Prof Charles Adias, INEC’s State Collation Officer for Rivers at the Feb. 25 presidential and National Assembly elections raised alarm again on Sunday in Yenagoa over unending threat to his life . Prof Adias, Vice-Chancellor at the Federal University Otuoke, Bayelsa, suspended results collation during the elections on account...
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Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo on Sunday in Abuja tasked churches and religious leaders to drive the faithful towards the pursuit of truth and justice. Osinbajo gave the charge at the enthronement of Most Rev. Michael Akinwale as the Archbishop of Abuja Unity Cathedral, Methodist Church of Nigeria. AVM Kayode Beckley...
An Economist, Dr Tope Fasua, has urged the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to ensure optimally functional internet capacities for the cashless policy be effective. Fasua said this on Sunday in Abuja in interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN). According to him, cashless policy and financial inclusion...
Chrisland High School, Lagos, where a student died during its inter-house sports competition on Feb. 9, remains shut, Lagos State government declared on Sunday. It stated that the continued closure of the school after the death of the 12-year-old student, Whitney Adeniran, was to further investigate alleged endangerment of...
The Plateau chapter of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) says it has not endorsed governorship candidate of any political party. Its chairman, Rev. Fr. Polycarp Lubo, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Jos on Sunday that Plateau electorate should turn out en-masse on March 11 to...
Mr Osita Okechukwu, Director-General, Voice of Nigeria (VON) has criticised the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Presidential candidate, Alhaji Atiku Abubkar, for making false claims about the Feb. 25 presidential poll. Okechukwu in a statement on Sunday in Abuja, said Atiku’s desperation and crass opportunism led to PDP’s defeat at...
By EMMANUEL KUJE, Abuja – The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has Intercepted 778,190 pills of pharmaceutical opioids including tramadol from suspects in Taraba and other states. NDLEA spokesman, Mr Femi Babafemi, disclosed this in a statement issued on Sunday in Abuja. Babafemi, said a drum of 270kg...
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), has arrested a businessman, Kingsley Celestino, at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA) Ikeja Lagos, over 9.40 kilograms of heroin allegedly concealed in false bottoms of his two travelling bags. This is contained in a statement by the Director, Media and Advocacy,...
By OLA MUDOPE, Osogbo – Osun State Governor, Ademola Adeleke has appealed to residents of the state to avoid violence at the March 11, House of Assembly elections. Governor Adeleke, who made the call in a statement issued on Sunday in Osogbo by his media aide, Malam Olawale Rasheed,...
Armed bandits attacked the headquarters of Maru Local Government of Zamfara State on Saturday night, killing a divisional police officer and two others. The gunmen who in their numbers stormed Maru, shot sporadically, forcing residents to scamper for safety. Upon getting the information of the attack, the Divisional Police...
By JOY ADARA, Abuja – The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has urged President Muhammadu Buhari to reveal plans his administration is taking to obey the recent Supreme Court order on the naira redesign. Last week, the Supreme Court extended the validity of the old N200, N500, and...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – No fewer than 200 Boko Haram fighters including women, and children were killed by the Islamic State of the West Africa Province (ISWAP) in a deadly rivalry clash in Gudumbali local Government Area of Borno State. It was gathered that the ISWAP insurgents targeted...
By DANJUMA JOSEPH, Lafia – Gov Abdullahi A. Sule, of Nasarawa State, have emphasised the importance of peace and religious harmony as he met with religious leaders in Nasarawa State. Gov Sule stated this on Saturday in Lafia during a meeting with the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), Jama’atu...
By DANJUMA JOSEPH, Lafia – Governor Abdullahi Sule of Nasarawa State, have assured Igbo Community of peaceful atmosphere to cast their votes during the March 11 governorship election in the state. The governor gave the assurance during an event organized by the Igbo Community at Igbo Community Hall in...
Eight days to the conduct of Governorship and House of Assembly elections, the Igbo Communities in Lagos State on Saturday officially endorsed the PDP’s Governorship Candidate, Dr Abdul-Azeez Adediran and his running mate, Ms Funke Akindele. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that leaders of Ndigbo declared their...
Mr Ade Omole, the Director of Diaspora Directorate, All Progressives Congress (APC) Presidential Campaign Council (PCC), has called on opposition political leaders to embrace Sen. Bola Tinubu as Nigeria’s president-elect. He made the appeal while speaking with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Sunday in Abuja. Omole urged...
By JOY ADARA, Abuja – The Nigerian National Petroleum Company Ltd. (NNPCL) has attributed fuel queues in Abuja and some parts of the country to restrictions of businesses and movement during the presidential and National Assembly elections. The NNPC Ltd Chief Corporate Communications Officer, Mr. Mr Garba Deen Muhammad,...
The Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria (SPDC) says investigation into Friday’s explosion at the Rumuekpe section of Trans Niger Pipeline (TNP) in Rivers, shows the blast was caused by activities of oil thieves. SPDC in an update statement on Sunday, noted that a joint investigation by representatives of...
By PATRICK ABANG Calabar – Ahead of the governorship elections on March 11, 2023, Students Leadership Forum, National Association of Cross River State Students, NACRISS World Wide and the National Association of Nigerian students NANS and other students bodies in the state have endorsed the governorship candidate of the...
PATRICK ABANG Calabar – Cross River State Governor, Ben Ayade has expressed deep shock and sorrow over the death of the Archbishop Emeritus of the Catholic Archdiocese of Calabar, the Most Reverend Joseph Edra Ukpo. In a condolences message signed on his behalf by his Chief Press Secretary/ Special...