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2023 Elections: Over 700,000 PVCs Waiting For Collection In Our Office – Oyo REC, Agboke
The Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC) in Oyo State, Barrister Mutiu Agboke has disclosed that over 700,000 Permanent Voter Cards (PVC) are waiting for collection in the commission’s office. Agboke made this disclosure on Sunday while speaking d...
Hold Irresponsible Religious Leaders For Faith Division — Osinbajo
Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has blamed irresponsible faith leaders for religious tensions in the country and for failing to promote unity. Osinbajo made the remark when a delegation from the Kuje interfaith community, led by Sam Ogbodo, the Senior P...
I Have No Regret Working With Abacha, Says Al-Mustapha
Hamza Al-Mustapha, a former aide to General Sani Abacha, says he has no regrets working with the late military dictator. Al-Mustapha who is the presidential candidate of the Action Alliance (AA) in the 2023 general election made the declaration on Fr...
About 15 Corps Members Sanctioned Over Absenteeism, Abscondment And Other Offences In Bayelsa
No fewer than fifteen corps members out of the 1,831 that participated in the 2021 Batch B, Stream 1 service year were sanctioned for alleged misconduct and other offences. Seven out of the defaulting corps members had their service year extended due...
Police Arrest Fleeing Boko Haram Member
Following the recent attack on the Kuje Maximum Custodial Centre, Abuja, and subsequent escape of inmates, the Nasarawa State Police Command says it has arrested one Mr. Hassan Hassan, whose name and picture was among the escaped inmates with Boko Ha...
Vote Buyers Must Be Prosecuted, Jega, Others Insist
Prominent election stakeholders on Monday participated at a forum seeking significant reforms of the electoral process that recommended the criminalisation of vote buying and selling as well as delegate inducements with strict enforcement of penaltie...
It’s Unacceptable To North For UN To Demand Nnamdi Kanu’s Unconditional Release — Group
A Coalition of 52 Northern Groups has rejected the call by the United Nations for the unconditional release of the detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu. The Pan-Arewa socio-political organisation also accused the UN of...
Saraki warns NBC over court order on AIT, Ray Power FM
Senate President, Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki, has called on the National Broadcasting Corporation (NBC), to immediately obey the court order granted by the Federal High Court in Abuja, which called for the maintenance of status quo as of May 31, 2019, pending the determination of a motion filed by DAAR Communications PLC, owners of Raypower Radio and African Independent...
Oyo Assembly passed 70 bills in 4 years – Speaker
The Oyo State House of Assembly on Friday said it considered 87 bills and passed 70 of the bills between 2015 and 2019. The house also disclosed that 17 of the bills were under-going legislative scrutiny with various committees in the last four years. Speaker of the Assembly, Mr. Olagunju Ojo, disclosed these during the valedictory session of the lawmakers in...
AIT/Raypower: PANDEF attacks Buhari
The Pan-Niger Delta Forum, PANDEF, has reacted to the suspension of operating licenses of the African Independent Television, AIT, and Raypower by the Nigerian Broadcasting Commission, NBC. PANDEF leader, Chief Edwin Clark, took a swipe at the Federal Government following the decision of the National Broadcasting Commission, NBC, describing the action as an insult to the Niger Delta. Clark slammed the...
