A political support group called “Enugu Rebirth Movement (ERM 4 Peter Mba 2023)” have congratulated Rt. Hon. Barr. (OZO) KGB Oguakwa over his appointment as Director, Inter-party Affairs in Peter Mba’s Governorship Campaign Council, 2023. The Director General of the group, Hon. Promise O. Chukwu, in press statement in Abuja, said that the appointment was as a result of his Read More
Two hundred support groups have promised to rake in 10 million votes for the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Ahmed Tinubu, in the 2023 poll. Working under the aegis of Coalition of Support Groups for Asiwaju Shettima (COSGAS), the group claimed that already 13.5 million people had been captured in their database. The National President and Read More
The Plateau state coordinator, Labour Party (LP), Presidential Campaign Council, Bako Nanze, said their presidential candidate, Peter Obi, would win the majority votes in the forthcoming 2023 polls in the state. The coordinator in a media interview said they were confident of winning the election across Nigeria more so that the inability of both the All Progressives Congress (APC) and Read More
Senate ad – hoc Committee on uneven disbursement of N500billion development fund across the six geo – political zones by Development Bank of Nigeria (DBN) has threatened to issue warrant of arrests on the Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Godwin Emefiele, and heads of affected financial institutions for failing to honour its invitation. Aside the CBN governor, the Read More
House of Representatives Chief Whip and member representing Isuikwuato/ Umunneochi of Abia State, Hon Nkeiruka Onyejeocha, has awarded scholarships to 10 indigent students from senior secondary school to university level. According to a statement, beneficiaries were are drawn from the two local governments she represents and she expressed intention that another batch of awardees would benefit from her humanitarian services Read More
The President of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan, has assured the manufacturers of non-alcoholic beverages in Nigeria that the National Assembly will address their concerns with respect to the implementation of the Finance Act 2022. The Finance Act 2022, among other things, imposes 10 percent tax on non-alcoholic beverages. Top officials of major players in the industry, drawn from Seven-Up Bottling Read More
Recently former Deputy National President of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ), Mr Abia Onyeike, was allegedly brutalised by Ebubeagu allegedly on the orders of Governor Dave Umahi. In this interview, former Commissioner of Information, explains why the governor should be held responsible for electoral violence in Ebonyi state. AMARACHUKWU EGWU-AGHA in Abakaliki reports How is your candidate and the Read More
Ahead of the 2023 general elections, former governor of Kaduna state, Sen. Ahmed Makarfi, has urged the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) to unite and chase out bad governance brought by the All Progressives Congress. Speaking when he accompanied the Kaduna state PDP governorship candidate, Hon. Isah Ashiru, to a meeting with Christian clergymen under the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), Read More
The House of Representatives has condemned the recurring attacks on offices facilities of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) and other Federal Government buildings across the country. The House on Wednesday, also set up an Ad-hoc committee, under the leadership of Hon. Oluga Taiwo to investigate the remote and immediate causes of the incessant inferno in INEC offices in different Read More
The federal government has approved 14-day paternity leave for male civil servants with effect from November 25, 2022. This was contained in a circular issued in Abuja by the Head of Civil Service of the Federation Dr Folasade Yemi-Esan. She said the leave was in line with the provisions of the Public Service Rules 2021. The circular reads: “Government has Read More
The Director General Greg Ibeh Campaign Council, Sir Longman Emeka Nwachukwu Esq, has berated the PDP-led government in the Abia state for abysmal performance, stressing that the solution to bad governance in the state is All Progressive Grand Alliance’s (APGA) governorship candidate, Professor Gregory Ibe. The Director General of the campaign council stated this in Umuahia while briefing journalists after Read More
The Chairman of the Federal Capital Territory Council of Traditional Rulers, HRH Alhaji (Dr.) Adamu Baba Yunusa, who is also the Ona of Abaji, has urged politicians to refrain from creating tension and panic among the citizenry and inciting people to violence during campaigns for the 2023 general elections. Alhaji Baba Yunusa, who was obviously referring to the spate of Read More
The All Progressives Congress (APC) governorship candidate in Oyo state, Senator Teslim Folarin, has disclosed that the present administration in the state is full of continuous leadership failure. Speaking at the official flag-off of the APC campaign for the 2023 elections, held at Oba Adeyemi III Arcade in Oyo town, on Monday, Senator Folarin said the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Read More
