Absence of Justice Yusuf Haliru of a Federal Capital Territory (FCT) High Court has stalled the arraignment of Bauchi State governor-elect, Bala Mohammed. The governor-elect, who was elected on the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) platform, was to be arraigned on ...
Read More »Nigeria army to establish command secondary schools in Ekiti
The Ekiti State government has disclosed that three Nigeria Army will soon establish three command secondary schools in the state. Commissioner for Education, Science and Technology, Foluso Daramola, who made this known in Ado-Ekiti, said arrangements have almost been concluded ...
Read More »Nigeria, Pakistan strengthen ties against maritime crime
Nigeria and the Pakistani Navy have agreed to partner in their effort to end piracy and other maritime crimes on Nigerian territorial waters to improve ease of doing business in the country’s seaports. Both countries made the commitment when Pakistani ...
Read More »EFCC’s North East zonal office convicts 41 persons for graft
The Northeast zonal office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has disclosed that it convicted 41 persons for corruption related cases out of 81 petitions it received between January and April. Zonal Head of Operations, Michael Wetkas, stated ...
Read More »APC members, Wike reach truce to develop Rivers State
After years of political bickering, the All Progressives Congress (APC) has finally indicated readiness to accept Governor Nyesom Wike’s peace proposal to bring greater development to the state. Senator Andrew Uchendu, who spoke on behalf of state APC members, told ...
Read More »Governor Dickson declines to sign life pension for Bayelsa lawmakers
Law will worsen poverty, group insists as HURIWA seeks EFCC’s probe Bayelsa State Governor, Seriake Dickson has declined signing the bill seeking life pension for former lawmakers as proposed and passed by the state House of Assembly last week. The ...
Read More »Tribunal quashes PDP’s application to extend inspection of election materials
The Election Tribunal sitting in Kano has struck out a fresh application by Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) gubernatorial candidate, Abba Kabiru Yusuf, seeking to extend inspection of election materials. Counsel to Abba, Bashir Yusuf Mohammed, had filed the application in ...
Read More »Boko Haram fighters receive over N1m daily, Nigerian soldiers get N1000, says PCNI
A member of the Presidential Committee on North East Initiative (PCNI), Dr. Sidi Ali Mohammed has disclosed that Boko Haram fighters receive $3000 (an equivalent of N1, 080,000 daily) as allowance, while Nigerian soldiers get a paltry N1000. He spoke ...
Read More »Igbo strategise to capture Nigeria’s presidency in 2023
The quest to realise the president of Igbo extraction for the country in 2023 may have started in earnest as sons and daughters of the ethnic group gather today in Enugu to inaugurate a pressure group, “Southeast for President 2023 ...
Read More »PDP, INEC disagree over alleged replacement of polls’ servers
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has accused the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) of replacing servers in its headquarters and state offices across the country. Its National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan claimed that the replacement “is a desperate bid to ...
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