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Update:: A fresh controversy has hit the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP after its national chairman, Uche Secondus was pictured kneeling before the Presidential Candidate of the party, Atiku Abubakar. Its unclear why Secondus is kneeling but the emergence of the photograph has raised eyebrows on the behind-the-scenes activities going on within the opposition party. More details soon….

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Update:: Below is a Press Statement from the All Progressives Congress, APC made available to PoliticsNGR; We are amused by the latest utterances of the Chairman, Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Uche Secondus calling on both the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof. Yakubu Mahmoud and the Inspector General of Police, Mr. Idris Ibrahim to resign on account of the PDP’s baseless suspicions ahead of the 2019 General Elections. It is a pity that the once boisterous PDP, having undermined the country for 16 years through mindless undemocratic actions, has now become a caricature of a political party. This latest outburst is yet another reminder of how the PDP government serially abused state institutions in the pursuit of selfish political and economic interests. PDP is now being haunted by its sordid past and the ruinous party is now scampering from its own shadow. It is sad that the PDP hounds have continued to take Nigerians for granted, thinking ...

Update:: Ahead of the 2019 general elections, a frontline Presidential contender on the platform of the Labour Party (LP), Sam Nwanti, has withdrawn from the presidential race in support of President Muhammadu Buhari re-election. The American-based detective from Mbieri, in the Mbaitoli Council Area of Imo State dropped his ambition in an interactive session with newsmen in Owerri. Nwanti disclosed that he withdrew from the race to boost the re-election bid of President Buhari in the 2019 elections, while he prepares for the 2023 presidential race. “Today, I withdraw from contesting for the presidential race on the platform of Labour party and back to APC. “I am back to APC to support President Buhari for his second term bid because he needs our support to get things aright once again. I will help All Progressives Congress and Buhari led administration fight corruption and as the only detective who is contesting in 2019, it may split the support of President Muhammadu Buhari,”

Update:: President Muhammadu Buhari has arrived Krakow, Poland, ahead of the 24th session of the Conference of the Parties (COP24) under the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), taking place from December 2 to 4. Mr Buhari arrived Military Base Balice, International Airport, Krakow at exactly 17:44 p.m., local time, an official statement from the presidency noted. The president and his team arrived just when the town was experiencing its first snow of the winter season. Temperature reading at the time of his arrival was -3 degrees Centigrade. COP24 Summit is being held at the International Conference Centre (MCK), Katowice, an industrial hub, about 100 kilometers from Krakow. Mr Buhari’s first official engagement will be a town hall meeting with Nigerians living in Poland on Sunday evening. The President will during the Leaders’ Summit at COP24, on Monday morning deliver a national statement highlighting Nigeria’s commitment to addressing climate change by impleme...

Update:: Hollywood superstars Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt have reached an amicable agreement on the custody of their six children, avoiding a potentially messy public trial, US media reported on Friday. Pitt and Jolie announced their separation in September 2016 after two years of marriage and 11 years together. Three of their children are their biological children, and the other three are adopted. “A custody arrangement was agreed two weeks ago, and has been signed by both parties and the judge,” Jolie’s lawyer, Samantha Bley DeJean, said in a statement carried by several US celebrity news outlets including TMZ. “The agreement, which is based on the recommendations of the child custody evaluator, eliminates the need for a trial,” she said. The couple had been set for a trial on December 4 — the deal means they will not battle in court. Jolie originally wanted to have sole custody of the children, while Pitt asked for shared custody. The terms of the agreement are confidentia...

Update:: Joaquin Calles became interested in learning Chinese when he first picked up the classic Chinese philosophical book Tao Te Ching more than a decade ago. However, scant additional information was available in Spanish on the school of thought in this work. Curious to learn more, Calles decided to study Chinese so he could further explore ancient Chinese philosophy. Learning the language fascinated him. "I found Chinese characters very interesting because they are very much related to the culture," Calles said. "For example, the Chinese word for medicine, yao , in its traditional form is related to music and herbs. It implies a connection with food and mood," he said. Calles had to find another school when the Language University Center canceled the Chinese class due to insufficient demand. He found another venue and four years later gained a degree in Chinese translation. To improve his Chinese, Calles enrolled with Chinese Language Education in Beijin...

