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…Says Enugu to be at the forefront of recreating the Igbo renaissance  Frank Nweke Jr, the governorship candidate of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) in Enugu State on Sunday lauded the promotion of Igbo culture and identity as he identified with the Ijele Renaissance Theatre group. A brainchild of Ibiam Ude and Chiagoziem Bonfilus … [Read more…]

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) says none of the critical election materials was destroyed in the attack on its state headquarters office in Owerri, the Imo State capital on Monday. The Commission in a statement by its National Commissioner and Chairman of Information and Voter Card Education Committee Chairman, Festus Okoye, also confirmed that … [Read more…]

The presidential candidate of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, on Sunday, condemned the murder of Deborah Samuel, a young student of the Shehu Shagari College of Education Sokoto, by irate Islamic students for alleged blasphemy in May this year. Atiku spoke when he and his running mate, Dr. Ifeanyi Okowa, appeared on “The … [Read more…]

The Supreme Court of Nigeria on Friday affirmed the Ebonyi State Governor, Dave Umahi, as the authentic candidate of the All Progressive Congress, APC, for the Ebonyi South Senatorial District election. In a unanimous decision, a five-man panel led by Justice Kudirat Ekekere-Ekun dismissed an appeal that was filed by an aggrieved aspirant for the … [Read more…]

The National Working Committee of the Labour Party has relieved its acting National Publicity Secretary, Comrade Abayomi Arabambi of his duties. It also dissolved the party’s Ogun State Executive Committee effective immediately. The decision was part of far reaching decisions taken during the NWC meeting holding in Abuja, on Friday. Arabambi had written a petition … [Read more…]

The state government has sent a repeal of the Lagos State Electricity Law of 2018 to the State House of Assembly. Lagos State Government on Thursday announced that it was putting in place measures that would see it take away the regulation of the state’s electricity from the Nigerian Electricity Regulation Commission (NERC). To achieve … [Read more…]

Human rights lawyer Femi Falana has faulted the 48-hour ultimatum by the Department of State Services (DSS) to the Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC) Limited and oil marketers to end the lingering fuel scarcity in the country over security threats. DSS Spokesman, Peter Afunanya, on Thursday, stated that failure to make Premium Motor Spirit (PMS) … [Read more…]

On the 2nd of December, during a parley with members of the Senior Executive Course No. 44 (2022) of the National Institute for Policy and Strategic Studies, Kuru, held at the State House Banquet Hall, Abuja, The Nigerian President Major General Muhammadu Buhari (rtd.), had in a statement, accused governors in different states of the … [Read more…]