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A Federal High Court, Lagos has dismissed a motion by a representative of Abia North Senatorial District, Orji Uzor Kalu for an adjournment to enable him to appear at an election petition tribunal. Kalu, a former Abia State Governor, former ...

Deputy Chairman, North Central Zone of the Northern Elders’ Forum (NEF), Ambassador Yahaya Kwande, has faulted the idea that the Middle Belt extends beyond the present North Central Zone of the country. In a statement issued yesterday in Jos, he ...

A section of the Ogun State Association of Local Governments of Nigeria (ALGON) has appealed to Governor Dapo Abiodun and the House of Assembly to reverse the suspension of 20 councils and 37 Local Council Development Areas (LCDAs) chairmen. The ...

Rivers State Governor Nyesom Wike has sought approval of the state House of Assembly to stop illegal markets, motor parks and street trading in the state. He made the request in a document titled: Rivers State Street Trading, Illegal Markets ...

A faith-based group, Mothers of the Nations Oranisation for Peace and Development, led by its President, Bishop Priscilla Otuya, has charged the Federal Government to rise up to the nation’s insecurity challenges before the situation leads to anarchy. Speaking at ...

ActionAid Nigeria has launched a N2.6 billion Women’s Voice and Leadership Project to advance protection of women and girls’ rights to achieve gender equality in the country. This follows a United States Aid for International Development (USAID) report indicating that ...

The Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria (PFN) has enjoined Nigerians to advocate urgent restructuring of Nigeria to end farmers and herders clashes in country. PFN expressed concern at the 30-day ultimatum given to the Federal Government by a Northern group, whose ...

Igala indigenes in Kogi East Senatorial District have rejected Federal Government’s suspended grazing reserves, otherwise known as Rural Grazing Areas (RUGA) settlements earlier proposed for Fulani herdsmen across the country. The Igala leaders took the decision in Kaduna during the ...

The Supreme declined the request by the All Progressives Congress (APC) asking it to reverse its May 24 ruling on the February 23 and March 10,2019 elections conducted in Zamfara State. Citing that the appellant never held valid primaries prior ...

Senate President Ahmed Lawan has ruled out help from the Forum of All Progressives Congress (APC) chairmen in future altercations between him and colleagues in the upper chamber of the National Assembly. He challenged the party’s National Working Committee (NWC) ...