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SENATE chief whip Senator Orji Uzor Kalu has told Nigeria's 40m Igbos that they cannot get the presidential ticket of any party in the country under the current open contest arrangement we have today and need a arrangement conceding the office to the southeast.

IRATE Muslins at the Shehu Shagari College of Education in Sokoto have lynched a female pupil by beating her into a pulp and then setting her ablaze for allegedly insulting the Prophet Mohammed.

Yesterday morning the incident began after the student, simply identified as Deborah, was beaten to a pulp before being set ablaze. In a video trending on social media, some young men were seen hurling stones at the victim.

SECESSIONIST group the Indigenous People of Biafra (Ipob) has assured all Hausas and non-indigenes residing in the southeast of their safety saying that it only has an issue with Fulani terrorists masquerading as Fulani herdsmen.

GOVERNOR Babajide Sanwoolu us facing a challenge to his bid to get re-elected as the Lagos State chief executive after Wale Oluwo an associate of former governor Akinwunmi Ambode submitted his nomination form.

FORMER president Dr Goodluck Jonathan has been warned by the Coalition of South East Youth Leaders (Coseyl) to shelve his 2023 presidential plans amid talk that he has now formally joined the All Progressives Congress (APC).

Ayo Akinfe 

[1] No matter how you cut it, no human being has taught the world forgiveness and magnanimity like Madiba 

[2] He spent 27 years in prison and showed no anger about it at all 

[3] Despite decades of the brutal oppression of his people, he still found it within himself to forgive their oppressors 

NIGERIA'S Independent National Electoral Commission (Inec) has rejected the recent request by the country's 18 registered political parties that it reschedule its election timetable and give them more time to conduct their primaries.

NIGERIA'S Trade Union Congress (TUC) has threatened to embark on a solidarity strike with the Academic Staff Union of Universities (Asuu) to compel the government to address workers’ concerns and reopen the universities.

NIGERIAN paper imports during the last six months of 2021 added up to N296.696bn ($716m) as a result of the fact that the nation's mills have all but grounded to a halt forcing the country to be dependent on overseas supplies.

EDUCATION minister Emeka Nwajiuba has tendered his resignation from the Federal Executive Council un line with the dictates of President Muhammadu Buhari who asked all his ministers standing for election to stand down.