The Edo State Government has faulted claims that Governor Godwin Obaseki was behind the political violence that resulted in the bombing of residences of perceived political opponents within the state’s All Progressives Congress (APC). Commissioner for Information and Orientation, Paul ...

THE Institute of the Black World 21st Century and a host of African American civil society organisations (CSOs), including Reverend Jesse Jackson’s Rainbow/PUSH Coalition, have written Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu to stop any plans to privatise water in Lagos State. In ...

The eight permanent secretaries who were sacked by Rivers State Governor Nyesom Wike, but reinstated by the National Industrial Court (NIC) in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State, have resumed work. The senior civil servants, who were sighted at the state secretariat, however, ...

Imo State Judicial Commission of Inquiry on Contracts has indicted former Governor Rochas Okorocha over alleged fraudulent award of contracts during his time as governor. It, therefore, ordered the state Auditor General and the Auditor General for Local Governments to ...

Special Adviser to Akwa Ibom State Governor, Udom Emmanuel on Political and Legislative Affairs, Sunny Ibuot, has declared that the National Population Commission (NPC) has successfully carried out Enumeration Area Demarcation (EAD) in nine council areas of the state. He ...

The Supreme Court has dismissed the appeal filed by former Minister of State for Agriculture, Heineken Lokpobiri, against the candidacy of Bayelsa State Governor-elect, David Lyon. Lokpobiri and Lyon are both members of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the ...

A Niger Delta militant group, the Joint Revolutionary Council (JRC) has demanded that the Presidential Amnesty Programme (PAP) be transferred to the office of the Chief of Staff (COS) to the President and head of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation ...

Members of the Joint Action Committee of Northern Youth Associations (JACNYA) have cautioned some Arewa youths over their comments against the Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Muhammadu Abubakar Sa’ad and other Northern elders who recently criticised the inauguration of Operation Shege Ka ...

The Federal Government has said it is considering the prosecution of power distribution companies (DisCos) and individuals, who violate regulations in a bid to address poor electrical installations and construction in the country. Speaking at the launch of a new ...

Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Dr. Isa Pantami has declared that terrorist organisations now use social media platforms to recruit followers. Pantami disclosed this in Abuja, while delivering a lecture on Leadership in Counter-Terrorism and Counter-Violent Extremism in Nigeria. ...