US President Donald Trump has stoked false claims that Democratic vice-presidential contender Kamala Harris is ineligible to hold that office because her parents were foreign-born.
The claims about Harris — who was born in the United States, making her constitutionally eligible to be both vice president and president — echo a baseless theory that Trump long promoted about his predecessor Barack Obama.
“I heard it today that she doesn’t meet the requirements,” Trump said at a White House news conference on Thursday, referring to an August 12 opinion piece in Newsweek.
The article by conservative law professor John Eastman says …
The Chairman, National Campaign Council of All Progressives Congress (APC) for Ondo governorship election and Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, has said the ruling party would not take the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for granted in the forthcoming election.
He however added that the main opposition party should not bother campaigning as the election was for APC to lose.
Sanwo-Olu disclosed this Saturday while addressing journalists after the inauguration of the National Campaign Council for Ondo governorship election at the national secretariat of the party in Abuja.
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Lebanese Ambassador to Nigeria, Houssam Diab, says most Nigerians in Lebanon were not trafficked but entered the country legally.
He spoke at a meeting with the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Geoffrey Onyeama, in Abuja.
Diab said the Nigerian ladies who called for help in videos were stranded because they could no longer be paid by their employees due to the global economic crisis.
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He disclosed that a ban had been placed on visas to domestic workers.
…“As of May 1, the Lebanese government stopped issuing visas for domestic
Twenty-two out of the 1,514 graduates of the Plateau University (PLASU) Bokkos, bagged First Class in the institution’s Third, Fourth and Fifth combined virtual convocation on Saturday.
The Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Yohana Izam, who made the disclosure in his speech at the ceremony, noted that the virtualising ceremony became imperative in view of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Izam said that 408 graduates came out in Second Class Upper Division, while 807 were graduated in Second Class Lower Division and 214 others got Third Class.
He stated that the 1514 graduating students belonged to the three combined sets of 2016, 2017 and 2018.…
The Ekiti State Government has urged the contractor handling the construction of the new Ureje Bridge along Poly Road in Ado Ekiti to ensure a thorough and quality job that would stand the test of time.
The Deputy Governor, Otunba Bisi Egbeyemi, made the remark on Saturday while on an on-the-spot visit to the site, said construction of a new bridge would bring relief to residents and other road users.
According to a statement by his Special Assistant (Media), Odunayo Ogunmola, Egbeyemi was joined on inspection by the Founder of Afe Babalola University (ABUAD), Aare Afe Babalola; the Ewi of …
In a rather unpopular turn of events, Somalia president, Mohamed Abdullahi Farmaajo and his deputy exchanged James Bond kind of blows to the point of wrestling to the ground. They were sitted next and close to each other in what seemed like a press briefing.
They were holding hands as if there was something that both of them wanted to have, before they stood up blowing each other blue and black. It took efforts of a handful of men to separate the two who were busy tearing each other apart.
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I have never been passionate about any Nigerian politician after Chief Obafemi Awolowo and Alhaji Lateef Jakande, as I am currently, of Senator Bola Ahmed Tinubu, the Asiwaju of Lagos and the Jagaban of Borgu.
I practice and play partisan politics in Lagos, so he is undoubtedly my political boss. But beyond that is a fact of history which cannot be obliterated.
From my first encounter with the man that appropriately fits the label of “small body, big engine”, Senator Tinubu struck me as a man of destiny on who jealousy, envy, treachery and perfidy cannot diminish.
The acting Manager, Corporate Communications, Port Harcourt Electricity Distribution Company, Mrs. Chioma Aninwe, has said angry youths have shut down a power station.
She stated that the youths in the late hours of Friday, forcefully took over control of the Afam power station belonging to the Transmission Company of Nigeria which has resulted in a total blackout in Rivers State.
According to Aninwe who spoke with Journalists on Saturday, “The youths, known as Oyibo Youths, shutdown Afam Transmission lines around 21:04 p.m. on Friday, thereby, throwing the entire Port Harcourt and Rivers state into darkness.
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Mr. Chukwuemeka Nnaji, President of Nigerian Traders Union in Ghana, on Saturday decried Ghanaian authorities’ closure of shops owned by Nigerians doing business in the country.
Nnaji, who made this known in a telephone interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), urged the Federal Government to intervene in the matter.
He said that shops belonging to Nigerian traders in Accra were locked up by Ghanaian authorities who demanded cash payment of one million dollars from them before the shops would be opened.
According to him, an inter-ministerial taskforce went …
All Progressives Congress (APC) national leader, Bola Tinubu, has described the former United States Ambassador to Nigeria, Walter Carrington, as a citizen of one nation, son of two.
Tinubu, in his tribute on Saturday, said Carrington contributed immensely to the enthronement of democracy in Nigeria.
He commended the late envoy for joining the fight against repressive government in the country.
Tinubu said during his time in Nigeria from 1993 to 1997, Carrington witnessed how the citizenry lived through a troubled and uncertain time.
…“We were in the clutches of an
Lanre Rasak, a stalwart of the All Progressives Congress (APC), is dead. A source close to the family told Newsmen that he passed away on Saturday.
The politician, 74, had been sick and could not attend meetings since July.
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Razak was a member of Lagos State Governor’s Advisory Council (GAC).
He was also an ally of APC national leader, Bola Tinubu.
The deceased was a former Commissioner for Transport in Lagos.
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South African police arrested a total of 298,252 people for breaking lockdown rules from April 1 to June 30, but crime rate declined.
Police Minister Bheki Cele gave the figure when releasing the latest available crime statistics for offences committed from April to June this year.
“To date, 298,252 people have been arrested and charged with contravention of the Disaster Management Act. 181,579 were released on warning to appear before a court. 28,337 of those arrested were found guilty of violations ranging from liquor, gathering, transport, business and cross-border related offences,” said Cele.
In March, President Cyril Ramaphosa declared …
