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  The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has urged the Federal Government to immediately instruct the Nigerian Petroleum Company Ltd (NNPCL) to withdraw the just released pricing template to allow free flow of discussions by the parties. Mr Joe Ajaero, the NLC President, made the call in a statement signed by him and made available to newsmen on Wednesday in Abuja. Ajaero said that the new pricing template is vexatious, an ambush and may scuttle its ongoing dialogue with the federal government. According to Ajaero, government cannot in one breathe be talking about deregulation and at the same time fixing the prices of petroleum products. “We are worried that the Government through the NNPC despite the ongoing meeting of stakeholders in the Oil and Gas sector to manage the unilateral. “But unfortunate announcement by the President to withdraw subsidy on petroleum products, went ahead this morning to announce a new regime of prices under a new pricing template. “This is an ambush and runs aga

  Owner of Hilton Hotel, Ile-Ife, Dr Rahman Adedoyin, has been sentenced to death by hanging by Osun State Chief Judge, Justice Oyebola Ojo. Earlier, Justice Ojo declared that Adedoyin, owner of Hilton Hotel, Ile-Ife, where Timothy Adegoke, an OAU postgraduate student was allegedly killed was culpable of murder. Justice Ojo in her ongoing judgement said the owner of the hotel and two of his workers, based on the circumstances of the case established by the prosecuting counsel, Femi Falana, SAN, are found culpable of conspiracy to commit murder, and unlawful killing of the deceased. recall that the Osun State High Court has found hotel owner, Dr Ramon Adedoyin, guilty in the murder case of Timothy Adegoke, a former master’s degree student of the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife. Adegoke’s death occurred between November 5 and 7, 2021, at Hilton Honours Hotel, Ile-Ife, Osun State. The suspicious circumstances surrounding the deceased’s demise at the hotel owned by Adedoyin spurred a p

  President Joe Biden of the United States, has vowed to support President Bola Tinubu on economic growth and advanced security, among other critical aspects of his government.  Biden made this vow in a statement, while felicitating with Tinubu on Monday.  Recall that Tinubu and the Vice President, Kashim Shettima were sworn in respctively by the Chief Justice of Nigeria, Kayode Ariwoola. The US President reiterated his administration’s readiness to work with Tinubu “to strengthen ties between the United States and Nigeria.” Biden said, “On behalf of the people of the United States, I send warm wishes to the government and people of Nigeria as they inaugurate a new President. I look forward to continuing this work with. President Tinubu to support economic growth, advance security, and promote respect for human rights.” He expressed optimism about the ideas and energy of the dynamic connection between the two countries, noting that the US will continue to work closely with the most pop

  The Canadian government on Friday, announced a new policy to speed up the approval of family reunification applications, just a few days after the UK government banned students from Nigeria and other foreign countries on study visas from bringing their families into the country. Announcing the development, Canadian immigration minister, Sean Fraser explained that the new measures were put in place to strengthen family reunification in Canada. PG reported that, The new system will enable spouses, children, and parents of recent immigrants to join their loved ones in Canada faster. The immigration minister noted that the new policy uses advanced analytics and technology to process Temporary Resident Visa (TRV) applications for family members of permanent residents and citizens in 30 days. He added that the method had accepted far in advance 98 per cent of TRV applications from spouses and their children. He also announced a new programme that will grant open work permits to spouse appl

  A United Kingdom-based Nigerian, Tosin Ojutalayo, and his lover, Andrew have tied the knot at Castle Bay in Hyères, France. Tosin took to his Twitter page to share photos from their wedding. Reflecting on their journey to getting married, Tosin revealed they both met 10 years ago when Andrew sent him a private message. He tweeted, “He slid into my DMs, whilst I was in a relationship and I shut it down of course #YorubaMenDon’tCheat. Then two months later (now single) – I walked into a dinner party and he was there. 10 years later, we’re getting married in 2 weeks.”

