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2023 Elections: INEC Confirms Dates For Issuing Certificates Of Return To Governors-elect
The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has announced the dates on which it will issue Certificates of Return to newly elected governors. The committee made the decision during a meeting on March 25, 2023, one week after gubernatorial elections were held across the country. The constitution requires INEC to issue the Certificate of Return within 14 days. The electoral authority has now...
594 Repentant Boko Haram Fighters Undergo Deradicalisation Exercise, Set For Reintegration As They Promise Not To Rejoin Terror Group
The Nigerian Army on Saturday graduated 594 ex-Boko Haram members after undergoing six months Deradicalisation, Rehabilitation and Reintegration (DRR) programme in Gombe State. The graduation ceremony of the repentant terrorists took place at Malam Sidi camp in Kwami Local Government Area of the state. The Camp Commandant, Col. Uche Nnabuihe, said that out of the 594 who underwent the training, three...
Tinubu Raises Concern, Accuses Opposition Of Attempts To Truncate His Swearing-in
President-elect, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu has raised the alarm over plots by some aggrieved partisans to truncate the transition process, particularly his expected swearing-in on May 29. Tinubu in a statement by his Director, Public Affairs and Minister of State Labour and Employment, Mr Festus Keyamo SAN also warned the presidential candidates of the Peoples Democratic Party PDP, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar...
Cross River Farmers Lament Wild Animal Invasion Of Their Farmlands
Farmers and other villagers in communities in Boki and Akamkpa local government areas of Cross River State have lamented the continual stray of gorillas and elephants from their protected habitats into their farmlands and settlements. Speaking at a one-day workshop sponsored by the United States Agency for International Development, USAID, and the World Conservation Society in Calabar, the state capital,...
Stop Investing In Lagos, Return Home – IPOB Tells Igbos
The Indigenous People of Biafra have told Igbos living and investing in Lagos State to stop doing so and return home. The group made the call following what it said was the intimidation of Igbos in Lagos State during the general election. In a statement on Thursday by its Secretary of Media and Publicity, Emma Powerful, IPOB said there are several...
176,408 Candidates For Mock-UTME March 30 – JAMB
No fewer than 176,408 candidates will sit for the optional mock UTME on March 30, 2023, the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has said. The Board directed the candidates who registered for the optional mock UTME to proceed to print the notification slips for the examination. The board explained that the notification slip contained the candidate’s registration number, venue, date,...
I’ll Be Governor For All – Ebonyi APC Governor-Glect, Nwifuru Vows
Ebonyi State governor-elect, Francis Nwifuru, on Thursday, vowed to use the people’s taxes to develop the state rather than ruling the state for the interest of one or two persons. Nwifuru, the Speaker of the Ebonyi State House of Assembly, made this known while addressing stakeholders and teeming supporters of Labour Party, including its (LP) guber candidate, Edward Nkwagu who...
President Buhari Signs Copyright, Laboratory Institute Bills Into Law
President Muhammadu Buhari has signed the new Copyright Bill into law. The President recently assented to the new Act, alongside that of the Bill on Federal College and Medical Laboratory and Technology, Jos, according to a statement by the Senior Special Assistant to the President on National Assembly Matters (House of Representatives), Nasiru Baballe Ila. Ila said the new Act is...
My Administration Giving Attention To Physically Challenged – Gov. Adeleke
Osun State Governor, Ademola Adeleke has emphasized that his administration will continue to put a smile on the face of the physically challenged in the state. Adeleke also stated that his government would not rest on its oars in making sure that teachers, especially those attending to people with special needs, are adequately motivated. The Governor stated this at the handing...
Small Arms Becoming Weapons Of Mass Destruction In Nigeria – FG
The Federal Government has said Small Arms are gradually becoming weapons of mass destruction as they spread havoc on communities. Boss Mustapha, the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, disclosed this on Thursday in Abuja at a two-day multilateral meeting with stakeholders of the Lake Chad Basin region. Speaking on ‘Curbing Proliferation of Small Arms and Light Weapons in the...
