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Mr Abubakar, a retired customs office and Nigeria’s vice-president from 1999 to 2007, won the most votes from the 767 delegates accredited for the convention. Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has won the Peoples Democratic Party’s presidential ticket, making him the forerunner for the party in the race to the 2023 general elections.  On Saturday, the PDP held its presidential primary elections at the Moshood Abiola Stadium in Abuja amidst the sudden extension of primaries by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).  Mr Abubakar, a retired customs office and Nigeria’s vice-president from 1999 to 2007, won 371 votes from the 767 delegates accredited for the convention. Earlier, Sokoto state governor and fellow presidential aspirant Aminu Tambuwal withdrew from the race. Mr Tambuwal urged his supporters among the delegates to vote for the former vice president, subsequently shooting him ahead of his main contender Nyesom Wike, who scored 237 v...

On Friday, Tesla CEO Elon Musk announced on Twitter that Starlink, the satellite internet service launched by SpaceX, his space exploration company, has been approved in Nigeria and Mozambique. Starlink approved by Nigeria 🇳🇬 & Mozambique 🇲🇿 https://t.co/Q1VvqVmJ2i — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) May 27, 2022 According to reports, The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) also confirmed this announcement. This licensing follows a visit to Nigeria by the company’s team in May last year to discuss the possibility of obtaining a licence. Starlink which currently operates in 36 countries has over 400,000 subscribers around the world. “The company received two licenses, which include the International Gateway license and Internet Service Provider (ISP) license, and will be trading as Starlink Internet Services Nigeria Ltd. According to NCC, the International Gateway license has a 10-year tenure while the ISP license is to last for five years. Both licenses ta...

In 2022, Her Majesty The Queen will become the first British Monarch to celebrate a Platinum Jubilee after 70 years of service. Get involved in celebrating Her Majesty's historic reign in the run up to the Platinum Jubilee Central Weekend which takes place from 2nd to 5th June. Here are beautiful pictures and designs around London….

Most of artist Oluwole Omofemi portraits depict African women, for whom hair is a key part of their identity. The Queen has been given a bold halo of black hair by a Nigerian artist in a new portrait.  The painting, by artist Oluwole Omofemi, was commissioned for a special collector’s edition of Tatler magazine to celebrate the Platinum Jubilee. It will go on public display at Sotheby’s in London as part of the auction house’s jubilee season, sitting alongside portraits of each of the seven queens regnant of Britain, including the iconic Armada Portrait of Elizabeth I, on loan from the Woburn Abbey collection. For him, it is “an artistic metaphor for freedom and power” and he deliberately depicted the monarch with what the magazine described as “a bold halo of black hair.” 'When I look at the Queen, I see someone who has conquered life' Mr Omofemi said: “Many of the great things the Queen achieved came at a very young age, so I have painted her with black hair. “I also...

Two major domestic airlines in Nigeria have increased the price of local flights from a baseline of 50,000 Naira ($120) for economy seats to as much as N58,000 ($139) this week, signalling the industry’s effort to manage an aviation fuel scarcity spanning months. The airlines threatened to suspend operations last week Monday (May 9) citing increasing cost of operations, but appeared to reach a temporary agreement with sellers of the fuel to buy at a fixed rate, with the intervention of federal lawmakers. For a few days after, N50,000 remained the base fare for prices. But that has started changing this week with more than 10% increases in some cases, checks for the popular Lagos to Abuja route showed. Among the airlines to raise prices are Air Peace, and Ibom Air, the market leaders. Flight ticket prices have been shooting up in Nigeria since February when airlines doubled prices from what used to be a N23,000 ($55) baseline. Now as then, the pretext was the rising cost of jet fu...

The President of the African Development Bank (AfDB), Akinwunmi Adesina, foreseen what he called “slow economic growth” for the continent in 2022 and that Nigeria and other countries in Africa would need at least $432 billion to fully recover from the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. President of AFDB Akinwunmi Adesina Speaking today, May 25 at the Bank’s Annual General Meeting in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, Adesina said that the recovery for Africa will be very costly. “Africa will need at least $432 billion to address the effects of Covid19 on its economies, plus on the lives of its people, resources that it does not have.” “The measures taken already by the global community, especially the Debt Service Suspension Initiative, the G20 Common Framework for Debt Treatments, and the issuance of the $650 billion Special Drawing Rights by the @IMFNews, have all helped.” On the outlook of Africa’s economy, he said that while the Real GDP rebounded strongly in 2021, growing by 6.9 percent...

The America's Got Talent judge H owie Mandel   says "Chappelle getting physically attacked on stage is his "worst fear come true." Is comedy under attack, or just comedians? Are we too thin-skinned and sensitive as a society now to handle humour? Or should comedians figure out how to adapt? It's an impossible question that's only gotten more and more complicated in recent weeks as comedians have gone from getting canceled for off-colour jokes and having people protest them to actually getting physically assaulted on stage while plying their trade. Obviously, the highest-profile incident of this came when Will Smith walked up to Chris Rock on live television during the Oscars and smacked Chris Rock across the face for cracking a joke about Jada Pinkett Smith's hair. "I thought that that opened the flood gates," Howie Mandel told E! News about that Oscars slap. And then, Dave Chappelle got tackled on stage b...

The abortion debate, though universal, is also quintessentially American. Over the past 50 years, it has come to represent the increasingly vitriolic culture wars dominating US politics. The temperature is again super hot after a leaked memo revealed that the US Supreme Court is set to repeal the 1973 landmark Roe v. Wade decision that legalised abortion nationwide. Late Monday, POLITICO released a draft decision written by Justice Samuel Alito – a staunch conservative judge appointed in 2005 by George W. Bush – that outlines the court’s intention to gut Roe, which allows abortions up until the point of viability outside the womb. It is still unclear who leaked the draft memo, but the Supreme Court says it is investigating, which is a remarkable admission for the notoriously tight-lipped institution. In the leaked decision, responding to a Mississippi law banning the procedure after 15 weeks gestation, Justice Alito writes that “Roe was egregiousl...