put on notice before he adjourned the matter to Wednesday.
The lawmakers had, two weeks ago, initiated an impeachment move against Olaniyan.
The Katsina State Commissioner of Police, Idris Dabban, on Tuesday, held a closed-door meeting with chairmen and community leaders from four Local Government Areas in the state over the security challenges they face.
The councils are Jibia, Batsari, Batagarawa, and Kurfi.
The meeting took place in Katsina, the state capital, and lasted over three hours.
The Commissioner told journalists shortly before the meeting started at about 11am that it (the meeting) was about security generally, although he did not elaborate.
The Coalition of South-East Youth Leaders says it is displeased with the verdict of Justice Binta Njako of the Federal High Court, who denied a bail application for the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu.
The President-General of the group, Goodluck Ibem, made this known in a statement on Tuesday.
He likened Nyako’s verdict to a statement made by the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd) at the recently-held 26th Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting.
Ibem said, “The verdict of Justice Binta Njako is the same statement made by President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday 23 June, 2022 during a bilateral meeting with the Prime Minister of Great Britain, Boris Johnson, at the 26th Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in Kigali, Rwanda, where the President Buhari told PM Johnson, ‘Remember he jumped bail before. How are we sure he won’t do it again if he’s admitted to bail?’
The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has published the successful candidates in the line-up of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP Governorship candidate in Ebonyi state, Dr. Ifeanyi Chukwuma Odii, who emerged during the Party’s Primaries of 28th and 29th of May, 2022.
Disclosing this in a statement, the Director of Media and Publicity, AnyiChuks Campaign Organization, Chief Abia Onyike, stated that those that emerged on the latest INEC’s list were those that “their Primary Election was the one monitored by INEC and was adopted by the National Working Committee (NWC) of the PDP as the authentic PDP primary election in Ebonyi state.”
Onyike called on members and leaders of the Party in the State to be united and focused as the Party was prepared to wrestle power from the ruling All Progressive Congress, APC, in the State.
According to the statement: “The Independent National Electoral Commission(INEC) has published the names of Ebonyi State PDP candidates for the 2023 General Elections.
The lawmaker representing Edo North Senatorial District, Senator Francis Alimikhena, on Tuesday, urged security operatives to go after those who kidnapped and killed Rev Father Christopher Odia and bring them to book.
Senator Alimkhena, in a condolence message, described Odia’s death as shocking adding that those behind the killing have “incurred God’s wrath.”
The lawmaker said: “I received the news of the death of Rev. Father ODIA with shock. A very painful death at a time he is needed most.
A mother of two Blessing Mba and her children have been missing after a Divisional Police Officer(DPO) and other officers brutalised her in Iwo local government area of Osun State.
The Nation gathered she was brutalised when she went to Adeke station in Iwo to secure the release of one of her detained sons.
An officer was said to have accused her of carrying fetish sacrifice to the station to ensure the release of her son, Monday.
Delta Governor Ifeanyi Okowa on Tuesday forwarded the names of four commissioner nominees to the House of Assembly for possible screening and confirmation.
The names were contained in a letter to the Assembly which was read on the floor of the House by the Speaker, Chief Sheriff Oborevwori.
The nominees are: Mr Samuel Mariere, Mr Sunda Onoriode, Chief Mike Okah and Chief Godspower Asiuwhu.
During the sitting, the House also received two separate letters of nomination into the State Board of Internal Revenue and Delta State Oil Producing Areas Development Commission (DESOPADEC).
A member of the Federal House of Representatives, Mr Chinedu Ogah, representing Ezza South/Ikwo Federal Constituency, on Tuesday, recounted his ordeals in prison in Ebonyi State.
Ogah, who addressed over 1000 inmates at the Abakaliki Correctional Centre, said he was detained for over six months for a crime he never committed.
He tasked the inmates to be hopeful that they will soon return to their various homes and reunite with their family members.
The lawmaker, who visited Afikpo and Abakaliki Correctional Centre to donate cash, food items to inmates, said: “Your being here doesn’t mean that your own life has ended. It is a moment of trials. It is for you to redefine your future. It is for you to mend your ways because if you are outside here, you would have been a dead person.
Former African Democratic Party (ADC) presidential aspirant, Kingsley Moghalu, has faulted President Muhammadu Buhari for conferring the Grand Commander of the Order of the Niger (GCON) on the immediate past Chief Justices of Nigeria, CJN, Ibrahim Tanko.
Buhari had during the swearing-in of Justice Olukayode Ariwoola as Acting Chief Judge of Nigeria at the State House, conferred the second-highest national honour that can be bestowed on any Nigerian national on Tanko.
He said the award was being conferred on the jurist for the good work he did while at the saddle as CJN.
But reacting, Moghalu on his Twitter page, said Tanko’s tenure was spectacularly undistinguished.
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