National
Page: 201
It is unnecessary for President Muhammadu Buhari to transmit power to the Vice President, Professor Yemi Osinbajo, the Presidency has said. The Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, stated this on Tuesday when he featured as a guest on Channels Television’s Politics Today. He explained that President Buhari […]
Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has said it would continue to register political parties as long as they meet the stipulated requirements. Head of Department of Election and Party Monitoring, Aminu Idris, stated this, yesterday, at a roundtable on modalities for measuring political parties’ performance in Nigeria organized by Westminster Foundation for Democracy (WFD), […]
The Federal Government has declared Friday 2nd and Monday 5th April 2021 public holidays to mark this year’s Easter Celebration. The Minister of Interior, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola, made the declaration on behalf of the Federal Government. This is contained in a statement signed by the Director (Press & Public Relations) of the Ministry of […]
GOVERNOR Godwin Obaseki of Edo State, yesterday, floored the Action Democratic Party, ADP, and its governorship candidate in the September 19, 2020, governorship election, Iboi Emmanuel at the Edo State governorship election petition tribunal as a petition brought against him and the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, was dismissed. In a five and a half […]
BAYELSA State government has given all cattle rearers and other livestock breeders 14 days to move their animals from farmlands and bushes across the state to the Elebele Palm in the outskirts of Yenagoa or risk sanction. The ultimatum was given after a meeting between the Livestock Management Committee and the leadership of Miyetti […]
Niger-Delta Nonviolence Agitators Forum, NDNAF, has weighed in on the debate over the £4.2 million repatriated from the United Kingdom, urging the Federal Government to return the money to the Delta State coffers. The agitators also passed a vote of confidence on the Minister of State, Petroleum Resources, Chief Timipre Sylva “for his innovations […]
On Saturday morning, Shehu Sani, a former Senator who represented Kaduna Central at the National Assembly in the last dispensation, painted a grim picture of what has become of Kaduna State in recent times, calling the state the ”hub of kidnappers.” “The report of the kidnapping of RCCG members along Kachia Road in Kaduna […]
Senate Minority Leader, Enyinnaya Abaribe has reacted to the Peoples Democratic Party’s victory in Saturday’s by-election in Aba North/South Federal Constituency. He said that PDP’s Chimaobi Ebisike’s victory was due to a clean campaign by the party while thanking the people of Aba for trooping out to elect a representative of their choice. In […]
The most important event that Nigerians are currently anticipating is the 2023 general elections when democracy would offer a fresh opportunity to overhaul the government. However, the growing rate of insecurity in the country has indicated danger ahead of the general elections. Despite efforts of President Muhammadu Buhari to curtail the ugly trend, bandits […]
Members of the National Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) will commence an ‘indefinite strike’ on Thursday. The NARD president, Uyilawa Okhuaihesuyi, confirmed the development in a statement issued at the end of its extraordinary National Executive Council (NEC) meeting held on Saturday. The president said the ultimatum given to the federal government to meet […]
Crown FM Onitsha