Members of the House of Representatives have congratulated the Speaker, Femi Gbajabiamila, who clocked 60 on Saturday. Rep. Benjamin Kalu, the Spokesperson of the House, in a statement on Saturday eulogised the Speaker over his achievements and contributions to nation building. Kalu said: “The 9th House of Reps heartily...
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The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on Friday listed the conditions for political parties to substitute candidates whose names have been forwarded to the commission. For the electoral umpire, the law does not give any political party the right to replace a validly nominated candidate as it is the...
The Police Command in Katsina State on Friday honoured a Constable, Nura Mande, who found and returned missing 800 dollars to its owner in Katsina. A statement by the Command’s spokesperson, SP Gambo Isah, said that the constable was presented with a letter of commendation and N30,000 by the...
The $1bn AH-1Z cobra attack helicopters, 12 of them, being procured from the United States by the Federal Government will reduce response time and significantly help the Nigerian Armed Forces to defeat terrorist forces in the country, an official of the US Department of State, Andrew Strike, has said....
A federal lawmaker Senator Smart Adeyemi has said Senators will not abandon Senator Ike Ekweremadu and some of them are making efforts to reach out to him. He was reacting to allegations of organ harvesting levelled against former Deputy Senate President Ekweremadu and his wife, Beatrice Ekweremadu. The London...
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), has published the particulars of some candidates nominated by political parties for the 2023 general elections. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the information was published on Friday by INEC in its offices in the country. The particulars included those of...
By DAVID IORJA, Abuja – President Muhammadu Buhari has congratulated Baroness Patricia Scotland, on her reappointment as Secretary-General of the Commonwealth. Leaders of the Commonwealth meeting in Kigali, Rwanda on Friday reappointed Scotland by consensus for a further two years to complete the balance of her period in office....
Frontline non-denominational assembly, The Elevation Church (TEC), headquartered in Lagos, Nigeria, is set to hold its annual mid-year convergence of believers and God-seekers – the Accelerate Conference – from Wednesday June 29 to Sunday July 03, 2022. The Accelerate Conference is a spiritual development and personal advancement conference, designed...
The Association of Mass Communication Graduates of the Moshood Abiola Polytechnic, Abeokuta, Ogun State has concluded plans to mark its 30th graduation anniversary on July 1 in the school AMACOG 92 is an association of 1992 graduates of the then Ogun State Polytechnic, Abeokuta, now known as MAPOLY. The...
The Nigerian Customs Service (NCS) in Kebbi has impounded 2,820 donkey skins worth N48 million. The Command’s Area Controller, Mr Joseph Attah, made this known in Birnin Kebbi on Friday while handing over the donkey skins to officials of the Nigeria Agricultural Quarantine Service. He said the items were...
The desperation to save the life of their daughter yesterday landed former Senate Deputy President Ike Ekweremadu and his wife, Beatrice Nwanneka, in London detention. They now face charges bordering on organ harvesting, which attracts a 10-year jail term. The alleged offence involves removing parts of the body against...
By ARMSTRONG ALLAHMAGANI, Bauchi- A man simply identified as Ibrahim is being hunted down by the Police in Bauchi for allegedly removing the eyes of 16-year old boy in the state. Following the receipt of the information, the Bauchi State Police Command has immediately begun a manhunt for the...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Governor, Professor Babagana Zulum, on Thursday at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, submitted his technical working group’s report to Vice President Yemi Osinbajo. The technical working group was set up by the Presidential Committee on Repatriation, Return and Resettlement of displaced persons in...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) has debunked some rumours making the rounds that it discovered multi-billion naira cash in the house of the former Chief of Army Staff, Tukur Buratai. The ICPC, however, said it recovered N170 million cash,...
Mrs Eriken Uzoamaka, the Programme Manager, Homegrown School Feeding Scheme, Anambra State, has said the death of 10 cooks of the scheme hampered the running of the programme in the state. Uzoama disclosed this while speaking to journalists on the sidelines of a two-day capacity building workshop organised by the...
The Supreme Court has given a ruling on a suit seeking to void the provision of Section 84(12) of the Electoral Act 2022. The apex court struck out the suit by President Muhammadu Buhari and the Attorney General of the Federation (AGF), Abubakar Malami asking it to void the section...
The Director-General, National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP), Dr. Fatima Waziri-Azi, says there is more of internal trafficking than external trafficking. Waziri-Azi disclosed this on Thursday in Benin at a meeting she held with stakeholders and partners of the agency in Edo. She explained that...
Some 23 million Nigerian children have received the seasonal malaria chemoprevention, aiding reduction in severe malaria in children in the country. President Muhammadu Buhari made the declaration on Friday in Kigali at the Summit on Malaria and Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs). The summit is part of activities at the...
By MBAFAN ADE, Abuja –Executive Vice Chairman (EVC) of the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), Prof. Umar Garba Danbatta, has identified industry collaboration as very essential to successful deployment of 5G Services in Nigeria. Danbatta stated this while speaking at the 90th Edition of the Telecom Consumer Parliament (TCP) hosted...
“We need discernment in what we see and what we hear and what we believe”– Charles R. Swindoll Chase Your Interests with DiscernmentIf there is one thing closest to the heart of every human beings, it is the issue of interest. Everyone has one interest or the other. People...