Author: Rashaad Harris

Prophet Solomon Alao, the Supreme Head of the Nigerian Cherubim and Seraphim Unification Church, has urged the Federal Government to exercise caution in how it engages the opposition parties and their presidential candidates. The pastor especially cautioned against the arrest of Labour Party presidential candidate Mr Peter Obi and his running mate, Datti Baba-Ahmed, in his Easter sermon on Sunday.The C&S leader claimed that arresting Obi and Datti will inflame political tension.He said: “The Federal Government must tread softly in dealing with Obi and Datti and stop the threat of arresting and prosecuting them for treason. If they do that,…

A new date for the inaugural session of the 2023 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examinations (UTME), has been announced by the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB). In a statement released in Abuja on Sunday and signed by Dr Fabian Benjamin, the board made this disclosure.According to Benjamin, the UTME, which was originally planned to begin on April 29, will now begin on April 25, 2023.He added that the board’s rescheduled mock UTME would take place on April 18, 2023.He said: ”It would be recalled that JAMB had earlier conducted its 2023 Mock-UTME on Thursday, March 30 in 725 centres across…

Abia State Governor-elect —Dr Alex Otti of the Labour Party, has reaffirmed his commitment to the repositioning of Abia on the path of steady growth and prosperity. The Governor-elect conveyed this in a message to the people of the state, which he issued and made available to Newsmen in Umuahia.His message reads: “As we had stated earlier, I wish to use the opportunity of this Easter day to reiterate that we will not disappoint you on the promises that we made to you.“My team and I are committed to the task of rebuilding our dear state, so it can take…

Sen. Obinna Ogba (PDP-Ebonyi Central) stated on Sunday that the party’s National Working Committee’s (NWC) mishandling of matters contributed to the party’s deserving defeat in the 2023 general elections. At a press conference in his village of Nkalagu, in the Ishielu Local Government Area, Ogba stated that the NWC had “shot itself in the foot” by selecting the “wrong candidate” for the gubernatorial race.The senator, who was disqualified from running for governor by the party following a protracted legal battle concluded by the Supreme Court, urged the NWC not to suspend any members.He said: “The fact remains that it is…

The vice president of the country, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo has urged Nigerians all and sundry to embody love, which is the crux of Easter, while commemorating the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead over two thousand years ago. Osinbajo made the imploration while speaking to journalists shortly after the Easter Sunday Service held at the Aso Villa Chapel, Abuja.He said: “My message is contained in the scripture in John 3:16, “For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son that whosoever believes in him will not perish, but have eternal life.“It’s a message of the…

Bashir El-Rufai, the son of sitting Kaduna state governor, Nasir El-Rufai, engaged in a war of words with Shehu Sani on Sunday. The former Kaduna central senator had insinuated that it would take a long time for Nigeria to produce an airplane. “If we are to meet up that target of Producing an Aircraft before May 29th, at least the tyres should have been produced by now,” Sani said. To which Mr. Bashir El-Rufai said he would be jobless for a long time. Bashir said, “Lmaoo. I am so happy this man will be jobless for another eight years. I…

Accord Party Senatorial Candidate for Oyo North Senatorial District, Shina Peller, has disclosed that his party supported the re-election of Governor Seyi Makinde in the last general election, for the interest of the people. Peller disclosed this on Saturday at the Accord stakeholders’ meeting held in Ibadan, where he said the party had to review its performance after the 2023 general election, which saw the need for a coalition with the PDP governorship candidate in the interest of the people.His words: “We came out of an election without winning any of the three Senatorial seats and 14 Rep seats. We…

Afrobeat mega-superstar, Adeleke David, popularly known as Davido has revealed that he spent a whopping sum of $2 million (which is almost equivalent to one billion naira) on his third studio album ‘A Better Time.’ Davido said this during his media tour for his new album ‘Timeless’ in the United States.Speaking on the Ebro in the Morning Show on Hot 97FM, New York, he said: “My last album, I will tell you, I probably spent $2 million. That is for everything. You know what I’m saying?“I haven’t even spent $300k on this album [Timeless]. And I made more already in…

Labour Party has outrightly turned down the challenge of an open debate between their vice presidential candidate — Dr Yusuf Datti Baba-Ahmed and Nobel Laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka. Recall that Soyinka had challenged Datti to a one-on-one debate on live television over his controversial views regarding the outcome of the presidential election.However, in a statement issued by the Obi-Datti Media Office on Saturday, April 8, 2023, the Labour Party vice-presidential candidate asked Soyinka to bring forward his preferred candidates to debate him.The statement read: “Like many Nigerians, we are bewildered by the late hour intervention of our respected Nobel laureate…

Israel Adesanya has reclaimed the UFC middleweight title from Alex Pereira in the main event of UFC 287 at the FTX Arena in Miami, Florida on Sunday morning.The knockout came from nowhere as Pereira was initially on the offense.Pereira was unleashing body hooks and a knee to the ribs, with Adesanya backed against the cage, when the challenger threw a right hook out of nowhere!!It froze Pereira, so similar to the end of the first round in their last fight, but this time there was no buzzer to save Pereira; the next punch dropped him, and he was out cold…