GOVERNOR Nyesom Wike has again dispelled speculations that he is gearing to defect to the All Progressives Congress (APC). Wike at the 114th Quarterly General Meeting of the Rivers State Council of Traditional Rulers in Port Harcourt, on Monday, said he remains an unrepentant member of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) despite being impressed […]
The ACCORD in Akwa Ibom State has denied a claim that it had endorsed the Uyo Senatorial candidate of the African Democratic Congress (ADC), Victoria Ibokette. The State Chairman of ACCORD, Rt Hon (Engr) Martins Ansa, who made the rebuttal at a news conference on Monday in Uyo, urged Akwa Ibom people in particular […]
The Independent National Electoral Commission INEC has expressed its readiness for Saturday’s Presidential and National Assembly Elections, insisting that only Corps members would handle the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System BVAS during the polls. INEC Chairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu disclosed this at the weekend when he inspected the International Conference Centre ICC, which has been […]
Some commercial sex workers in the Federal Capital Territory have decried low patronage in their business due to the scarcity of naira notes. Some of them who spoke to our source; the News Agency of Nigeria in Abuja on Sunday said the scarcity of the notes was a threat and had crippled their businesses. […]
The governor of Kaduna state, Nasir El-rufai has ordered ministries, departments and agencies to continue to accept payments made in all denominations of the naira. El-rufai disclosed this in a statement by the Special Adviser to the Governor on Media and Communication, Muyiwa Adekeye. He noted that agencies in Kaduna should allow old and […]
The National Chairman of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, Senator Abdullahi Adamu is meeting with 10 governors of the party. Tbe meeting started around 2:35 pm at the National Working Committee (NWC) Hall of the party National Secretariat. The meeting had in attendance governors of Plateau, Nasarawa, Niger, Kaduna and Kogi states. Governors […]
Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue State on Thursday declared that he is working for the emergence of Mr. Peter Obi of the Labour Party, LP, as the next president of Nigeria. The Governor who made the open declaration at a Town Hall meeting addressed by the LP presidential candidate in Makurdi said his decision […]
In a bid to ensure a violence-free election during the forthcoming general elections, a Non-Governmental Organisation has launched an election violence incidence tracker application to monitor violence during the polls. The organisation, Brain Builders Youth Development Initiative, disclosed that Osun state has the highest number of political violence for 2022, hence the decision to […]
The governor of Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Godwin Emefiele, said he has met with 15 heads of commercial banks to ease the ongoing cash crunch in the country, following President Muhammadu Buhari’s directive in his national broadcast to the nation. Emefiele spoke to state house correspondents shortly after attending a meeting between Buhari […]
In an attempt to copy what Jesus Christ did in the Bible, a Mozambican pastor has reportedly died after fasting for 40 days. The death of Francisco Barajah, the pastor and founder of the Santa Trindade Evangelical Church in the central province of Manica, was confirmed by Agency report on Wednesday. He died while […]