Labour Party (LP) aspirants looking ahead to its Feb. 22 Edo Governorship Primary, on Sunday rejected the N30 million charged as fees for Expression of Interest and nomination forms. One of the aspirants, UK-based financial analyst, Dr Egbe Omorodion, told newsmen in Benin, that all governorship aspirants had...
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The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC)C, says it has concluded arrangements to conduct re-run elections in four state assembly constituencies in Bauchi State. The state INEC Resident Electoral Commissioner, Mr Mohammed Nura said this in an interview with News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), on Sunday in Bauchi. “The...
The Commandant-General (CG), Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), Dr Ahmed Audi, has said there are newly implemented security strategies to ensure that attacks on schools in Nigeria will reduce to the barest minimum. Audi said while speaking with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Sunday...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – The Speaker, Borno State House of Assembly (BOSHA), Rt. Hon. Abdulkarim Lawan has felicitated with governor of Delta state, Sheriff Francis Orohwedor Oborevwori and his counterpart of Ebonyi state, Rt. Hon. Francis Nwifuru for their affirmation by the Supreme Court of Nigeria, as...
Hajiya Inna Galadima of the of the All Progressives Congress (APC), has been declared Chairman-elect of Jere Local Government Area (LGA) of Borno. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Galadima’s emergence automatically makes her the first female to be elected council chairman in the...
The National Universities Commission (NUC) has warned universities to desist from cutting corners during accreditation visitations or risk their programmes’ approval being revoked. The Acting Executive Secretary of the commission, Mr Chris Maiyaki, gave the warning on Sunday during an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN)...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – The ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) in Borno, has won all the 27 Chairmanship and 312 councillor positions in Saturday’s council polls in the state. This is even as the newly elected chairmen and councillors of Konduga, Jere and other local government areas...
By JOY ADARA, Abuja – The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) and 20 concerned Nigerians have filed a lawsuit against the Senate President, Godswill Akpabio, and Speaker of the House of Representatives, Tajudeen Abbas “for unilaterally and arbitrarily increasing the allocation for lawmakers from N197bn to N344bn,...
By HARUNA AHMED, Kano – The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has intercepted no fewer than five million six hundred and fifty three thousand (5, 653,000) pills of tramadol 250mg and exol-5 from three suspects in Kano State. The NDLEA spokesman, Mr Femi Babafemi, who disclosed this...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja- The lawmaker representing Kogi Central, Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan, has commended the swift move by men of Nigerian Police Force and Nigerian Army in the rescue operation of the victims of kidnapping incidents in Federal Capital Territory (FCT). NATIONAL ACCORD had reported that a joint team of...
The Deputy National Chairman(North) of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Alhaji Ali Dalori, has lauded the peaceful conduct of Saturday’s local government election in Borno. The APC leader made the commendation in an interview with journalists in Maiduguri on Sunday. Dalori, who was in Borno for the election, urged...
A 17-year old British-Nigerian mathematician, Esther Okade, has gained attention for her exceptional mathematical abilities. Ms. Esther was born in 2005 and, by the age of 10, enrolled in a university mathematics course. At age 14, Ms. Esther bagged her PhD in Financial Mathematics. She has made...
The Nigerian Navy (NN) on Saturday handed over a fishing trawler, MFV Lady Jessica ll, and 13 crew members to the Federal Department of Fisheries in Bayelsa. The trawler was arrested on Dec. 11 by the the Navy’s Forward Operating Base (FOB) Formoso. It was arrested while trawling...
A new book on former President Muhammadu Buhari has revealed how prominent pastors vigorously campaigned and prayed for him to lose the 2015 election and progressed from there to pray against him and his government after he won the poll and assumed office as Nigeria’s leader. The book,...
By ARMSTRONG ALLAHMAGANI, Bauchi – Bauchi State Commissioner of Police, CP Auwal Muhammad, has said that 414 criminal cases recorded by the Command has led to the arrest of no fewer than 673 suspects from January 1st, 2023 to December, 2023. CP Muhammad disclosed this while briefing journalists...
BY ANKELI EMMANUEL, Sokoto – The Sokoto Missionary Zonal Pastor of Christian Evangelical Church of Nigeria (CEFN), Reverend Micheal Adaji Olobo has asserted that the choices we make form the bases of our targets per time. Rev Olobo who took his Sunday text from Habakkuk 1: 1-3, spoke...
This is a story that touches the heart. It is about medical negligence that has put the life of an otherwise healthy woman in the balance. She is in coma even as her distraught daughter, Mrs Damilola Awosedo pens her pains and calls on the Lagos State Government and...
By JOY ADARA, Abuja – MultiChoice Nigeria has began auditioning for the ninth season of the Nigerian Idol talent show. The online entry submission began on January 19 and will close at midnight on January 29, the company said in a statement. The theme for the show’s ninth edition...
President Bola Tinubu has called for equitable access to capital for developing countries in order to solve pressing challenges in the world. At the 19th Summit of Heads of State and Government of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) in Kampala, Uganda, Tinubu added that this would provide the much-needed...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Governor, Babagana Zulum has expressed satisfaction with the large turnout of voters who came to exercise their civic duties in Saturday’s Local Government elections in the state. Governor Zulum spoke on Saturday shortly after casting his vote at Ajari unit 006...