The Grand Patron of the PBAT Door-to-Door Movement, Government Ekpemupolo, has called on the people of Ogun State to massively vote for President Bola Tinubu’s re-election in 2027 to continue to enjoy the gains of his administration. He made the call during the inauguration of the state chapter of...
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The driver of the bus conveying the 20 prospective members of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) kidnapped in Imo State on Independence Day, has told the state High Court that the five suspects arrested by the Department of State Services (DSS) were the same persons who attacked his...
By PAUL ADAJI, Judiciary Correspondent – A Rivers State High Court sitting in Port Harcourt has ordered the publication in national newspapers of a bench warrant issued against Walter Ubaka Okeke, a former Peoples Democratic Party governorship aspirant in Anambra State. Justice Chinwendu Nwogu granted the prosecution’s application on...
Ado Ekiti, Nigeria, October 29, 2026: Voters in Ekiti State have been urged to ensure that President Bola Ahmed Tinubu records a landslide win in the 2027 presidential election in the state. The Grand Patron of the PBAT Door-To-Door Campaign, High Chief Government Ekpemupolo, popularly known as Tompolo, made...
*Trial resumes November 3 The ongoing trial of the presidential candidate of the African Action Congress (AAC), Omoyele Sowore, before a Federal High Court in Abuja for alleged cyberbullying was stalled on Thursday owing to his absence and a letter he wrote praying for an adjournment. At the mention...
By NGOBUA JOHNNIE, Abuja – Director-General of the West African Health Organisation (WAHO), Prof. Palokinam Pitché, has described the accreditation of nursing and midwifery institutions as a strategic investment in national development rather than a mere formality. Pitché made this known in Abuja on Thursday at a workshop to...
The sixth edition of Zenith Bank’s annual technology fair virtually is to hold Thursday, November 5, 2026, with a focus on artificial intelligence (AI). According to a statement issued by the bank in Lagos, the event, tagged “Zenith Bank Tech Fair 2026: Future Forward 6.0,” will have the theme...
There is a difference between defending a government and showing that the government has done what it claims. There is also a difference between holding a public official accountable and hating him. Suleman Abubakar’s response to my commentaries on the perennial flooding of Benin City blurs those distinctions, turning...
By VICTOR CHIAHEMEN, Abuja – The West African Health Organization (WAHO), is seriously worried and concerned about the growing shortages of health workers across West Africa due to a number of factors, including migration to other regions, lack of political will and low remuneration and delayed salaries. To address...
Chief Dr Leemon Ikpea, a philanthropist and the founder of the Agbonjagwe Leemon Ikpea Foundation, has built a 62-bed medical centre to the Ewatto, Esan South East Local Government Area of Edo State to improve access to healthcare in the area and the neighbouring communities. The medical centre, which...
Ahead of Nigeria’s general elections in January and February 2027, Africa Confidential warns that “turnout in the elections is likely to be even lower than the average 26.7% four years ago. Nigerian voters are among the least enthusiastic in the world…. Out of more than 93.4 million registered voters,...
Politics in a democracy is essentially a talkative business. The quest for power requires an unusual gift of the garb. Those who seek a life of dignified quiet had better find another occupation. In other words, a politician is a salesman that finds a merchandise everywhere there are people....
The Federal High Court, presided over by Honourable Justice Aluko, has granted an application by United Bank for Africa (UBA) Plc for substituted service of Form 49 on directors of Wempco named as alleged contemnors in the case of UBA v. Wempco. The application forms part of proceedings seeking...
A Lagos State High Court, last Thursday, granted interim preservative orders of Mareva Injunction against Vitol SA – a Switzerland based Energy Trading company, and four other shipping companies in favour of United Bank for Africa Plc. The bank alleged Vitol of wrongful release of cargoes of petroleum products...
Leader of the PBAT Door-to-Door Movement, Government Tompolo, has called on the people of Benue state to come out enmasse and vote for President Bola Tinubu in the 2027 election as he has demonstrated great concern for the security of life and peoperty of the people, with the creation...
The President Bola Tinubu re-election campaign trail has revved to life across the nation. Among the many pulleys keeping the machine running is the Tinubu Again Movement, TAM, a grassroots and support structure founded by Minister of Defence (State), Dr. Bello Matawalle. Needless restating that Matawalle is among the...
*Threatens to sue Saharareporters A retired officer of the Department of State Services (DSS), Nwaogu Ihechimere Ezeakolam, has apologized to the Director- General, Oluwatosin Adeola Ajayi, and the association of retired DSS officers, for leaking an internal matter to an online platform, Saharareporters. The retired officer has written Saharareporters,...
The House of Representatives, on Tuesday, took a major step towards regulating nutrition practice and improving access to professional services for citizens to make necessary sound nutritional choices as lawmakers and stakeholders converged for a public hearing on a bill seeking to establish the Nutritionists Registration Council of Nigeria....
Recently, public discourse has been inundated by hollow polemics—epitomized by commentaries such as Sufuyan Ojeifo’s jaundice and illusionary critique—attempting to frame the monumental environmental challenge of the Benin stormwater project as an indictment of Governor Monday Okpebholo’s administration. This posture of cynical detachment is not merely banal; it is...
A government that asks its citizens to endure the pain of economic reform must demonstrate a corresponding willingness to examine the cost of governing them. Sacrifice becomes difficult to defend when households are compelled to adjust while the machinery of the state appears exempt from the same discipline. This...