Eko Hot Blog reports that the Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Abdulrasheed Bawa, has appealed the court ruling sending him to the Kuje Correctional Centre for contempt.
Eko Hot Blog reports that President Muhammadu Buhari has urged world leaders to quit the blame game regarding the global climate crisis.
EKO HOT BLOG reports that the Abia State Government has issued a warning to other political parties on the use of public spaces for campaigning almost two days before Peter Obi, the presidential candidate of the Labour Party, arrives in Abia State to launch Dr Allex Otti’s governorship campaign.
Eko Hot Blog reports that a spokesperson of the Presidential Campaign Council of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), Dino Melaye, has made a bold claim that some aggrieved governors in the party will work to ensure its victory in the 2023 presidential election.
EKO HOT BLOG reports that the Presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, has appointed Kebbi State’s Gov. Atiku Bagudu to chair the Agricultural Development Committee of his Presidential Campaign Council.
EKO HOT BLOG reports that the Anambra State Police Command has debunked the alleged killings of some residents by unknown gunmen at a police checkpoint in the state.
EKO HOT BLOG reports that the Igbo socio-cultural organization, Ohanaeze Ndigbo Worldwide, has said that it has not endorsed any presidential candidate ahead of the 2023 election.
Distressed leaves shook off the brown dust carpeting them and took on delightful green; the thirsty earth greedily sucked up water and man’s heels stamped on damp soil; serenading gentle breeze usurped harsh heat; stunted plants sprouted enlivened; farmers hopes renewed; eaters appetite refreshed… We all were ecstatic; THE LONG AWAITED RAINNY SEASON FINALLY ARRIVED.
An average Nigerian would content himself to soak his garri without peanut to accompany it; to enroll his children in overcrowded public schools with dilapidated classrooms; to dress his children in threadbare cloths and cram his family of 7 in one of the rooms in a multi-tenanted bungalow; to cower and avoid his landlord for unpaid rent.
Nigeria boasts the biggest economy in Africa and a population of more than 200 million. So, it’s no surprise that it is a complex country to rule. Certainly, the task of leading Nigeria is not for the faint-hearted or the inexperienced.
It’s over three months, still Nyesom Wike, the governor of the oil-rich Rivers State, haven’t gotten over his loss of the PDP presidential ticket for the 2023 general election.
Eko Hot Blog reports that polls have begun to close as Americans decided consequential races from Tuesday to Wednesday.
Eko Hot Blog reports that Florida Governor, Ron DeSantis, and Senator Marco Rubio have won crucial reelection races, according to US media projections.
Eko Hot Blog reports that Milwaukee, the state’s most populous city, expects to finish its tally of absentee ballots in few hours Claire Woodall-Vogg, the Milwaukee Election Commission executive director, said at a news conference.
Eko Hot Blog reports that most voters in this year’s election view one party positively, and the other negatively – nationally, about 4 in 10 have a favorable view of only the Democratic Party, and a similar share have a favorable view of only the Republican Party.
Pennsylvania’s acting secretary of state, Leigh M. Chapman, said it will take “a few days” for the state’s unofficial election results to be complete, and called on “voters, candidates and the media” to be patient.
Eko Hot Blog reports that at Walker’s campaign headquarters few hours ago, supporters were cheering as he narrowly took an edge over Warnock and inched closer to 50% – even as it remains entirely unclear whether the race will move to a Dec. 6 runoff.
EKO HOT BLOG reports that Washington and Moscow are set to hold talks on resuming suspended nuclear arms control inspections.
These were put on hold during the covid pandemic.
EKO HOT BLOG reports that Chinese President Xi Jinping has declared that his country will focus on preparing for war’ citing the ‘increasingly unstable and uncertain’ security of the country.
Republican J.D. Vance wins the Ohio Senate race, outlasting a stronger-than-expected challenge from Democrat Tim Ryan and keeping the seat under GOP control.
EKO HOT BLOG reports that the Award-winning Nigerian singer, Ayo Balogun, with the stage name Wizkid, has said that he plans on doing music like Bob Marley.
EKO HOT BLOG reports that ex-Tottenham Hotspur boss, Tim Sherwood, has warned Chelsea manager Graham Potter that he will be fighting for his job if the Blues’ wobble continues.
EKO HOT BLOG reports that former Tottenham Hotspur manager, Tim Sherwood, has hit out at Manchester United manager Erik ten Hag over his recent comments on forward Cristiano Ronaldo
EKO HOT BLOG reports that the week 18 pool fixtures are for forty-nine (49) football matches for UK football 2021/2022 from the pool agent.
The Federal Government on Tuesday revealed that over 12,000 inmates were released from various correctional centres across the country within the last six years in line with the policy of prison decongestion .
The Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami stated this to members of the Senate Committee on Judiciary, Human Rights and Legal Matters during his 2023 budget defence session with the committee .
Malami, who made the declaration in response to question from Senator Ajibola Basiru (APC Osun Central ), said the Federal Government was able to decongest the over congested prisons across the country, through policy actions aside the Administration of Criminal Justice Act , meant for expeditious dispensation of justice.
“When this government came on board in 2015, the problem of prison congestions was at the front burner of national discourse, which made President Muhammadu Buhari to set machineries in motion in different ways for required solution.
The presidential candidate of the African Action Congress, Omoyele Sowore, has claimed that the Nigerian Election Debate Group has excluded him from participating in the presidential debates ahead of the 2023 election.
The activist made the claim on Tuesday via his Twitter page, where he claimed that the debate organisers have settled for “failed and clueless candidates”.
He further ensured that the “fraudulent” debates would be stopped.
