Author: Tosin Ajayi

Liz Truss will become the United Kingdom’s 56th prime minister after narrowly defeating Rishi Sunak. Britain’s Conservative Party has chosen Foreign Secretary Liz Truss as the party’s new leader, putting her in line to be confirmed as prime minister. The announcement came on Monday in London after a leadership election in which only the 180,000 dues-paying members of the Conservative Party were allowed to vote. Truss beat rival Rishi Sunak, the government’s former Treasury chief, by promising to increase defense spending and cut taxes, while refusing to say how she would address the cost-of-living crisis. Truss received 81,326 votes to Sunak’s 60,399,…

IBADAN, Nigeria (VOICE Of NAIJA)- Former Kogi West Senator and Campaign Director of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Dino Melaye, has berated former Minister of Aviation, Femi Fani-Kayode, saying his mind was not in sync with the world’s reality. Melaye had claimed that all governors under the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, spent money on ensuring that Iyorchia Ayu emerged as the party’s National Chairman. Fani-Kayode urged security operatives to arrest and prosecute Ayu and the PDP presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar. Reacting, Melaye said Fani-Kayode’s mind was not in sync with the world’s reality. Melaye said Fani-Kayode’s comment lacked comprehension, stressing…

IBADAN, Nigeria (VOICE Of NAIJA)- The Inspector-General of Police (IGP), Usman Baba, has assured Nigerians that there is no immediate threat to the conduct of the 2023 general elections. The IGP gave the assurance in a statement issued by the Force Public Relations Officer, Olumuyiwa Adejobi, on Sunday in Abuja. According to Mr Baba, the assurance followed a robust security threat analysis carried out by the police using global best standards to ascertain the trend of expectations for the electioneering processes. Mr Baba spoke during a meeting with Todd Robinson, Assistant Secretary, Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs,…

IBADAN, Nigeria (VOICE OF NAIJA)- Accord presidential candidate, Professor Christopher Imumolen says he is not going to waste time in fixing the rot in virtually every sector of the Nigerian economy and completing abandoned projects While articulating his manifesto for 2023, the youthful presidential aspirant identified very critical areas of the economy that have remained problematic for the country since it gained independence in 1960. According to him, true development can only begin when abandoned projects scattered around the country are completed; also dealing with insecurity that has seemed to have, to a large extent, discouraged investment by both local…

IBADAN, Nigeria (VOICE OF NAIJA)- Following a recent outburst of the PPD Presidential Campaign Council’s Spokesperson, Dino Melaye, on the emergence of Ayu as the PDP’s National Chairman of the People’s Democratic party (PDP), former Minister of Aviation, Femi Fani-Kayode has described him as a product of illegality, therefore should be disqualified and investigated. Melaye had exposed that all the PDP Governors spent money at the party’s National Convention to get Ayu elected as the National Chairman. Reacting, FFK described the outburst as a grave and serious matter, alluding that the utterance was a public confession of a criminal offence…

IBADAN, Nigeria (VOICE OF NAIJA)- The Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPC) has insisted that the country consumes 68 million litres of petrol daily. The response came days after the Nigeria Customs Service questioned the NNPC’s claim that the country consumes 60 million litres of petrol daily. NNPC Limited in a statement by its group general manager, group public affairs division, Garba Deen Muhammad, said it imported a total volume of 16.46 billion litres of petroleum into the country between January and August 2022. This, the company said, translated to an average supply of 68 million litres per day. It…

Brighton fought back from conceding a first-minute goal to beat struggling Leicester City in a seven-goal thriller at the Amex. Leicester, bottom of the Premier League, scored after only 51 seconds when Kelechi Iheanacho finished from Patson Daka’s pull-back from the left. However, the lead only lasted eight minutes before Solly March’s header deflected into the net off Leicester defender Luke Thomas. Brighton went ahead in the 15th minute, capitalising on a loose pass from James Maddison with Moises Caicedo scoring after being set up by Enock Mwepu. But in a frantic first half, Leicester scored again after 32 minutes.…

Ex-president Donald Trump branded his successor Joe Biden an “enemy of the state” during a rally in Pennsylvania Saturday, as he slammed last month’s FBI raid of his Florida home. Making his first public appearance since the August 8 raid, Trump said the search was a “travesty of justice” and warned it would produce “a backlash the likes of which nobody has ever seen.” “There can be no more vivid example of the very real threats from American freedom than just a few weeks ago, you saw, when we witnessed one of the most shocking abuses of power by any…

Ousted Sri Lankan President, Gotabaya Rajapaksa, faced calls for his arrest on Saturday after returning home from self-imposed exile under the protection of his successor’s government. Rajapaksa fled the island nation under military escort in July after a huge crowd stormed his official residence following months of demonstrations sparked by an unprecedented economic crisis. The 73-year-old announced his resignation from Singapore and spent weeks under virtual house arrest at a Bangkok hotel before his return late on Friday. Leaders of the protest campaign that toppled his government said Rajapaksa, who lost his presidential immunity after leaving office, should now be…

IBADAN, Nigeria (VOICE OF NAIJA)- Professor David Bamgbose, the Governorship Candidate of the Peoples Redemption Party (PRP) in Ogun State, is dead. Bamgbose, a Professor of Education, died at the Sacred Heart Hospital, Abeokuta, while receiving treatment for an undisclosed ailment. His death has been confirmed by his personal assistant, Mr Oduntan Olayemi. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) recalls that Bamgbose was unveiled in Abeokuta last Saturday as the PRP’s governorship candidate by Mr Samson Ogunsanya, the party chairman. He was a governorship aspirant of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) before he stepped down for Mr. Ladi Adebutu who…