The Federal government has declared Friday, April 7 and Monday, April 10, 2023, as Good Friday and Easter Monday respectively as public holidays to mark this year’s Easter celebration. The minister of interior, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola, made the announcement yesterday in Abuja. Aregbesola, in a statement signed by the ministry’s permanent secretary, Dr Shuaib Belgore, … [Read more…]
Benue State governor-elect, Rev. Fr. Hyacinth Alia, has described the state civil service as one in very bad and critical condition which can be likened to a patient in hospital’s Intensive Care Unit (ICU). The Catholic priest-turned-politician, who spoke to newsmen on Wednesday after a courtesy visit to President Muhammadu Buhari, at the State House, … [Read more…]
The Federal government has approved the 2023 disbursement guidelines for the sum of N320,345,040, 835 as intervention to public tertiary institutions across the country. The Executive Secretary of TETFund, Sonny Echono, at a workshop organised for beneficiary institutions, disclosed that on the basis of this, each university shall get for the 2023 intervention cycle, the … [Read more…]
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has pleaded with the Central Criminal Court of England, otherwise known as the Old Bailey, to temper justice with mercy in the May 5 sentencing of convicted Deputy Senate President Ike Ekweremadu; and his wife Beatrice. After a six-week trial at the Old Bailey, last month, the couple and their doctor … [Read more…]
…NCC refutes allegations of tracking, leakage of telephone calls The presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi, has distanced himself from a purportedly leaked phone call between himself and the founder of Living Faith Church Worldwide aka Winners Chapel, Bishop David Oyedepo. An online medium had published the audio clip, prompting tensions between Obi’s … [Read more…]
The Enugu State House of Assembly has asked President Muhammadu Buhari and the National Assembly to cause investigation into what it described as the “ignoble role of the military in the just concluded governorship and State House of Assembly elections in the state”. The resolution was sequel to a motion on a matter of urgent … [Read more…]
The Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, has warned that those pushing for subsidy removal in Nigeria are out to set the country on fire. The warning came against the backdrop of an announcement that the outgoing government of President Muhammadu Buhari had left the decision of petrol subsidy removal to the incoming government. According to NLC, … [Read more…]
Former Vice President of Nigeria and Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the 2023 election, Atiku Abubakar, has said he has no anointed aspirant ahead of the PDP governorship primary election in Kogi State. Atiku stated this while reacting to what he called several media reports insinuating his involvement in the democratic … [Read more…]
Former President Donald Trump has pleaded not guilty to 34 counts in a Manhattan court after hearing charges against him, according to a source. The charges stem from an investigation into a hush money payment made to adult film actress Stormy Daniels during the 2016 presidential campaign. Trump did not speak as advisers expected before … [Read more…]
The Presidential candidate of the Labour Party in the 2023 general elections, Mr. Peter Obi, has decried the level of campaigns of calumny launched against his person in the past few days. Stating this in a tweet personally signed by him on his verified Twitter handle, Obi wondered why the consistent efforts to portray him … [Read more…]
Lai Mohammed, minister of information and culture, has warned Peter Obi, presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), against inciting violence over the outcome of the presidential election. NAN reports that Mohammed spoke in Washington DC during his official engagements with some international media organisations on the just concluded 2023 polls. The minister accused Obi … [Read more…]
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in Rivers State on Tuesday requested the cooperation of all political parties seeking the inspection of election materials used in the February 25 and March 18, 2023 polls, saying it will discharge its constitutional and lawful duties “without preferences or bias”. INEC Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC) in the state, … [Read more…]