By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has suspended The Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC) in Adamawa, Malam Hudu Yunusa-Ari, for declaring Senator Aisha Dahiru Binani of APC the winner of the Governorship election while collation of results were still ongoing. The Commision also directed Malam...
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By PATRICK ABANG, Calabar – The Ekuri forest, a Community Conserved Area (CCA), in Akamkpa LGA of Cross River state is demanding payment of N500 million compensation from a logging company over illegal logging. The Ekuri forest which is a protected area that has equal status like the national...
Barely one month after the reintroduction of old N200, N500 and N1,000 notes, some residents of Anambra have decried the unavailability of the new notes in many banks in the state. Some of them told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Awka on Monday that they hardly complete...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Governor, Babagana Umara Zulum, has approved and released salaries of workers in the state for the month of April, 2023. Governor Zulum’s media team in a statement on Monday, explained that the payment which is consistent with how the Governor has operated...
Students’ attitude towards math seems to be shaped by how they understand the subject; and what they consider as the role of Mathematics in their lives. For instance, a student who considers the subject as a bunch of symbols and procedures tends to treat it as a set of...
The Centre for Democracy and Development (CDD) has urged the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to immediately put in place the appropriate process to sanction erring officials who violated the Electoral Act in the Adamawa supplementary elections. The Director of CDD, Idayat Hassan, in a statement on the supplementary...
The Presidential Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the 2023 polls, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, has described the purported declaration of Adamawa governorship election results as a game plan to upturn the democratic wishes of the people of the state. Abubakar stated this in a statement by his...
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Gov. Abdullahi Ganduje of Kano State has begged for forgiveness from those he might had offended in the course of governing the state. Ganduje spoke at a Ramadan lecture series at Al Furqan Juma’at Mosque located at Nasarawa GRA, Kano. The governor said he has forgiven those who wrong him...
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has told the Presidential Election Petition Court (PEPC) sitting in Abuja that retired Maj. Hamza Al-Mustapha was the duly sponsored presidential candidate of Action Alliance (AA) in the Feb 25 election. INEC, through its team of lawyers led by Abubakar Mahmoud, SAN, insisted...
By DAVID IORJA, Abuja – President Muhammadu Buhari says the ongoing fight, which erupted in the Sudanese capital between the military and powerful para-military, Rapid Support Forces, RSF, is unwelcome. Malam Garba Shehu, the president’s spokesman in a statement, said Buhari stated this when the Transitional President of Chad,...
President Muhammadu Buhari, in the course of the week, embarked on official and spiritual journey to Saudi Arabia to thank Almighty Allah as he prepares to handover mantle of leadership to President-elect, Sen. Bola Tinubu, on May 29. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that President Buhari departed...
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), on Sunday declared Rodney Ambaiowei of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), as winner of the Southern-Ijaw Federal Constituency supplementary election in Bayelsa. According to the result declared by the returning officer, Prof. Christopher Onyema, the PDP candidate, Ambaiowei, polled a total of 13,992...
Adamawa State Governor, Ahmadu Fintiri, has called on residents of the state to remain calm and peaceful as collation of results of the just-concluded governorship supplementary election has been suspended by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). The Governor, who addressed a news conference in Yola on Sunday, has...
Muhammadu Buhari on the fifth day of the official visit to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, shared a warm moment with Governors of Borno and Yobe, Prof. Babagana Zulum and Mai Mala Buni as well as Katsina State Governor-elect, Dikko Radda. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that...
The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) and Civil Society Legislative Advocacy Centre (CISLAC) have condemned the conviction of two young Nigerian journalists, Gidado Yushau and Alfred Olufemi over an investigative report on drug abuse. Gidado, Editor of News Digest and the Convener of the annual Campus Journalism Awards (CJA),...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – The Human and Environmental Development Agenda (HEDA Resource Centre), a leading anti-corruption group, has called on political parties and newly elected members to the National Assembly for the 10th Assembly to elect only corrupt-free lawmakers for leadership positions in the upcoming Assembly. In a...
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has declared the victory of Adamawa State All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate, Senator Aisha Dahiru (Binani), earlier declared by the state REC as null and void. This is contained in a statement signed by the National Commissioner, Information...
By JOY ADARA, Abuja – Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to declare his assets as his administration gradually winds down on May 29. SERAP in a statement on Sunday, urged President Buhari to encourage his Vice, Professor Yemi Osinbajo and other top...