Update:: Since the emergence of a video on social media, showing some strange looking armed men in the Northwestern state of Sokoto, Nigerians have been calling for a thorough investigation to avoid stories that touch. The fear that leaving it unattended to, by appropriate authorities, may just see the beginning of another terrorist group, while the country was still battling to expel Boko Haram, which has held the Northeast to ransom for many years now. Joining voice with many other Nigerians, Senator Shehu Sani, representing Kaduna Central at the senate has also called for quick and serious probe of the situation. According to him, while speaking via social media on Saturday, the government must take seriously the investigation of the armed group that just showed up in Sokoto. He noted that the group must be nibbed in the bud, to avoid another form of armed bandits, which the region was already battling with. The emergence of an Armed group in Sokoto state must be investigated ...

Update:: Modupe-Oreoluwa Oyeyemi, Nigerian artiste better known as Mo’Cheddah, says that she once battled depression to the point of considering jumping off Third Mainland Bridge. The 28-year-old fashion designer said older colleagues in the industry hated her when she got into the industry. “I was coming from a naive, God-fearing family and I went into the world of adults and I was thrown into a jungle and people did not care if I was 16, they attacked me,” she said in an interview with DANG Network. “The industry was hostile. I would be performing and they would turn off my microphone because the A-list artist doesn’t like me. There was one day I looked at my Mum and told her ‘you taught me everything about love but you did not teach me to hate’. “I don’t know why she did not, but the truth is there is hate in the world, so I went into the industry thinking everybody loved everybody. I didn’t understand that hate.” Explaining her abrupt exit from the music scene, Mo Cheddah sai...

In a bid to come across as attractive and wow their fanbases, celebs sometimes always take the wrong route and often end up embarrassing themselves. This was the case for Nollywood actress, Destiny Etiko who in a bid to come up as curvy made a mess of herself on Instagram. Check on the Photo below: Ms Etiko ended up just distorting the AC vent! Mercy Aigbe 2.0

Following close to a month of peace, female hip-hop stars, Nicki Minaj and Cardi B‘s unending beef has sprung up again after the former threw a pronounced shade at the latter recently. Nicki Minaj dropped a video for her track “Good Form” featuring Lil Wayne off her “Queen” album and she chose to hire sisters/video vixens/strip club bartenders, Baddie Gi and Jade to star in it. The duo are currently preparing to sue Cardi, TMZ reports, after she allegedly ordered an attack on them in late August. Cardi accused Jade of sleeping with her husband, Migos’ Offset. Jade accused Cardi of hiring five people to jump her at Queens’ Angels Strip Club. They allegedly punched her, pulled her hair and hit her with an ashtray. Both women claim that hours after the attack, Cardi B entered the club and threw a bottle at the pair of them, and they suffered injuries in the assault. She has denied the allegations.

Update:: Atiku Abubakar, presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has finally been issued a visa to the United States. A family source disclosed this to TheCable on Saturday, adding that the former vice-president has left Nigeria for the UK, where he would spend some time before flying to the U. S. It was learnt that former President Olusegun Obasanjo played a “critical” role in getting the American government to issue the visa to his former deputy with whom he was estranged for almost 15 years. Scooper recalls that Lai Mohammed, the Minister of Information on Thursday warned the US to be cautious in granting visa to the main opponent of President Muhammadu Buhari in the 2019 election. However, commenting on Atiku’s visa status on Friday, Rusell Brooks, spokesman of the US consulate in Lagos, said issuance of visa to Nigerians irrespective of their status is strictly a confidential matter. He said the U.S government will not discuss such confidentiality in ...

