Sen. Obinna Ogba has been re-elected as the Chairman of the Ebonyi Football Association. Ogba, who is the Senate Committee Chairman on Sports, was returned unopposed alongside Chikaodi Ojemba, who emerged as the vice chairman. Mr Friday Agbom, the Chairman of the committee which conducted the election, announced that...
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Gov. Dauda Lawal of Zamfara has appointed Malam Nuhu Anka as his Director-General, Media and Communications following his inauguration on Monday. An appointment letter signed by Lawal and issued in Gusau on Friday said: “I wish to convey to you my decision to appoint you as Director General, Media...
The President of the Senate, Dr Ahmad Lawan has congratulated the Speaker of House of Representatives, Mr Femi Gbajabiamila, on his new appointment as the Chief of Staff to the President. The Senate President also congratulated two other Senators, Ibrahim Hassan Hadejia and George Akume on their appointments as...
The Lagos State Government says it is committed to guaranteeing better future for children in the state. Gov. Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos State made the pledge at a special Jumat to mark his inauguration for a second term, at the Lagos Central Mosque, Lagos Island, on Friday. The News Agency...
No fewer than 100 cyclists have registered to participate in a 25-kilometre ride around the city of Ibadan on Saturday to mark this year’s World Bicycle Day. Chief Executive Officer of Lapet Feats, Olawale Samson, said in a statement that the event was organised in collaboration with Oyo State...
UN Secretary General, Antonio Guterres, has appointed Nigerian Dr Akinwumi Adesina and 21 other leaders to spearhead the fight against malnutrition in all its forms as members of the Scaling Up Nutrition (SUN) Movement Lead Group. Adesina, who is currently the President of African Development Bank was appointed together...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission( EFCC) on Friday quizzed the former Minister of Women Affairs, Mrs. Pauline Tallen over alleged fraud. A source close to the commission said that the ex-mnister who arrived at the Abuja Zonal Command of the Commission on invitation at 12pm was still being...
By EMMANUEL KUJE, Abuja – FIFA President, Gianni Infantino, has congratulated Amaju Pinnick, aformer President, Nigeria Football Federation (NFF), for the conferment of Officer of the Order of the Federal Republic (OFR) on him by former President, Muhammadu Buhari. Buhari had before his exit on May 29 honoured Pinnick...
A Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) witness , Nicholas Msheliza on Friday told the presidential election petition court (PEPC) that the real disaster was at ward collation centres. The witness said this when he was being cross examined by Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) counsel, Kemi Pinherio, SAN. The News...
An Enugu Magistrate’s Court, presided over by Mr A.C Mbah remanded 15 persons at an Enugu correctional facility on Friday over their alleged membership of the proscribed Indigenous Peoples of Biafra (IPOB). The accused persons are Aloysius Okonkwo (67), John Ebuka (18), Ucheme Ebuka (19), Lilian Chizoba (42), Maureen...
President Bola Tinubu is currently holding a closed door meeting with James Ibori, former Governor of Delta state; Nyesom Wike, the immediate past Governor of Rivers state; and Seyi Makinde, the Oyo State Governor. The meeting is taking place at the President’s office in Aso Villa, accordig to Voice of...
By DAVID IORJA, Abuja – President Bola Ahmed Tinubu Friday in Abuja said improved livelihood for Nigerians remains a top priority of his administration, with more people-focused economic policies, assuring that the national minimum wage needs a review to reflect realities. The President, who received members of the Progressive...
By DANJUMA JOSEPH, Lafia – Alhaji Abubakar O. Kana, the pioneer Commissioner of Education in Nasarawa State, during the state creation in 1996 has died at the age of 83. Similarly, late Kana, was the pioneer Registrar of Nasarawa State University, Keffi (NSUK), when it was established in 2001....
By ARMSTRONG ALLAHMAGANI, Bauchi – The Bauchi State Police Command has arrested a 33-year old man for allegedly raping a 10-year old in Nasaru Village in Ningi Local Government Area of the state. The Command’s Public Relations Officer, Ahmed Wakil, a Superintendent of Police, who disclosed this in a...
The Nigeria Labour Congess (NLC) has declared a nationwide strike from next Wednesday. This comes amid fuel shortages across the country occasioned by President Bola Tinubu’s inaugural speech in which he declared that “fuel subsidy is gone”. NLC President Joe Ajaero made the announcement after an emergency meeting of...
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and its governorship candidate in the March 18 governorship election in Ebonyi, Chief Ifeanyi Chukwuma Odii, on Friday, said that at least 60 witnesses would be called to prove their case against Gov. Francis Nwifuru’s victory. Counsel for the petitioners, Chief Gordy Uche, SAN,...
The Presidential Election Petition Court (PEPC), has admitted in evidence, exhibits from the Labour Party and Mr Peter Obi in six additional states to prove their allegation of irregularities in the Feb. 25 Presidential Election. The petitioners on Thursday, tendered exhibits in six states including Rivers, Benue, Cross River,...
Bayelsa’s Gov. Douye Diri on Friday at Nembe expressed dissatisfaction at the pace of work on the 21km Phase One of the Nembe-Brass Highway. He noted that the indigenous contractor, Setraco Nigeria Ltd., had collected N16 billion mobilisation fee from the state government out of the contract sum of...
A two-term Lagos lawmaker, Mr Jude Idimogu, has urged Nigerians and labour unions to show understanding with President Bola Tinubu led administration on removal of fuel subsidy. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Tinubu announced the removal of petrol subsidy on May 29 in his inaugural address...
A teenage Islamic State fanatic has been jailed for life for plotting a terror attack on British police officers, or soldiers after being radicalised online during the pandemic. Muslim convert, Matthew King, 19, expressed a desire to kill military personnel as he prepared to stake out a British Army...