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Suspended senator representing Kogi Central, Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan, on Monday appeared before the Federal High Court in Abuja for her second arraignment over alleged defamation of Senate President Godswill Akpabio and former Kogi State governor, Yahaya Bello.

Akpoti-Uduaghan was accompanied to the court by her husband, Emmanuel Uduaghan; Human rights activist, Aisha Yesufu; and several supporters.

The case is expected to be heard before Justice Mohammed Umar.

The lawmaker was first arraigned on similar charges on June 19, 2025, before the Federal Capital Territory High Court.

At the previous hearing, the trial judge declined a request by the Federal Government to issue a bench warrant against her for not appearing in court.

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Edo North Senator, Adams Oshiomhole, has said that the “excessive printing of money” by the Central Bank of Nigeria under the administration of former President Muhammadu Buhari through the Ways and Means policy crippled the naira.

The Ways and Means provision allows the Federal Government to borrow from the CBN if it needs emergency finance to fund delayed government expected cash receipts of fiscal deficits.

At a Progressives Governors Forum’s Meeting and Interactive Session in Benin City, Edo State, on Saturday, Oshiomhole blamed the policy for the eventual collapse of the Nigerian currency against the US dollar.

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Aliyu Audu, Former Senior Special Assistant on Public Affairs to President Tinubu has accused the The FCT Minister, Nyesom Wike of being in the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), but controls the ruling All Progressives Party (APC) in Rivers State and in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT).

According to him, 'Wike is destroying the PDP with the support of the president because the office of the minister of the FCT is a state power that can be used to back the president.'

Audu also reiterated his resolve to work against the President’s re-election in 2027.

Audu, who recently resigned from Tinubu’s administration, said that despite being a spokesperson to the President, he had no access to him for almost two years.

The ex-presidential aide criticized President Tinubu for granting access to an Afrobeat superstar, David Adeleke, better known as Davido, and a Lagos politician, Abdul-Azeez Olajide Adediran, while he couldn’t get his attention.

“I worked for President for nearly two years. I didn’t have a sit down with him. I’m one of his spokesperson. but he sat with Davido, who insulted him couple of weeks before. Then he sat with that Jandor, who didn’t even come second in Lagos election. It doesn’t make sense.”

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President of the Senate, Godswill Akpabio, has said Former Rivers State Governor, Wike ought to be celebrated on a daily basis.


Akpabio inaugurated the Arterial Road N20 Interchange Bridges, built by the Nyesom Wike led FCT administration

Speaking, Akpabio referenced the recent crisis in the PDP regarding the position of the National Secretary of the party, and the recent defection of Senator Neda Imasuen, Senate Committee Chairman on Ethics, Code of Conduct, and Public Petitions, from the Labour Party to the ruling All Progressives Congress, the Senate President said the President was saddened to see the opposition in disarray.

“However you people got yourself into this confusion, try and get yourself out of it very quickly. President Bola Ahmed Tinubu GCFR is interested in seeing a vibrant opposition. As a true democrat, we would like to see a very vibrant opposition in the country. It saddens him when he sees the way the opposition in Nigeria is in disarray.

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The Governor of KadunaState, Uba Sani, has faulted opposition politicians for not doing much to address some of the current challenges facing Nigeria when they were in power.

According to him, some of the challenges the country is facing, especially insecurity, started before the administration of President Bola Tinubu.

“All the people talking today were at the helm of affairs, and things were growing. The poverty level in northern Nigeria grew from almost 50%, 15 years ago, to 70% on average as of 2023, and someone can look at me and tell me the problem was caused by Bola Ahmed Tinubu. Come on,” Governor Sani said.

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The Kaduna State Police Command has said that the fellow who breached security protocol during the commissioning of projects at Murtala Mohammed Square by President Bola Tinubu was born with “psychiatric disorders”.

The Command’s Spokesman, DSP Mansir Hassan, in a statement, said the individual, Umar Mohammed, a native of Anguwan Muazu in Kaduna,

The police admitted that the fellow was screened and admitted into the stadium as an All Progressives Congress (APC) supporter, wearing the standard campaign T-shirt and carrying banners bearing the images of the President and Governor Uba Sani like every other supporter admitted into the stadium.

The police explained that the individual, out of excitement, breached the protocol and jumped into the restricted arena out of curiosity to catch a closer look at the President. The police said the fellow was immediately blocked and arrested by the security team.

The police said the fellow was thoroughly searched and no incriminating item was found in his possession.

Meanwhile, the Kaduna State Commissioner of Police, Rabiu Muhammad, has warned mischief makers and members of the public to refrain from spreading falsehoods or politicising the incident.

The commissioner said the matter would be further investigated.

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The Kaduna State Police Command has said that the fellow who breached security protocol during the commissioning of projects at Murtala Mohammed Square by President Bola Tinubu was born with “psychiatric disorders”.

The Command’s Spokesman, DSP Mansir Hassan, in a statement, said the individual, Umar Mohammed, a native of Anguwan Muazu in Kaduna,

The police admitted that the fellow was screened and admitted into the stadium as an All Progressives Congress (APC) supporter, wearing the standard campaign T-shirt and carrying banners bearing the images of the President and Governor Uba Sani like every other supporter admitted into the stadium.

The police explained that the individual, out of excitement, breached the protocol and jumped into the restricted arena out of curiosity to catch a closer look at the President. The police said the fellow was immediately blocked and arrested by the security team.

The police said the fellow was thoroughly searched and no incriminating item was found in his possession.

Meanwhile, the Kaduna State Commissioner of Police, Rabiu Muhammad, has warned mischief makers and members of the public to refrain from spreading falsehoods or politicising the incident.

The commissioner said the matter would be further investigated.

