Edo state’s Deputy Governor Philip Shuaibu has removed the All Progressives Congress (APC) flag in his office, just after Governor Godwin Obaseki resigned from the party. One of those present during the removal of the party flag was heard saying “goodbye APC from Edo government house” as the Deputy Governor declared for the People’s Democratic Party (PDP). Here is the video below; He also announced his resignation from the All Progressives Congress (APC). Shuaibu told journalists; …
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The Office of the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Sustainable Development Goals (OSSAP-SDGs) has debunked claims of N23 billion being traced to the personal account of a former staff. The report was described as “reckless” in a statement released by Janet Mcdickson, Head of Communication at the Office of the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Sustainable Development Goals (OSSAP-SDGs). It read; “These reckless publications would have been wished away for what they evidently are but for the …
Mukhtar Isa Hazo, deputy speaker of Kaduna state house of assembly, has been impeached. Hazo was impeached by 24 members of the Kaduna House of Assembly at Thursday’s plenary session. The development followed a vote of no confidence on him. It was not immediately clear the reason for his impeachment but there are reports he was accused of inability to discharge his duties. The deputy speaker has only been in office for four months having been elected …
The United States Embassy in Nigeria has issued a warning to its citizens against visiting its consulate office at Walter Carrington Crescent in Victoria Island, Lagos, over a planned protest on the killing of George Floyd, the unarmed black man who was killed by a white police officer in Minneapolis last week. The warning comes after some Nigerians stormed the US embassy in Abuja on Tuesday, to protest against the murder of George Floyd, and also called for an end to racial …
Ahead of the 5th year anniversary of President Buhari in office, Femi Adesina, the Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, has released a statement enlisting the ”salutary achievements” the President has made so far. President Buhari took over from Goodluck Jonathan after a keenly contested election in 2015 and was re-elected for a second term in 2019. Adesina in his statement said the President came into office on the wings of change and that the change ”has so far been …
A white Minneapolis man has lost his office lease after a group of black entrepreneurs accused him of racially profiling them inside a private gym. The incident occurred on Tuesday at a building on Lagoon Avenue in Minneapolis. It came a day after the killing of George Floyd by a white Minneapolis police officer. In the video, Tom Austin, the managing partner of F2 Group questioned the black entrepreneurs using the gym in a building of which they …