The Progressive Governors Forum has criticised the National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, for the party’s ‘diminishing fortunes’. Its Director-General, Salihu Lukman, in a letter entitled, “APC: Appeal for Reconciliation”, dated August 6, 2019, and ...
Read More »FG to probe Taraba killings as council chair escapes death, police fault claim on murdered soldiers
The Federal Government is to probe the fatal altercation between men of the 93 Battalion of the Nigerian Army, Takum and officers of the ASP Felix Adolije-led IGP Intelligence Response Team in Taraba State. The clash resulted in the death ...
Read More »Wole Soyinka advocates state of emergency in South West over insecurity
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 ...
Read More »KEDCO laments N148.63b unsettled bills, pleads with customers
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 ...
Read More »ECOWAS Commission seeks laws to protect whistle-blowers
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 ...
Read More »Polytechnics have lost focus, rector declares, flays rivalry among graduates of higher institutions
Polytechnics are to turn out wealth creators and not job seekers. This was the submission of Rector of the Federal Polytechnic, Ilaro, Dr. Olusegun Aluko. Addressing a news conference to herald the institution’s 40th anniversary and 19th convocation yesterday in Ogun State, ...
Read More »2019 election cost $6 per voter against Ghana’s $16, says Yakubu
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 ...
Read More »DSS parades fraudsters who impersonated Vice President Osinbanjo, Aisha Buhari in Edo
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 ...
Read More »Tiv are true indigenes of Taraba, deserve same rights, privileges as others’
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, ...
Read More »EKSU students disrupt academic activities over EFCC’s arrest of colleagues
Students of the Ekiti State University (EKSU), Ado-Ekiti yesterday protested against alleged harassment and arrest of their members by operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). The commission recently arrested over 40 youths, most of whom were students ...
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