Update:: Imo State Governor, Rochas Okorocha has suspended the Accountant-General of the State, Mrs. Stella Udogwu over the non-payment of the November salary of Local Government Workers. The governor also ordered the arrest of the Branch Managers of Ecobank and Access Bank where the money for the payment was lodged, the Chief Press Secretary to the Governor, Mr Sam Onwuemeodo, stated in a release on Friday. The governor said that the suspension of the accountant-general would take immediate effect. He also directed that the Chief of Staff appoint an acting accountant-general pending the appointment of a new person to the office. Okorocha said Friday that before now he had directed that the October and November salaries of workers in the state be paid at the same time in October. He said he was dismayed that the directive was not carried out until he was informed at the 40th Anniversary ceremony of the Nigeria Union of Local Government Employees in Owerri on Friday. “I had rele...

Update:: The Federal Government of Nigeria has directed vice-chancellors of striking public universities across the country to enforce “no-work-no-pay” rule on the striking lecturers. It was gathered late Friday that the directive to implement the “no work, no pay” policy was communicated to the universities in a memo sent by the Nigerian Universities Commission (NUC) to university vice-chancellors. The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) had on November 4 declared indefinite, nationwide strike over non-implementation of previous agreements by the federal government and demand for increased university funding. At least two meetings have been held between the lecturers and the government since the strike commenced. However, both parties are yet to reach an agreement. In the memo signed by NUC Director of Research, Information and Technology S.B Ramon-Yusuf, the university regulator stated that payment of salaries from any other sources but government funding will be viewed...

Update:: A student of the Rufus Giwa Polytechnic (RUGIPO), Owo, Ondo State has been shot dead by unknown cultist. It is unclear to the cause of the attack.

Iconic Bollywood star and India's highest-paid, most popular celebrity, Priyanka Chopra is now officially married. The superstar got married to prominent Texan singer, Nick Jonas before family and friends in Jodhpur's Umaid Bhavan Palace. It was gathered that the ceremony was officiated by Jonas's father Paul Kevin Jonas. The couple will have a traditional Hindu ceremony on Sunday. Jonas and Chopra became engaged four months ago after dating for a year. They both confirmed the wedding had taken place on their respective social media accounts. They said "one of the special things" about their relationship was the merging of their families, faiths and cultures "and so planning our wedding with an amalgamation of both was so so amazing". Jonas, 26, and Chopra, 36, are believed to have first started dating around the time of the Met Gala in May 2017. They got engaged in London just over a year later. Chopra won the Miss World pageant in 2000 and ...

Update:: Next week in Poland, a discreet delegation of American diplomats will settle in for two weeks of international climate negotiations along with their European, Chinese and other counterparts they've mixed with for years. The fact that Donald Trump announced in June 2017 that the US would withdraw from the Paris climate accord signed in 2015 by his predecessor, Barack Obama, has not ended US participation in continuing climate talks. The US pullout won't take effect until 2020. In the meantime, the Americans are not leaving their seats empty and remain heavily involved at the technical, rather than political, level. "Among developed countries, the US is hardly isolated on those issues," said Alden Meyer, director of strategy and policy at the Union of Concerned Scientists, noting that the US has maintained a united front with Europe and other rich nations when it comes to technical subjects that are indispensable to the effective rollout of the Paris deal...

Update:: Tiffany Trump has been privately dating Michael Boulos, the son of a multi-billion dollar family in Nigeria, Page Six reports. A source close to Tiffany tells the outlet that she and Boulos spent Thanksgiving together earlier this month and that he met most of her family. Tiffany and Boulos are assumed to have started dating over the summer when they met while on vacation in Mykonos. Boulos grew up in Lagos, the largest city in Nigeria—a country which Tiffany's father President Trump once referred to as a "shithole country." Back in January of this year, a source who works within the White House reported to CNN that President Trump had denounced immigrants by asking aides,"Why do we want all these people from shithole countries coming here?" Tiffany is happy she has so far been able to keep things with Michael under the radar," explains Page Six's source. "But she introduced him to her family at Thanksgiving, and he comes across as...

