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The Presidential Candidate of All Progressives Congress, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, has rescheduled the presentation of his running mate, Senator Kashim Shettima, for tomorrow The development is coming nine days after the national leader of the party picked the former governor of Borno State as vice presidential candidate. Shettima will be officially unveiled by 1.00pm at the Shehu Musa Yar’Adua Centre in Abuja. This was disclosed in a statement issued this morning by the APC National Organizing Secretary, Suleiman Argungu.

A cargo plane which crashed in northern Greece was carrying 11 tonnes of weapons – including landmines – to Bangladesh, officials say. People living within two kilometres of the site where the Antonov-12 came down have been warned to stay indoors. The aircraft was flying from Serbia to Jordan when it crashed late on Saturday close to the city of Kavala, killing all eight people on board.

A car bomb explosion has caused massive destruction to a hotel in the Somali town of Jowhar, close to the capital, Mogadishu. Reports say a car loaded with explosives was driven to the entrance of the Nuur Doob Hotel. At least four politicians from the regional administration, who were staying at the hotel, were hurt. The Islamist militant group al-Shabab says it carried out the attack.

Despite improvement in fossil fuel prices, the short-term economic outlook for Nigeria and other countries of the world appears clouded with high inflation which has reduced private sector optimism and weakened consumer spending, the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries has said. The organisation believes this could increase uncertainty and make high debt levels to persist across the world next year OPEC, in its newly released Monthly Oil Market Report for July 2022, said that in May 2022, Nigeria’s composite Consumer Price Index rose to 17.7 percent y-o-y, from 16.8 per cent y-o-y in the prior month.In response to the elevated…

Osun State Governor, Adegboyega Oyetola, has said the leadership of the All Progressives Congress in the state will respond to the result of Saturday’s governorship poll after studying it. This was contained in a statement by the Chief Press Secretary to the governor, Ismail Omipidan, in Osogbo Adeleke was returned elected after defeating his closest challenger, Oyetola, and 13 other candidates, scoring a total of 403,371. Oyetola got 375,027 votes and won in 13 local government areas of the state to come second in the election.

Superstar, David Adeleke, popularly known as Davido, has noted that the President, Muhammadu Buhari will leave a lasting legacy. This is as the singer said a prayer for the president after the latter congratulated his uncle and winner of the Osun State governorship election, Ademola Adeleke. Buhari, in a series of tweets today, had said that the results of the election reflected the will of Osun people. Meanwhile, The Peoples Democratic Party Governors Forum has extended its congratulatory messages to the Governor-elect of Osun State, Senator Ademola Adeleke. According to the statement signed by the Chairman of the Forum, who…

Officers of the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission on election monitoring duties have arrested three persons suspected of buying votes in the Osun State governorship election. The suspects were identified as Dapo Oloyede , Kamorudeen Nafisat and Ojuade Olaniyi. A statement by the ICPC spokesperson, Azuka Ogugua, disclosed that Oloyede was arrested at the Ife North Local Government, Nafisat and Olaniyi were nabbed at Egbedore local government. She added that a popular thug attacked and injured the team leader of the ICPC to help a suspect escape in the Obokun local government area of the state.

The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party,Atiku Abubakar, has described the Osun State governorship election victory of the party as a light that has come to the state. Atiku congratulated especially the people of Osun State for proving that power actually belongs to the people. The former vice-president also congratulated Sen. Ademola Adeleke for winning the governorship election in the state, saying it was a well-fought success.