The Senate has confirmed 45 ministerial nominees out of the 48 nominees forwarded to it by President Bola Tinubu. The confirmation followed the consideration and approval of the nominees during Monday’s plenary. The nominees include Sen. Abubakar Kyari (Borno ), Abubakar Momoh (Edo), Nyesom Wike (Rivers), Prof. Joseph Utsev...
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The Deputy Governorship Candidate of the Labour Party (LP) in Bayelsa, retired Commodore Benjamin Nathus, has assured the people of the state that the party will end their years of suffering caused by bad leadership. Nathus spoke shortly after the governorship candidate, Mr Udengs Eradiri, officially presented him...
Senate has resolved into a close session, following a motion at plenary on Monday to suspend screening of Mr Festus Kayemo, nominee from Delta State. The motion, which generated altercation among senators was sponsored by Sen. Dalington Nwokocha(LP-Abia). Nwokocha had raised the motion for suspension of Kayemo’s...
One Roima Abdulkadir on Monday applied to divorce her husband, Ahmed Abdulkadir, at the Area Court, Centre-Igboro, Ilorin, over alleged lack of maintenance. The applicant, whose address was not given, told the court that she wanted to divorce her husband, because he was not providing food for the...
The Kano State Public Complaints and Anti-corruption Commission (PCACC) has dragged a former Managing Director of the state Agricultural Supply Company Ltd (KASCO), Alhaji Bala Mohammed, and four others to court over alleged diversion of over N4 billion grant into private accounts. Other respondents in the 10-count charge are...
An opinion poll conducted on the Nov 11, 2023 governorship election in Bayelsa, indicates that incumbent Gov. Douye Diri, will win the election in the eight Local Government Areas of Bayelsa.d The opinion poll was conducted by a team of six researchers and 50 research assistants for 2...
Kogi State Governor, Yahaya Bello, says Shaibu Audu, son of late Prince Abubakar Audu, who emerged as Ministerial nominee by President Bola Tinubu emerged through a fair process. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Bello stated this on Sunday when family of the late Audu paid...
The Director-General of Voice of Nigeria (VON) Mr Osita Okechukwu has absolved President Bola Ahmed Tinubu of any blame in the nomination of only five people from the South-East as members of his cabinet. Criticism had trailed Tinubu’s ministerial list, with some South-East leaders accusing him of marginalising the...
By JOY ADARA, Abuja – Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has filed a lawsuit against President Bola Ahmed Tinubu over “the failure to publish spending details of about N400bn so far saved as a result of the removal of subsidy on Premium Motor Spirit (PMS) popularly called...
The national leaders of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has advised President Bola Tinubu not to engage the military as a means of restoring democratic government in the Republic of Niger. The party leaders gave the advice in a communique issued after a meeting by the PDP Governors’...
Benue State Governor, Hyacinth Alia on Saturday said the Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Sen. George Akume, was his leader and he does not have any problem with him. Alia disclosed this during his maiden media interaction with journalists at Government House in Makurdi....
By JOY ADARA, Abuja – A member of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Dr. Maryam Shetty, has reacted to the withdrawal of her ministerial nomination by President Bola Tinubu. Tinubu had withdrew earlier nomination of Dr. Maryam Shetty, nominee from Kano State in the supplementary ministerial list...
The Labour Party in Lagos State has urged President Bola Tinubu to urgently address all the problems militating against a stable electricity supply in the country. The Labour party added that improving the supply of electricity in both urban and rural areas would further reduce the hardship encountered due to the...
A former Commissioner for Information and a chieftain APC in Kogi Dr Tom Ohikere, has pledged to ensure the victory of the party’s governorship candidate, Alhaji Usman Ododo in the state’s Nov. 11 governorship election. Ohikere, a close ally of Sen. Smart Adeyemi, one of the governorship aspirants in...
The Federal High Court, Abuja has issued a temporary order stopping Gov. Godwin Obaseki of Edo from impeaching his Deputy, Mr Phillip Shuaib over what he described as irreconcilable differences. Justice Ahmed Mohammed made the temporary order while ruling on a motion on notice filed by Shuaib praying the...
The All Progressives Congress (APC) Chairman in Niger State, Alhaji Zakari Jikantoro has resigned his position as the chairman of the party. He announced his resignation on Friday in Minna, after briefing the state party executive members of the resolutions taken at the National Executive Council (NEC) meeting ...
Kogi State’s ministerial nominee, Prince Shaibu Audu-Abubakar, on Thursday, paid a thank you visit to Gov Yahaya Bello. Audu-Abubakar is among the additional 19 ministerial nominees of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu. This is according to a statement issued in Lokoja by Bello’s media aide, Onogwu Mohammed. ...
By DAVID IORJA, Abuja – President Bola Ahmed Tinubu on Thursday urged the leadership of the All Progressives’ Congress (APC), particularly elected officials, to be steadfastly committed to good governance which will re-engineer the economic and political landscape of the nation to address the needs of the poor....
By OLA MUDOPE, Osogbo – The Executive Governor of Osun State, Senator Ademola Adeleke has extolled the Osun State Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP),Hon Sunday Bisi for his courage, dedication and honesty, describing his birthday as celebration of his tenacity and purposeful leadership. The Governor who hailed...
The Kaduna State Governorship Election Tribunal has fixed Saturday, Aug. 5, for Gov. Uba Sani, INEC and the All Progressive Congress (APC) to open their defence in a petition filed against the governor’s election. Opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and its candidate at the March 18 governorship election...