•Urhobo guaranteed of power in 2023 if Anioma gets second term •Why Clark’s position on Gov Okowa is incontrovertible •Speaks on Flash Flamingoes FC By Emma Amaeze THREE-TIME Senator, Chief Patrick Osakwe, has said that at the appropriate time, the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Delta State, will inform the National Chairman of All Progressives Congress, APC, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, who boasted some months ago that his party would take over the state in 2019, that the oil-rich state belongs to it (PDP). Senator, who spoke to Saturday Vanguard in an interview, asserted that with Delta state governor, Senator Ifeanyi Okowa, from North senatorial district (Anioma), as PDP gubernatorial standard-bearer for the 2019 general election, the Central district (Urhobo) is sure of regaining power in 2023 once it supports Anioma’s second term bid under the power rotation arrangement Urhobo themselves kick started in the new political dispensation. Lawyers in Imo boycott court si...

Update:: According to the organisers, the conference is expected to finalise the rules for implementation of the Paris Agreement on Climate Change under the Paris Agreement Work Programme (PAWP), the rulebook for implementation. During the summit, President Buhari will deliver a national statement highlighting Nigeria’s commitment to addressing climate change by implementing the goals set out in its National Determined Contributions and accentuate Nigeria’s willingness to work with international partners to reverse the negative effects of climate change in Africa and the world over, while expecting that developed nations scale up their emission reduction activities in order to limit the increase in average global temperatures to well below 2 degrees centigrade between now and 2020. The Leaders’ Summit is expected to adopt a ‘‘Declaration on Solidarity and Just Transition Silesia,’’ named after the region of Poland where this year’s climate conference is taking place. As a member ...

Update:: The Federal Government has pleaded with the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) to make a sacrifice and suspend its ongoing industrial action so that students won’t be used for political thuggery. The Permanent Secretary, Federal Ministry of Labour and Employment, Mrs Ibukun Odusote, who has been at the centre of the efforts to resolve the crisis, appealed to members of ASUU to make some sacrifices as parents to secure the future of Nigeria children. Odusote made the appeal while addressing the delegates of the African Students Union Parliament (ASUP), led by its Speaker, Kewul Abel, in Abuja on Tuesday. “I am appealing to ASUU members, who are also parents, that there are some sacrifices that some people have to make so that the future of our children can be secured. “If our children are sitting at home at a critical time like this, with the year coming to an end, and the nation preparing for a national election. The tendencies that they will start running into...

Former President Goodluck Jonathan says there is a sense of worry among Nigerians regarding the neutrality of government agencies that will take part in the conduct of the 2019 general elections. He also said he could not take responsibility for the April 14, 2014 abduction of Chibok schoolgirls in Borno State. Jonathan, however, said he had faith in the Independent National Electoral Commission, the Nigeria Police Force, the Nigerian Army and the Department of State Services to do well. The former President said this during an interview on BBC. He said, “We are a bit worried about the neutrality of the relevant agencies of government because with previous elections, I was not in the field. Of course, after every election, people will complain naturally but those are the areas people are getting worried but I believe the elections will come and go and those bodies- INEC, the police, the army and the DSS will be able to do well.” On the abduction of the over 200 schoolgirls in ...

Finally, the music video to the previously released smash hit audio for “My World” off the Greatness album by superstar DJ Neptune featuring UK star Maleek Berry has been released. The melodious chorus with catchy lyrics was produced by multiple award-winning platinum hit-making duo Legendury Beatz, alongside DJ Neptune with intentions of cutting across different genres of music with a blend of Afrobashment, Afrobeat and R “n” B. The music video was shot and directed in the U.K by ace director Nitin Lutch for Lutch Media.

