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BREAKING:  Sunday Igboho  Finally Regain Freedom From Benin Republic Prison— Amakazy Media reports that Yoruba self determination activist,  Sunday Adeniyi Adeyemo , popularly known as Sunday Igboho, has reportedly been released 8 months after he was arrested and detained by the Benin Republic immigration service.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has ordered the Russian military to put its nuclear forces on "special alert" - the highest level of alert for Russia's Strategic Missile Forces. Speaking to top military officials, including Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu, he said Western nations had taken "unfriendly actions" towards Russia and imposed "illegitimate sanctions". We'll bring you an assessment of this move shortly.

Lateef Adedimeji has landed the lead role in a new movie which might change the trajectory of his career for life. The actor admitted that his role in the upcoming biopic of ex-governor of Lagos State, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu will be a defining point for him. Lateef said: "At the end of it all, the man himself will have a few things to say about my interpretation and pass judgment."👏

BELOW IS THE ADDRESS BY HIS EXCELLENCY, PRESIDENT MUHAMMADU BUHARI, PRESIDENT FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA AT THE SIGNING OF ELECTORAL BILL 2022 INTO LAW STATE HOUSE, ABUJA FRIDAY 24TH FEBRUARY 2022 The Electoral Act (Amendment) Bill 2022, passed by the National Assembly forwarded for Presidential Assent, via a letter dated 31st January 2022. In line with established tradition, I received inputs from relevant ministries, departments, and agencies of government after careful and thorough reviews of the Bill and its implications to democratic processes in our country. It is gratifying to note that the current Bill comes with a great deal of improvement from the previous Electoral Bill 2021. There are salient and praiseworthy provisions that could positively revolutionize elections in Nigeria through the introduction of new technological innovations. These innovations would guarantee the constitutional rights of citizens to vote and to do so effectively. The Bill would also improve and eng...

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) will hold an extraordinary meeting on Saturday in a bid to proceed with implementing the provisions guiding the forthcoming election within the new law. INEC’s National Commissioner and Chairman, Information and Voter Education Committee, Festus Okoye Esq, disclosed this in a statement on Friday. He said the Electoral Act 2022 contains many progressive provisions that will facilitate the conduct of free, fair, and credible elections in Nigeria. While explaining that the nation now has the Electoral Act 2022 which replaces the Electoral Act 2010 (as amended), the INEC commissioner said together with the 1999 Constitution (as amended), the new Act constitutes the principal law to govern the conduct of future elections, including the 2023 poll. Speaking further, Mr Okoye explained that given the tight timelines contained in the new law, the commission fully appreciates the importance of proceeding with their implementation i...

The Kremlin on Friday said President Vladimir Putin was ready to send a delegation to Belarus for talks with Ukraine, as Russian forces approached Kyiv on the second day of Moscow’s invasion. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said the Russian leader was “ready” to send a high-level delegation “for talks with a Ukrainian delegation” to Belarusian capital Minsk, which has previously hosted rounds of peace talks over the Ukraine crisis. He said Putin’s ally, Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko, told him that he would “create the conditions” for such a summit. Russia has thousands of troops stationed in Belarus, and Ukraine said it was being attacked from several sides — including from Belarus. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky had repeatedly called for talks with the Russian leader during a weeks-long diplomatic push in which Western countries tried to deter Putin from launching an attack. Hours before Putin announced he was sending troops to Ukraine, Zelensky said he tried to ca...

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has just announced the country will join the US, UK and EU in levying sanctions against Russian President Putin and Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov. Speaking at a news conference in Ottawa's Parliament Hill, he said that Putin's “own personal wealth... is at significant risk because of his terrible mistake". "We will be imposing sanctions on President Putin and his fellow architects of this barbaric war," he said, adding that sanctions will also be placed on the leaders of Belarus due to their support for Russia's invasion.

Amakazy Media just gathered reports that the UK has just banned Russian private jets from its airspace, after announcing on Thursday that Russia's national carrier Aeroflot would also be banned. Russia responded on Friday by banning British airlines. Other countries, too, have banned Russian air traffic. Bulgaria says no Russian planes can enter its airspace from Saturday, and Poland and the Czech Republic have made similar moves. Russian airline S7 - one of the country's largest - has cancelled all flights to Europe until 13 March because of the airspace closures. US airline Delta has suspended its partnership with Aeroflot.

