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  Kaduna State Governor, Nasir El-Rufai, has blamed the silence of the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), for the decision reached by many delegates to vote for Bola Tinubu as the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress. He said this while appearing as a guest on Channels Television’s Politics Today. El-Rufai explained that Buhari asked the northern delegates to vote for any of the shortlisted five presidential candidates of their choice. According to him, Buhari didn’t dictate how delegates from Kaduna State should vote at the APC presidential primaries. While speaking Friday night, governor said, “In many of our states, the delegate votes were divided,” El-Rufai said. “Before I went to address the Kaduna delegates for the last time, I went to the President and I asked him, have you decided on who we should vote for? He said, I told you, go and vote for any of the five (candidates selected by APC Governors) “I said, Mr President, the Kaduna delegates ar

  Additional voter enrolment machines have been deployed by the  Independent National Electoral Commission to Lagos, Kano, and some southeastern states.   This was disclosed by Chairman, Information and Voter Education Committee of INEC, Festus Okoye, on Friday June 10, in a statement titled “Press Release; Ongoing Continuous Voter Registration Exercise.” The commission which released additional 209 machines mainly to the five southeastern states, Lagos and Kano where the pressure was most acute, said this is in response to the upward surge in the number of citizens that wish to register as voters.   The statement read;    “The Independent National Electoral Commission has received reports from our states indicating an unprecedented surge in the number of citizens that wish to register as voters and the challenges they face across the country. In some states, the sudden turnout of prospective registrants is overwhelming. “Consequently, the Commission convened an urgent meeting with all

  The Kremlin has warned it could target military sites in the UK and other NATO countries because of their support for Ukraine.    Maria Zakharova, the Russian foreign ministry spokeswoman, suggested that strikes could be authorised against NATO states who provide arms to Ukraine.  She warned: 'Do we understand correctly that for the sake of disrupting the logistics of military supplies, Russia can strike military targets on the territory of those Nato countries that supply arms to the Kyiv regime?    'After all, this directly leads to deaths and bloodshed on Ukrainian territory. As far as I understand, Britain is one of those countries.'   Her words came after Britain's Armed Forces Minister James Heappey said that the UK backed Ukrainian airstrikes on Russian infrastructure. He added that it would be 'completely legitimate' for British weapons to be used in such attacks, even though none are currently thought to be.   Heappey also said that Britain would re-s

  Nigerian singer, 2face Idibia, has taken to social media to celebrate his daughter, Ehi, who turned 16 years old today, Saturday, April 27th.   Sharing beautiful photos of his daughter, the proud father wrote;    "Feels like I just blinked and boom my little princess has grown into a very bright and beautiful young African Queen. Massive birthday blessings to u Ehikòwoichó. (Gift from God/ God's gift)." "I pray for continuous love, light guidance, and wisdom for u my beloved Daughter." Ehi is one of the three kids 2Face shares with Pero Osayem i  

  Vice president and 2023 Presidential hopeful, Professor Yemi Osinbajo, has said that he owes no single individual any allegiance asides from the oath he swore to Nigerians when he came into office in 2015.   Osinbajo said this on Tuesday April 26, during his political consultations in Ogun state. He stated this amidst reports that his decision to run for President was a betrayal of his former principal and erstwhile political godfather, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, who had also declared his presidential aspiration ahead of 2023.  Speaking to his supporters in Ogun, Osinbajo said   ' 'After all I have learnt, if called upon to serve the nation, should I say No? I have decided that I will run for the office. I have sworn an oath to the Federal Republic of Nigeria. It is an oath to our people; our children and the future of Nigeria. I owe nobody else any allegiance outside the oath.”

  The national mathematics centre of Nigeria (NMC) has crowned Miss Faith Odunsi of Ambassador College, Otta in Ogun State Nigeria as "MATHEMATICS QUEEN" for her outstanding performance in the National Olympiads Competition. Miss Faith Odunsi solved 19 mathematics questions in 60 seconds, and became the best girl in mathematics competition. 26 students of both senior and junior secondary Schools across the country were also given awards in different categories in mathematics science. Miss Faith Odunsi, 15 years old represented Nigeria at the Global Mathematics Competition, beats China, United States of America, United Kingdom and others and became the world best mathematics student .

  Nigeria’s currency, reversed its last two trading gains against the dollar, closing at N418.50/$1 on Tuesday at the official market. Naira had on Friday last week and Monday closed stronger to the US dollar in response to the Central Bank of Nigeria’s (CBN’s) stance on continuing intervention in the forex market. However, it could not make it three trading days lucky as MDQ securities data showed the  Naira  closing rate on Tuesday was a N1.2 drop in value when compared to Monday’s closing rate of N417.30 to a dollar. The official market performance of the Naira happened as the forex supply declined drastically by 62.40 per cent to $109.43 million compared to the forex supply of $291.09 million on Monday. It was a different story for Naira against the British Pounds and Euro as it again appreciated. CBN data shows Naira to Pounds closed at N527.6/£1 as against N530.54/£1 on Monday. Another Massive gain for the Nigerian currency against the Euro as it closed at N444.03/€1 in contrast