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The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has described petition filed at the tribunal by Labour Party (LP) and its candidate, Peter Obi against the declaration of Bola Ahmed Tinubu of All Progressive Congress, APC as the winner of February 25 presidential election as grossly incompetent, abusive, vague, nebulous, generic, general, non-specific, ambiguous, equivocal, hypothetical and academic. Mr Obi, the 1st petitioner, and LP, the 2nd petitioner, had sued INEC, Sen. Bola Tinubu, Sen. Kashim Shettima and All Progressives Congress (APC) as 1st to 4th respondents respectively. The petitioners are seeking the nullification of the election victory of Tinubu and Shettima in the Feb 25 presidential poll. Tinubu, who defeated 17 other candidates who took part in the election, scored a total of 8,794,726 votes, the highest of all the candidates. Former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) came second with 6,984,520 votes in the poll; Obi came third wi

There is story of two Ghanian brothers trending on social media presently. It's the zero to hero success story of Abu Bakr Bapube and Nuhu Bapube.  The story, as shared by Abu Bakr Bapube on his brother's Facebook page, is nothing but a great motivation for the youths. To be focused, persevered and hard working for them to be successful.  Reminiscing on their humble beginnings, Abu Bakr spoke about how they were able to pick the pieces of their lives together by selling charcoal, having lost their father at a tender age. He said: "He is my kid brother and friend. Charcoal was the business and we did it happily without any resentment. That was how we paid our school fees because dad died quite early (may Allah have absolute mercy on his soul). I Remember during my university days (1st degree), we went to Kumasi-Asokwa to deliver charcoal to a customer whose son was then in high school. We pleaded if the son could help us and the woman quickly intervened by saying ‘my son ca