The Cross River Government has directed the State Auditor General (AG), Mr John Odey, to proceed on compulsory retirement. The directive is contained in a memo dated June 2, 2023 and signed by the Chairman of the State Civil Service Commission, Mr Inaku Uko. In the memo with reference...
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Gov. Hyacinth Alia of Benue has appealed to indigenes of the state in diaspora to invest in the state in order to achieve the desired growth and development. Speaking at an inaugural party organised by Chief Steven Lawani, a former Deputy Governor of the State in Makurdi, Alia invited...
The Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA), says former Enugu state Governor, Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi is neither in hiding nor being probed for fraud. Mr Emmanuel Onwubiko, the National Coordinator of HURIWA, made the disclosure in a statement issued and made available to newsmen in Owerri, on Monday. Onwubiko said...
The Kwara Government on Monday directed that work days be reduced from five days to three per week for every worker in the state. This according to the government is following the astronomical hike in transport fare. This is contained in a statement in Ilorin, by Murtala Atoyebi, the...
The Governor of Benue, Rev. Fr. Hyacinth Alia, on Monday, inaugurated the 10th Benue House of Assembly. The governor charged the legislators to collaborate with the executive arm of government in order to deliver the much-expected dividends of democracy to the Benue people. Alia, however, assured the lawmakers of...
The Convener of Project 774, Mr Adamu Ahmed, has expressed optimism that President Bola Ahmed Tinubu will transform the fortunes of Nigeria with his leadership skills. Ahmed who made this known in a statement in Abuja on Monday congratulated Tinubu on his assumption of office as the 16th President...
The Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF) has denied endorsing former Abia governor, Sen. Kalu Uzor Kalu as its preferred candidate for the Senate Presidency of the 10th National Assembly. Alhaji Musa Saidu, a member of the forum said this in a statement on Monday in Abuja. Saidu was reacting to...
Sen. Aliyu Wamakko (APC-Sokoto North) on Sunday sympathised with the people of Tangaza Local Government Area over bandits attack that led to the death of many people in some villages. Wamakko, in a statement issued by Malam Bashar Abubakar, his Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, condoled with the...
By MARY RONKE, Ilorin – The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) says no fewer than 8 persons escaped death in a ghastly auto crash which occurred in Ilorin on Sunday. A statement issued in Ilorin by the Kwara Sector Commander of the FRSC, Mr Frederick Ogidan, said two men...
The Federal Government says it will consider the list of demands from the Trade Union Congress (TUC) which includes minimum wage. Speaking to State House correspondents after a meeting between the Federal Government and the TUC which lasted for about three hours, the spokesperson for the Federal government, Dele...
Names are being dropped, mostly in security and media circles, on the person likely to become appointed as Nigeria’s next National Security Adviser (NSA) by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu. The current holder and longest-serving NSA in Nigeria, Babagana Monguno is a retired Military General. Apart from the former Chief...
By OLA MUDOPE, Osogbo – The Executive Governor of Osun State, Ademola Adeleke has exercised the authority vested in him by Section 105, sub-section 3 of the Nigerian constitution by announcing the dissolution of the 7th Osun State Assembly and proclamation for the 8th Assembly. Governor Adeleke conveyed the...
Gov. Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos State on Sunday appealed to the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) to shelve its nationwide strike being planned to protest against the fuel subsidy removal. Speaking to newsmen after a post-inauguration thanksgiving service at the Cathedral Church of Christ, Marina, Sanwo-Olu said that ”this is...
Gov. Alex Otti of Abia has said that his administration will pursue policies and programmes that will create prosperity and security for the citizenry. Otti spoke at Sunday’s interdenominational open-air thanksgiving service held at the Trademore Event Center, Umuahia. The well-attended solemn event, with the theme, “The Lord has...
By EMMANUEL KUJE, Abuja – Following the fatal crash that occured along KANO-RINGIM road on June 2, 2023, the Corps Marshal, Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) Dauda Ali Biu has cautioned Motorists against, dangerous overtaking , overloading and Night travels across the country. The Corps Marshal also called for...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – A Former Commissioner for Information, Edo State, Prince Kassim Afegbua, has alleged that the planned strike by The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) reportedly slated for Wednesday 7 June is politically motivated; because the Ajaero-led NLC has ‘become a partisan Congress, doing the bidding of...
By DANJUMA JOSEPH, Lafia – As the 7th Nasarawa State House of Assembly (NSHA), is about to be inaugurated on Tuesday this week, a group known as ‘Nasarawa State Concerned Citizens’, wants democracy to prevail in order to have a credible and acceptable principal officers of the assembly. The...
Some faithful at the Synagogue Church of All Nations (SCOAN), on Sunday, described the late Prophet Temitope Balogun-Joshua, Founder of SCOAN, known as TB Joshua, as love personified, two years after his demise. The faithful, spoke against the backdrop of two-year anniversary of the death of TB Joshua, said...
Dr Joe Okei-Odumakin, President, Women Arise, has saluted the efforts of Late Kudirat Abiola who fought for the return of democracy to the country. In her tribute on Sunday to the pro-democracy activist who was killed 27 years ago, Okei-Odumakin described Kudirat as “a rare Amazon” that is greatly...
The Deputy Governor of Ondo State, Mr Lucky Aiyedatiwa, has denied allegations of physically abusing his wife, describing it as taking politics too far. A statement issued on Sunday in Akure by his media aide, Mr Kenneth Odusola-Stevenson, quotes Aiyedatiwa as stating that the allegations were baseless and the...