The Delta State government has waded into a face-off between an oil firm and the over 112 oil-bearing Urhobo, Isoko, Ijaw and Itsekiri communities in the Oil Mining Lease 30 to avert an economic crisis that could result in shut-in ...
Read More »PDP rejects Oyewole’s membership of Osun State guber election appeal panel
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has rejected the inclusion of Justice J.O.K Oyewole as a member of the Osun State Governorship Election Appeal Tribunal. Speaking at a media briefing yesterday, its National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan, said, “The party’s position ...
Read More »Nasarawa gets two panels for election tribunal cases
President of the Court of Appeal has constituted two election tribunals to handle election petition cases in Nasarawa State. Secretary of the National and State Assembly Election Petitions, Bello Mukhtar, who disclosed this yesterday in Lafia, said another panel was ...
Read More »Provost refutes alleged misappropriation of funds at TASCE
Provost of Tai Solarin College of Education (TASCE), Dr. Adeola Kiadese, has denied spending millions of Naira from the institution’s Internally Generated Revenue (IGR) to buy gifts for imams and pastors during festivities. Based on the allegation, staff members under ...
Read More »Buhari laments killing of youths, security agents in Gombe
President Muhammadu Buhari yesterday expressed grief over the killing of some Christian youths during an Easter procession on Sunday night in Gombe and reprisal attack on security officials allegedly responsible for the incident. Describing the killings as “very unfortunate,” the ...
Read More »Cleric tasks Plateau Governor Lalong on peace, unity, others
Apostolic Administrator of the Catholic Archdiocese of Jos and Coadjutor of Abuja Archdiocese, Reverend Ignatius Kaigama, has urged Plateau State Governo, Simon Lalong, to use his second term in office to promote lasting peace and unity in the region. In ...
Read More »Medical doctor rejects Imo Governor Okorocha’s appointment
A medical practitioner in Imo State, Harold Onumo, has rejected an appointment by Governor Rochas Okorocha. Okorocha had on April 5, 2019 appointed and inaugurated Onumo (in absentia) as Board Chairman, Imo State Agency for Control of HIV/AIDS, (SACA). But ...
Read More »FG restates commitment to improvement of agricultural incentives
The Federal Government has restated its commitment to the provision of incentives to increase the output and quality of agricultural commodities to meet and surpass national requirements. Permanent Secretary, Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, Dr. Mohammed Bello Umar, ...
Read More »Group urges FG to compensate pipeline explosion victims
The Centre for Peace and Environmental Justice (CEPEJ) has asked the federal government to compensate the families of the 11 persons who died in the 2016 pipeline explosion at Agip’s oilfield in Southern Ijaw Council of Bayelsa State. It urged ...
Read More »Lagos governor-elect Sanwo-Olu replies to AD, LP guber candidates’ petitions
Lagos State Governor-elect, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, yesterday turned in his defence to the two petitions filed by candidates of Alliance for Democracy (AD) and Labour Party (LP), Owolabi Salis, and Prof. Ifagbemi Awamaridi, challenging his declaration as winner of the March ...
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