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We Can Carry Out E- Transmission Of Results, We’re Equipped, INEC Insists
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), in its strongest defence of e-transmission of election results, says it has developed adequate structures and processes to successfully transmit election results electronically. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the commission disclosed this in its “Position Paper No.1/2021 Electronic Transmission of Election” released on Saturday, in Abuja. The commission stated that the available...
Fashola Says FG Will Soon Commence Housing Allocation To Nigerians Online
Babatunde Fashola, Minister of Works and Housing, has said that Federal Government houses nationwide would be allocated through online applications. Fashola stated this in an interview with Journalists during his inspection of houses under the Federal Government housing project on Thursday, in Bauchi. He said very soon the process of allocation would start through online applications by the beneficiaries. “The process is...
Malami Says FG Has Identified, Arrested Financiers Of Terrorism In Nigeria
The Federal Government has succeeded in blocking terrorism financing in Nigeria, the Attorney General of the Federation (AGF) and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, has said. Malami told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in New York that the federal government had also succeeded in identifying and detaining “high profile individuals” responsible for funding terrorists’ activities in the country. The AGF...
North West Afflicted By Highest School Dropout, Poverty Rate In Nigeria — Nasir el-Rufai
Governor Nasir el-Rufai of Kaduna State, yesterday in Abuja, said the North- West geo-political zone of the country had human development indices closer to those of the Afghanistan, saying region was afflicted with the highest number of out-of-school children and the highest poverty rate in Nigeria. Governor el-Rufai, who spoke at the Human Capital Development Communication Strategy meeting organized by...
Nnamdi Kanu: Ekweremadu Seeks Political Solution
Former Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu, has proposed a political solution to ensure the release of the detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu. He believes this can be achieved as the South-East Caucus in the National Assembly moves to intervene in the matter. “We expect that ultimately, we find a political solution in respect of Nnamdi...
Reno Omokri Blasts Fani-Kayode For ‘Betraying’ Sunday Igboho, Nnamdi Kanu, Calls Him ‘Judas Iscariot’
Reno Omokri, a former Special Assistant to ex-President Goodluck Jonathan, has accused former Aviation Minister Femi Fani-Kayode of betraying Yoruba Nation activist, Sunday Adeyemo (fondly called Igboho), and his Biafran counterpart, Nnamdi Kanu. He made the allegation in a series of tweets reacting to the return of Fani-Kayode to APC on Friday. “Spiritually-led” Fani-Kayode was received into APC by the President,...
Igbo Youth Organizations Pledge Support To EFCC In Enugu
A group of youth organisations in the Southeast comprising the National Association of Nigerian Student, NANS, National Youth Council of Nigeria, NYCN, Ohaneze Ndi Igbo Youths, Friday September 17, 2021 pledged their support for the fight against economic and financial crimes in the southeast region. They made the pledge during a visit to the Enugu Zonal Command of the...
Lady Corps Member Who Gave Birth In Bayelsa NYSC Camp Names Baby After DG
The family of a corps member, Ramotu Suleiman, who was delivered of a baby boy a few hours after reporting at the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) camp in Bayelsa State, for the ongoing 2021 Batch “B”, stream 2 orientation course, has named him Shuaibu, after the Director-General. Baby Shuaibu Suleiman Aliyu was named on Thursday, at his father’s residence...
Arewa Youths Assembly Who Criticized Buhari’s Economic Policy Removed From Office
THE crisis rocking the Arewa Youths Assembly took a turn for the worse on Thursday, with the sacking of the Speaker of the Assembly, Mohammed Danlami. A section of the assembly on Thursday, dissociated the group from comments made by its former Speaker about the economic policies of the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.). They equally announced Danlami’s removal from...
Nothing Wrong With Me, I Was Only Dehydrated, EFCC Chairman Bawa Says
Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Mr Abdulrasheed Bawa, says he is well and in good shape following the incident at an event on Thursday in Abuja. Bawa, who spoke from his residence in the nation’s capital, featured as a guest on Politics Today hours after he was reported to have slumped at the event organised by...
