By BARBARA KALU, Owerri – The Ohaneze Ndigbo Worldwide, has urged Imo residents to ignore sit-at-home order on election day but to come out en-mass to cast their votes for any candidate of their choice. President General Ohanaeze Ndigbo Worldwide, Chief Emmanuel Iwuanyanwu, made the call in...
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By DAVID IORJA, Abuja – President Bola Tinubu on Thursday in Abuja appealed to all candidates participating in the November 11 gubernatorial elections in Bayelsa, Imo, and Kogi States, as well as the electorate to ensure free and fair elections. The President made the appeal at the...
The House of Representatives has rejected the N4.79bn budgetary allocation for a presidential yacht contained in the N2.176trn supplementary budget for the 2023 financial year transmitted to it on Tuesday by President Bola Tinubu. In passing the supplementary budget on Thursday, the House moved the sum proposed for...
The Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Mr Nyesom Wike, has warned against any attempt to tamper with the political structure in Rivers. Wike gave the warning after a closed-door meeting with members of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Governors’ Forum, led by its Chairman, Gov. Bala...
The Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Mr Nyesom Wike, said on Tuesday that building a viral economy for the country transcended political party affiliations. Wiki stated this when leaders of ethnic groups from the Niger Delta region paid him a solidarity visit in Abuja. The minister...
The 2023 Supplementary Appropriation Bill of N2.1 trillion expeditiously scaled second reading on Tuesday in the Senate. President Bola Tinubu had written the Senate seeking the approval of the sum of N2,176,791,286,033 as 2023 supplementary budget to address labour wage adjustments, security and other urgent issues. The President...
President Bola Tinubu has warned government officials and family members against attending the Federal Executive Council (FEC) meeting without invitation. Tinubu issued the warning before the commencement of the FEC meeting at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, on Monday. “Last week, I noticed people sneaking in and out of this...
The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, has applied for leave of the Supreme Court to file what he termed as fresh evidence. In a motion he filed through his team of lawyers, Atiku said the evidence he is seeking to tender before...
Vice President Kashim Shettima, has directed the Investment in Digital and Creative Enterprises (i-DICE) team to ensure that the programme commences before the end of November. Shettima gave the directive on Friday when the i-DICE team updated him on the progress made so far, at a meeting in...
The Federal Government has announced a special grant of N25,000 each under its Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) Scheme to vulnerable pensioners in the country. Minister of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Alleviation, Dr Betta Edu, announced this when she met with the leadership of the Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC),...
The Federal Government and labour unions rose from their meeting on Sunday with an agreement that all categories of workers should benefit from the provisional wage increment announced by President Bola Tinubu in his Independence Day nationwide broadcast. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the president...
The meeting between the Federal Government and the labour unions have started at the Presidential Villa, Abuja with the aim of averting the industrial action planned by the unions. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that a scheduled meeting at the villa on Friday was cancelled when...
FCT Minister, Mr Nyesom Wike, promised in Abuja on Monday to address accommodation challenges faced by justices in the territory. Wike made the promise at the opening of the 2023/2024 Legal Year ceremony of the Court of Appeal. “We are not unaware of challenges confronting...
The Presidential candidate of the PDP, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar has approached the Supreme Court to nullify the judgment of the Presidential Election Petition Court, which on Sept. 6, upheld the declaration of Bola Ahmed Tinubu as winner of the 2023 presidential election. Atiku in the Notice of Appeal...
The chairman of BUA Group, Abdul Samad Rabiu, recently said his BUA Cement company would soon crash the price of cement. Good news. He said this just after his meeting with President Bola Tinubu. Ordinarily, this should stir a fountain of optimism, even joy, among Nigerians. Nay, it hasn’t....
The Movement for the Survival of Izon Ethnic Nationality in the Niger Delta (MOSIEND) has advocated inclusion Chief Ateke Tom and Alhaji Asari Dokubo in next phase of pipeline surveillance contracts. The Niger Delta group noted that involving the two ex-militant leaders in protecting oil assets would...
By DANJUMA JOSEPH, Lafia – Nasarawa State Governor, Abdullahi Sule, has flagged off the distribution of palliatives to beneficiaries in the Southern Senatorial District of the state. The governor distributed 1000 bags of 50kg rice and five thousand naira each to over 3000 beneficiaries at the headquarters...
Vice president Kashim Shettima on Wednesday departed Nigeria to represent President Bola Tinubu at the G77+China Leaders’ Summit in Havana, Cuba, holding from Sept. 15 to 17. The Director of Information, Office of the Vice President, Mr Olusola Abiola, in a statement, said Shettima would join other...