THE Edo State Peoples’ Democratic Party governorship campaign council has advised electorates in the state to disregard the APC’s fake court judgements in circulation. A statement signed by its Deputy Director General Asue Ogie Campaign Management, Rev. Olu Martins declared it fake news that should be disregarded. The PDP described …
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THE Benue State Chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) states in clear terms that immediate past Governor of the state, His Excellency Chief Samuel Ortom has not been suspended from the party, as is erroneously being carried in some quarters. A letter purported to have been written and solely …
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SENATOR Ali Ndume has apologized to the All Progressives Congress (APC) for the comments he made that cost him his seat as the Chief Whip of the Senate. Ndume, who visited the leadership of APC on Tuesday in Abuja, accepted his mistake of not talking to the party before going …
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THE Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on Tuesday, August 6, released the final figure of registered voters innEdo and Ondo States ahead of the September 21 and November 11 governorship elections in the two states. The final figure showed that 2,629,025 persons registered to vote in Edo state, while 2,053,061 …
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A housewife, Mas’uda Ado, approached an Upper Area Court in Kubwa, Abuja seeking the dissolution of her one-year-old marriage to her husband, Nasir Abubakar on grounds of lack of love and affection. Ado told the court that she got married to Abubakar, according to Islamic laws in January, 2023 …
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THE Niger Delta Young Leaders Forum, a Civil Society Organisation (CSO), has announced its withdrawal from the ongoing nationwide end-bad-governance protest. The National Chairman of the group, Chief Imo Okoko, announced this in a statement released in Abuja. “Our young leaders of the Niger Delta region scattered across the …
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FOUR men have been taken into custody in Germany following a fatal attack on an asylum seeker in the Netherlands, German police said on Tuesday. The men were suspected of assaulting a 23-year-old man from Somalia in The Hague in July. The suspects, aged between 19 and 23, live in …
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THE Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) has urged youths in the Niger Delta to take advantage of the commission’s special training programme to acquire entrepreneurship skills. The Governing Board Chairman, Mr Chiedu Ebie, made the call at the inauguration of the NDDC Youth Internship Scheme in Port Harcourt on Monday. …
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TOP United Nations officials have called for a peaceful and democratic transition in Bangladesh after Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina resigned. Hasina had on Monday resigned and fled the country in the face of massive anti-Government protests, which claimed many lives in recent weeks. Secretary-General António Guterres “continues to closely follow …
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THE UN has said that nine staff working for its Palestine refugee agency UNRWA will be sacked for their involvement in the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas-led attacks against Israel. The development follows the conclusion of an investigation by the UN Office of Oversight Services (OIOS), launched earlier this year. Israel …
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