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The Concerned Constituents of Kogi Central Senatorial District have firmly rejected any attempt to recall their Senator, Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan, following her suspension from the Nigerian Senate. The group insists that the suspension is illegal and a violation of their democratic rights. In a statement issued by Hon. Abdulrahaman Badamasiuy, Coordinator/convener, on Monday, the constituents declared their unwavering support for Akpoti-Uduaghan and warned against any attempt to fraudulently remove her from office. They also called on the Senate to immediately reverse her suspension, arguing that it deprives them of federal representation in the National Assembly. The constituents emphasized that Akpoti-Uduaghan…

The Lagos State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party has lampooned Dr Abdul-Azeez Adediran, popularly known as Jandor, following his return to the ruling All Progressives Congress. Adediran, who was the Lagos PDP governorship candidate in the 2023 general elections,  announced his return to  APC at a news conference on Monday in Lagos. Adediran, leader of the Lagos4Lagos Movement, announced his resignation from the PDP on March 3, 2025, citing a lack of discipline in the party and betrayal by its leaders. He was previously a member of the APC before joining the PDP. Reacting to his defection in an…

A frontline businessman, Otunba Tolani Oladipo, has said the N15.6tn Lagos-Calabar Coastal Highway, being built by Gilbert Chagoury’s Hitech Construction Limited, will help President Bola Tinubu to achieve his vision of making Nigeria a trillion-dollar economy by 2030. In a statement on Sunday, Tolani responded to former President Olusegun Obasanjo’s critique of the project. In his recent memoir, ‘Nigeria: Past and Future,’ Obasanjo said the highway, conceived more than 50 years ago, was wasteful and corrupt. The former president’s critique has attracted a deluge of criticisms from The Presidency and Ohanaeze Ndigbo, among others, which felt the project is…

Janet Ogundepo The Paediatric Association of Nigeria has decried the outbreak of vaccine-preventable diseases such as diphtheria and cerebrospinal meningitis in the country. The association noted that the outbreak of these diseases questioned the immunisation status of children admitted into schools, asserting that it “reflects the failure of the immunisation programme and the infection prevention and control activities in general.” The PAN president, Prof Ekanem Ekure, called for a closer look at the country’s immunisation programme and urged school managers to request the immunisation history and status of children admitted into schools. PUNCH Healthwise reports that there was a suspected…

Human rights activist and publisher of Sahara Reporters, Omoyele Sowore, said on Monday that the youth corps member  Ushie Uguamaye who criticised President Bola Tinubu’s administration over hardship is under tremendous pressure to apologise. Sowore, who accompanied the corps member to the NYSC Local Government Inspector’s office in Lagos alongside a team of lawyers, said government officials, including ministers, had been reaching out to pressure Uguamaye to apologise. Speaking on Arise TV on Monday night, Sowore insisted that the corps members committed no crime by exercising their freedom of expression in criticising Tinubu’s administration. In a now-viral TikTok video, a…

The Super Eagles of Nigeria will be back in action against Rwanda later this week as they look to salvage something from their 2026 World Cup Qualifiers bid, Soccernet.ng reports. Nigeria are fifth in Group C of the World Cup Qualifiers after picking just three points from their first four games, and they need to get going as soon as possible. New Franco-Malian coach Eric Chelle was named as Super Eagles’ coach at the start of the year, and he will be looking to start on a strong note to put the fans at ease and get the players’ full…

A suspected armed robber noted for robbing people of their belongings especially, handsets met his waterloo at the weekend, when angry mob descended on him, beating him to death. The Guardian gathered that on the day of the incident, the suspect identified as Saidu Sinah a.k.a Ojubitin and his gang allegedly attacked commuters with dangerous weapons, including dagger and snatched a few phones from them before some commuters mustered courage and charged towards one of them. Spokesperson for Lagos State Police Command, CSP Benjamin Hundeyin, who confirmed the incident yesterday, said it happened at about 6:30a.m, on Friday near AP filling station junction…

APC tells Kaduna ex-gov to quit sulking The South South/South West Alliance has urged the 2023 presidential candidates of the Labour Party (LP), Peter Obi, and his Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) counterpart, Atiku Abubakar, to distance themselves from the “deceptive politics” of former governor of Kaduna State, Nasir el-Rufai, who recently defected to the Social Democratic Party (SDP). Relatedly, the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) called on el-Rufai to quit sulking, get a grip on himself and salvage some respectability, after losing out on ministerial appointments in the President Bola Tinubu-led administration. According to the alliance, Obi must recognise…

• Laments nonexistence of LG administration The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Edo State, yesterday, lamented that there is no properly constituted local council administration in the state, calling on the Federal Government to immediately halt all allocations to the state government through the Joint Account Allocation Committee (JAAC) as stipulated in the Supreme Court ruling. The PDP noted that revenues collected are not accounted for and are being diverted, describing the situation in the state as clear executive rascality and impunity taken too far by the Governor Monday Okpebholo-led administration. The PDP also called on the Edo State…

Media strategist, Esther Ijewere, has accused Nollywood actress, Dayo Amusa, of plagiarism, saying Amusa copied and shared her social media post about singer, Asake, and his father without proper credit. Ijewere originally shared her thoughts on Facebook, reflecting on Asake’s childhood struggles and the emotional weight of his public family issues. She posted on Facebook on March 15 at 1:15am, Amusa posted the same message later on the same day. She has since deleted it when the controversy started. Ijewere’s post emphasized the deep impact of parental rejection, the emotional toll of fame, and the importance of parental presence in…