Leaders of the North East, North West, North Central, South South, South West and South East geopolitical zones meeting with Peter Obi at Chief E.K.Clark's Abuja residence, on how to restructure and re-engineer Nigeria. Present at the meeting are: Chief E.K.Clark, Prof Ango Abdullahi, Chief Ayo Adebanjo, Chief John Nnia Nwodo, Gen Zamani Lekwot,Chief Cornelius Adebayo,Chief Mike Ozekhome, SAN,Engr Dr Tanko Abdullahi,Senator Bassey Henshaw,Col Lawan Gwadabe,Ambassador Godknows,Igali,Senator Stella Omu,Yinka Odumakin,Dr Bitrus Pogu,Chief Willy Bozimo,Chief Mrs Remi Kuku,Bashir Hadejia.

Meek Mill's CHAMPIONSHIPS album has some words for Kanye West. And, no, they don't come from the Philly rapper. Shortly after the project hit streaming services, fans began dissecting lines in the "What's Free" track featuring Rick Ross and JAY-Z. Hov can be heard spitting a number of lines that reference Kanye's recent support of Donald Trump and his affinity for the MAGA hat: "No red hat, don’t Michael and Prince me and Ye/They separate you when you got Michael and Prince’s DNA/I ain’t one of these house n***as you bought/My house like a resort, my house bigger than yours/My spo—c’mon, man—my route better of course" Though they were once considered a hip-hop power duo, JAY and Kanye's bromance has deteriorated over the past several years. There was hope that the two were on good terms after Ye posted a photo of the JAY and Beyoncé with the caption, "Famleeeeee." In the days leading up to CHAMPIONSHIPS release, Meek reiterated h...

Update:: 'Buhari Is Taking Worst Possible Military Advice'- S'African Mercenary Speaks On Boko Haram One of the reasons for the Nigeria’s unsolved Boko haram conundrum is the “worst possible military advice” President Muhammadu Buhari has been receiving for his advisors, Eeben Barlow, a South African mercenary who was involved with the training of Nigerian soldiers in the North-East, has said. According to Barlow, on becoming President, Buhari and his advisors resisted an ongoing three-phase campaign strategy to degrade and destroy Boko Haram in Borno State, but they were quite happy to allow the Armed Forces to receive both substandard training and the incorrect equipment provided by both foreign governments and their Private Military Companies (PMCs) — along with the worst possible ‘military advice’. Writing on his Facebook timeline, Barlow urged the public not to blame the Armed Forces when poor political decisions result in the deaths of people, saying:“North-east...

Update:: Atiku's American Visa Status Is A Confidential Matter – US Consulate Declares. Against the backdrop of the controversies trailing the US visa status of Nigeria’s former vice president who also doubles as the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for the 2019 general elections, Atiku Abubakar, the United States Consulate, Lagos on Friday said the issue remains a strictly confidential matter which the American government will not discuss publicly. The Public Affairs Officer (PAO), US Consulate, Lagos, Brussel Brooks, maintained that irrespective of the social standing or interest of the society in the matter, the US government will give the matter the strict confidentiality that it requires. The PAO who did not specifically mention any name, made the disclosure in an interview with journalists at the end of an education forum organised for 150 teachers and students drawn from various public schools in Oyo State. Dignitaries at the event include ...

Update:: The tag of ‘Most educated state’ in Nigeria is usually an emotional subject. Everybody with an iota of pride would want to claim that crown for their own state. This is one discussion that is never-ending. Many contend that a table listing the most educated states must consider all variables before making a final conclusion. According to this school of thought, basing your argument on say, the state with the highest number of professors would produce a different result with a ranking based on the number of tertiary institutions in a state. But given that records keeping in Nigeria are notoriously bad, the best criteria for this sort of ranking must be easily verifiable. And the raw stats must be accepted as it is. That is why this ranking is based on the senior secondary school examination, SSCE. The examination organized by the West African Examination Council, WAEC, is a national exam and the tests are standardized irrespective of state. The marking scheme too is st...