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By PATRICK ABANG, Calabar – Journalists have been called upon to factor in the national interest in the course of their practice. Cross River State Governor, Ben Ayade made the call at the 2022 Media Week of the Nigerian Union of Journalists( NUJ), Cross River state chapter, with the...
The Inspector-General of Police, Mr Usman Baba says the police has devised strategies to arrest and prosecute politicians moving on election days with tonnes of cash for vote buying. Baba stated this on Monday in Abuja at a one-day Stakeholders Summit on Addressing the Influence of Money on the...
Gov. Abubakar Bagudu of Kebbi has tasked the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to ensure that the country’s electoral processes were strengthened. He made the call while speaking with newsmen in Abuja, on Monday. The governor said that as the 2023 general elections were fast approaching, the electoral umpire...
The Wife of Anambra Governor, Mrs Nonye Soludo, has offered scholarship to a 13-year-old girl, allegedly impregnated by her 75-year-old guardian, Sunday Moghalu. Soludo made this known on Monday while receiving the victim and her baby in company of the state Commissioner for Women and Social Welfare, Mrs Ify...
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has expressed worries that if attacks on its facilities persist into January 2023, it could affect the conduct of the general elections. National Commissioner and Chairman, Information and Voter Education Committee, INEC, Mr Festus Okoye, said this at a workshop on Political Violence...
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) says it won’t relent in its determination to prevent vote-buying in 2023 general election. The INEC Chairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, said this at a day stakeholders’ summit on addressing the influence of money in the 2023 general election on Monday in Abuja. Yakubu...
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has tasked Nigerians to reject possible inducements by money bags trying to buy their votes in 2023 general election. The INEC Chairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, said this at a day stakeholders’ summit on addressing the influence of money in 2023 general election on...
By THOMAS AKASE, Makurdi – The transformation of rural communities in Benue State will receive greater focus as Governor Samuel Ortom has formally signed a Rural Development Policy for the State. Governor Ortom signed the Rural Development Policy on Monday at the Conference Hall of the Governor’s Lodge, Makurdi....
The Minister of Women Affairs, Paulen Tallen on Monday betrays emotions and wept on live television over continuous captivity of Leah Sharibu and over 100 other Chibok girls. The minister’s action took place after presenting the achievements of her ministry at 13th edition of the President Muhammadu Buhari (PMB)’...
The occasion was the end of year and merit awards ceremony of the Federal High Court in Abuja. The event was also part of programmes put together to mark the beginning of the 2022/2023 legal year of the court. Judges from all divisions of the court and members of...
A Nigerian man has raised alarm over the circulation of fake N1000 notes. Recall that the redesigned N1000 notes were released to Nigerians on December 15. It appears some criminal-minded people have manufactured the fake notes and are now circulating them. The Nigerian man says the money was given...
Lamentations, wailing and gales of funerals have trailed the massive floods that Nigerians experienced recently. As communities struggle to build back lives devastated by the disaster, the magnitude of which has never been captured in the country’s history, some important lessons have undoubtedly been learnt. That natural disasters occur,...
By THOMAS AKASE, Makurdi – Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom has congratulated former President of the Senate, Senator Bukola Saraki on his 60th birthday, describing him as a political giant. The governor in his congratulatory message issued by his Chief Press Secretary Nathaniel Ikyur, showered encomiums on Saraki for...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – Former Senate President Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki, demonstrated great leadership and courage which resulted in the unprecedented performance of the 8th Assembly, Hon Yakubu Dogara, the immediate past Speaker of the House of Representatives, has said. In a message celebrating Saraki on the occasion...
The Federal Government has refuted the allegation by a former Twitter staff that the micro blogging site did not negotiate with the Government in the wake of its suspension. The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, on Monday in Abuja who discredited the claim also released to...
The Everlasting Arms Parish,(TEAP) of Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG), FCT Province I, has doled out food, clothes, and sundry items to poor and vulnerable persons in Abuja. The items were doled out during the church’s 17th edition of annual welfare programme. Mr Olusegun Adeniyi, Chairman Tabitha Planning...
The Civil Liberties Organisation (CLO) has urged the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to monitor its staff frustrating the smooth collection of Permanent Voter Cards (PVCs) in parts of the South-East. The Chairman of CLO in Anambra, Comrade Vincent Ezekwueme, made the call while speaking to the News Agency...
In the first in-person meeting with the American President Joe Biden, President Buhari established a personal equation with his US counterpart and got an important recognition for his democratic credentials and activism at home in particular, and Africa in general: “your legacy is a model,” says President Biden. There...
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) says politicians buying Permanent Voters Cards (PVCs) to manipulate the 2023 general elections are engaging in futile efforts. According to INEC, the Bimodal Voter Registration System (BVAS), the technology that will be used for the accreditation and authentication of voters come 2023, will...