  Mark Zuckerberg’s social media company, Meta Platforms Inc. has added a new feature to WhatsApp which affords users to edit messages sent within a 15-minute time limit. The company revealed this in a blog post to alert its clients and Zuckerberg also corroborated this on Facebook on Monday. “For the moments when you make a mistake or simply change your mind, you can now edit your sent messages on WhatsApp,” Meta said. The company revealed this in a blog post to alert its clients and Zuckerberg also corroborated this on Facebook on Monday. “For the moments when you make a mistake or simply change your mind, you can now edit your sent messages on WhatsApp,” Meta said. “We’re excited that you’ll now have more control over your chats, such as correcting misspellings or adding more context to a message. “For this, within 15 minutes of sending the message, you have to tap and hold that message for a while and then select the option of ‘Edit’ from the menu.” Meta said that the feature is al

The Vice Chairman of Agbado Okeodo LCDA in Alimosho Local Government, Hon Ajoke Moromoke Aminat Obe popularly called AMA, was attacked by an armed group at the tail end of the third mainland bridge yesterday around 10 pm, according to her, she was coming from the meeting on the island and was about dropping off a friend along the stretch road when some youth about Four in numbers with several dangerous weapons, knife, cutlasses, and gun accosted her, broke her SUV side mirror and made away with her bag that contains valuables goods, while she sustain several bodily injuries from the attack. In her accounts, Hon Ajoke Moromoke Aminat recounted, that the incident happened at about 10 pm, and she was in traffic for about three hours before the attack. "I had dropped off a friend in Oworo, though I would not have passed through that place as the location is becoming notorious for armed groups.  I reported the incident at Alausa police station as it was late but was told to go to Ketu

  MUHAMMADU Buhari, president of Nigeria since 2015, will leave office on Monday, May 29, after eight disastrous years. The late Chief Bola Ige famously coined the phrase, “good riddance to bad rubbish”. That, truth be told, is the best way to describe the exit of Buhari, his presidency and his government from power. For the past eight years of Buhari’s administration have been an unmitigated failure; a monumental waste of time, of resources, and of the hopes and aspirations of a nation and a people. True stewardship is leaving a place better than one found it. But Buhari is leaving Nigeria far worse than he found it in 2015. On any metric, Nigeria sunk deeper into an abyss under Buhari. Without a doubt, he’s the worst civilian leader Nigeria has, so far, had! No previous civilian president showed such aloofness, such indifference, such arrogance and such utter lack of competence and vision in governing Nigeria. None! Before becoming president in 2015, Buhari had been a military head o

  An unusual spat broke out at Wednesday plenary of the House of Representatives between the speaker, Femi Gbajabiamila and his deputy, Ahmed Idris Wase.  The bone of contention was an announcement on the early adjournment of Thursday plenary to enable the speaker and the members attend the commissioning of the permanent site of the National Institute for Legislative and Democratic Studies(NILDS) along airport road, Abuja. Gbajabiamila before adjourning Wednesday plenary had asked that Order Paper for Thursday be made lighter, informing that the commissioning programmed to be done by President Muhammadu Buhari was fixed at 3pm. The speaker therefore asked the Chairman of the House Committee on Rules and Business, Hon. Hassan Fulata ensure the Order Paper would not be heavy with activities. At that point, the Deputy Speaker, Wase said that the House’s primary function was lawmaking, stressing that commissioning of NILDS headquarters was not sufficient reason to adjourn the House early

  PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari has written the Senate, seeking the approval of the request to pay the judgement debt in the sum of $566,754,584.31, £98,526,012.00 and N226,281,801,881.64 owed by the Federal government. President Buhari’s request was contained in a letter read yesterday in Abuja by the President of the Senate, Senator Ahmad Lawan. According to President Buhari, the approval would enable the government to pay the judgment debt owed by the Federal Government through the issuance of promissory notes. The letter read: “The Distinguished Senate President may wish to be informed that the Federal Executive Council (FEC) at its meeting of March 29, 2023, approved the liquidations of top priority judgement debts and general judgement debts owed by Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs) through the issuance of promissory notes.  “The judgement debts are to be settled through the issuance of promissory notes which will then be redeemed over time through provisions in the budge

  A renowned Nigerian-American Nollywood actress, Adunni Ade, has dismissed the allegation that she was owing her late colleague, Murphy Afolabi, N250,000 before he died. The Nigerian film industry was hit with Afolabi’s death on Sunday, May 14, 2023. A Muslim cleric had called out the actress during the eight days fidau prayers for the late actor on Monday. The cleric said Adunni Ade and other Nollywood actors owed Afolabi before his death. But the actress reacted to the allegation through her lawyer on Tuesday in an Instagram post, saying she refunded the late actor the sum of N150,000 sent to her for a movie role in 2021. A statement through her lawyer  However, the actress, who shared a screenshot of her bank statement, said, “Sometimes in July 2021, the late Mr. Murphy Afolabi reached out to me, requiring my services for a movie production. He appealed to me stating that it was a self-funded production that he couldn’t afford my professional fee, but that he would need my moral su

