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Chinwe Justice-Alucho is a microbiologist who specialises in food industrial microbiology, food safety, and antimicrobial resistance. She is a PhD student at Clemson University, South Carolina, United States, where she is a graduate assistant. In this interview by KINGSLEY ALUMONA, she speaks about her studies, work, and how antimicrobial resistance affects people. How would you […]

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A legislative consultant and public policy analyst, Chibuzo Okereke, says the real ambition of Governor Seyi Makinde of Oyo State is not the presidency but building political momentum.

Okereke made this claim on Friday while responding to questions in an interview on Arise Television’s ‘Prime Time’.

According to him, Makinde is under heavy political pressure.

He added that after the 2023 elections, the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, lost all senatorial seats in Oyo but retained the governorship.

Okereke pointed out that this is after the G5 arrangement that helped shape President Tinubu’s emergence.

“Well, I think first of all, it is within his democratic right to seek for the office of the presidency. I mean, the qualifying credentials are there.

“But I think that strategically speaking, he is mobilizing support to ensure there is momentum for a successor.

“If you look at this, it appears to be a strategic political hedging for him. I don’t really think that his push is more about himself getting to the presidency,” he said.

2027: Makinde’s real ambition not presidency – Okereke

Executive Director, YIAGA Africa, Samson Itodo, has insisted that electing a candidate through consensus by political parties is not the problem but how the process is implemented.

Some political parties, including the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, are currently experiencing internal wrangling over the implementation of the consensus method of selecting their candidates as prescribed by Section 85 of the Electoral Act 2026.

Some candidates feel they were not carried along when their political parties came out to announce a preferred candidate, insisting on primary elections instead.

Speaking on Arise News on Friday evening, Itodo said, “The problem isn’t consensus, I think the point is the whole philosophy around around consensus isn’t the problem. The problem is how it is implemented.

“And you can clearly see in the build up to the primaries what I call organized theft. It is actually a suppression of political aspiration of people; also a situation where power is concentrated on a few to determine for the vast majority of party members.

“You cannot say that is democratic in every respect. Keep in mind that before the 2022 electoral act, there were only two modes of candidate nomination, direct and indirect primaries. 

“In this particular case, it was the late President Buhari that blackmailed and pressured the national assembly to introduce consensus, just to legitimize a process that has always been part of political parties’ candidate nomination process. 

“So when you look across board, you clearly see that it is implemented in a way that it not only suppresses the political aspiration of aspirants, but it limits the space for contestation, and that itself is problematic because what you see is really imposition of candidates and it’s not in any way consensus.

“And by the way, what I argued was that there are instances where consensus is acceptable, where everyone in a political party endorses that. That’s why the electoral act provides for the conduct of a special convention to ratify the consensus.”

2027 electoral: YIAGA Africa’s Samson Itodo highlights problems with consensus

A 100-level Biochemistry student of Imo State University (IMSU), Ogba Favour Mmesoma, has emerged winner of the Indigenous Queen Imopageant competition held in Owerri. The colourful event, organised by Indigenous Queen Imo Commission, took place at Rock View Hotel, Owerri, where Mmesoma defeated 11 other contestants to clinch the crown. Speaking with Nigerian Tribune in […]

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US President Donald Trump says American and Nigerian forces have killed the second-in-command leader of ISIS globally.

Mr Trump said Abu-Bilal al-Minuki was “eliminated” after sources found him in hiding in Africa.

“Tonight, at my direction, brave American forces and the armed forces of Nigeria flawlessly executed a meticulously planned and very complex mission to eliminate the most active terrorist in the world from the battlefield,” he wrote in a post on social media.

“Abu-Bilal al-Minuki, second in command of ISIS globally, thought he could hide in Africa, but little did he know we had sources who kept us informed on what he was doing.

“He will no longer terrorize the people of Africa, or help plan operations to target Americans.”

He also thanked the Nigerian government for its partnership in the operation.

The Islamic State extremist group did not comment on the claim.

Nigeria had come under scrutiny from Mr Trump, who had said that Christians there were being persecuted, which the African nation’s government denies.

The US had struck what it said were Islamist bases in north-western Nigeria on Christmas Day last year, following Mr Trump’s accusations.

A 39-year-old man, Adewale (surname withheld) who was recently arrested by Osun State Police Command for allegedly claiming to be a Nigerian Army officer and defrauding a lady introduced to him as a potential wife, has given the reason for heaping lies upon lies, saying that he needed to sustain the first one he told […]

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A social media user has been sentenced to 2 years imprisonment after pleading guilty to spreading misinformation with malicious intent about Adekunle Gold and Simi’s daughter, 

Mr Samuel Adeboye Adeyeye, known on X as  Swanky_concept, had shared a post, insinuating that Deja, the daughter of singers Adekunle Gold and Simi, is dead. 

“My sincere condolences to the Adekunle family. Rip to Deja,” Samuel wrote on X. 

The troll was taken to court where he pleaded guilty to cyberbullying and defamation on May 14. 

He was sentenced on May 15 to two years in prison. 

X users say his sentencing will serve as a warning to those who use social media to spread misinformation and bully others

A 44-year-old woman,  Zainab Isah, has told a Shari’a Court 1 sitting at Magajin Gari, Kaduna, Kaduna State,  that she had  nowhere to go after her divorce from her husband, Alhaji Abdulhamid. According  to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), Zainab told the court that Abdulhamid married her when she was 14 years old. “I […]

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The Grade A Customary Court, Court 2, sitting in Mapo, Ibadan, Oyo State, has delivered judgment in a divorce suit filed by a man, Theophilus, against his wife, Aina, whom she accused of lack of affection, frequent quarrels, and domestic violence. According to Theophilus, Aina was stubborn and always insisted on having things her own […]

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Often, I state that emotions drive humans. Our actions and responses to the actions of others are driven by our emotions. Emotions determine a lot of the outcomes of our human endeavours. Whether we will succeed or fail in life will, to a great extent, be the outcome of our emotions. Managing emotions is a […]

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