Sani Shehu Sani, former Kaduna Central senator, has promised to send his daughter to study in the state university, if he becomes governor of the state in 2023. Sani, an aspirant for Kaduna governorship on the platform of the People’s Democratic Party, made the remark after pictures of the incumbent …
Read More »Eid-el-Fitr: Lagos govt backtracks, cancels Wednesday holiday
The Lagos State Government said it only approved May 2nd and 3rd as public holidays to celebrate the 2022 International Workers’ Day and the Eid-el-Fitr celebrations. The government also told workers in the Centre of Excellence to disregard its earlier circular which approved three straight days as public holidays. The …
Read More »Kogi East Senate: PDP screening c’ttee disqualifies Okpanachi, Suleiman
The People’s Democratic Party (PDP) National Assembly Screening Committee in Kogi State, on Wednesday, disqualified Ubolo Itodo Okpanachi and Aminu Abubakar Suleiman from the Kogi East senatorial contest over various acts of misconduct. The result of the screening exercise released on Thursday in Lokoja, the state capital, showed that while …
Read More »2023: Delta speaker, ‘Okowa’s candidate’ approves N150bn for gov, 11 months to tenure end
Ifeanyi Okowa and Sheriff Oborevwori Delta State House of Assembly led by Hon. Sheriff Oborevwori, has approved N150 billion ‘bridging finance facility’ requested by the state governor, Dr. Ifeanyi Okowa, THE WITNESS reports. The assembly gave its approval for the facility at plenary on Tuesday, barely 11 months to the …
Read More »I didn’t stop campaigning for Chibok Girls while I was NPA MD – Usman
Usman Hadiza Bala Usman, former managing director of the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA), has insisted that she never stopped campaigning for the rescue of Chibok school girls abducted by Boko Haram in 2014 during her time in office. Bala Usman, a co-founder of the #BringBackOurGirls movement which emerged following the …
Read More »NDLEA arrests drug baron behind N3billion Tramadol linked to Abba Kyaris team
Billionaire drug baron behind the N3billion Tramadol deal involving the embattled suspended Deputy Commissioner of Police, Abba Kyari-led Intelligence Response Team, IRT, Chief Afam Mallinson Emmanuel Ukatu has been arrested by operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA. After months of surveillance and evading arrest, Ukatu who is …
Read More »SERAP sues Buhari over failure to unblock 72 million subscribers’ phone lines
Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has filed a suit against President Muhammadu Buhari at a Federal High Court, Lagos over the failure to unblock the phone lines of over 72 million telecommunications subscribers barred from making calls on their SIMs. The suit filed last Friday, followed the recent directive …
Read More »Party Nomination Cost; Tickets For Sale? By Dakuku Peterside
The people are the bedrock of democracy. The supremacy of the people and the democratic institutions over and above individuals, no matter how well placed or wealthy, is at the core of democratic principles. Behind this democratic collectivism lies the individual’s inalienable rights and privileges that assume equality of …
Read More »Suspected MC Oluomo boys attack Istijabah loyalists in parts of Lagos
Attacked tricycle driver Last Friday was a day to remember for operators and owners of tricycles known in local parlance as Marwa and who are also supporters of Alhaji Abiola Istijabah, chairman Tricycles Owners and Operators Association of Nigerians, Lagos State chapter. It was the day alleged loyalists of Alhaji …
Read More »Nigerians to FG: Publish list of 157 convicts pardoned with Dariye, Nyame
– As outrage continues over decision Buhari, Nyame, Dariye Angered by the failure of the President Muhammadu Buhari-led government to disclose the identities of 159 convicts it pardoned more than a week after, Nigerians have begun to allege possible cover-up in the entire affair. This is as a number of …
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