•Labour Party candidate pledges to cut cost of governance, commitment to transparency, accountabilityObinna ChimaIn a bid to bolster his chances in the 2023 presidential election, which holds 178 days from now, Nigerians in the Diaspora have formed groups of committees to launch crowdfunding initiatives for the presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Mr. Peter Obi.They plan to unveil in the coming days a crowdfunding portal with a target to raise $150 million from Obi’s supporters in the diaspora and N100 billion from those in Nigeria, THISDAY has reliably gathered.A dependable source close to one of Obi’s supporters leading the…
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It’s unfortunate when political gladiators who are themselves using ethnic factors in their own political calculus try to delegitimize valid and legitimate competitors for the presidency by running some phantom “ethnic candidate” narrative. Former Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Professor Kingsley Moghalu has described as political mischief those attacking any candidate for the position of president Peter Obi based on his ethnicity. Goldennewsng reports that Moghalu described as unfortunate that political gladiators who are using ethnic factors in their own political calculus try to delegitimize valid and legitimate competitor by describing them as ethnic candidates.Recall that the…
Why can there be no normalization with Israel, in Al-Raysouni’s view? Because of Islam. The Jews in the Qur’an are called the strongest of all people in enmity toward the Muslims (5:82); they fabricate things and falsely ascribe them to Allah (2:79; 3:75, 3:181); they claim that Allah’s power is limited (5:64); they love to listen to lies (5:41); they disobey Allah and never observe his commands (5:13). They are disputing and quarreling (2:247); hiding the truth and misleading people (3:78); staging rebellion against the prophets and rejecting their guidance (2:55); being hypocritical (2:14, 2:44); giving preference to their own…
A Nigerian man has called maker of iPhone for having poor facial lock security for their mobile devices.He revealed that his brother’s face can open all the iPhones that he owns and he urged Apple to look into the security flaw. The young man shared a video to demonstrate how his brother was able to open his iPhone 12 Pro Max despite the fact that he activated just his face to unlock the device. He showed one after the other how he activated the single face screen lock for his two phone only for his sibling’s face to unlock it…
A Nigerian woman has been arrested by the police for failing to prove a baby she was carrying is hers. In a viral video, the lady who claimed that the baby is indeed hers, said she boarded a bus from Enugu to Port Harcourt and was held by the police on grounds that she failed to prove her identity as the child’s mother. She said she is currently at the Imo state CID.LIB reached out to the state police spokesperson about the incident but he is yet to respond. Watch the video she shared below..
The presidential candidate of Labour Party in the 2023 general elections, Peter Obi, has offered some insights into the industrial dispute between his government and medical doctors in 2013 when he was governor of Anambra state.Obi, who spoke with Nigerian Youtuber, Adeola Fayehun, during a live interview on Monday in the early hours of Thursday said although the strike lasted for about 13 months, it did not affect a lot of people that were sick. He said his attempt to bring change to the health sector in Anambra state by reviving moribund health institutions in the state was at the…
A hadith has Muhammad saying: “The last hour would not come unless the Muslims will fight against the Jews and the Muslims would kill them until the Jews would hide themselves behind a stone or a tree and a stone or a tree would say: Muslim, or the servant of Allah, there is a Jew behind me; come and kill him; but the tree Gharqad would not say, for it is the tree of the Jews.” (Sahih Muslim 6985) “France: Jewish Man Butchered by His Housemate,” by Hana Levi Julian, Jewish Press, August 29, 2022:A Jewish man from Tunisia with…
I met him in 2013 when I was in JHS 1. His family had just moved to our town so he was a new student in our school. We started as friends but when we got to our second year, he asked me to be his girlfriend. We were both very young then but I was in love with him. I am a Christian and he is a Muslim but that didn’t matter to me. The only things that occupied my thoughts were the sound of his voice, and the way his presence always made me giddy with excitement. I…
Ahmed Markafi, a former governor of Kaduna State, has advised Peter Obi and Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso to swallow their personal ambitions and return to the People’s Democratic Party (PDP).Makarfi who spoke in an interview with Channels TV on Tuesday, argued that there are only two parties in Nigeria – the PDP and the All Progressives Congress (APC).He also said frustrated youths are using Obi, Labour Party presidential candidate, as a symbol, adding that youths should not make decisions on the presidential candidate to vote for in anger. Obi had left the PDP in May and emerged as the Labour Party’s…
So when we started dating, we had dreams just like every other couple who has the intention to marry someday. We were both young graduates looking to establish ourselves so we didn’t have over-the-top kind of dreams. We looked at our lives and sewed a dream that fit. It wasn’t about living in the biggest mansion with house helps running around at our beck and call. We wanted a two-bedroom house at an affordable price in a place where we can have peace of mind. We dreamt of buying a car at some point. Not Jaguar or a Range Rover.…