As political campaigns for the 2023 presidential elections gather steam, the various parties have started unveiling their programmes. They are promising to take Nigerians to the moon and back. You have to give it to the Nigerian politicians: They know how to re-say the same thing others have said in the past and still appear Read More…
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) began the publishing of the preliminary voters’ registration list for claims and objections in all 245 wards of Lagos State on Saturday. INEC’s public affairs officer in Lagos State, Mrs. Adenike Oriowo, said that the exercise was being held in line with the Electoral Law. She stated that from Read More…
The West African Examinations Council (WAEC) has dissociated itself from a social media post seeking competent applicants to fill a number of open jobs in the organisation. This was contained in a statement issued on Saturday in Lagos by the council’s head of public affairs, Mrs. Moyosola Adesina. She called the ads phoney and deceptive. Read More…
After rejecting a bribe of $200,000, CSP Daniel Amah has been given a special promotion to the position of Assistant Commissioner of Police by the Police Service Commission (PSC) (ACP). This was revealed in a statement issued by the Commission’s spokeswoman, Mrs. Azuka Ogugua, on Friday in Abuja. According to Ogugua, the police officer was Read More…
The memory of Kenule Beeson Saro Wiwa, a late Nigerian environmental campaigner, was invoked by the Oilwatch organisation on Friday during COP27 in Egypt, 27 years after his execution, bringing his legacy to life once more. The Health of Mother Earth Foundation (HOMEF), Nigeria; Earthlife Johannesburg, Johannesburg; CAPPA, Africa; Kabetkache Women Development Center, Nigeria; and Read More…
Inspector General of Police Usman Baba says security agencies have successfully restored confidence and hope among residents of Abuja and its environs following earlier notice of terror threats issued by some embassies in the country. Baba stated this when he addressed State House correspondents during the weekly ministerial briefing organised by the Presidential Communications Team Read More…
The Nigeria Customs Service has been asked to work with the Centre for the Control of Small Arms and Light Weapons to seize stray weapons that may be circulating in the nation. The centre’s North West Coordinator, Haruna Mohammed, made the request on Thursday while paying a courtesy call to Mr. Salihu Yakubu, the Customs Read More…
An explosion at the popular Ogbo Ogwu International Market, Bridge Head, Onitsha, Anambra State on Tuesday left at least four people dead and 12 more hurt, according to a witness and an official. Emeka Umeagbalasi, the leader of the CSO, Intersociety, and a witness to the incident reported that the explosion took place in a Read More…
BAYELSA State was for weeks submerged by floods which damaged or washed away bridges and roads, homes and farms, power transformers, and hospitals, and displaced 99 per cent of its over 2.5 million people. Some deaths were recorded with the living clinging to life while the buried could not safely remain in their abode as Read More…
The embattled presidential candidate for the African Democratic Congress (ADC), Mr. Dumebi Kachikwu, said he is not scared to engage in open discussion with rival candidates from other political parties. Kachikwu spoke at a ‘town hall’ on the “State of the Nation” topic on Sunday in Abuja. He said that interactive sessions allowed him the Read More…