Controversial Journalist, Kemi Olunloyo, has alleged that some members of the Nigerian Army has confessed to actually received orders from Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu and President Muhammadu Buhari, to carry out the shootings at Lekki toll gate . Kemi took to her twitter page to claim that she received information from soldiers that the Commander In Chief, President Buhari and the Governor of Lagos state drafted them for the massacre mission. She also called for the immediate resignation of the Governor for telling Nigerians he knew nothing about the shootings that took place in his state. The Genius Media Recalls that the Lekki Massacre was carried out by Nigerian soldiers on unarmed end SARS protesters leaving at least 15 dead, an incident that caught the eyes of the world. Read Kemi’s post below: #IJLekkimassacre  Tonight the soldiers have now confessed that  @jidesanwoolu.  DRAFTED THEM for the mission alongside Buhari the Commander-in -chief. The go...

A vendor feeds a ram ahead of Eid-el-Kabir celebration at Kara Isheri market in Ogun State AFP PHOTO / PIUS UTOMI EKPEI With the naira currency in free fall and inflation soaring, few Nigerians can escape the country’s economic troubles — and that includes Muslims preparing for Eid al-Adha. Livestock traders and buyers said the sale of rams for the annual festival of sacrifice have dropped sharply compared with last year, as Nigerians look to prioritise spending. “Sales have stalled,” complained Ibrahim Shuaibu, a ram trader at the Hauren Shanu livestock market on the outskirts of Kano, the commercial hub and biggest city in Nigeria’s mainly Muslim north. “Last year by this time I had sold more than 30 rams but I have so far sold not more than four this season,” he told AFP on Friday, his face sweaty from the scorching sun as he waited for customers. – Reduced to a trickle – Animals are slaughtered during Eid to signify followe...

As part of the grand plan to win the August 9 governorship election in Osun State, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has settled for one of the arrowheads of Senator Isiaka Adeleke’s political group and former Speaker of the State House of Assembly,  Honourable Adejare Bello, as the running mate to its governorship candidate,  Senator Iyiola Omisore. The decision to pick Bello, a lawyer, Nigerian Tribune gathered, was arrived at after a wide consultation and several hours of meeting with the Ede politician, said to possess the clout to whittle down Adeleke’s influence in the town and even rally many people who would have been swerved by Adeleke’s defection to the APC. Bello had declined to follow Adeleke, his political leader of many years, to the APC, a move that appeared to have paid off. A news release issued and signed by the Osun PDP chairman, Alhaji Gani Olaoluwa, noted that “the elders’ caucus of the party, after two days of serious deliberations, brainstorming ...

A national leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Chief Olusegun Osoba, on Thursday, vowed not to work with Governor Ibikunle Amosun and his faction of the party in the state. Osoba said this while addressing his loyalists at a stakeholders’ meeting held at his residence at Ibara GRA, Abeokuta, saying the simmering crisis in the party had reached a point of no return, as the meeting kicked against sharing of party offices with the governor’s faction. The former governor of the state directed his loyalists which included the three senators representing the state at the National Assembly, Adegbenga Kaka, Akin Odunsi and Gbenga Obadara and six other members of the House of Representatives and other members of the party to commence the compilation of a new members’ register in the 236 wards in the state. It will be recalled that the party in the state held parallel congresses in April which was a clear indication that all was not well with the party. He said: “Your exc...

      A national leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Chief Olusegun Osoba, on Thursday, vowed not to work with Governor Ibikunle Amosun and his faction of the party in the state. Osoba said this while addressing his loyalists at a stakeholders’ meeting held at his residence at Ibara GRA, Abeokuta, saying the simmering crisis in the party had reached a point of no return, as the meeting kicked against sharing of party offices with the governor’s faction. The former governor of the state directed his loyalists which included the three senators representing the state at the National Assembly, Adegbenga Kaka, Akin Odunsi and Gbenga Obadara and six other members of the House of Representatives and other members of the party to commence the compilation of a new members’ register in the 236 wards in the state. It will be recalled that the party in the state held parallel congresses in April which was a clear indication that all was not well with the...

A national leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Chief Olusegun Osoba, on Thursday, vowed not to work with Governor Ibikunle Amosun and his faction of the party in the state. Osoba said this while addressing his loyalists at a stakeholders’ meeting held at his residence at Ibara GRA, Abeokuta, saying the simmering crisis in the party had reached a point of no return, as the meeting kicked against sharing of party offices with the governor’s faction. The former governor of the state directed his loyalists which included the three senators representing the state at the National Assembly, Adegbenga Kaka, Akin Odunsi and Gbenga Obadara and six other members of the House of Representatives and other members of the party to commence the compilation of a new members’ register in the 236 wards in the state. It will be recalled that the party in the state held parallel congresses in April which was a clear indication that all was not well with the party. He said: “Your e...