New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP), Presidential Candidate, Senator Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso Confirms Likely Team Up With Labour Party (LP) Presidential Candidate, Peter Obi

The New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP), Presidential candidate, Senator Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso in an interview with the BBC Hausa, has confirmed rumours that he is in talks with his counterpart in the Labour Party, Mr Peter Obi on the possibility of contesting for the presidency on the same ticket in 2023.

”Yes we are discussing with Peter Obi, or I will rather say a committee is working to see all that is necessary on teaming up with him, and our friends and relations have been coming to talk to us over the issue.” He said.

Considering the fact that the All Progressives Congress (APC) and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) did not pick their Vice Presidential candidates from the Igbo tribe, our teaming up is important, explained the former Governor of Kano state.

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Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, Wins Big In Governor Nyesom Wike's Local Government Area

The presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Asiwaju Ahmed Bola Tinubu, has won the Obio-Akpor, the Local Government Area of Governor Nyesom Wike in Rivers State by a landslide. Tinubu polled 80,239 votes to defeat the Candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Peter Obi, who came a distant second with 3,829 and the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), who got 368 votes.

North Korea Confirms First COVID Outbreak

North Korea has confirmed its first COVID-19 death, and says hundreds of thousands of people have “fever”, in the first indication of the scale of the outbreak in its largely unvaccinated population. The nuclear-armed country announced on Thursday its first coronavirus outbreak since the pandemic began, moving into lockdown after it said people in the capital, Pyongyang, tested positive for the Omicron variant. “A fever whose cause couldn’t be identified explosively spread nationwide from late April,” the official Korean Central News Agency said on Friday. “Six persons died (one of them tested positive for the BA.2 sub-variant of Omicron),” it added. About 350,000 people have shown signs of “fever”, while 187,800 people are being treated in isolation, according to KCNA. Experts worry North Korea’s health system will be unable to cope with spread of COVID in an unvaccinated population, they also believe the virus has been present in the country for some time, the authorities only a...

AFRICAN ”SLAVE” AND MATHEMATICAL GENIUS-THOMAS FULLER

Thomas Fuller (1710 – December 1790), also known as "Negro Tom" and the "Virginia Calculator", was an enslaved African renowned for his mathematical abilities. Born in Africa somewhere between present-day Liberia and Benin, Fuller was enslaved and shipped to America in 1724 at the age of 14, eventually becoming the legal property of Presley and Elizabeth Cox of Alexandria, Virginia. Both Fuller and the Coxes were illiterate. The Coxes enslaved 16 people, and appeared to value Fuller the most; he expressed gratitude for not being sold. Stories of his abilities abounded through the Eastern seaboard. His skill was even used as proof that enslaved Blacks were equal to whites in intelligence, which fueled some pro-abolitionist discussion. When Fuller was about 70 years old, William Hartshorne and Samuel Coates of Pennsylvania were in Alexandria and, having heard of Fuller's powers, sent for him. They asked him two questions which satisfied their curiosity. First, wh...

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