By EMMANUEL JIMOH, Asaba – The Deputy Senate President, Sen. Ovie Omo-Agege on Thursday declared his intention to run for the office of Governor of Delta State under the All Progressives Congress (APC). Senator Omo-Agege declared his interest at a rally held at the Federal University of Petroleum Resources...
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The House of Representatives on Thursday approved N4 trillion for fuel subsidy in the revised 2022 Medium-Term Expenditure Framework (MTEF) sent by President Muhammadu Buhari on April 7. The House also passed the sum of N182 billion as an increment for the Nigeria Police Force (NPF) salary, while it...
The Federal Government is targeting April 2023 for the conduct of National Population Census. The Chairman of the National Population Commission (NPC), Nasir Isa-Kwarra, made this known at the end of the virtual meeting of the Council of State, presided over by President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday in Abuja....
The Senate has received the Money Laundering Bill and Terrorism Prevention Bill transmitted by President Muhammadu Buhari for consideration and passage. The bills were accompanied by a letter read at plenary on Thursday by Senate President Ahmad Lawan. Buhari, in the letter dated April,12, said the request for the...
I join our Christian brothers and sisters to celebrate this year’s Easter, which is the most significant event/festival in the Christian calendar. This year’s celebration is very unique for adherents of the two great faiths in Nigeria. It culminates the 40-day season of Lent for Christians, where the faithful is...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – Eight years after the abduction of 276 Chibok school girls by Boko Haram, more than 1,500 Nigerian school children have been abducted by armed groups and the Nigerian authorities are failing to protect them. This is according to an investigation by the human rights...
An 18-year-old boy identified as Chibuike Emmanuel has reportedly died from electrocution in Ozoro, Isoko North Local Government Area of Delta. The teenager was said to have been electrocuted at about 5:00 pm on Tuesday while charging his iPhone 8 with a public electric supply. According to a community...
Twenty-nine bodies of young firewood hawkers have been buried in Gidan Magana Village in the Shagari Local Government Area (LGA) of Sokoto State. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the hawkers died on Wednesday when their boat capsized in Shagari River on their way to fetch firewood...
We bring you greetings in Jesus’ Name. We are in a season that calls for sober reflection in the light of the passing of our beloved sister, Osinachi Nwanchukwu who is a kingdom and generation asset to this generation. In the light of so much misinformation and misconstruction of...
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – The Executive Secretary of Universal Basic Education Commission (UBEC), Dr Hamid Bobboyi has disclosed that Commission is worried by the poor learning outcomes in basic education despite huge intervention by the Federal Government. He, however, blamed this on a number of factors including, recruitment...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – UNICEF has called on the Federal Government to make schools safe and provide a secure learning environment for every child in Nigeria, especially for girls, to increase girls’ enrollment, retention, and completion of education. The UNICEF Communication Officer in Borno State, Mrs. Folashade Adebayo,...
The Minister of Transportation, Mr Rotimi Amaechi, has directed the Nigerian Railway Corporation (NRC) to handover tickets and passengers’ identification to Secure ID, the company in charge of the E-Ticketing platform for Abuja-Kaduna rail service. According to Amaechi, this will help in reducing incidents of crime and also curb...
INEC will count votes and not prayer points in 2023, the Anglican Bishop of Nike Diocese, in Enugu State, Most Rev. Christian Onyia, reminded eligible voters on Wednesday. Addressing a pre-Synod media briefing, Onyia admonished eligible voters yet to obtain Permanent Voter Cards to do so, speedily as the...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – The International Press Institute (IPI) Nigeria has said that it will open a book of infamy to document every individual whose action or inaction encourages or allows the harassment of journalists and the media in Nigeria. President of IPI Nigeria, Musikilu Mojeed, stated this...
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on Wednesday said about 1.126 million out of over 2,523,000 million registrations from June to December 2021 are invalid. The figures according to INEC represents 44.6 per cent of the total registration. The INEC, Chairman, Professor Mahmud Yakubu,...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – Civil rights advocacy group, Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria(HURIWA), on Wednesday, condemned the killings of scores of innocent Nigerians in Plateau and Benue States, describing it as unbecoming. It also expressed consternation that the President can only issue statements and not back the...
Zamfara State Governor, Bello Matawalle on Wednesday expressed concern over the gradual return of banditry and kidnapping in parts of the state. Malam Zailani Bappa, Special Adviser on Public Enlightenment, Media and Communications to the governor, stated in Gusau that Matawalle had noted the gradual return of bandits and...
The House of Representatives has reaffirmed its call for the declaration of state of emergency on insecurity in the country, following the gruesome murder of 92 people in Plateau state on April 10. The resolution followed the adoption of a motion of urgent public importance by Rep. Yusuf Gagdi...
At least twenty six (26) persons have been confirmed dead while search continues following a boat mishap on Shagari River in Shagari local government area of Sokoto state. Chairman of Shagari Council area, Alhaji Aliyu Dantani, who disclosed the accident to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Wednesday,...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – The Minister of State for Budget and National Planning, Prince Clem Ikanade Agba has expressed grief over the sudden death of the Statistician-General (SG) of the Federation, Dr Simon Harry, which occurred on Wednesday morning in Abuja. The minister, who was expressed shocked over...