The Federal Government has declared December 8, every year, as Nigeria’s National Blood Donor Day. This is coming on the heels of government’s renewed commitment to ensure the availability of safe and adequate blood for Nigerians in need of it. The National Blood Service Commission disclosed this in a press …
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Tinubu Not fit, Prepared For Presidency- Dino Melaye
The Spokesperson, Peoples Democratic Party Presidential Campaign Management Committee, Dino Melaye, on Tuesday, called to question the competence and fitness of the All Progressives Congress presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu. According to him, Tinubu plunged into new depths of desecration when by an unguarded and unrelated flow of thought he despised …
Read More »APC Governors’ Romance With Wike Demoralising – Party Chieftain
Professor Lawrence Chukwu, a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress in Rivers State and candidate for Obio/Akpor Constituency 1 in the State House of Assembly for the 2023 poll, in this interview with DENNIS NAKU, speaks on the recent hobnobbing of some South-West APC governors and party leaders with Rivers …
Read More »Flood: Rivers Distributes Relief Materials To Affected Persons
The Rivers State Government has begun the distribution of relief materials to victims of the floods stationed at Internally Displaced Persons camps in Ahoada East and Ahoada West Local Government Areas of the state. Chairman of the state task force on flood management, George Nwaeke, while addressing the victims, said …
Read More »Governors Behind Slow Passage Of Constitution Review – Lawmakers
The Senate has accused the 36 state governors of being behind the non-passage of the 44 Constitution Review Bills transmitted to them by the National Assembly. The Deputy Senate President and Chairman, Senate Ad hoc Committee on Constitution Review, Senator Ovie Omo-Agege, disclosed that the Conference of Nigerian Speakers had …
Read More »Ezekwesili Knocks NIDCOM Boss Over ‘Messy’ Twitter Comment
Former Minister of Information, Dr. Oby Ezekwesili, on Tuesday knocked the Chairman of the Nigerians in Diaspora Commission, Abike Dabiri-Erewa, over a Twitter reply by the NIDCOM boss. Dabiri-Erewa had called a tweep ‘Ode’ (a Yoruba word for foolish person) while responding to the tweep’s comments about her. Ezekwesili, who …
Read More »Warri Prison Accredited As WAEC Exams Centre
The Warri Correctional Centre on Okere Road in the Warri South Local Government Area of Delta State, popularly known as Okere Prison, has been approved by the West African Examination Council for inmates to sit the Senior Secondary Certificate Examination. The Deputy Controller of Corrections, DCC Edo Ineku, disclosed this …
Read More »Why I Endorsed Tinubu – Lagos CAN Chairman
The chairman of the Christian Association of Nigeria in Lagos State, Stephen Adegbite, on Tuesday, added a fresh twist to the endorsement of the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress in the 2023 election, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, saying he did that on his own. The controversy came with about …
Read More »INEC Worries Over Campaign Clashes, Warns Parties
The Independent National Electoral Commission has expressed worry over the clashes between opposing parties and their supporters during the ongoing campaigns across the country. The INEC Chairman, Mahmood Yakubu, stated this on Tuesday at the Training of Master Trainers on Technologies for the 2023 General Election. He said, “The cause …
Read More »PDP crisis: Edo Chapter Rejects Campaign Council List
The crisis rocking the Peoples Democratic Party worsened on Tuesday with the Edo State chapter of the party rejecting the campaign council list in the state. The Edo State chapter of the PDP said it was rejecting the list because the proposed visit of its presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, “is …
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