Princess Abigail Chinyere Amalaha, a publisher and a lauded journalist, has been named president of Nigeria’s United Towns Agency (UTA). A non-governmental organisation (NGO) with consultative status on the UN Economic and Social Council, the UTA is accredited by the UN (ECOSOC). Dr. Abubakar Jimoh, a UTA Board Member, said that Princess Amalaha’s appointment followed a rigorous selection process that …
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 …
On Tuesday evening, unidentified gunmen allegedly killed three people in Sapele, Sapele Local Government Area, Delta State. At around 7:10 p.m., gunmen stormed a provision store across the street from Seplat Petroleum Development Company on Ufuoma Atose street, according to a Facebook user, Sapele Oghenek, who made the disclosure on his verified page. He went on to say that they …
On Tuesday, President Muhammadu Buhari explained why he defied the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in refusing to remove the country’s fuel subsidies. Despite the Bretton Wood institutions’ repeated calls for it to be removed, the President said in an interview with Bloomberg News that eliminating the fuel subsidy was becoming increasingly untenable. In January, the federal …
Three Nigerian senators who were elected on the All Progressives Congress (APC) platform have resigned from the ruling party. Senators Ahmad Babba Kaita (Katsina North), Lawal Yahaya Gumau (Bauchi South), and Francis Alimikhena (Bauchi South) are among the lawmakers (Edo North). Read Also: Breaking: House Steps down Motion to Override Buhari’s Veto on Statutory Delegates Gumau, on the other hand, defected …
On Tuesday, the House of Representatives voted down a motion to override President Muhammadu Buhari’s refusal to assent to an amendment to the 2022 Electoral Act that would allow statutory delegates to attend political party congresses and conventions. As the countdown to the 2023 elections heats up, the failure of the assent has denied elected public officials the opportunity to …
Nigeria’s external reserves are expected to decline, according to the World Bank, because the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) is expected to clear $1.7 billion in foreign exchange backlog and forward contracts to foreigners by the end of October 2022. The World Bank revealed this in a report called “Nigeria Development Update (June 2022): The Continuing Urgency of Business Unusual.” …
Against the backdrop of rising insecurity in Nigeria, His Grace, Most Rev. Emmanuel Chukwuma, Archbishop of Enugu Ecclesiastical Province and Bishop of Enugu Diocese, Church of Nigeria, Anglican Communion, has warned that a revolution is on the way to drive out those who are holding the country back. The call was made during the Archbishop’s pre-Synod press conference on Tuesday, …
Prince Kassim Afegbua, an Edo State politician, has resigned from the Peoples Democratic Party, or PDP. According to reports, Afegbua served as a campaign spokesman for Nigeria’s former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar. However, Afegbua has a rift with the opposition party’s presidential candidate for 2023. In a letter to the PDP Chairman, Ward 5 Okpella, Edo State, Afegbua announced his …
Nigeria’s Finance Minister, Zainab Ahmed, has stated that the federal government will invest heavily in all aspects of the agricultural value chain in order to ensure adequate and high-quality data for effective agricultural policies. According to the News Agency of Nigeria, the Minister stated this at a Training of Trainers workshop on the National Agriculture Sample Census (NASC) held in …
The Ogun State Police Command has arrested six members of a notorious cult group who had been on the command’s wanted list for their roles in a series of cult clashes in Shagamu and its environs that resulted in the deaths of at least four people. The arrest of the suspects was announced in a statement by the state Police …
