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President Olusegun Obasanjo has again mourned the fate of the Peoples Democratic Party(PDP), saying the party he once led, has today lost its “soul.” Obasanjo who stated this shortly after receiving the factional National leader of PDP, Senator Ali Modu Sheriff at his residence on Presidential Hill top Estate, Abeokuta, Ogun State, on Saturday, also said that those that occasioned the comatose state of the party are going about “unperturbed.” The former Chairman, Board of Trustees of PDP who was also a two term President of Nigeria on the ticket of the party, sympathized with Sheriff, saying he was “carrying a dying baby” on his “laps.” The ex – President who reiterated that he was has left partisan politic said that “PDP should be in an intensive care unit” for proper attention lest the factional National leader “becomes its undertaker.” According to Obasanjo, one pall of misfortunes that have all also fallen on the nation’s politics and democracy is that neither PDP is a ...

Rotimi Akeredolu has emerged the governorship candidate of the opposition All Progressives Congress (APC) in Ondo State following today’s primary election held amidst tight security in the capital of Akure. Governor Mohammed Badaru Abubakar of Jigawa State, who is also the chairman primary election committee of the party that monitored the exercise, announced Mr. Akeredolu as the winner of the poll at the international event center moments ago. other members of the APC Primary Election Committee include: Dr. Bruce Ugbide, Rep. Hamma Ali, Prince M. Martin, and Mr Mohammed Lawal. The conduct of the APC primary election producing a candidate for the opposition party in the state is quite transparent and credible. Mr. Abubakar, however, asked the unsuccessful aspirants in the election to pacify their supporters to join hands with Mr. Akeredolu in order to win the November 26th governorship election in the state. He disclosed that the party was prepared to ...

A British bishop has become the first in the Church of England, the mother church of the worldwide Anglican faith  to announce he is homosexual, in an interview published Saturday. Nicholas Chamberlain, the Bishop of Grantham in central England, told the Guardian newspaper he was in a long-term relationship with his male partner, after a Sunday paper reportedly said it was about to publish a story on his private life. "It was not my decision to make a big thing about coming out,” he said, adding that he adhered to church guidelines which stipulate that gay clergy must be celibate. “People know I’m gay, but it’s not the first thing I’d say to anyone. Sexuality is part of who I am, but it’s my ministry that I want to focus on.”The church knew he was gay when he became a bishop last year, he revealed. “I was myself. Those making the appointment knew about my sexual identity.”Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby, leader of the world’s Anglican faith, said Chamberlain’s sexual...

The Nigeria Air Force (NAF) has urgedits officers and soldiers to keep fit and be readyfor deployment or redeployment to various operational theatres to protect territorial integrity of the nation. The Commander, NAF Base Services Group, Enugu, Air Commodore Ebenezer Alade, gave this charge after the `3rd Quarter 10 Kilometre Route March’’ of all NAF personnel in Enugu onSaturday. Alade said that officers and soldiers should brace-up for massive and tasking deployment.He noted that officers and soldiers of NAF must live up to meet the demand of various theatres of operations in the North East, South-South, South-West (Lagos and Ogun States) and Jos. "I implore you to always and constantly keep fiteven in your own time.“Many of you will be deployed and redeployed to various NAF’s operational theatres that are ongoing in the country.“Our sole mission is to protect and safe-guard the territorial integrity of the country. “Remember, that we all vowed and sworn to protect the t...

New Nigeria coach Gernot Rohr has said he will soon meet with Vincent Enyeama to discuss a comeback by the Lille goalkeeper to the Super Eagles. Former Nigeria skipper Enyeama quit international football in October after a spat with then Eagles coach Sunday Oliseh. His place has since been taken by Carl Ikeme, who features for English Championship side Wolverhampton Wanderers. Rohr has been handed the task of qualifying Nigeria for the 2018 World Cup and he has maintained the country will need their best players to achieve the goal. “I live in France and I know Enyeama. He’s a good player and I do not know why he is no longer playing for Nigeria,” said the Franco-German coach. “We have spoken and perhaps I hope to meet him soon because we need our best players for us to have the best chance to qualify for the World Cup.” Nigeria are drawn in a tough qualifying group for Russia 2018 with Algeria, Cameroon and Zambia. They begin their qualifying campaign on October ...