Bayelsa Govt Declares 7-Day Break For Workers Over Flood Disaster
The Bayelsa State governor, Senator Douye Diri, has handed civil servants in the State seven-day time-off from work aside from those on essential services, due to difficulties being faced as a result of the flood disaster ravaging the State. He also confirmed that the state was facing a humanitarian crisis with over one million persons displaced across Sagbama, Ekeremor, Southern...
Why APC Can’t Start Its Campaign – Ologbondiyan
The spokesperson of the Atiku Presidential Campaign Organisation, Kola Ologbondiyan, has said the All Progressives Congress (APC) and its presidential candidate Bola Tinubu has nothing to show for Nigerians, hence the failure to kick start their campaign. Ologbondiyan also added that the acceptance of the PDP Presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, as seen at the Kaduna rally, has thrown his opponents...
Rico Swavey Set For Burial Thursday – Family
The family of late Big Brother Naija star, Rico Swavey, has announced the arrangements for his burial. Born Patrick Adebowale Fakoya, Rico was involved in a car crash which led to him being placed on life support. He died two days after the accident on Thursday, October 13, 2022. In a statement signed by his family and management team, plans for...
Speakers’ Forum Consoles Kogi State Assembly Over Fire Incident
The Conference of Speakers of State Legislatures of Nigeria has commiserated with the Kogi State House of Assembly over the unfortunate fire incident that engulfed its complex last week. This was contained in a media statement signed and made available to journalists in Bauchi late Monday night by Abdul Burra, the spokesperson of the chairman of the forum, Abubakar Suleiman. The...
APGA Raised Alarm Over Plot To Arrest Ebonyi Candidates
The Ebonyi State chapter of the All Progressives Grand Alliance has raised the alarm over a plot to arrest and prosecute its deputy governorship candidate, Nkata Chukwu; senatorial candidate for Ebonyi South, Ifeanyi Eleje; and others candidates. APGA observed that it was not oblivious of the intimidation of its candidates in the 2023 general election and the destruction of their...
Kogi State Assembly Summons BUA Over Unpaid 50,000-Hectare Land
Kogi House of Assembly on Monday, summoned cement manufacturing firm, BUA Group, over a 50,000-hectare land it acquired 10 years ago but had yet to pay for it. The lawmakers gave the summon at a public hearing of one of its ad-hoc committees held at a hotel in Lokoja since its complex was gutted by fire last Monday. Deputy Speaker of...
NNPP Candidate Donates Relief Materials To Flood Victims In Delta
Delta South senatorial candidate of the New Nigerian People’s Party, Commodore Omatseye Nesiama (retd.), on Monday visited flood victims at Igbide and Ofagbe communities in Isoko South and Isoko North local government areas of the state and donated some relief materials to cushion the effects on them. Items donated to the victims by the visiting senatorial candidate included tubers of...
I’ll End Insecurity, Revive Industries, Atiku Assures Kaduna Voters
The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, yesterday urged voters in Kaduna to vote for him during the February 25 presidential elections, pledging to end insecurity and revive ailing industries, among others. Speaking at the presidential rally organised by his party in Kaduna, Atiku made two other key promises to the people of Kaduna State. According to...
We’ve Met The Yearnings Of Nigerians — Buhari
President Muhammadu Buhari has declared open the last Ministerial Performance Review Retreat of his administration, saying high-impact projects have been implemented across the country meeting the yearnings and aspirations of Nigerians. Addressing the retreat organised to evaluate the level of progress made in the implementation of the nine-priority agenda of his administration, the president highlighted remarkable progress made in the...
Osun Tribunal: Court To Sit Six Hours Daily
The Election Petition Tribunal hearing the petition of the candidate of All Progressives Congress in the July 16 Osun governorship poll, Adegboyega Oyetola, against the victory of the Peoples Democratic Party’s Senator Ademola Adeleke, has said it will sit for six hours daily. The panel, which said its sitting would commence by 10am and end by 4pm from Monday to...
