2023: INEC Begins Election Staff Recruitment, Opens Portal
The Independent National Electoral Commission, on Wednesday, announced the commencement of recruitment of election staff for the 2023 general elections. To this effect, the electoral umpire said it had opened its portal for recruitment, adding that eligible applicants should begin applying for the role. INEC made the announcement in a post on its Facebook page on Wednesday. It said the portal...
FG Paid N103bn To Oil Marketers In 8 Months
The Federal Government has disclosed that it paid oil marketers N103.03 billion in the past eight months as bridging cost for the transportation of petrol across the country. The government’s clarification came two days after the Northern Forum of the Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria, IPMAN, threatened to withdraw their services citing huge debts owed to its members by...
President Buhari Congratulates Emir Of Zazzau-Suleja, Awwal Ibrahim At 81
President Muhammadu Buhari has congratulated Emir of Zazzau-Suleja, Alhaji Awwal Ibrahim on his 81st birthday. The president, in a congratulatory message by his spokesman, Mr Femi Adesina, on Wednesday in Abuja joined the Suleja Emirate Council and Niger State Traditional Council to celebrate with the royal father. Buhari said that the Emir had influenced the nation’s development in many ways The president felicitated...
President Buhari Set To Visit Imo September 13
President Muhammadu Buhari is scheduled to pay a working visit to Imo State on Tuesday, September 13, 2022, to commission the two signature road projects of the 3-R administration. The president will as well commission the newly reconstructed Imo State House of Assembly Complex. Governor Hope Uzodimma of Imo State disclosed this to newsmen through a press release signed by his...
Take $40bn Climate Change Crisis Loan, IMF Begs Nigeria, Others
Nigeria and other African countries should take advantage of the $40 billion Resilience and Sustainability Trust Fund (RSTF) to tackle climate crisis, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has counselled. Its Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva, who gave the advice in her keynote address at the Global Center on Adaptation’s Africa Adaptation Summit, identified the continent as the worst hit by the...
Allow Amotekun To Bear Arms, Governor Akeredolu Urges FG
The Ondo State Governor, Mr Rotimi Akeredolu, has urged the Federal Government to allow Amotekun Corps to carry sophisticated weapons in order to protect the people. Speaking on his recent position on the oil pipeline surveillance contract awarded to private individuals and organisations, Akeredolu explained that his position was to allow Amotekun bear sophisticated arms like the non-state actors who...
2023 Election: Wike, Saraki, Anyim Absent As PDP Ex-Presidential Aspirants Pledge Support For Atiku
Some former presidential aspirants, who contested in the last Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, primary election have pledged their full support and loyalty to the candidacy of Alhaji Atiku Abubakar. In a release made available to reporters by Atiku’s media aide, Abdurasheed Shehu, he said the former Presidential aspirants, led by Mohammed Hayatudeen, pledged their loyalty to Atiku during a visit...
Gov Ortom Talks Tough As Alia Accuses Him And Others Of Looting Public Funds
Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom has reacted to an allegation of corruption made against him by the All Progressives Congress, APC, governorship candidate in the State, Hyacinth Alia. Alia, a suspended Catholic priest had in a statement, described the present and all past Governors of the State as failures who have only contributed to the underdevelopment of the State since...
Why You Must Inaugurate NDDC Board Without Delay – Group Urges President Buhari
President Muhammadu Buhari has been beckoned upon to swiftly inaugurate the board of the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, without further delay. A group, Ilaje Unity Forum, who made the call noted that the Nigerian Senate had screened and confirmed members of the board since 2019, stressing that the immediate inauguration of the board will ensure and boost the overall...
2023: What Will Happen If You Ignore Wike’s Demands – PDP Chieftain Warns Atiku
As the 2023 general elections, draws closer, Princewill Dike, a chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Rivers State, has warned the party’s presidential candidate, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, of the dangers of ignoring the demands of the Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, and his camp. Warning Atiku, the chieftain, said that those people hanging around him and mounting pressure...
