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The United Nations Women Representative to Nigeria and the Economic Community of West Africa State, Beatrice Eyong, has urged the media in Nigeria to encourage women candidates in the 2023 general elections through their publications.   She gave this charge during the quarterly media dialogue with Media Executives and Chief …

The Osun State Police Command on Monday said it had arrested 10 suspects over the attacks across some motor parks in the state on the premise of forceful takeover of the parks.   The command’s spokesperson, SP Yemisi Opalola, in a statement said five guns, nine live and four expended …

The Chairman, Anambra State Local Government Service Commission, Vin Ezeaka, has said that some local government areas in the state pay pensions and salaries to “ghosts workers” as a fraudulent means to shoot up their wage bills.   Ezeaka, stated this while condemning the act, during an ongoing familiarisation tour …

An undergraduate of the Federal University, Dutse, Jigawa State, Aminu Adamu, has been languishing in detention after security officials comprising the police and men of the Department of State Service, arrested him over a post on Twitter alleging that the wife of the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), Aisha, …

The Kano State Government, through the Kano Road Traffic Agency, has banned tricycle riders known as “Adaidaita Sahu” from operating on some major roads within Kano metropolis in the state from Wednesday, November 30, 2022.   The order was contained in a statement by the Public Relations Officer of KAROTA, …

The Minister for Agriculture and Rural Development, Dr Mohammad Abubakar, has said that the country has enough food to feed all citizens. Abubakar made this known during his presentation at the fifth edition of the “PMB Administration Scorecard 2015-2023 Series,” held at Radio House, Abuja on Monday. The Minister blamed …

A considerable number of the opposition parties have indicated that they are open to the option of alliance if the 2023 presidential election results is a run-off. This is even as the ruling All Progressives Party remains unperturbed, reiterating that a run-off is not an option for its presidential candidate, …

Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Delta has assured that better fortunes awaited Nigerians when it would return to power in the country after the 2023 general elections. Speaking at the ward-to-ward campaign in Wards 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8 in Ibusa, Oshimili North Local Government Area, Vice Chairman of …

CATA president wants tax administrators to adhere to it’s laws, regulations, codes   —- holds 42nd Technical Conference of the Commonwealth Association of Tax Administrators   The Commonwealth Association of Tax Administrators (CATA), has advocated that in other to match the pace of advancement in technology, tax administrators must remain …

Senator Mao Ohuabunwa, has claimed that Abia State was mortgaged to idol in 1999 and needed to be cleansed. The former Leader ECOWAS Parliament who made the claims in a media chat with the Correspondents Chapel of the Nigeria Union of Journalists, NUJ, in Umuahia, said that time had come …