Buhari won the presidential poll, APC insists Employees at the National Secretariat of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) have intensified their 12-day prayers for a positive verdict from the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal, which will deliver its verdict today. This ...
Read More »Militants threatens to bomb oil facilities over planned removal of amnesty boss
A militant group, the Reformed Niger Delta Avengers (RNDA) has again warned against the dire consequences if the Federal Government goes ahead to remove Coordinator of the Presidential Amnesty Programme, Professor Charles Dokubo. In an e-mailed statement, RNDA cautioned that ...
Read More »SGF laments threats to democracy, good governance as Tofa flays graft, insecurity, poverty
Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Boss Mustapha has identified terrorism, insurgencies and electoral violence as the greatest challenges threatening democracy and good governance in the country. Mustapha stated this in Abuja at a two-day Summit on Terrorism, ...
Read More »FG to reduce capital vote in 2020 budget, moves to regain N650 million facility to states
The Federal Government is to reduce capital vote from the current 32 per cent to 17 per cent in the 2020 appropriation bill. Conversely, it plans to raise recurrent expenditure to 79 per cent from 68 per cent in the ...
Read More »Allison-Madueke forfeits $40m jewelry to govt as EFCC, FBI arrest 167, recover $170,000, N92m, others
A Federal High Court, Lagos has granted the application for final forfeiture of $40million worth of jewelry allegedly belonging to former Minister of Petroleum Resources, Mrs. Diezani Allison-Madueke. Justice Nicholas Oweibo in his ruling yesterday held that the respondent failed ...
Read More »Osinbajo launches livestock project in Adamawa State amid protests
The protest in Gongoshi village of Mayo-Belwa council area of Adamawa notwithstanding, Vice President Yemi Osinbajo yesterday inaugurated the National Livestock Transformation Plan (NLTP) in the state. Commending their peaceful conduct, Osinbajo, however, informed the protesters that the policy was ...
Read More »Operation Crush Arrest Nine Cult Leaders, Arrest Two For Armed Robbery
The Lagos State Police Police Public Relations Officer DSP Bala Elkana In a press release said On 6th of September, 2019 at about 9:000, Imota Police Station received a piece of information from a reliable source that some cultists on ...
Read More »Don’t engage in reprisals against South Africans, PFN tells Nigerians
Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigerian (PFN) has called on Nigerians not to engage in reprisals against South Africans in respect of the xenophobic attack on Nigerians in South Africa. It advised that Nigerians in and outside the country should rather exercise ...
Read More »Be fearless, courageous on presidential poll verdict, Frank tells justices
Former Deputy National Publicity Secretary of APC, Timi Frank, has charged judges of the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal to be fearless and courageous, as they prepare to give their verdict on the petition challenging the election of President Muhammadu Buhari. ...
Read More »Kaduna elections tribunal affirms El-Rufai’s victory, quashes Ashiru’s petition as court sacks Ebonyi PDP Reps candidate
Supporters of the All Progressives Congress (APC) thronged the Election Petitions Tribunal in Kaduna celebrating the victory of Nasir El-Rufai as the duly elected governor in the 2019 gubernatorial poll in the state. In its judgement, the tribunal struck out ...
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