The United Coalition of Peter Obi Support Groups has dismissed claims in some quarters that some support groups set up to facilitate the election of Labour Party’s presidential candidate Peter Obi withdrew their loyalty over what they described as his “false statistics”. The coalition countered the claim in a statement jointly signed by Yahaya Madaki (Convener Obi Nationalist Movement), Ebohon Read More
The Society for Peace Studies and Practice (SPSP) in collaboration with the Nigerian Army Resource Centre, (NARC) Abuja is to hold its 16th International conference and Annual General Meeting in Abuja from Wednesday November 30 to Dec. 1. According to the organisers of the programme, Special Icons Peace and Democracy awards would be bestowed “on Bishop Matthew Kukah, Prof. Uba Read More
An Igbo pressure group, Voice from the East, VEAST, has condemned killings in many communities in Igbo land allegedly by the marauding Fulani herdsmen, especially, in Enugu state in recent time. For this reason, the Convener of VEAST, Comrade Kindness Jonah, in an emotion-laden interview with our correspondent on the spate of killings and kidnappings in the South East geo-political Read More
The Senate and the House of Representatives seem to be in state of confusion over the right piece of legislation to be given final passage for establishment of Federal University of Sports. While the Senate through its Chairman on Sports and Youths Development , Senator Obinna Ogba (PDP Ebonyi Central), sponsored a bill to that effect, considered and passed Read More
The House of Representatives, through the office of its Speaker, Femi Gbajabiamila, last week in Abuja, hosted a special national summit on how to reform the nation’s tertiary education. JOSHUA EGBODO reviews some issues therefrom The prodding Over the years, there had been recurring industrial actions by both academic and non-academic staff of tertiary institutions in Nigeria, with majority of Read More
The House of Representatives Committee on Ecological Fund has invited the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission ( EFCC), to assist it in its ongoing investigation into receipts and utilisation of the funds by states, local governments and government agencies. According to the committee, the EFCC expected to attend all its investigative hearing sittings as the probe lasts. Chairman of the Read More
The governorship candidate of the Peoples Redemption Party (PRP) in Katsina state, Hon Imran Ja’afar Jino, has lamented the level of insecurity and poverty bedeviling the state and Nigeria as a whole. Jino said this Monday while receiving a commendation award bestowed on him by the management of Hausa Daily Post in Katsina. In a statement by the newspaper and made Read More
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has said it would not allow collection of the Permanent Voter Card (PVC) by proxy. The INEC Resident Electoral Commissioner in Kebbi State, Alhaji Ahmad Bello-Mahmud, made the assertion in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Birnin Kebbi on Monday. The REC, who was reacting to the 67,317 PVCs in Read More
Barely 24 hours after his inauguration as governor of Osun state, Senator Ademola Adeleke approved the sack of 12,000 workers and also ordered the dethronement of three monarchs. Similarly, Governor Adeleke nullified the appointment of 30 Permanent Secretaries and suspended the chairman and members of the Osun State Independent Electoral Commission (OSIEC). The affected monarchs include Akinrun of Ikinrun Oba Read More
A gubernatorial aspirant of the All Progressives Congress (APC) for the 2023 general elections, Hon. Sani Mahmoud Sha’aban, has resigned from the party citing dissatisfaction with the conduct of the APC guber primaries in the state. Addressing the media on his exit from the ruling party on Monday, Hon. Sha’aban, whose suit against the APC Kaduna state gubernatorial primary election Read More
Determined to ensure the success of the party in the 2023 general elections, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Jema’a local government chapter has inaugurated its campaign council. The campaign council which has Mr Nicholas Garba Sarkin Noma, member representing Jemaa/Sanga federal constituency at the House of Representatives as chairman, was inaugurated by the Jema’a local government PDP Chairman, Mr Nathaniel Read More
Local government council chairmen in Sokoto state have praised the current administration’s effort to transform rural communities with live touching projects The council chairmen who spoke during the Nigerian Union of Journalists (NUJ) local government projects monitoring tour in their respective localities said the Tambuwal administration had from 2015 to date awarded and completed various projects that had direct bearing Read More
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