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Sokoto governor joins presidential race hours after Saraki's declaration Tambuwal has joined the growing list of presidential aspirants in the PDP when he picked up a nomination form hours after Saraki declared his intention. The Governor of Sokoto state,  Aminu Tambuwal , has joined the presidential race hours after Senate President, Bukola Saraki declared his intention to run for the same office. Both Tambuwal and Saraki defected from the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, to the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP in August 2018. Tambuwal , who was the immediate ex-Speaker of the House of Representatives picked the presidential nomination form of the PDP on August 30, 2018. The Governor visited the Wadata Plaza headquarters of the opposition party in Abuja with his supporters on Thursday evening to pick his form for the race. play Tambuwal reassured leaders of the PDP that he will resist any move to remove the leadership of the 8th National Assembly...

The Man Who Took On Pope Francis: The Story Behind the Viganò Letter Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò showed up at the Rome apartment of a conservative Vatican reporter with a simple clerical collar, a Rocky Mountains baseball cap and an explosive story to tell. Archbishop Viganò, the former chief Vatican diplomat in the United States, spent the morning working shoulder to shoulder with the reporter at his dining room table on a 7,000-word letter that called for the resignation of Pope Francis, accusing him of covering up sexual abuse and giving comfort to a “homosexual current” in the Vatican. The journalist, Marco Tosatti, said he had smoothed out the narrative. The enraged archbishop brought no evidence, he said, but he did supply the flair, condemning the homosexual networks inside the church that act “with the power of octopus tentacles” to “strangle innocent victims and priestly vocations.” “The poetry is all his,” Mr. Tosatti said. When the letter was...

Stilettos and a $4,000 skirt: Melania Trump’s tree-planting outfit The US first lady opted for total glamour when asked to dig a hole in the White House garden. But was her outfit remotely appropriate for the task in hand? M elania Trump has been  gardening again , planting an  Eisenhower-era oak sapling in the White House grounds . It means that her gardening wardrobe has  come under further scrutiny . Did she wear 4in Christian Louboutin stilettos to aerate the soil? Did she choose  a $4,000 floral Valentino skirt  for its horticultural motif? The first lady barely has to lift a gold-tipped ceremonial spade for the jokes to begin. “Actually, that’s not a spade, it’s a shovel,” says the gardening expert Alys Fowler. “I suspect she was given that in recognition of the fact that she was never going to put her foot on it in those shoes.” Aside from the obvious issues, such as the propensity of stilettos to sink into the mud, Fowler is worried that T...

PDP asks Tambuwal, Atiku, Kwankwaso, others to accept primary’s outcome In a bid to have a rancour-free presidential primary, the national leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party met with its presidential aspirants in Abuja on Wednesday night. The PDP team was led by its National Chairman, Prince Uche Secondus. Other members of the party’s National Working Committee and some members of the Board of Trustees were also in attendance. Present at the meeting were the President of the Senate, Dr Bukola Saraki; a former Vice-President, Atiku Abubakar; a former governor of Plateau State,  Jona Jang;  Sokoto State Governor, Aminu Tambuwal,  a former governor of Sokoto State,  Attahiru Bafarawa and a former Chairman of the PDP  Caretaker Committee, Ahmed Makarfi. Also in attendance were a former governor of Kano State,  Rabiu Kwankwaso and a former Minister of Special Duties and Inter Governmental Relations, Alhaji Kabir Tanimu Turaki (S...

Jubilation as Davido storms Lagos NYSC camp Nigerian music artiste, David Adeleke aka Davido has begun his 'National Youth Service Corps (NYSC). It was wild jubilation at the Lagos State National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) Orientation Camp, Ipaja, on Thursday, as musician icon, David Adeleke, popular as Davido, was sworn in among 2,152 Batch ‘B’, Stream 2 corps members. The security personnel had a tough time controlling fellow corps members and NYSC staff who rushed to take a glimpse of the popular musician. He was later smuggled through the crowd into an office for safety. Davido later told news men that he was delighted to be partake of the scheme.  “I’m a youth and I’m delighted to serve my fatherland. NYSC is also a leadership development programme, and since I’ll not remain a youth forever, I have to start preparing myself for the future,’’ he said. He promised to take active part in all the camp activities. Davido is a 2015 graduate of Music from...

Vote for me again in 2019, Buhari begs women …As President’s wife urges them to shun politicians who use youths as thugs President Muhammadu Buhari has thanked the Nigerian women for voting for him in 2015 and  urged them to repeat the feat in 2019. He made the call, on Thursday, at the Women Political Aspirants Summit organised by National Council of Women Societies (NCWS), Women in Politics Forum (WIPF) and National Centre for Women Development (NCWD), in Collaboration with Office of the Wife of the President. He said: “Let me thank Nigerian women who put their confidence in me and voted for me in 2015. It is my hope that the confidence is still there; seeing this gathering. I am confident that it will remain.” Buhari noted that women constitute more than 50 percent of voters and are, by experience, more dedicated and principled than their male counterparts. The president, who said the summit signifies the spirit of Nigerian women, organised to support w...