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Information Minister, Mohammed Idris, has replied Senator Ali Ndume, who had earlier accused the Media aides of President Tinubu, saying a senator is expected to always speak as a respected person.

Also, speaking on the economic hardship has assured Nigerians that the pains will soon end.

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Former presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Peter Obi, has appreciated President Bola Tinubu for “finally deciding to visit the scene of the brutal killings in Benue State”.

The former Anambra State governor, however, said the president’s intending visit to Benue State on Wednesday was not enough, adding that he should also visit the victims of devastating flood in the Mokwa area of Niger State, also in North Central Nigeria.

On Monday, when he inaugurated the Greater Abuja Water Supply Network, Tinubu sympathised with the people of Benue State over the attack on Yelwata community on Friday which claimed scores of lives.

The President said he would clear his schedule to pay a condolence visit to the people of Benue State on Wednesday.

Obi, who had criticised Tinubu earlier for failing to visit the state as well as Niger where scores died due to flooding recently, said it was refreshing that Tinubu “has finally decided to visit the scene of the brutal killings in Benue State.”

While the former governor of Anambra State thanked the President for the planned Benue visit, he urged him to make a similar trip to Niger State.

“For this I thank him even as I make further request that similar gesture should be extended to Niger state that lost more number of human lives in a natural disaster, flood recently,” Obi wrote on his X handle on Tuesday.

“Given the emergency nature of these incidents, a prompt visits would have delivered the urgency needed, instead of giving future dates that makes it look like a state visit.

“The presence of the President in these devastated and grieving communities will be very reassuring and uplifting.

“Both Benue and Niger States have lost over 200 lives each due to recent tragedies. In Mokwa alone, more than 200 people were confirmed dead, and over 1,000 are still missing following the floods. These are not just statistics; they are the lives of Nigerian families torn apart and their communities destroyed.

“The distance from Abuja to these affected areas is not far. Abuja to Makurdi is about 282 km and Abuja to Mokwa is about 287 km.

“Combined, that’s roughly 1,134 km for a round trip to both locations, still significantly less than the 1,870 km round trip President Cyril Ramaphosa of South Africa recently made some days ago from Pretoria to Mthatha to personally visit flood victims in his country.

“Less than 100 persons died in Mthatha, and more than 200 died in Mokwa, with over 1000 still missing.

“If the South African President could do it, we trust that you, as our own President, can do the same for your people.

“Let your visit to Mokwa send a strong message, that all Nigerian lives matter, and that no community, no matter how rural, is forgotten. Please also consider stepping up security across the country, especially in disaster-prone areas.

“We look forward to seeing not leadership by remote control but proactive leadership that responds not just with words, but with compassion and action.”

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Former presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Peter Obi, has appreciated President Bola Tinubu for “finally deciding to visit the scene of the brutal killings in Benue State”.

The former Anambra State governor, however, said the president’s intending visit to Benue State on Wednesday was not enough, adding that he should also visit the victims of devastating flood in the Mokwa area of Niger State, also in North Central Nigeria.

On Monday, when he inaugurated the Greater Abuja Water Supply Network, Tinubu sympathised with the people of Benue State over the attack on Yelwata community on Friday which claimed scores of lives.

The President said he would clear his schedule to pay a condolence visit to the people of Benue State on Wednesday.

Obi, who had criticised Tinubu earlier for failing to visit the state as well as Niger where scores died due to flooding recently, said it was refreshing that Tinubu “has finally decided to visit the scene of the brutal killings in Benue State.”

While the former governor of Anambra State thanked the President for the planned Benue visit, he urged him to make a similar trip to Niger State.

“For this I thank him even as I make further request that similar gesture should be extended to Niger state that lost more number of human lives in a natural disaster, flood recently,” Obi wrote on his X handle on Tuesday.

“Given the emergency nature of these incidents, a prompt visits would have delivered the urgency needed, instead of giving future dates that makes it look like a state visit.

“The presence of the President in these devastated and grieving communities will be very reassuring and uplifting.

“Both Benue and Niger States have lost over 200 lives each due to recent tragedies. In Mokwa alone, more than 200 people were confirmed dead, and over 1,000 are still missing following the floods. These are not just statistics; they are the lives of Nigerian families torn apart and their communities destroyed.

“The distance from Abuja to these affected areas is not far. Abuja to Makurdi is about 282 km and Abuja to Mokwa is about 287 km.

“Combined, that’s roughly 1,134 km for a round trip to both locations, still significantly less than the 1,870 km round trip President Cyril Ramaphosa of South Africa recently made some days ago from Pretoria to Mthatha to personally visit flood victims in his country.

“Less than 100 persons died in Mthatha, and more than 200 died in Mokwa, with over 1000 still missing.

“If the South African President could do it, we trust that you, as our own President, can do the same for your people.

“Let your visit to Mokwa send a strong message, that all Nigerian lives matter, and that no community, no matter how rural, is forgotten. Please also consider stepping up security across the country, especially in disaster-prone areas.

“We look forward to seeing not leadership by remote control but proactive leadership that responds not just with words, but with compassion and action.”

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A miracle survivor of the Air India disaster has told how he slipped out of the blazing plane when he realised he was alive.

After narrowly cheating death, 40-year-old Vishwash Ramesh detailed how he survived the catastrophic smash into a doctors' hostel in Ahmedabad which killed over 265 people.

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President of Nigeria, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, speaking on defections, I will not say try your best to put your house in order, I would not help you to do so either. It is indeed a pleasure to witness you in such a disarray.

On the economy, upon assuming office, my team and I moved to reform our ailing economy. We introduced fundamental reforms to correct structural imbalances that prevented maximum growth... Inflation is easing gradually, steadying the price of food staples like rice and beans.