    A Chief Magistrate court in Yaba, Lagos State has ordered the remand of a suspected land grabbing, fraud, theft, (M), Abiodun Ishola Ejigbadero. Ejigbadero was arraigned yesterday over allegations of terrorizing land owners in Alimosho area of Lagos State. The accused is facing a five-count charge of conspiracy to murder, unlawful possession of firearms in suit number A/52/2023, and will be remanded in prison pending the Attorney-General's legal advice. The charge reads: "That you, Abiodun Ishola Ejigbadero (M) and others still at large sometimes on or before 13th day of January 2022 at Akowonjo road, Alimosho Lagos, in the Lagos State Magisterial District, did conspire among yourselves to commit felony with assault ocassioning harm and thereby committed an offence punishable under 411 of the criminal law of Lagos State of Nigeria, 2015 The Second charge reads: "That you Abiodun Ishola Ejigbadero, (M), and others at large on the above mentioned date, time and place as

THE FLYING EAGLE IS UNRELENTING, BUT STILL TAKES DELIGHT IN DOMINATING THE SKY. As Oluomo bagged another award in Real Estate Development. This year's edition of the global excellence annual Award recognizes Hon Idris Balogun, oluomo kafata, as the recipient of global excellence recognition in the area of real Estate Development, The Governor of Lagos State Governor Babajide Sanwoolu won Governor of the year south. Kogi State Governor won Best Governor North, Rt Hon Mudashiru Obasa the speaker of the Lagos House of Assembly won the award as the best Speaking Speaker in Nigeria, among other very important dignitaries that won various awards in different categories. Veteran journalist Mayor Akinpelu alongside other notable estates of the realm gladiators, Bisi Olatilo, Gboyega Akosile, Lagos Governor CPS, Ajala Kayode, and Gbenga Adeyinka were at hand to honor Prince Idris Balogun for his immeasurable contribution to Estate development in Nigeria. Prince Idris Balogun dedicated t

  Twitter’s owner, Elon Musk, has announced Linda Yaccarino as the new Chief Executive Officer of the platform. The 59-year-old American media guru of Italian descent was announced on Friday. These are some interesting things to know about the new Twitter CEO. 1. Linda Yaccarino was born in 1963 in New York, United States, to immigrant parents of Italian descent. 2. Her parents are Bob Yaccarino and Isabella Bartolone Yaccarino. She has two sisters, Lori Yaccarino Armstrong and Kate Yaccarino. 3. She was educated at Deer Park High School and Penn State University. 4. She is married to a fellow American of Italian descent, Claude Peter Madrazo, and the union is blessed with two children, a daughter, Christian Madrazo, and a son, Matthew Madrazo. 5. Linda Yaccarino starred in the Italian version of the reality show Big Brother from 2011 to 2012. 6. She worked as executive vice president and COO of advertising sales, marketing, and acquisitions at Turner Broadcasting between 1992 and 2011

  Presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Peter Obi has said that he must be the president of Nigeria either today or in the future.  Obi said this while speaking on Friday at a book presentation titled “Peter Obi: Many voices, one perspective” in Awka, the Anambra capital. He recalled how for three years he was in court to reclaim his governorship mandate in Anambra despite discouragements from people.  “Anyone who thinks I’m on transit is wasting his time. Let me tell you, I must be the president of this country. I’m sure of that. If it is not today, it must be tomorrow,” Obi was quoted as saying by Daily Trust.  “Other people who want to be, should come and tell us what they want to do, and how to do it. This is my country, I don’t have dual citizenship. If anyone thinks I am going to run away from Nigeria, they are lying. “I have three engagements in Anambra and Lagos today. I will be speaking in Lagos tonight. We will not leave Nigeria. I am not in a hurry to become the p

  The Lamidi Apapa-led faction of the Labour Party has distanced itself from the calls for an interim government and the agitations that the President-elect, Bola Tinubu, should not be sworn in on May 29, pending the determination of the petitions before the Presidential Election Tribunal sitting in Abuja. The faction of the party, noted that the swearing-in of Tinubu “may not have any impact on the ongoing legal tussle on the presidential election involving our party, APC and INEC.” LP in a statement made available to Vanguard in Abeokuta, Ogun State capital, by the faction’s spokesman, Abayomi Arabambi, posited that the Electoral Act and the Constitution of Nigeria did not give room for a vacuum, “so whether the President-elect is sworn in or not, there is right to remove him legally if it is found out that he was not duly elected.” Arabambi recalled how the Court removed Chris Ngige and confirmed Peter Obi as the Governor of Anambra State in 2003. Citing sections 136 and 146 of the

