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INEC commissioner, Festus Okoye denies rigging by-election for APC The INEC National Electoral Commissioner for information and Voter Education, Mr Festus Okoye has denied rigging the last weekend by-election for the Ogoja-Yala federal constituency in favour of the ruling APC in Cross River State. Few days ago, the chairman of …

BREAKING: FG to give $100 each to Ukraine returnees expected to arrive in Abuja at 7:10am

The Peoples Democratic Party, on Thursday, in Abuja demanded the apology and immediate resignation of the Minister of Education, Adamu Adamu, for “abusing and walking out on Nigerian students who went to his office to plead for his intervention to end the ongoing strike by the Academic Staff Union of …

Tolulope Akande-Sadipe, the lawmaker representing Oluyole Federal Constituency has concluded another 3 days training and empowerment programme in Ibadan, where over two-hundred constituents benefitted. According to a statement by the Rep Member in Ibadan, the constituents were trained to prepare them for entrepreneurship or to improve their entrepreneurship skills. This …

The Oyo State Government has declared that the 5.20km Gedu-Sabo-Oroki road in Oyo town is ready for commissioning. The declaration was made by the State Commissioner for Public Works and Transport, Prof Dahud Sangodoyin, on Tuesday while inspecting the road. He added that rehabilitation works on the road have been …

The Oyo State Government, on Tuesday, has ordered the immediate closure of Oke-Ogun College of Management Sciences and Technology, Iseyin. The Honourable Commissioner for Education, Science, and Technology, Barrister Rahman Abiodun Abdu-Raheem, said the institution was shut down for non-compliance with registration procedures. Recall that some indigenes of the town, …

The Nigerian Senate, on Tuesday, passed the Bill granting full autonomy to the local government and council areas in Nigeria. Ninety-Two members of the red chambers voted overwhelmingly in support of the Bill, after a clause-by-clause consideration at the Committee on the Whole.

The President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd), has written to the Senate to amend the newly-signed Electoral Act 2022. The president in a letter addressed to the Senate, Ahmad Lawan, and read at the plenary asked the federal parliament to consider the outright deletion of Section 84 (12). The section …

Wife of the Vice President Dolapo Osinbajo is currently attending plenary as the House of Representatives commences the Constitution Amendment. The lawmakers had screamed “no” when a motion to admit Mrs Osinbajo into the chamber to witness proceedings was raised. Subsequently, the matter was put to vote and the Speaker, …

There were strong indications last night that the feud between the National Leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, and Minister of Interior, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola, might be over earlier than it could be imagined. Highly placed sources privy to the reconciliation efforts revealed that concerned stakeholders …