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The Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, Benjamin Kalu, has said the incumbent governor of Abia State would be the last the Labour Party produce to govern the state. Kalu made this disclosure in a video that went viral on Monday while he was addressing the chances of his party, the All Progressives Congress, in the next election. According to the 53-year-old former spokesman of the green chambers of the National Assembly, representing the Bende Federal Constituency, Otti has done well as a governor but the state needed to be governed by APC because of President Bola Tinubu’s contribution to the state. He said, “This will be the last time that a Labour governor will govern Abia State. I say it without mincing words. The next governor of Abia State will be APC governor. “I have told him publicly and privately that the APC governor will be next in Abia State. How it will happen, I don’t know, but it will happen. ”I am confident because my government is working ...

The Nigerian Army announced on Sunday that its troops had neutralised a notorious Boko Haram commander, Abu Rijab, and other terrorist fighters in an offensive operation on Saturday. This was made known in a post on the Nigerian army’s official X Handle. It said that the operation took place in Bula Daloye, Bama Local Government Area of Borno. It said the successful operation was in addition to the surrender of numerous terrorists and their families to the troops as a result of sustained pressure against their enclaves. The Army said the troops also apprehended several criminal suspects and recovered arms and ammunition. “Following an intense firefight, the troops overpowered the terrorists, neutralising three, including a wanted Boko Haram commander, Abu Rijab. “The operation led to the recovery of two AK-47 rifles and mobile phones. “Additionally, eight terrorists and their families surrendered to troops in Gwoza Local Government Area. “The same troops also app...

THE Patriots, a group of eminent Nigerians and elder statesmen, have restated its insistence on a new constitution to save the country. Responding to concerns over its meeting with President Bola Tinubu on August 9, the Chief Emeka Anyaoku-led body, said a new grundnorm is needed because the 1999 constitution is too undemocratic and flawed to be amended. Agreeing with the statement credited to Mallam Tanko Yakassai about the need to consult widely on the initiative to give Nigeria a new, truly federal constitution, The Patriots said a combination of the provisions of the 1963 constitution and recommendations would yield the desired new constitution. In a statement by its Secretary, Comrade Wale Okunniyi, the group told Yakassai that the submission made to the President was “a product of concerted and painstaking consultations, including a National Dialogue (Colloquium) in March 2024, where participants drawn from all parts of the country resolved to push for a new constitutio...

The average value of the world’s richest football clubs has reached $2.3 billion in 2024, contributing to a total combined value of over $45.7 billion, according to Forbes. By: Emmanuel Matthew The beautiful game of football has evolved over the years as the profession is now highly lucrative for athletes, club owners, and administrators. While the high viewership by fans via TV and internet streaming platforms has amassed great wealth for football clubs, the resultant effect is that fans have to pay more (premium value) to support and root for their favourite clubs actively. The biggest clubs in the world have a plethora of fans from across the globe and various streams of income such as Kit sponsorship, merchandise, TV rights, and matchday ticket sales which makes it unsurprising that these clubs are now ‘franchises,’ raking in hundreds of millions of pounds yearly. According to Forbes, the average value of the world’s richest football clubs has reached $2.3 billion in ...

My dear brother Paul, Just like I have told you several times, I am not in any competition with you or anybody else. However, seeing you grant countless interviews where you constantly discredit my efforts in the group that we both created and built together really speaks volumes. In your recent interviews, you claimed that you wrote and sang 99% of all P-SQUARE songs and discredited me by saying that our song with TI "EjeaJo," which I wrote, was a failure. You went as far as using the YouTube views to discredit me once again. You never acknowledged the other songs like "Get-Squared," "Bizzy Body," "Personally," "Roll It," "Temptation," "Alingo," "More than a Friend," "Shekini," "Say Your Love," "Gimme Dat," "Senorita," "IGBEdu," and a few others. Were these songs also considered failures as well? Every time I have spoken in interviews about P-SQUARE...

The former Chief Security Officer to the late military Head of State, General Sani Abacha, and the 2023 presidential candidate of the Action Alliance, Major Hamza Al-Mustapha, has condemned agitations for a military takeover in the country stressing that military coup is a thing of the past that no longer has a place in Nigeria. Al-Mustapha stated this on Wednesday in Abuja while addressing select journalists on the hardship being faced by many citizens occasioned by the removal of fuel subsidy by the federal government. He described the call for a military takeover as a misplaced priority stressing that there was no longer room for military intervention in Nigeria’s political affairs. He noted that democracy has come to stay in Nigeria and advised that Nigeria pick a system of government best suitable for her people rather than being a copycat and adopting America or Britain’s system of government which were chosen because they were best suitable for them. He...

Good morning my Gist Mates! So many times I have heard people complain about how they got into a relationship, got used and then dumped for no reason. Other times i hear people complain about how their partners refused to do this or that for them and the relationship ended badly. Then they later start screaming “men are scum”, “women are not trustworthy” all over the internet. This is not to say that one can not be deceived into doing what he or she would not have done if they knew the truth or that there are no scum men or women out there but many times we fail to do the first things first. Many times when we see a person we like or love, we do not take a moment to get to know them, allow them time to know us and our expectations, get to know theirs too before jumping into a relationship with them. Before the relationship gathers momentum, they have started making attempts at sex or we already jumped into bed with them. After a while we heap all our hidden expectations on them, on...