Government

The ruling party, All Progressives Congress (APC) has canvassed support for his presidential candidate, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, describing him as a grassroots politician who understands the dreams and aspirations of Nigerian youths. This was made known by the APC Deputy National Publicity Secretary, Yakubu Ajaka, at a town hall meeting with …

Sule Lamido, a former Governor of Jigawa State has admonished the Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike to emulate Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, Senate President, Dr. Ahmad Lawan, and his predecessors in the state, Peter Odili, and Rotimi Amaechi, who showed maturity when they lost the presidential tickets of their parties. This …

Government of Kwara State has disclosed that it has temporarily suspended the payment of monthly salary pension to 6,437 retired workers in the state with effect from July 2022 following their inability to complete a verification exercise organised for pensioners in the state. This was contained in a press statement released …

Bashiru Apapa, the Deputy National Chairman of the Labour Party has stated that the growing acceptability of the party and its presidential candidate, Peter Obi, among Nigerians will pave the way for its victory in the 2023 presidential election. Apapa also noted that Obi’s presidential bid was daily receiving overt and …

The Osun State House of Assembly and Governing Council of College of Education, Ila-Orangun on Friday cleared the bursar of the institution, Dr Olarewaju Oyedeji of corruption and financial fraud. The Auditor-General, Mr Folorunsho Adesina had indicted Dr Oyedeji in a report filed addressed to House of Assembly calling for …

Relatives of the detained leader of Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu has asked the international community to intervene and compel Nigeria to promptly and unconditionally release Kanu and refrain from further persecution of the proscribed group. This was contained in a statement signed by the head of the family, Mazi …

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on Saturday said the Permanent Voters Cards (PVC) for persons captured in the ongoing Continuous Voters Registration (CVR) would be ready in October and November. Mr Festus Okoye, INEC National Commissioner, Information and Publicity, disclosed this while monitoring the concluding segment of the ongoing …

The Asset Management Corporation of Nigeria has handed over the original title documents of a footwear manufacturing factory co-founded by the Imo State Government, Standard Shoe Company Limited, to the state government. It said the handover was part of its strategy to partner, support, and help revitalise businesses in its …

Imo state government has described as distasteful and cheap blackmail the claim by Innoson Motors that it is owing the company N2.5b being cost of the vehicles it supplied to it some months ago, insisting that the company’s claim are half truths, intended to impugn on the integrity of the …

The Federal Government on Saturday announced that the mega transformers it ordered under the Presidential Power Initiative had successfully undergone a factory acceptance test at Siemens’ transformers factory in Trento, Italy. It also announced that the “first batch of the transformers is expected to arrive Nigeria in September 2022.” The …