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The All Progressives Congress has set up a reconciliation committee to meet with aggrieved presidential candidates of other political parties who contested in last Saturday’s presidential election. The committee, according to the Governor of Ondo State, Rotimi Akeredolu, is to resolve their displeasure and ensure all parties involved work together …

Former President Goodluck Jonathan on Tuesday evening led a delegation of the Election Monitoring Team of the Economic Community of West African States to visit the residence of the All Progressives Congress presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu, in Abuja. Jonathan was accompanied by the former President of Ghana, John Mahama; ex-Governor …

Some youths in Lagos have expressed dismay over their denial to cast their votes during the just concluded presidential and National Assembly elections. The News Agency of Nigeria reported that the youth had expressed their grievances on Sunday, outside one of the collation centres at the Lagos State Model Nursery …

The presidential election has been delayed at the All Progressives Congress presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu’s polling unit, Polling Units 085, Ward 3, Sunday Adigun, Alausa, Ikeja, Lagos State. Observers, police personnel and journalists were spotted at the scene while the INEC officials were yet to arrive as at 8:51 am …

South African health authorities on Thursday announced the country’s first cholera death in more than a decade. Cholera is not endemic in South Africa, which has since early February recorded five cases. The first two of those were imported from Malawi which is buckling under its deadliest cholera outbreak in …

Manchester United target Victor Osimhen has refused to rule out leaving Napoli in the summer, giving Erik ten Hag a major boost on his quest for a No 9. The £107million-rated striker has been in prolific form this season, racking up 19 goals and four assists in 23 appearances this …

Leke Baiyewu, Abuja The presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, may end up becoming the biggest beneficiary of the naira notes change by the Central Bank of Nigeria, according to his campaigners. Some chieftains of the APC have said Tinubu would be getting sympathy votes in the forthcoming …

A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, Femi Fani-Kayode, has lauded the Kaduna State Governor, Nasir El-Rufai, over his stance on the new naira policy of the Central Bank of Nigeria. He described El-Rufai as the “hero of the moment.” The PUNCH reports that the Kaduna governor in a statewide …

Dr John Abebe, the in-law to the former President, Olusegun Obasanjo, has bagged seven years imprisonment for forgery and laundering. Justice Mojisola Dada of Ikeja Special Offences Court gave the verdict on Saturday with option of fine to the tune of N50 million to be paid within 30 days in …

The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps has admitted to detaining a Kwara journalist and lawyer on Friday. The PUNCH had earlier reported that the NSCDC spokesman in the state, Ayeni Olasunkanmi, who spoke with our correspondent on Saturday, said the agency neither detained nor assaulted any lawyer or journalist, …