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The Rivers State Police Command has denied any involvement in the violence and ballot snatching that led to the suspension of last Saturday’s by-election into Port Harcourt State Constituency III. Briefing journalists monday at the headquarters of the Command in Port Harcourt, the state Commissioner of Police, Zaki Ahmed, said …

The Presidential Committee on Victim Support Fund has set aside N700 million to rebuild institutions destroyed in the perennial attacks by suspected herdsmen in Benue State. This was disclosed monday by the Executive Director of the Fund, Prof. Sunday Ochoche in Gbajimba, the headquarters of Guma Local Government Area (LGA) …

Delta State Governor, Dr. Ifeanyi Okowa, has emerged ‘Best Governor – Grassroots & People Development in the 2018 Nigeria’s Good Governance Poll,’ organised by the African Leadership Magazine UK. This is coming as the Permanent Secretary, Delta State Ministry of Health, Dr. Minnie Oseji, has presented certificate of awards and …

The stakes in Akwa Ibom State were raised yesterday after Governor Udom Emmanuel waved aside threats from his predecessor, Senator Godswill Akpabio, to give his intention for a second term even as he flayed Akpabio for not building a single industry in the state. Governor Emmanuel’s assertion was in response …

THERE are indications that Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC), Nigeria’s highest crude oil producer with over 600, 000 barrels per day, has so far suspended the production of 800 million barrels worth $560 million as its Trans Ramos Pipeline (TRP), remains shut. The TRP that has capacity to deliver about …

Primate Ayodele displays the newly released 2018/2019 edition of ‘Warnings to The Nations’ at a press parley in Lagos   *Northern States Will Form One Party After Buhari’s Tenure Servant of God and founder and spiritual leader at INRI Evangelical Spiritual Church, Lagos, Primate Elijah Babatunde Ayodele, has released the …

By Sam Eyoboka A GROUP, Igede People of Benue State in Diaspora, has joined in the condemnation of Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, for demanding the minutes of the State Security Council meetings between 2015 and 2018, describing the act as harassment and intimidation taken to the extreme. According to …

FORMER Senate minority leader, Obong Godswill Akpbio, has given a glimpse of the shape Nigeria’s 2019  general elections would take, equating the coming general elections to the 1940 invasion of Poland by Adolf Hitler’s Germany. Akpabio who recently defected from the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, to the All Progressives Congress, …

The Lagos State Government has said that the Third Mainland Bridge will be temporarily shut down for four days starting from midnight of August 23 to midnight of August 26, 2018 for Investigative Maintenance Test to be carried out. A release signed by the Deputy Director, Public Affairs, Ministry of …

A PREMIUM TIMES journalist, Samuel Ogundipe, who has been detained since Tuesday has been released. Mr Ogundipe was released on Friday morning after he was granted bail by magistrate Abdulwahab Mohammed of the Kubwa Grade 1 Magistrate Court in Kubwa, Abuja. The judge had first heard the case on Wednesday …