By Abimbola Ogunnaike The Chief Whip of the Senate,Orji Kalu has said that he is not sure that Nigerians are ready for a president from the South-East geopolitical zone. Kalu stated this in a Channels Television’s special election programme titled The 2023 Verdict on Wednesday, 22 February, 2023. According to him, the February 25 presidential election is not the best outing for the Igbo people because the people of the South-East need the support of five other regions for one of their own to get to Aso Rock. “It is not the best outing for us (Igbo people) because for you to become…
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By Abimbola Ogunnaike Few days to the Saturday, 25 February, 2023, presidential poll, former Nigerian President, Goodluck Jonathan has urged politicians not to seek power at all costs but to eschew hatred and violence and embrace true sportsmanship, during and after the poll. Jonathan made the appeal in a statement signed by his special Adviser, Ikechukwu Eze and made available to thegazellenews.com on Wednesday, 22 February, 2023. The former President counseled youths not to be used as agents of violence and destruction in the February 25 and March 11 polls but to be “key partners in the nation-building”. “Let us eschew…
By Abimbola Ogunnaike Just four days to the 2023 general election in Nigeria, two unnamed hunters have discovered a bag full of Permanent Voter Cards, PVCs, in a forest in Nnewi, Anambra State. Thegazellenews.com gathered that the hunters saw the bag containing the PVCs in a bush in Akamili, a community in Nnewi, on Tuesday, 21 February, 2023, and later took it to the premises of a popular radio station, Authority FM. Station Manager of Authority FM, Mr Charles Ede,who confirmed the development to a news medium, said he was not in the station when the cards were brought in,…
By Abimbola Ogunnaike Four days to the commencement of the 2023 elections, the Presidential Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, has said he’s not desperate to be Nigeria’s president. Atiku said contrary to what some people are saying, he was contesting for the presidency to make Nigeria a better place. The PDP Presidential Candidate stated this in Abuja when the Council of National Students’ Presidents of Nigeria, endorsed him as their Presidential Candidate, ahead of Saturday, 25 February, 2023 election. Represented by a former Speaker of the House of Representatives, Rt Hon Yakubu Dogara, Atiku said:…
By Abimbola Ogunnaike Two people were confirmed killed and three others injured following an explosion and fire at a welding company in Florida on Tuesday, 21 February, 2023. The welding company is located in Medley, a town in Miami-Dade County. Officials said two people were pronounced dead at the scene and three others were hurt in the fire. Miami-Dade Police Department’s Homicide Bureau, along with the arson unit, is investigating what caused the combustion. The incident came only a day after one person was killed and more than a dozen others were injured in a fiery explosion at a manufacturing…
By Abimbola Ogunnaike The Kaduna State command of the Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) has disclosed that over 4,000 officers and men of the corps would be deployed for the 2023 general elections in the state. The Commandant of NSCDC in the state, CC Idris Yahaya Adah, made this disclosure on Wednesday, 22 February, 2023, in Kaduna, the state capital Adah said that the arrangements have been concluded for security coverage during the election, assuring residents of the state to come out enmass to exercise their franchise as citizens of the country. According to him, the massive deployment of…
By Abimbola Ogunnaike The Supreme Court has resumed hearings after a break over the naira redesign and swap policy brought against the federal government by some states, just as it also admitted Abia State in the suit. The seven-member panel led by Justice Inyang Okoro admitted Abia State as the 12th state co-plaintiffs after counsel to the Attorney General of the Federation, Tijani Gazalli (SAN), agreed to concede to Abia’s fresh application to join, which he earlier said was not ripe as the office was served in the court. Counsel to the Attorney General of Abia, Udochi Iheanacho Esq, had…
By Abimbola Ogunnaike The Federal High Court sitting in Lagos and presided over Justice Nicholas Oweibo has granted an order of interim forfeiture of 14 properties in Lagos, Abuja, and Dubai, the United Arab Emirates all linked to the Kogi State Government. Oweibo gave the order following an ex parte application filed and argued by counsel to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Mr. Rotimi Oyedepo, SAN. While moving the application before the court this morning, Oyedepo informed the judge that the properties, including the one in the world’s tallest building Burj Khalifa in Dubai, UAE, were reasonably suspected to have…
Ahead of Saturday, 25 February, 2023, presidential election, political parties in four states in the South-West have collapsed their structures to work for the victory of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Presidential Candidate, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu at the poll. The political parties: Allied Peoples Movement (APM), Young Progressives Party (YPP), Peoples Redemption Party (PRP), and Action Democratic Party (ADP), who are members of the South-West Alliance of Registered Political Parties said they decided to collapse their political parties’ structures to ensure Tinubu’s victory in Saturday’s election. The decision of the political parties to work for Tinubu’s victory was announced…