JBlogZ

APC Settles For Direct Primaries

Posted on September 11, 2024 | 1 minutes | 196 words | Larita Shotwell

Benue State Chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC), on Sunday adopted the direct mode of primaries to be used in choosing candidates to fly the party’s flag for the 2023 general elections. The decision was reached at the end of the stakeholders’ critical meeting in Makurdi. A statement released on Monday disclosed that the state party leader and Minister For Special Duties and Intergovernmental Affairs, Sen. George Akume explained that the decision was to ensure fairness amongst aspirants and give the delegates rights to select leaders of their choice for a better Benue. [Read More]

Celebrities Born in 1970 | Famous Birthdays

Posted on September 11, 2024 | 1 minutes | 14 words | Aldo Pusey

ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7p63MqKysmpmnwamwwLKqZ5ufony6scCrZmpxZ2V7qcDMpQ%3D%3D

Davido Reportedly Sacks Isreal DMW Over Careless Statement

Posted on September 11, 2024 | 2 minutes | 313 words | Aldo Pusey

Award-winning Nigerian singer, Davidohas reportedly sacked his logistics manager, Israel DMW for declaring his support for embattled super cop, Abba Kyari. Naija News earlier reports that Israel Afeare better known as Israel DMW questioned the morality of most Nigerians whilst declaring his unwavering support for embattled super cop, Abba Kyari. This is coming after social media celebrity, Hushpuppi alleged that he bribed Abba Kyari to arrest a co-fraudster. The police commissioner, however, dismissed Hushpuppi’s claim, saying he did not receive any money from the socialite as alleged. [Read More]

Despite Denying Form, Goodluck Jonathan Meets APC National Chairman, Set To Join Ruling Party

Posted on September 11, 2024 | 3 minutes | 466 words | Jenniffer Sheldon

Former Nigerian President, Goodluck Ebele Jonathan has met with the National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC). Naija News reports that the meeting which was held behind closed doors occurred on Monday night. Recall that a Northern group had purchased the Presidential Nomination and Expression of Interest forms for the former leader under the umbrella of the ruling party. The development had since sparked curiosity as Nigerians are left in the dark on Jonathan’s untold defection to APC. [Read More]

EXCLUSIVE: Gani Adams Blasts Tinubu, APC, Over Fashola

Posted on September 11, 2024 | 4 minutes | 648 words | Jenniffer Sheldon

The national coordinator of pan Yoruba socio-cultural organization, Oodua Peoples Congress (OPC), Mr Gani Adams, has accused the national leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu, of attempts to tarnish the image of the immediate past governor of Lagos state, Babatunde Fashola, over Fashola’s alleged ministerial appointment. [article_adwert] Speaking exclusively to Legit.ng, Adams said the bring-him-down moves of Tinubu and the APC in Lagos against Fashola would backfire. [Read More]

Fayose Reacts To NASS Election

Posted on September 11, 2024 | 2 minutes | 279 words | Reinaldo Massengill

In reaction to the intrigues surrounding the emergence of Senator Bukola Saraki and Hon Yakubu Dogara, as the Senate President and Speaker of the House of Representatives, Governor Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti state, said the election attested the fact that Nigeria cannot be owned by any individual. Speaking through his special assistant on public communications and new media, Lere Olayinka, the governor explained further that the result of the national assembly election shows that what goes round will definitely come round. [Read More]

Former Oyo Governor Alao-Akala dies at 71

Posted on September 11, 2024 | 1 minutes | 54 words | Jenniffer Sheldon

According to Daily Trust, the former governor's death was confirmed on Tuesday, January 11, 2022, by sources close to the late politician.

Details of his death are still sketchy but the politician was said to have battled a terminal ailment before his death.

Alao-Akala died at the age of 71.

Details later….

ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7scHLrJxnppdku6bD0mijqJuRoXynu9GmnKtln668brPOr5yrpp%2BneqK4wKhkmqORoa5usMieqmaZpGKEcnvSpbGvpGhp

Leap-Day Birthdays: Famous (and Infamous) Feb. 29 Births

Posted on September 11, 2024 | 3 minutes | 474 words | Martina Birk

Richard Corkery / NY Daily News Archive / Getty Images You’d think a Feb. 29 birthday would be an auspicious thing. The rarest of all birth dates, it confers an extended adolescence — you’re not 40; you’re just a sprightly 10! Alas, a scan of celebrities born on Leap Day suggests potentially bad tidings. If you were born Feb. 29, your fellow candle blowers include: Aileen Wuornos, convicted serial killer. Fate doesn’t deal many a worse hand than it did Wuornos, a victim of myriad forms of child abuse who in later years shot numerous men to death, claiming self-defense in each case, before being executed for her crimes in 2002. [Read More]

Mixed Reactions As Campaign Posters Of Falz, Aisha Yusefu Flood Abuja Streets

Posted on September 11, 2024 | 2 minutes | 303 words | Jenniffer Sheldon

Supporters of Nigerian singer, Folarin Falana better known as Falz and Aisha Yusefu, have flooded the streets of the Federal Capital Territory with their campaign posters. Several posters bearing bright images of the Nigerian rapper were seen posted in strategic locations within Abuja on Friday. A group of young Nigerians were seen with the campaign posters which had inscriptions such as “Streets Mobilization group” calls upon Aisha Yesufu and Folarin Falana for presidency 2023. [Read More]

One in eleven workers who intend to watch Englands first game will skive off to do so

Posted on September 11, 2024 | 2 minutes | 297 words | Aldo Pusey

The productivity of more than a third of those who intend to watch the match will be lost entirely, the equivalent of 13% of the workforce in England The last time England played an international tournament fixture on a weekday during normal working hours was when they faced Wales in a 2pm kick off at Euro 2016. Employees downing tools to watch the game was estimated to have cost the UK economy more than £250m in lost productivity. [Read More]