Nnamdi Okafor, the majority leader of the Anambra State House of Assembly, has passed away. Before his passing, Okafor, also known as Akajiugo Awka, served as the state Assembly's representative for the Awka South Constituency 1. There are still many unknown issues surrounding his death, however unconfirmed sources claim that ...

Apart from the Annual General Conference of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) which holds from 19th to 26th August in Lagos, Nigeria’s bustling commercial capital, perhaps the next biggest news coming from the Bar at this time is the suspension of Mrs. Joyce Oduah as the NBA General Secretary. Mrs ...

PDP CRISIS: There are signs that the hopes of resolving the crisis rocking the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) may be fading as indications are beginning to merge that the rift between Wike and Atiku is getting deeper, and the aggrieved PDP big wigs are moving closer to collaborating with Peter ...

Nduka Otiono, an Associate Professor at Carleton University, Canada has been nominated for the Archibald Lampman Award for poetry for his new collection of poems titled "DisPlace: The Poetry of Nduka Otiono". Clariform reports that the Archibald Lampman Award is an annual Canadian literary prize awarded to the year's most ...

The Federal Government has signed an agreement with the US Government for the repatriation of the sum of $23 million, being assets looted by late General Sani Abacha. Abubakar Malami (SAN), the Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice signed the agreement on behalf of the Federal Government on Tuesday ...

The Federal Road Safety Corps on Tuesday announced the ban on rotational number plate across the country. This was made known in a statement, issued by the Assistant Corps Marshal, Bisi Kazeem. Clariform gathered that the FRSC made the announcement following the circulation of a video of a vehicle that ...

In Cross River State, more than 1,700 workers who claimed to be civil servants under the state government took to the streets on Tuesday to protest alleged non-payment of five years' worth of salaries. According to our source in Calabar, the state capital, the protestors blocked the government secretariat's entrance ...

Rabiu Kwankwaso, the presidential candidate of the New Nigeria Peoples Party has explained his absence from the opening ceremony of the Nigerian Bar Association's 2022 Annual Conference, which took place on Monday in Lagos. Recall that Clariform reported that leading presidential aspirants like Atiku Abubakar and Peter Obi of the ...

TAIWAN TENTION: President Tsai Ing-wen of Taiwan, said Tuesday that Taiwanese people remained resolved to defend the island following China’s military drills. The relationship between Taiwan and her aggressive neighbour China, has grown worse since USA House Speaker, Nancy Pelosi visited the small Island. BASIC FACTS Tension is high in ...

HEALTH: The world Health Organisation has recorganised Togo as the first country reorganized globally to have eradicate four major crippling diseases, but Neglected tropical diseases NTD as they are popular known, thereby setting a world record, Clariform has learnt. WHAT WE KNOW Togo has been recognized by the World Health ...

EDUCTAION: The presidential candidate of the People`s Democratic Party, (PDP), Abubakar Atiku has responded to media reports about his comments at NBA conference, regarding what he would do with public universities if he wins the presidential election. WHAT WE KNOW Atiku Abubakar, the Peoples Democratic Party's (PDP) presidential candidate has ...

Six supporters of Rabiu Kwankwaso, the presidential candidate of the New Nigeria Peoples Party, have perished in a car accident in Nassarawa. The accident that caused the loss of lives of six Kwankwanso supporters happened in Lafia, the capital of Nasarawa. when the NNPP presidential party visited the state for ...

  EDUCATION: At least 200 Nigerians will benefit from the 2022 European Union (EU) scholarship programme. The scholarship is awarded to students to study in top European universities, under the flagship programme, Erasmus. BASIC FACTS The EU flagship scholarship programme, Erasmus has been administered since 2004. The 2022 EU scholarship ...

EBOLA: A 46 year old woman who died in the Democratic Republic of Congo, was on Monday confirmed Ebola positive, confirming a new case and possible re-emergence of the dreadful Ebola virus in the country. This was made know by DR Congo's health ministry just weeks after the end of ...

