A project expenditure refund to Yobe State and contracts across ministries totaling N52,203,698535 have been approved by the Federal Executive Council (FEC). The week’s virtual FEC meeting, presided over by President Muhammadu Buhari at the Presidential Villa in Abuja, was made public to State House Correspondents afterward. The revised cost for building the Yola-Hong-Mubi Road, which was set at N29,826,449,000, …
Former Anambra State legislator Nelson Achukwu has been beheaded by gunmen. Days after being abducted, his relatives discovered and recognised the physically challenged man’s headless body. The headless remains of the deceased Achukwu were discovered at the border between the Uke and Ukpor axis of the state, according to Mr. Tochukwu Ikenga, the police public relations officer. On June 9, …
In Orin-Ekiti and Ido/Osi local government areas on Wednesday, gunmen abducted Mr. Israel Bamisaye, a retired chief pharmacist with the Ekiti Ministry of Health. A seven-man gang is believed to have abducted Bamisaye from his farm, which was between Ero Dam and the Ekiti State farm settlement in the small town. This information was gathered with confidence. An unnamed local …
The All Progressive Congress (APC) Presidential Candidate, Senator Bola Ahmed Tinubu, has stated that the Plateau State Commissioner of Lands, Survey, and Town Planning, Mr. Yakubu Dati, believes that the Governor of Plateau State, Hon. Simon Lalong, is the best candidate to be chosen among Christian aspirants. In a statement he gave to reporters on Tuesday, Dati noted that Lalong …
According to reports, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission is looking into an All Progressives Congress (APC) House of Representatives candidate from the Amuwo Odofin Federal Constituency named Lanre A. Sanusi for possible fraud. According to reports, 4runner Limited, a logistics company, filed a petition against Sanusi, and he was subsequently arrested. With the help of two of his friends …
A security guard working for the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) was detained in Rivers State by Department of State Security (DSS) agents for allegedly extorting citizens. It was learned that the official was taken into custody for the alleged offence at the INEC office in the state’s Obio/Akpor Local Government Area. Geraldine Ekelemu, an INEC public affairs representative in …
14 suspects have been detained by the Ondo State Police Command for alleged acts of terrorism and other crimes in the state, including armed robbery, cultism, and theft. The state police public relations officer (PPRO), SP Funmilayo Odunlami, paraded the suspects yesterday at the command headquarters on Igbatoto Road, Akure, and said the arrests were a part of the command’s …
The Ohanaeze Ndigbo socio-cultural organization’s Lagos State chapter has denied rumours that it supported Bola Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress, APC, over Peter Obi of the Labour Party, LP, ahead of the 2023 elections. The chapter’s president, Sunday Ossai, claimed that the untrue rumour that the Ohanaeze in Lagos had dumped Obi for Tinubu came straight from the pit …
Kefas Agbu, the PDP’s candidate for governor in Taraba State, still has work to do because one of the candidates in the recently held primaries has petitioned the Federal High Court in Jalingo for justice. Professor Jerome Nyame, the candidate, insisted that the party’s nominee had not submitted any nomination or expression of interest paperwork and had not undergone screening …
The Delta State Chapter of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) has chosen Monday John Onyeme, the chairman of the Delta State Board of Internal Revenue, to run as the party’s deputy governor candidate in place of Rt. Hon. Sheriff Oborevwori. Onyeme and the governorship candidate will run together on the party’s joint ticket as the PDP’s flagbearers in the 2023 …
