Tinubu Approves Comprehensive School Census, Education Reforms

Nigeria’s President, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, has approved a census for all schools in Nigeria from basic to tertiary level, to ascertain their conditions and live-in facilities, proximity to one another, and the state of educational infrastructure across the schools. The President has also approved system-wide policies that include Data Repository, Out-of-School Children Education, Teacher Training … [Read more…]

Ex-Student Leader Emerges Ondo YPP Guber Candidate

The Young Progressives Party (YPP) has offered a free nomination form to John Akinmurele, a former students leader, as its sole aspirant in the forthcoming governorship election in Ondo State. The event which took place at the headquarters of the party in Abuja, Akinmurele, a former President of Students Union Government, Adekunle Ajasin University, Akungba … [Read more…]

FG places Yahaya Bello on watch list over alleged N80bn money laundering, as IG withdraws policemen attached to him

The Federal Government on Thursday put the immediate past Governor of Kogi State, Yahaya Bello, on its watchlist to prevent him from escaping from the country. The Nigerian Immigration Service, in a circular dated April 18, 2024 and signed by Assistant Comptroller of Immigration DS Umar, for the Comptroller-General, Kemi Nandap, alerted the police and … [Read more…]

Umahi Inaugurates Lagos-Calabar Coastal Highway Section 1 Compensation Commitee, Gives 10 Days To Complete Assignment

1. In keeping with the established rules on compensation and the ideals of transparency of the Renewed Hope administration of His Excellency, President Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu GCFR, the Honourable Minister of Works, His Excellency Sen Engr Nweze David Umahi CON has constituted a commitee to review the report on the Environmental and Social Impact … [Read more…]

Enugu gov’t insists on quality, integrity,  timely delivery of smart schools, healthcare projects across state

Governor of Enugu State, Dr. Peter Mbah, has charged contractors and the site engineers handling construction of the 260 smart schools and 260 Type-2 Primary Health facilities in the 260 wards of the state on the delivery of world-class projects that would stand the test of time. Mbah enjoined them to deploy quality materials and … [Read more…]

Convene Special National Security Council Meeting, PDP Tells Tinubu After NEC Meeting [FULL TEXT OF COMMUNIQUE] 

Communique Issued at the end of the 98th Meeting of the National Executive Committee (NEC) of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Today, Thursday, April 18,2024. The National Executive Committee (NEC) of our great Party, at its 98th meeting today, Thursday, April 18, 2024, thoroughly assessed the State of affairs of the Nation and the Party … [Read more…]

AGF tells Yahaya Bello to  turn himself in to EFCC, as anti-graft agency threatens to arrest Bello with soldiers

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has vowed to arrest the immediate past governor of Kogi State, Yahaya Bello, and bring him before the Federal High Court Abuja for arraignment to answer to the charges preferred against him. This came on the heels of Bello’s counsel, Abdulwahab Muhammed, SAN, refusing to be served in the … [Read more…]

Peter Nwomeh Foundation awards four new scholarships, approves name change

The Peter Nwomeh Foundation (PNF) has awarded new scholarships to four undergraduate students of Nigerian universities, saying the Board of Trustees (BoT) has approved the renaming of the foundation. The new beneficiaries are Somtochukwu Benedicta Okaforwetife, second year law student at the University of Nigeria Enugu Campus (UNEC), who is from Umukwu in Obeagwu-Ozalla; Onyinyechi … [Read more…]

Govs, Atiku, Wike, others in Attendance at PDP National Caucus Meeting

The Presidential Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the 2023 general elections, Mr Atiku Abubakar and the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Mr Nyesome Wike, on Wednesday attended the PDP’s national caucus meeting in Abuja ahead of the party’s National Executive Committee meeting, scheduled to take place on Thursday. This is the … [Read more…]

CBN gov Cardoso says CBN not using foreign reserves to defend Naira

The  Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Mr. Olayemi Cardoso,  said yesterday that the apex bank is not defending the Naira with the nation’s foreign reserves. He was speaking against the backdrop of the recent decline in Nigeria’s foreign reserves corresponding with massive appreciation of the Naira in the foreign exchange market (forex), … [Read more…]

PRESS RELEASE: Group calls for support for, engagement with Mbah’s administration in Enugu 

The Concerned People of Enugu State, a non-partisan and grassroots oriented civil society organisation in Enugu State, through their Chairman/Convener, Mr. Peter Ezih, has declared that Dr. Peter Mbah’s government will succeed through constant positive engagement with the grassroots and regular citizens of Enugu state. This was their resolution during their Executive meeting on Monday … [Read more…]

Press Statement: Ohaneze to Confer Post Humous Award on Late Chukwuemeka Ezeife

The National Executive Committee (NEC) of the Ohanaeze Ndigbo Worldwide at its plenary presided over by the President General, Chief Engr. Dr. Emmanuel Iwuanyanwu, MFR; OFR; CFR; FNICE; FNSE; FNIST; KSG (Ahaejiagamba Ndigbo) has on Tuesday, April 16, 2024 resolved to honour the former Governor of Anambra State, His Excellency, Dr. Chukwuemeka Ezeife, CON (Okwadike … [Read more…]