The Igbo communities in Kaduna State, have endorsed Sen. Suleiman Hunkuyi, the New Nigeria People’s Party (NNPP) Governorship Candidate ahead of Saturday’s polls. Addressing the crowd of Igbo leaders from across the 23 LGAs on Wednesday in Kaduna, the President-General of Igbo communities, Chief Francis Uchenna, said what they...
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The All Progressive Congress (APC) in Osun State has accused Gov Ademola Adeleke of mismanaging N 90 billion accrued to the state in the last 100 days of his administration. Mr Tajudeen Lawal, the acting Chairman of the party in a statement on Wednesday in Osogbo, alleged that Adeleke...
Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Atiku Abubakar has said he withdrew a motion before the Appeal Court over a request to inspect electoral materials because the issue had been overtaken by events. In a statement, Abubakar, said that the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) had already...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has assured candidates seeking to participate in its ongoing recruitment exercise that concerted efforts are being made to resolve challenges they are facing on the application portal with a view to make the process seamless. The NDLEA...
Last weekend, I drove to Wuse market in Abuja to get some groceries and I met a man corporately dressed in well tailored black suits, tall and dark in complexion. I noticed he was a hawker, can I call him a corporate tiger nuts seller? Oh yes, he is...
By THOMAS AKASE, Makurdi – The senators representing Benue State on Wednesday, March 15th, 2023 joined Governor Samuel Ortom to commission multiple projects executed by his administration. The projects commissioned included the headquarters complex of the Ministry of Housing and Urban Development as well as Unconvicted Prisoners Cells at...
The governorship election on Saturday 18th is more decisive for Abia state than many others. It is an opportunity to end the tragedy of a long night of disastrous governance that has plagued the state in the last twenty four years. It is a unique opportunity to etch a...
By ARMSTRONG ALLAHMAGANI, Bauchi – The immediate past Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, has said that the Nigeria Police broke the law by declaring the Member of the House of Representatives from Bauchi State, Yakubu Shehu, wanted. NATIONAL ACCORD had reported that the Police had declared...
Lagos State Governor, Bababjide Sanwo-Olu, has directed the State Ministry of Education to commence investigation into the case of a pupil who was reportedly sent out of school for using the poster of the Labour Party presidential candidate, Peter Obi, to wrap books. The incident was reported to have...
The Federal executive Council has approved N15 billion for the construction of an access road linking the Benin-Asaba expressway to the second Niger bridge. Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, disclosed this when he briefed State House correspondents on the outcome of the council’s meeting presided over...
A Federal High Court, Abuja, on Wednesday, struck out a suit seeking to compel the Code of Conduct Bureau (CCB) to release details of the asset declaration forms of Prof. Mahmud Yakubu, Chairman, Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) and those of his unmarried children Justice John Tsoho, in his...
The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), says Nigeria’s headline inflation rate increased to 21.91 per cent on a year-on-year basis in February 2023. This is according to the NBS Consumer Price Index (CPI) and Inflation Report for February 2023 released in Abuja on Wednesday. According to the report, the...
By OLA MUDOPE, Lagos – The Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria Ltd., (SPDC), operator of the SPDC joint venture, says it has lifted the force majeure on Bonny export programme with effect from March 15, 2023. Mrs Bola Essien-Nelson, the Media Relations Manager of SPDC, confirmed this in...
The Assistant Inspector-General of Police (AIG) in charge of Zone 9, Mr Ibrahim Kaoje, has assured citizens in Ebonyi of maximum security during and after the Saturday Governorship and House of Assembly elections. Kaoje gave the assurance during his visit to the Independent National Electoral Commission’s (INEC) office in...
By BARBARA KALU, Abakaliki – he Ebonyi State Police Command has arrested 7 suspects in connection with the murder of Mr Igboke Ewa, a Traditional Ruler of Omege Village, Umuezeokaoha, in Ezza North LGA of the state. The Command’s spokesman, SP Onome Onovwakpoyeya, confirmed the arrest in the statement...
The Bola Tinubu 4 President 2023 Support Group on Wednesday received a 26-year-old man, Mr Gaddafi Musa, who rode a bicycle from Kastina to Lagos to celebrate President-elect Bola Tinubu’s victory. Mr Fola Tinubu, the Convener and Director-General of the group, led the members to receive Musa in Ikeja....
Federal University Dutsin-Ma (FUDMA), in Katsina State, has won N35.1 million research grant from the 2021 Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund). The spokesperson of the University, Malam Habibu Umar-Amin, who disclosed this in a statement issued on Wednesday in Katsina, said the intervention was for the TEDFund’s National Research...
Ahead of the Governorship/House of Assembly election on March 18, the camp of All Progressives Congress (APC) in Oyo State has received more defectors from the ruling People’s Democratic Party (PDP). The defectors from two PDP groups were received on Wednesday by the State APC Secretary, Alhaji Tajudeen Olanite,...
The Lagos State Commissioner for Health, Prof. Akin Abayomi, says 66 patients involved in the train-bus collision accident have been treated and discharged from five state public health facilities. Abayomi disclosed this in a situation update about the accident on Wednesday in Lagos. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN)...
UN says no fewer than 100,000 people have been displaced and dozens killed, following a string of attacks by an armed group in North Kivu province in the east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). Citing humanitarian sources, UN Spokesperson, Stéphane Dujarric, said at a news conference...