Tag: national

.. The opposition political parties have rejected the outcome of the Saturday’s disputed LG elections in Ogun over allegations that people were allowed to vote with business cards and not with voter cards. They equally said thugs from the ruling party had a field day as they attacked voters and disrupted the process to…

Participants in a two days stakeholders meeting on family planning in Taraba State have unanimously agreed that timely release of funds for family planning is essential for maintaining reproductive health services and supporting individual rights to family planning. Organized by The Challenge Initiative, TCI, in collaboration with the Taraba State Primary Health Care Development Agency,…

Narendra Modi, India’s Prime Minister .. The Indian Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, will arrive in Nigeria on a state visit on Saturday. Bayo Onanuga, President Bola Tinubu’s Special Adviser on Information and Strategy, announced Modi’s planned visit on Saturday. According to Onanuga, the 74-year-old will be received by President Tinubu at the Presidential Villa,…

The relatively peaceful local government polls in Ogun State turned awry on Saturday when some policemen suspected to be on an illegal duty assembled and supporting an opposition candidate of the 2023 general elections opened fire on the vice chairmanship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Ikenne Local Government, Hon. Muhammed Olaitan Efuwape,…

NAFDAC Seals Warehouse Where Expired Agrochemicals Are Revalidated .. The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has sealed the Purity Agro Chemical Center containing 724 cartons of expired patriarc agrochemicals in Gboko, Benue State. The warehouse is being allegedly used to revalidate the expired agrochemicals for distribution, along with various…

.. A Washington DC-based Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) Mboho Ndito Ibibio has launched a major educational intervention aimed at providing scholarships and essential resources for primary school students in Akwa Ibom State. The initiative unveiled at Qua Iboe Church Primary School in Ikot Obio Ndoho, Mkpat Enin Local Government Area, seeks to offer much-needed support…

.. The Senior Special Assistant to Abia State Governor on Homeland Security, Fire, and Medical Emergencies, Chukwunenye Alajemba, has announced the rollout of the Abia State Emergency Tripod System aimed at providing swifter response to medical, fire, and security emergencies in the state. Alajemba who stated this during a public sensitization campaign in Umuahia,…

.. President Bola Tinubu has urged parties and stakeholders in Saturday’s governorship election in Ondo State to maintain peace while carrying out their civic duties. The call is coming as the two leading parties in the poll – the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) and opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) intensify last minute unconventional…

.. President Bola Tinubu has conferred a posthumous award of the Commander of the Federal Republic (CFR) on the Late Chief of Army Staff (COAS) Taoreed Lagbaja. The President made this announcement on Friday while giving his remarks at the burial of the late COAS at the National Military Cemetery in Abuja. “I have…

.. Human rights lawyer, Deji Adeyanju has told the FCT Minister, Nyesom Wike that he would one day account for the land he has been seizing and transferring to his friends. Adeyanju stated this on Friday during a press conference in Abuja, during which he was replying to the FCT minister who held a…

The senator representing Borno South, Mohammed Ali Ndume, has urged the newly appointed Special Adviser to President Bola Tinubu on Media and Public Communications, Daniel Bwala, to seek forgiveness from Vice President Kashim Shettima, whose emergence as Tinubu’s running mate made him leave the All Progressives Congress, APC. In a statement on Saturday, Ndume also…

.. President Bola Tinubu and Vice President, Kashim Shettima among other top government functionaries were present as the late Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Lieutenant General Toareed Lagbaja, 56, was laid to rest in Abuja on Friday. The Nigerian military laid his remains to Mother Earth at the National Military Cemetery in Abuja on…

Governor of Enugu State, Dr Peter Mbah, has charged Africa’s leaders at all levels on the revival of the ideals of broad-mindedness, inclusivity, pan-Africanism, and selflessness espoused by the foremost nationalist and former President of Nigeria, Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe, to move the continent forward. This was even as he warned that Africa’s youth bulge, which…

.. A High Court of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) on Thursday convicted and sentenced one Laminu Ahmed for raping a seven-year-old girl. Justice Modupe Osho-Adebiyi committed him to prison while delivering judgment in a suit instituted by the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Prince Lateef Fagbemi, a Senior Advocate…

Gunmen suspected to be cultists have reportedly killed a soldier and four people at North Bank, a suburb of Makurdi, the capital city of Benue State. This dastardly act occurred on Friday night. In the past few weeks the North Bank area of Makurdi has been embroiled in rival cult clashes that has claimed several…

.. The murderers of Mr Stephen Aniagu, the Chairman of the Ogbete Main Market Traders Association (OMMATA), have been arrested. Recall that on September 14, armed criminals killed Mr Aniagu at Topland, along Amechi Road, Enugu. During the attack, the assailants also stole the blue-coloured Toyota Corolla car he was driving. The arrest was…

Live results trickling in from the governorship election in Ondo State show Governor Lucky Aiyedatiwa of the All Progressives Congress maintaining his lead, followed at a distance by his Peoples Democratic Party opponent, Ajayi Agboola. Governor Aiyedatiwa, seeking to retain his seat, is trying to fend off contenders from the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Labour…

.. When the Sokoto State government announced in 2008 the award of a multi-million-naira contract for building a power plant, the residents were filled with joy and high expectations. They believed the power plant would address the state’s erratic power supply. Abdulhakim Sani, a 34-year-old operator of a barbing shop in the state capital,…

The Kogi State Coordinator, Nigerian Mainstream and Downstream Petroleum Regulatory Authority, NMDPRA, Ogbe Orits Godwin says the agency will not relent in clamping down on illegal petroleum marketers operating in the state. Godwin disclosed this at the weekend when he and his management team played host to the members of the Federated Chapel, Nigeria Union…

.. The Supreme Court has dismissed a suit filed by several state Attorneys General seeking to declare operations of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) illegal. A seven-member panel of justices, led by Justice Uwani Abba-Aji, in a judgement on Friday, dismissed the suit for lack of merit. The suit was filed by…