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Nobel Laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka, has advocated a declaration of state of emergency due to the insecurity in the South West Zone. He made the call yesterday in Akure, Ondo State on the sidelines of the D.O Fagunwa Study Group ...

The Kano Electricity Distribution Company (KEDCO) has lamented that the outstanding bills owed by its customers, which has hit N148.63 billion, is slowing down the vision to ensure constant electricity supply in its catchment area. According to the Head of ...

The Commission of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has tasked ECOWAS parliamentarians to enact laws and other measures to protect whistleblowers in the region. Head, Democracy and Good Governance, ECOWAS Commission, Mr. Eyesan Okorodudu, said this during ...

Chairman of the Independent Electoral Commission (INEC), Professor Mahmood Yakubu, has corrected the impression that Nigeria’s elections are the most expensive and thus fuelling corruption in the country. Speaking at the sixth Biennial General Assembly of ECOWAS Network of Electoral ...

Two suspected Internet fraudsters, Amos Ehi Asuelimen (30) and Kelvin Godwin Ogashi (18), yesterday confessed that they created social media accounts with Vice President Yemi Osinbajo and Aisha Muhammadu Buhari’s names to defraud Nigerians. They disclosed this while being paraded ...

The Tiv Youth Organisation (TYO) has said Tiv people of Taraba State are bona fide indigenes who deserve protection, rights and privileges accorded other indigenes of the state. President General of TYO worldwide, Comrade Timothy Hembaor, who stated this yesterday in Makurdi, ...

Operatives of the Sokoto Zonal Office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) have arrested Chairman of Rice Farmers’ Association of Nigeria (RIFAN), Gummi Council Chapter, Ibrahim Rijiya, Council Storekeeper, Aminu Musa and Abdullahi Bashir for allegedly diverting three ...

The Kebbi State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has suspended chairmen of five councils and nine others for anti-party activities. A statement issued by the state’s Chairman, Haruna Saidu in Birnin- Kebbi revealed that the leadership accused the ...

Catholic Archbishop of Lagos, Most Rev. Alfred Adewale Martins, has urged the Federal Government to see the agitation as a wake-up call for it to better the lives of Nigerians and tame the pervasive insecurity in the land. In a ...

President Muhammadu Buhari has assented to the Asset Management Corporation of Nigeria (Amendment) Act, 2019. Also signed into law yesterday were the Defence Intelligence Agency Civilian Pensions Board (Establishment) Act, 2019 and the National Biosafety Management Agency (Amendment) Act, 2019. ...