Sowore said, “It has come to our attention that the Nigeria Election Debate Group has excluded us from the series of Presidential Debates to herald 2023 election, as typical they’ve settled for failed and clueless candidates.
A trader, Wasiu Oduwole, has narrated how a traditional ruler, Oba Nureni Oduwaye, in Ogun State, blinded him for allegedly dancing with his queen.
Oduwole, who is a food vendor, disclosed that he was called by the owner of a hotel in Sagamu to prepare fish pepper soup for a birthday celebration. He claimed that some of the guests complained about the meal and he apologised.
The graduate of Olabisi Onabanjo University added that after his apology, the monarch accused him of dancing with his queen. He was told to go and beg the monarch, which he agreed to and while he was trying to prostrate to beg, the monarch kicked his left eye which immediately came out of its socket.
Lagos State Governor, Babjide Sanwo-Olu, has expressed confidence that the All Progressives Congress, APC and the electorate in the state will humiliate some political parties that could not organize proper party primaries with votes, saying they are trying to reap where they did not sow
Sanwo-Olu stated this on Tuesday, at the commissioning of the 20-unit two-bedroom apartments, christened: “Love Gardens,” located on Allen Street, Surulere Local Government Area of the state, built by the Lagos State Development And Property Corporation, LSDPC.
According to the governor’, “We can see in some parties in the pages of the newspapers, to conduct a primary they cannot conduct it, all of them are now struggling helter-skelter and they are looking to sow where they have not planted.
‘’We don’t need to give them the dignity of mentioning their names but in Surulere and entire Lagos, we will deal with them.
Minister of Mines and Steel Development, Olallmikeka Adegbite, Tuesday, said that the eruption of COVID-19 in 2020 was essentially responsible for the non resuscitation of Ajaokuta Steel company in Kogi State.
The minister said that he had after participating in a Summit in Russia in 2019 announced that within 2 years, precisely in the first quarter of 2022, the company would come back on stream.
But according to him, the pandemic struck and stopped the Russians technical experts from coming.
THE Minister of Special Duties and Inter-Governmental Affairs, George Akume, has on Monday told the Senate that the Ministry needed more funds to carry out its responsibilities.
Akume who lamented over the current allocations and envelop system, said it has made it extremely difficult for the Ministry to perform effectively
Speaking in Abuja when he appeared before the Senator Yusuf Yusuf, Taraba Central led Senate Committee on Special Duties to defend the Ministry’s budget for 2023, the Minister told the Senators that the sum of N180 billion allocated to the Ministry for 2023 representing 71% reduction in the budget for the previous year is grossly inadequate to accomplish the sweeping mandate of the Ministry.
According to him, the envelope system has further incapacitated the ability of the Ministry to achieve its mandate to monitor special projects and interventions of the Federal Government as well as the implementation of constituency projects in care of members of the National Assembly.
Despite achievements recorded by Tantita Security Services Nigeria Limited (TSSNL) in manning Nigeria’s crude oil pipelines in the past few weeks, there are still calls on the Federal Government to terminate the contract.
Lead consultant of TSSNL, Emmanuel Jakpa Esq., while reacting to the latest call by a group, the Academy of International Affairs, in Warri, restated that contrary to opinions in some quarters, the contract awarded to the company was not proof of failure of governance.
According to Jakpa, the Academy, which comprises former Ministers and diplomats had in a statement by its president, former Minister of External Affairs, Prof. Bolaji Akinyemi, called on President Muhammadu Buhari to terminate the N4 billion contract to TSSNL, a firm linked to ex-warlord, Chief Government Ekpemupolo aka Tompolo.
The lawyer said the group in its statement observed that it was an exercise in futility to “ask some of those suspects involved in oil theft scandal to go round in search of illegal pipelines and oil criminals”.
The Lagos State High Court at the Tafawa Balewa Square (TBS) has heard that Chidinma Ojukwu, the alleged killer of the Chief Executive Officer of Super TV, Usifo Ataga, allegedly had a sexual relationship with her foster father, Onoh Ojukwu.
A Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) Olusegun Bamidele made the claim during a trial within trial to determine whether the court should admit the confessional statement Miss Ojukwu allegedly made in police custody.
The proceedings followed Mis Ojukwu’s contention during proceedings on October 27 that she did not make a confessional statement voluntarily, rather that they were obtained from her by the police under duress and by inducement.
Ojukwu, a 300-level Mass Communication student at the University of Lagos (UNILAG), is standing trial for the alleged murder with her sister and third defendant Chioma Egbuchu, and second defendant Adedapo Quadri.
A suit seeking the invalidation of Kola Abiola as Peoples Redemption Party (PRP) presidential candidate has been transferred to a task force of judges.
Justice John Tsoho had constituted the team of judges to determine all pre-election cases before the Federal High Court (FHC) in Abuja.
The inauguration by Tsoho, the Chief Judge, followed Justice Ahmed Mohammed’s commencement of his annual leave.
On Tuesday, the matter could not go on due to the absence of Justice Mohammed.
The registrar said Tsoho directed that pre-election cases before the court be transferred to the registry for transmission to the judicial task force.
The Chief Judge noted that the judges would have four weeks within which to dispose of the pre-election cases.
Former FIFA president, Sepp Blatter, has admitted that the decision to award this month’s World Cup to Qatar was a “mistake”.
The 86-year-old was at the helm of the world football governing body when its executive committee voted for the tournament to be played in Russia and Qatar in 2018 and 2022 respectively.
Ahead of this year’s World Cup, there have been concerns about lowly-paid migrant workers and discriminatory laws against same-sex relations.
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