A Coalition of about 58 Northern Groups has reemphasized that for democracy to flourish and have a meaning, there must be demographic inclusion and decried how the two major political parties systematically schemed younger aspirants out of their presidential tickets. A statement by the Group on Monday, 20th June, 2022 said, in order to compliment the yearnings of the younger generation of Nigerians, the parties were expected to pick young people as running mates for their respective Presidential candidates. Pointing out that the running mate selected by the PDP is relatively not within the bracket of the young generation, the…
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If the Justice Department brings a case against him, the prosecution could hinge on the government’s ability to establish his intent. As new questions swirled this past week about former President Donald J. Trump’s potential criminal exposure for seeking to overturn the 2020 election, Mr. Trump issued a rambling 12-page statement. It contained his usual mix of outlandish claims, hyperbole and outright falsehoods, but also something that Trump allies and legal experts said was notable and different: the beginnings of a legal defense. On nearly every page, Mr. Trump gave explanations for why he was convinced that the 2020 election…
Terrorists attack on Orlu in Imo state, has left three persons dead with several others injured in an attack on Orlu, Imo State. This is contained in a statement by the Police spokesperson, Micheal Abattam on Sunday. According to him, the Command received a distress call that gunmen, who were operating in a red Toyota Sienna vehicle without a registration number, attacked Umuebele Okporo community in Orlu. “Following a report received on 16/6/2022 at about 0800 hours that armed bandits operating in a red Toyota Sienna vehicle without registration number attacked and shot five persons and drove off almost immediately…
The matriarch of Kola Animasaun, Siliphat Modupe Animasaun knee Ajimobi, has sent the word of the Journalism family to Presidential Candidate of All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, on his success at the June 6-8, 2922 presidential primary election of the party. Animasaun, who is senior cousin to late Oyo State Governor Ishaq Abiola Ajimobi, also thanked the eldest son of the late APC chieftain, Idris Ajimobi, for emerging winner of the legislative ticket to represent his Ibadan people in the 2023 state House of Assembly election. The Iya Musulumi of Aiyede Kingdom, Ekiti State, in an exclusive…
The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) says the average price of refilling a 5kg cylinder of Liquefied Petroleum Gas (Cooking Gas) increased to N3,921.35 in May 2022. This is contained in the NBS Liquefied Petroleum Gas (Cooking Gas) Price Watch for May 2022 released in Abuja on Sunday. The NBS said refilling the cylinder used to cost N3,800.47 in April 2022, adding that the increase indicated a 3.18 per cent month-on-month increase. However, on a year-on-year basis, the average retail price of cooking gas increased by 89.28 per cent from N2,071.69 in May 2021. The report showed that the highest…
Hundreds of people demonstrated in Tunis on Sunday in a second day of protest against a constitutional referendum called by President Kais Saied that his opponents say would cement his hold on power. The demonstration was organised by the Salvation Front, a coalition including the moderate Islamist Ennahda, the largest party in a parliament that Saied dissolved in March. It followed a similar protest on Saturday called by the Free Constitutional Party over the referendum, and a strike on Thursday by a powerful labour union over government economic reform plans, which brought much of the county to a standstill. The…
Two people were killed and six were injured when suspected militants opened fire on a bus in southwestern Rwanda, Rwandan police said. Saturday’s attack, which killed the bus driver and a passenger, was carried out by the National Liberation Front (FLN), the armed wing of the anti-government Movement for Democratic Change (MRCD), the police said in a statement. “Armed thugs, suspected to be remnants of FLN operating from across the border, shot at a public passenger bus,” the Rwanda National Police said late on Saturday. The police were tracking down the assailants in the incident on the Nyambage-Rusizi road in…
Bulgarian Ambassador to Nigeria Mr Yanko Yardonov has said that Bulgarian universities are offering admission to Nigerian students whose academic pursuits in Ukraine were cut short by Russia’s invasion. Yardonov also said that some Nigerian citizens had been offered jobs by Bulgarian universities. The Bulgarian ambassador disclosed this in an interview in Abuja. Prior to the onset of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February, approximately 4,300 Nigerian students were studying in the eastern European country. The number was the fifth-largest (5.4%) of the 80,000 international students in Ukraine, according to data from Ukraine’s ministry of education and science. The students…
The Bulgarian Ambassador to Nigeria, Mr Yanko Yardonov has said that Russia’s war in Ukraine is having a negative effect on not only the Balkan states but on Africa and the rest of the world as well. Yordanov expressed this thought in an interview in Abuja after the signing of a news exchange agreement between NAN and the Bulgarian News Agency (BTA). The ambassador condemned the war in strong terms saying that it has no place in the European Union’s (EU) 21st-century reality. “Unfortunately, our wish is that the reality is different. Bulgaria has been an active part of the…
Sen. Aliyu Wamakko (APC-Sokoto North) has sponsored 60 students to Maryam Abacha American University (MAAUN), Maradi, Niger Republic, and Al-Qalam University Katsina in Nigeria. This is contained in a statement by his Special Assistant on New Media, Bashar Abubabar and made available to ASHENEWS on Sunday. The students, who are being sponsored to study medicine; law; Information, Communication,Technology and Social Sciences, among other courses, have since been presented with their letters of admission. Abubakar also said that arrangements had been finalised to convey the students to Maradi and Ilorin for the commencement of their studies. The Guest Speaker, Prof. Aliyu…