  Argentine superstar Lionel Messi will play in Saudi Arabia next season under a “huge” deal, a source close to the negotiations told AFP on Tuesday. “The contract is exceptional. It’s huge. We are just finalising some small details,” added the source, who is not athorised to speak to media. Asked about the comments, Messi’s current club Paris Saint-Germain simply noted he remains under contract until June 30. A separate PSG source said: “If the club had wanted to renew his contract, it would have been done earlier.” The 35-year-old World Cup winner was suspended by Qatari-owned PSG last week for an unauthorised trip to Saudi, where he is a tourism ambassador. Messi’s expected arrival in the oil-rich kingdom follows in the footsteps of his arch-rival Cristiano Ronaldo, who joined Saudi Pro League club Al Nassr in a massive deal in January. Ronaldo’s agreement to June 2025 is said to total more than 400 million euros ($439million), making him the world’s highest paid athlete according t

  Jorge Messi, father of Lionel Messi has denied reports that the Argentine star will be moving to Saudi Arabia next year. Reports of Paris Saint-Germain talisman signing a deal to play in Saudi Arabia next season had been widespread on Tuesday.  A Saudi source close to the negotiations told AFP that the deal was agreed on lucrative terms.  “The contract is exceptional. It is huge. We are still finalising some details,” the source added, without revealing the name of the club concerned. However, in reaction, the player’s father debunked the reports, adding that no agreement verbally or otherwise had been reached.    “There’s absolutely nothing agreed with any club for next season,” Jorge Messi, who also represents his son, said. “We will decide at the end of the season. Nothing is signed, agreed or verbally agreed. Only fake news using Leo’s name.” Messi is already under contract with Visit Saudi in a deal that sees him promoting the Kingdom’s tourist destinations. The 35-year-old was

  The jury in E Jean Carroll’s civil rape trial against Donald Trump has found him liable for her sexual abuse but not for rape. The former president was also found to have defamed the magazine columnist. She has been awarded a total of $5m in a payout after a unanimous verdict was reached by the nine jurors in less than three hours. Both sides delivered closing arguments in a Manhattan courtroom on Monday, with Ms Carroll’s lawyer Roberta Kaplan saying: “In a real sense, Donald Trump is a witness against himself.” Mr Trump’s attorney Joe Tacopina countered that while the former president’s “grab ‘em by the pussy” comments in the infamous Access Hollywood tape are “rude” and “gross”, he claimed “that doesn’t make Ms Carroll’s unbelievable story believable”. Independent.co.uk

  The Presidential Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party in the 2023 General Elections, Atiku Abubakar, has said the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System (BVAS), has come to stay as a legal instrument for the accreditation and transmission of election results in Nigeria.  Atiku made the declaration in his response to the Supreme Court’s affirmation of the victory of Governor Ademola Adeleke of Osun State. This was contained in a statement issued by his Media Office, in Abuja, on Tuesday. Atiku, equally congratulated the people of Osun State for the affirmation of their collective mandate given to Governor Adeleke, said that the introduction of technology in the conduct of elections in Nigeria is a progress that cannot be reversed. He said, “We are all witnesses to the copoius references to the BVAS technology in coming up with this judgement. “The law governing our elections has truly brought power to the people, and those power mongering politicians who believe that they can freely

  The Ogun State chapter of the National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) on Tuesday, raised the alarm over plans by some hoodlums to disrupt the May 29 inauguration of Prince Dapo Abiodun, as the governor of the State for his second term in office. The students, under the aegis of NANS Ogun Joint Campus Committee (JCC) and the National Association of Ogun State Students (NAOSS) alleged that some members of a yet-to-be-identified cult group, who had infiltrated its association, are currently working with the opposition political parties in the state to cause mayhem and consequently unleash terror on some members of the public during the inauguration period. In a statement jointly signed by NANS JCC Chairman and NAOSS National President, Damilola Kehinde Simeon and Ogunrombi Oluwagbemileke respectively, copies of which were obtained by Vanguard in Abeokuta, called on the government and security operatives in the state to immediately investigate the issues raised so as not to jeop

  Afrobeats singer, David Adeleke, Davido has celebrated the ruling of the Supreme Court affirming his uncle, Ademola Adeleke as Osun state governor.  The Supreme Court, on Tuesday, affirmed Adeleke of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, as the validly elected Governor of Osun State. The apex court, in its lead judgement they were delivered by Justice Emmanuel Agim, dismissed an appeal that was lodged against Adeleke’s election victory by the former governor of the state, Adegboyega Oyetola, who was the gubernatorial candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC. Reacting to the verdict of the court, Davido mocked oppositions with a line from ‘Over Dem’ a track in his latest album, Timeless.  He tweeted, “We go dey shock them like high-tension’. https://twitter.com/davido/status/1655933267902877698/photo/1?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1655933267902877698%7Ctwgr%5E929a4583654706a17aeb2f2009352e876db81d4e%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fd-2061247195207199

