The Department of State Services (DSS) has reportedly sent an invitation to the Publicity Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Ebonyi State, Mr Nwoba Chika Nwoba. According to a report by Independent Nigeria, this comes after he held his wedding with a cake covered in the colours of the...
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The Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) has announced that banned Nigerian sprinter Blessing Okagbare has been found to have committed additional anti-doping rule violations. According to a statement on the website of AIU, the violations were specifically about evading sample collection and tampering or attempted tampering with the doping control...
President Muhammadu Buhari says he is constrained to accept the resignation of the Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Justice Muhammad Tanko on health grounds The president stated this while swearing in Justice Olukayode Ariwoola as acting Chief Justice of Nigeria in the State House, Abuja, on Monday. Buhari said:...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) says it is not in custody of a pregnant woman in connection with vote buying in the just concluded Ekiti governorship election. The EFCC spokesman, Mr Wilson Uwujaren, who stated this in a statement on Monday, explained...
No fewer than 3 persons were burnt to death while 2 others were rescued with burns on Monday evening when a Diesel Tanker exploded in Kogi State Corps Commander Stephen Dawulung, Kogi Sector of the Federal Road Safely Corps (FRSC), who confirmed the incident to the News Agency of...
By PATRICK ABANG Calabar – The Director of Information and Public Orientation in Cross River State Civil Service, Mrs. Roseline Irek has narrated how some armed soldiers on Sunday morning allegedly kidnapped her twin grand children in Calabar. Mrs. Irek, who narrated her ordeal in a interview with journalists...
This piece stemmed from the content of conversations held, and recommendations made during the recently celebrated International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking, or World Drug Day, marked on 26 June every year to among other aims strengthen action and cooperation in achieving a world free of drug...
The Zamfara Assembly on Monday passed a bill to provide a law for the prohibition and punishment for banditry, cattle rustling, cultism, kidnapping, terrorism and other incidental offences. 2022. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the executive bill sent to the house by Gov Bello Matawalle was...
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) says fresh registration in the ongoing nationwide Continuous Voter Registration (CVR) has hit 10,487,972 as at 7 a.m. on Monday, June 27. The commission in its CVR weekly update, released in Abuja on Monday, also disclosed that 8,631,696 registrants had completed their registrations....
Hearing in a suit filed by former Senate President, Bukola Saraki, against the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and others could not proceed on Monday due to the presiding judge’s absence. Though the two separate suits were on number five and six on the day’s cause list, Justice...
Former Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu, and his wife, Beatrice, have sued the National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) and others over controversy surrounding David Ukpo’s real age. Others mentioned in the suit are the Comptroller General (C-G), Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS); Stanbic-IBTC Bank; United Bank of Africa (UBA) and...
The Board of Directors of the African Development Bank (AfDB), has approved the establishment of African Pharmaceutical Technology Foundation for Africa’s access to technologies. According to the bank, this is for the manufacture of medicines, vaccines and other pharmaceutical products. In a statement by the bank”s Communication and External...
Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof Mahmood Yakubu, says Nigerians will determine who becomes their leaders in the 2023 general elections. Yakubu stated this while receiving a team of Special Representatives of the United Nations (UN) Secretary-General, led by the Head of the UN Office in...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has approved the appointment of Gov. Duoye Diri as the Chairman of its National Campaign Council for July 16, Osun State Governorship Election. The National Organizing Secretary, Umar Bature, disclosed this in a statement issued Abuja on Monday. Bature...
The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Parliament on Monday called for member states’ coordinated actions towards ending terrorism in the sub-region. The parliament made the call in a resolution which was adopted on the floor of the house at the end of its 2022 First Ordinary Session...
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson condemned Vladimir Putin’s “cruelty and barbarism” after a missile strike on a shopping centre in Ukraine left scores feared dead. The prime minister said the attack, on the day Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelensky addressed the G7 summit, would strengthen the resolve of allies to resist...
South African mourners expressed anger and despair on Monday at the death of 21 teenagers in a tavern over the weekend, as investigating authorities said the youths were probably accidentally poisoned by something they ate, drank, or smoked. The still unexplained deaths of the teens, some of whom were...
Three people were killed and at least 50 others injured when an Amtrak train headed from Los Angeles to Chicago crashed into a dump truck Monday afternoon in Missouri, officials said. Two of those killed were on the Southwest Chief train, and the other was in the truck, said...
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