politics

  #Governor Ifeanyi #Ugwuanyi of #Enugu State receives members of the Board of Trustees (#BOT) of the Peoples Democratic Party (#PDP), led by the Chairman, Senator Walid Jibrin, at the Government House, Enugu. The PDP BOT members are in Enugu, on official engagement, aimed at further strengthening the Party nationally, …

Mele Kolo Kyari, the NNPC boss may have incurred the wrath of oil communities by asking the National Assembly to peg at 2.5 percent oil profit payable to host communities, according to the Petroleum Industry Bill. While the House of Representatives in the version of the bill passed provides 5 …

Kano Assembly suspends anti-corruption boss after launching probe on governor’s family The Kano State House of Assembly has suspended the chairman of the Kano State Public Complaints and Anti-Corruption Commission, PCACC, Muhuyi Rimingado, for one month. Newsextra24 had exclusively reported Governor Abdullahi Ganduje’s plot to remove the anti-corruption boss, following …

Mr Yabagi berated the governors for their stance on issues contained in their communiqué Monday, alleging that their meeting was a gang up against the North and President Buhari. Action Democratic Party (ADP) has said that governors of southern extraction are behaving like Sunday Igboho and Nnamdi Kanu in their …

The Federal Ministry of Education pegs cut-off marks for admission into the 104 unity schools nationwide at 134 on average for the five South-East states, while states in the North have cut-offs of 20 marks and even below. This cut-off is out of a total 300 marks. SaharaReporters obtained the …

The Imo State Government on Monday said it had recovered 43 oil wells hitherto ceded to the neighbouring Rivers State. The Coordinator for Petroleum and Gas Matters to the Governor, Goodluck Opiah, who spoke in Owerri, said that the economy of the state was looking bright. According to Opiah, 22 …

The Federal Government has said seven local airlines received a N2.84bn COVID-19 stimulus package. It said the target of N2.3tn estimated to be spent under the Economic Sustainability Plan had not been achieved. According to a statement issued in Abuja on Monday, the Federal Government appropriation part of that total, …

Wole Soyinka, Nobel laureate, says Nnamdi Kanu was kidnapped by the Federal Government. Kanu was on Sunday extradited to Nigeria to face trial after he jumped bail and fled the country in 2017. Speaking with BBC Pidgin on Monday, the literary icon said there would be an uproar in the …

The Arewa Youth Consultative Forum, AYCF, has cautioned the Nigerian government on the handling of Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB. AYCF National President, Yerima Shettima cautioned the Nigerian government against allowing a situation that would lead to Kanu escaping again. In a chat with Newsextra24, …

The next President of the country, the southern states governors have agreed, must be from the South. This was part of the decisions reached at the meeting of the southern states governors today (Monday) in Lagos. According to the communiqué released, the forum also deliberated on insecurity, constitutional amendment, PIB …