Just weeks after the end of a previous epidemic, the Democratic Republic of Congo's health ministry has reported a new case of Ebola in the region's violent east. More than two months after the virus reemerged in the northwest Equateur province, the DRC declared the most recent Ebola outbreak to ...

ASUU STRIKE: There is hope that the industrial action embarked upon by the university lecturers in the nation`s public universities may likely be called of soon, as the National Executive Council (NEC) of the union meets this Sunday. BASIC FACTS The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) have been on ...

2023 ELECTION: The New Nigerian Peoples Party (NNPP), a house that Senator Rabiu Kwankwaso built for his 2023 presidential ambition have been accused of seating on a foundation that was built on injustice by his ally, Ibrahim Shekarau, Clariform has learnt. BASIC FACTS Ibrahim Shekarau is a former two-term governor ...

2023 EELCTION: Political contests come with surprises and the upcoming Nigerian national elections looks like it will be dishing out some these surprises in the wake of the 2023 presidential election slated for the first quarter of the year. BASIC FACTS The presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Mr Peter ...

Let me make this clear from the outset. I am a member of the APC and a supporter of Asiwaju Bola Tinubu. This contribution does not in any way derogate from that and my analysis is more of an academic and intellectual exercise than anything else. I am NOT a ...

2023 ELECTION: The opening section of the 2022 national conference of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), has come and gone, but the effect may still linger on for a while, especially the political connotations of it in the wake of the 2023 presidential election. BASIC FACTS The NBA conference is ...

OPINION: The Peoples Democratic Party, like it or leave it, remains the most structurally entrenched political party in Nigeria. Formed in 1998 by a broad-based alliance dominated by the G-18,  G-34 and a coterie of political organisations, some of them strange bedfellows in the nation’s political history, PDP has blended ...

The former militant leader and commander of the disbanded Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta, Government Ekpemupolo, alias Tompolo, has received a re-award from the federal government for a multibillion-naira pipeline surveillance contract. WHAT WE KNOW The group claims that Ekpemupolo is qualified for the position that the ...

Nigerian rapper, Eedris Abdulkareem underwent a kidney transplant procedure successfully, according to a Monday announcement from his management company Lakreem Entertainment. The statement was made by Myke Pam on behalf of the management, Eedris, and his wife Yetunde, who was his kidney donor. Myke affirmed that they are both recovering ...

A Monarch in Rivers state, High Chief Opoto was kidnapped on Friday by some unknown gunmen on a speed boat while he was making his way to his community in the Abissa river. Minaibiye Dolphin, an eyewitness told newsmen in Port Harcourt that the monarch was a short distance from ...

The Committee to Protect Journalists in Africa (CPJAfrica) has protested the ban of a documentary film by Danish journalist, Camilla Nielsson titled "president" According to a statement made available to Clariform, CPJAfrica says: "Zimbabwean authorities must lift the ban on the documentary film 'President' by Danish journalist Camilla Nielsson and ...

PARIS FUND CONTROVERSY: The Nigeria Governors’ Forum (NGF) has again cautioned the Minister of Justice and Attorney General of the Federation, Abubakar Malami, and the consultants in the $418.9 million Paris Club loan refund to refrain from media propaganda and await an appeal court verdict on the matter. In a ...

TERRORISM: Nigeria Nobel laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka on Monday, questioned the Federal government for not banning the Fulani group Miyetti Allah. Soyinka who spoke on a Channels TV programme questioned the handling of the farmers-herders crisis that continues to claim lives. Soyinka also wondered why the same government that was ...

OSUN ELECTION PETITION TIBUNAL: The Election Petition Tribunal sitting in Osogbo, on the petition by the outgoing governor and APC governorship candidate in the July 16th election in Osun State, Adegboyega Oyetola, has granted his application to serve Senator Ademola Adeleke, the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party in the ...

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WOMENS FOOTBALL: The Falconets, Nigeria's women football junior team has ended their run in the current women`s world cup with heartbreaking goals conceded against the Dutch team. WHAT WE KNOW The Nigerian U-20 Female team, Falconets missed the opportunity to redeem Nigeria image in sport as they crashed out of ...