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Staff of the National Assembly have carried out their threat to embark on strike over the non-payment of their N5.8 billion allowances. The staff, under the aegis of Parliamentary Staff Association of Nigeria, carried out their strike threat in the early hours of Tuesday. They blocked the entrances to the …

  Leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, has told the Federal Government that he never said President Muhammadu Buhari was cloned. He said his message to the world has always been that President Buhari was ‘dead’ and was replaced by another individual, Jubril Aminu Al-Sudani, …

  The governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress in Lagos State, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, has said Lagos is not under bondage. While criticising the Peoples Democratic Party, he asked residents of the state to “reject the slavery mentality that the PDP represents.” He spoke on Sunday during a visit to …

The Police Service Commission has approved the promotion of two hundred and thirty nine senior Police Officers. The promoted officers included two Commissioners of Police who were elevated to the rank of Assistant Inspectors General of Police and ten Assistant Commissioners of Police promoted to Deputy Commissioners of Police. Twelve Superintendents …

The presidential candidate of Allied Congress Party of Nigeria, Dr. Obiageli Ezekwesili, has assured Nigerians of development in the power sector if she wins the 2019 election. She added that uninterrupted power supply would be witnessed in the country. In a press statement on Sunday, Ezekwesili said that the electricity …

President Muhammadu Buhari has finally reacted to reports that he had been cloned. The Personal Assistant to the President on New Media, Bashir Ahmad, said in a Twitter post that Buhari, while addressing Nigerians in Poland, said some people had wished him dead when he was sick for many months. …

  The founder of the Odua Peoples Congress (OPC), Dr. Frederick Fasehun, is dead. Fasehun passed away in the early hours of Saturday, at the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital in Ikeja, Lagos state. The octogenarian, it was learnt, was admitted at the Intensive Care Unit of the hospital on …

  The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), says it has promoted 2,209 members of staff in its 2018 promotion exercise. The Commission disclosed this in a statement issued by Mr Mohammed Haruna, INEC National Commissioner and Member, Information and Voter Education Committee on Thursday in Abuja. The promoted staff according …

  Presidential candidate of the Allied Congress Party of Nigeria (ACPN) Oby Ezekwesili, on Tuesday in Port Harcourt attacked Minister of information, Lai Mohammed and the National Broadcasting Commission, NBC, over plans to sanction stations in 2019. Ezekwesili speaking at a keynote address on the theme, “Broadcasting and the Changing …

Mrs. Funke Osibodu, MD, Benin Electricity Distribution Company (BEDC). There was mild drama at the office of the Edo State Governor, Mr. Godwin Obaseki, on Tuesday, as the governor walked the Managing Director (MD) of the Benin Electricity Distribution Company (BEDC), Mrs. Funke Osibodu, out of his office for failing …