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The senator representing Anambra South in the National Assembly, Ifeanyi Ubah, is dead. Senator Ubah was said to have departed Nigeria for the UK two days ago. A close family source said he died in a UK hospital where he went for surgery. He would have been 53 on September 3. Ubah had defected to the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) from the Young Progressives Party (YPP) last year. He was later re-elected to the 10th Senate under the Young Progressive Party (YPP). The late Senator was billed to seek APC’s ticket ahead of the Anambra State governorship election. A…

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) is currently holding ward congresses in the various wards of Rivers states, against court orders. This is coming despite two court orders stopping the exercise. At the PDP Secretariat along Aba Road in Port Harcourt, various members of the party were observed collecting materials for the congress in their various wards. They left for their various councils after taking possession of the materials. It would be recalled that Justice Charles Wali on Friday, prohibited the party, its National Chairman Iliya Damagum, and National Secretary Senator Samuel Anyanwu, or their agents, from gathering anywhere in Rivers…

Former US president Donald Trump claimed Friday, July 26 that conflicts in the Middle East could escalate into a third World War if he loses the 2024 election.The Republican nominee for president made those remarks as he met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort home Netanyahu traveled to Florida to meet with Trump after meeting with Uas President Biden and presumptive Democratic nominee Vice President Kamala Harris in Washington, D.C., earlier this week, following his Wednesday address to a joint session of Congress At Mar-a-Lago, Trump told reporters that Harris is “worse” on Middle East issues…

An airport located at the Swiss-French border was evacuated due to a bomb alert, the French police said. The airport was evacuated hours after a ‘massive, coordinated arson attack’ disrupted France’s rail network ahead of the Olympics opening ceremony on Friday. Basel-Mulhouse airport’s terminals were evacuated on Friday morning and all flights had been suspended. ‘For safety reasons, the terminal had to be evacuated and is currently closed,’ the Basel-Mulhouse EuroAirport had said on its website. But now the airport’s site says that it has ‘reopened and all flight operations are gradually restarting’. This comes after fires were started at France’s key…

Donald Trump has criticised FBI Director Christopher Wray after Wray’s Congressional hearing. About the assassination attempt on the former US president on July 13, Wray said he was uncertain if it was a bullet or a shrapnel that hit Trump in the ear during an outdoor rally in Pennsylvania. It was Trump who appointed Wray as FBI director in 2017. The Republican candidate has now blasted Wray by saying that the FBI director is uncertain whether Trump was hit by shrapnel, glass or a bullet but was certain “Crooked Joe Biden was physically and cognitively ‘uneventful'”. Trump accused Wray of being unaware of…

Ahead of the planned nationwide protest slated to start August 1, police authorities are requesting the details of the demonstrators. While briefing journalists in Abuja on Friday, the Inspector General of Police (IGP), Kayode Egbetokun, specifically asked all groups planning to participate in the demonstrations to submit their details to the commissioners of police in their respective states. The reason he gave was that the protest was peaceful. “We acknowledge the constitutional right of Nigerian citizens to peaceful assembly and protest,” the police boss said. “However, in the interest of public safety and order, we urge all groups planning to…

The Canadian Olympic Committee (COC) has removed head coach Bev Priestman following her suspension by Canada Soccer over a drone spying scandal that has thrust the 2020 Olympic gold medalists into a bad spotlight. The COC revealed Thursday night, July 25 that the Canadian women’s squad will be led by assistant coach Andy Spence for the remainder of the Paris games, the COC said “Over the past 24 hours, additional information has come to our attention regarding previous drone use against opponents, predating the Paris 2024 Olympic Games,” Canada Soccer CEO & General Secretary Kevin Blue said in an emailed…

President Bola Tinubu has called for calm over the planned peaceful nationwide protest.  While admitting he was part of protesters against dictatorship in the past, he said he did so peacefully. “During the military era, we made our voices heard against dictatorship, and I was part of the group that engaged in peaceful protests without resorting to the destruction of property,” the president said on Thursday when he received a Letter of Credence from the newly appointed United States Ambassador to Nigeria, Richard Mills Jr. at the Presidential Villa in Abuja. “We have worked hard to ensure 25 years of…

The Department of State Services (DSS) is asking persons and groups yet to identify themselves in the public as leaders of the plot to stage a nationwide protest to shelve their plans and eschew any form of proposed rage, anarchy, and spoliation In a statement signed by the Director of Public Relations and Strategic Communications, Peter Afunaya, the Service says that while peaceful protest is a democratic right of citizens, it has confirmed a sinister plan by some elements to infiltrate the protest and use it to cause chaos and extreme violence in the land. The statement added that the…

As the planned ‘EndBadGovernance’ protest slated for August draws close, President Bola Tinubu on Thursday entered an emergency closed-door meeting with top traditional rulers, security top brass in his government and governors of his party, the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC). The high-delegation meeting was held at the State House in Abuja, the nation’s capital. The APC governors were led to the meeting by the Chairman of the Progressives Governors’ Forum and Imo State Governor, Hope Uzodinma. Some first-class traditional rulers were spotted at the meeting with the President. They include the Ooni of Ife, Oba Enitan Ogunwusi; the Sultan…