  The Supreme Court, on Tuesday, affirmed Ademola Adeleke of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, as the validly elected Governor of Osun State. The apex court, in its lead judgement they were delivered by Justice Emmanuel Agim, dismissed an appeal that was lodged against Adeleke’s election victory by the former governor of the state, Adegboyega Oyetola, who was the gubernatorial candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC. It held that though Oyetola alleged that Adeleke won through over-voting that occurred in 774 polling units in the state, he, however, failed to produce any Bimodal Voters Accreditation System, BVAS, a machine that was used in any of the polling units to prove his allegation. “It is glaring that the Appellant did not provide in evidence, any BVAS, but sought to prove over-voting by means of a report of examination of INEC’s database or backend server”. The apex court held that since it was not in dispute that the BVAS contain a record of accredited voters, “it is,

  The President-elect, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, has asked the Presidential Election Petition Court, PEPC, sitting in Abuja to dismiss a petition the Allied Peoples Movement, APM, filed to nullify his election victory. Tinubu, through his team of lawyers led by Chief Akin Olujinmi, SAN, maintained that the petition was bereft of merit and substance. The APM had in its petition marked: CA/PEPC/04/2023, contended that the withdrawal of Mr. Ibrahim Masari who was initially nominated as the Vice-Presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, invalidated Tinubu’s candidacy in view of Section 131(c) and 142 of the 1999 Constitution, as amended. The party argued that there was a gap of about three weeks between the period that Masari, who was listed as the 5th Respondent in the petition, expressed intention to withdraw, the actual withdrawal of his purported nomination, and the time Tinubu purportedly replaced him with Senator Kashim Shettima. It further argued that Tinubu’s candida

  The Presidential Election Petition Court, PEPC, yesterday, commenced hearing in the petitions seeking to nullify the outcome of the 2023 presidential election. Though, the tribunal held its inaugural session, a legal ritual that precedes the actual hearing of petitions, at the session, a five-member panel of Justices of the Court of Appeal would determine all the five petitions challenging the declaration of Bola Tinubu of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, as the winner of the presidential election, were revealed. While the panel will be headed by the Presiding Justice (PJ) of the Abuja Division of the Court of Appeal, Justice Haruna Tsammani, other members of the panel are; Justice Stephen Adah (PJ Asaba Division), Justice Monsurat Bolaji-Yusuf (Asaba Division), Justice Boluokuromo Ugo (Kano Division) and Justice Abba Mohammed (Ibadan Division). The sitting of the court held amid tight security presence at the Court of Appeal in Abuja, venue of the Presidential Election Pet

 The Chief Whip of the 9th Senate and former governor of Abia state, Senator Orji Uzor Kalu has written personal letters to the members of National Working Committee of ruling All Progressives Congress, APC and 108 Senators elect of his interest to be the next Senate President. In an official statement released by the Media office of the Chief Whip on Monday, Kalu refuted news making round that the South East senators-elect endorsed him. He explained that the senators-elect of the South East only met to make a demand from the President-elect, saying the party has yet to endorse anyone.  Kalu, in the letters he personally signed and addressed to each of the NWC members and Senators-elect, said he is offering himself for the position of the Senate President to the Nigerian people, the senators elect and the party with sincerity of heart, humility, and candour.  The lawmaker also noted that his seemingly inactive in the contest of the senate presidency was because of the one month mournin

  The General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, RCCG, Pastor Enoch Adeboye, has said the President-elect, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu will fix Nigeria with God’s help. Adeboye gave this assurance at the monthly thanksgiving service at the RCCG Headquarters in Ebute-Metta. The cleric, represented by his Special Assistant, Pastor Dele Balogun, said Nigeria would prosper under Tinubu’s administration. The RCCG General Overseer urged Tinubu to fulfil Nigerians’ dream of a new nation. He stated, “Let us pray for the incoming government that God will support it and give it the Grace to do the right thing. “Thank God the President-elect has promised to fix Nigeria. If God helps him, Nigeria will prosper in his hands.” The President-elect would be inaugurated on May 29 as the next President of Nigeria as President Muhammadu Buhari moves out of the Office.  Recall that the Presidential Election Petitions Tribunal in Abuja has struck out the petition by the Action Alliance (AA) challengi