BY SHITTA SOFIYAT The Independent National Electoral Commission has announced February 18 as the date for the 2023 general election in the country. The Independent National Electoral Commission chairman, Professor Mahmood Yakubu made the announcement during a one-day public hearing on the National Electoral Offences Commission Establishment Bill 2021, organised by the Senate Committee on […]
BY DEJI OGUNSOLA Lagos State Government has alerted residents along flood plains of major rivers and drainage channels such as Owode, Iwaya, Makoko, Badia, Ijora, Isaalu, Pota and Shibiri to move to higher grounds when the need arises. The Commissioner for Environment and Water Resources, Mr. Tunji Bello,while briefing newsmen on the seasonal climate predictions
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BY DEJI OGUNSOLA Acting Inspector-General of Police, Alkali Baba, has ordered the immediate disbandment of the IGP Monitoring Satellite Offices in Lagos and Port Harcourt over complaints of harassment and operating beyond their briefs by Nigerians. Speaking at his maiden meeting with Command Police Commissioners and zonal AIGs, in Abuja on Thursday, Baba said the
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BY DEJI OGUNSOLA Members of the Nigerian Governors’ Forum have called for a special review of the nation’s security challenges for an in-depth understanding of the enormity of the situation. They made the call at a meeting presided by the Nigerian Governors’ Forum Chairman, Kayode Fayemi, at the State House in Abuja. While briefing newsmen
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BY DEJI OGUNSOLA The Presidency has said there is hope for the release of the remaining Chibok schoolgirls. This was contained in a statement by Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Mallam Garba Shehu. The statement further said the federal government was as concerned as the parents and loved ones of
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BY DEJI OGUNSOLA The Lagos State Muslim Pilgrims Welfare Board has said that the least amount to be paid for participation in the 2021 Umrah in Saudi Arabia is 1.37 million naira. This was disclosed in a statement issued by the Executive Secretary of the Board, Mr. Rahman Ishola. According to Rahman, the increase in
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BY DEJI OGUNSOLA The Immediate past Imo Governor Senator Rochas Okorocha has broken his silence on his arrest by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission over alleged misappropriation of public funds. Okorocha was arrested by the EFCC operatives at about 4:10pm on Tuesday at his Unity House office located at Garki, Abuja. Okorocha who spoke
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BY DEJI OGUNSOLA Federal Government has reaffirmed its commitment to lift 100 million Nigerians out of poverty after the implementation of its National Gas Expansion Programme . The Minister of State, Petroleum Resources, Chief Timipre Sylva, disclosed this during the opening of the National Gas Expansion Programme consultative forum in Imo State. He said the
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BY DEJI OGUNSOLA Vice President Yemi Osinbajo is currently presiding over the weekly meeting of the Federal Executive Council at the Presidential Villa, in Abuja. President, Muhammadu Buhari, is still in London where he is undergoing routine medical checkup. At the commencement of the meeting, council members observed a minute silence in honor of a
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BY DEJI OGUNSOLA The Federal Government has said that it would lift no fewer than one hundred million Nigerians out of poverty through the implementation of National Gas Expansion Programme. The Minister of State, Petroleum Resources, Timipre Sylva, who spoke in Owerri, the Imo State capital, at the opening ceremony of the National Gas Expansion
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