Atiku To Prosecute Presidential Election Petition With 180 Witnesses
A total of 180 witnesses have been lined up to testify in the petition filed by former Vice President and candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar against the outcome of the presidential election that was held on February 25, 2023. While Atiku has lined up 100 witnesses to prove his case, the Independent National Electoral Commission...
Palliative Distribution: Stampede That Killed 2 Students Caused By Impatience, Says Nasarawa Varsity VC
Palliative Distribution: Stampede That Killed 2 Students Caused By Impatience, Says Nasarawa Varsity VC Prof. Suleiman Bala-Mohammed, Vice Chancellor, Nasarawa State University, Keffi has attributed the Friday stampede that killed two students and left 14 others injured to impatience on the part of the students. The stampede occurred when the students, along with some hoodlums in the neighbourhood, swooped on bags...
BREAKING: We May Extend Lockdown If…, Say Sanwo-Olu
Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu has declared the state may extend the ongoing 14-day lockdown. He said this during a media briefing on Saturday. He said the lockdown would be extended depending on the situation of things, adding that the number of patients discharged in Lagos had risen to 24. The Nation reports almost 50 percent of the 209 confirmed cases of coronavirus...
Government Seals Off Aba Hotel Over Questionable Deaths Of Guests
The Abia State Government has sealed off a hotel in Aba, the state capital, Merry-home Hotels Limited, located around 7up axis of Ogbor Hill following a series of allegations of criminal activities taking place on the hotel premises. Briefing newsmen...
Ekiti Governor Elect Promises Prosperity Vision
Ekiti State Governor-elect, Biodun Oyebanji, has said that he will work with competent, courageous and transparent persons in his bid to drive his agenda of making Ekiti prosperous. Oyebanji said that securing the citizens, building enduring Infrastructure and solving the perennial epileptic power supply to the state would form the focal areas of concentration. “My vision is to have a society...
PDP, YPP Senators-elect reveal preferred candidate ahead of Senate Presidency election
Some senators-elect from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and Young Progressive Party (YPP), on Friday, declared support for Sen. Ahmad Lawan’s Senate Presidency ambition. The opposition parties’ senators-elect at the occasion included Clifford Odia (PDP-Edo), Mathew Urhoghide (PDP-Edo) and Gershom Bash (PDP-Cross River). Others were Abba Moro (PDP-Benue), Lawali Anka (PDP-Zamfara) and Ifeanyi Ubah (YPP-Anambra). NAN reports that many APC senators-elect were...
Buhari Sacks Employment Agency Chief
President Muhammadu Buhari has relieved Dr. Nasiru Mohammed Ladan Argungu from the position of the Director-General of the National Directorate of Employment. Spokesman Garba Shehu announced this in a press statement on Tuesday. According to Shehu, the directive was given on Friday, the 4th of December, 2020, and was to take effect from Monday, December 7th, 2020. The Supervising Minister of the...
IPOB Declares Another Sit-At-Home In South-East
The Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, has announced September 14 as another day for South East residents to boycott commercial and social activities. This was confirmed in a statement issued by its Head, Directorate of Service, Mazi Chika Edoziem. Edoziem said the order is a memorial of the massacre carried out by the military men three years ago in the region,...
NDLEA Seizes 2m Kg Ff Hard Drugs In Nine Months – Buba Marwa
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has seized not less than two million kilograms of cocaine, heroin, other hard drugs and substances in the past nine months of 2021. Chairman/Chief Executive Officer of NDLEA, Brig.-Gen. Buba Marwa (rtd), told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in New York that there was no longer a “hiding place for drug traffickers” in...
Police Investigates Missing 24-yr-old Corps Member In Bayelsa
Operatives of the Anti-Kidnapping unit of the Bayelsa State Police Command have launched an investigation into the case of a missing youth corps member, Levi Anyanwu serving in the state. Anyanwu, 24 with NYSC Registration Number, BYS/25A/0244 and with place of primary assignment at Ijaw National, Academy, located in Kaiama, Kolokuma/Opokuma Local Government Area of the state, was reported missing...
