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By Michael Paul The Centre for Transparency Advocacy (CTA) has expressed optimism that with adequate capacity building for Original Inhabitants of Abuja, they will be equipped with the necessary skills to negotiate beneficial Community Development Agreements (CDAs) with mining companies operating in their communities. CTA Executive Director, Faith Nwadishi stated...

ASSOCIATION of Local Government of Nigeria, ALGON, Benue State chapter, Thursday, raised the alarm over the escalating activities of armed herdsmen in the state saying six Local Government Areas, LGAs are currently being attacked simultaneously in the state.  The Chairman of ALGON in the state, Dr. Mike Uba, who raised...

Barr Ifeanyi Ossai, the deputy governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party in the 2023 governorship election in Enugu State, Friday, denied threatening Catholic priests in Nsukka senatorial district of the state under any guise. Ossai was responding to a media report that he allegedly threatened the priests for preaching...

A Lagos State Government staff bus with registration no 04A- 48LA was on Thursday morning crushed by a moving train at PWD, Ikeja area of Lagos. The Director, Public Affairs and Enlightenment Department of the Lagos State Traffic Management Authority, Adebayo Taofiq, confirmed the accident in a statement. “The accident...

A coalition of the Civil Society Organisations of Nigeria on Tuesday took a protest to the national headquarters of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), asking the Chairman of the Commission, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, to resignation his position immediately. The coalition, an umbrella forum comprising 18 organisations, also demanded a...

A political activist and former Deputy National Publicity Secretary of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Comrade Timi Frank, on Tuesday, called on the Appeal Court to reject a request by the National Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, seeking an order of court to reconfigure...

The Independent National Electoral Commission will today approach the Court of Appeal seeking to set aside an earlier ruling concerning the Biometric Voter Accreditation System. This was made known by a senior official of the commission, who pleaded not to be named over the weekend in Abuja. The official said,...

A political activist and former Deputy National Publicity Secretary of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Comrade Timi Frank, on Monday, called on the National Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC),Prof. Mahmood Yakubu to as a matter of urgency resign of his appointment or President Muhammadu Buhari should do...

…Urges them to save democracy by siding with the law in 2023 election petition cases A former Deputy National Publicity Secretary of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Comrade Timi Frank, on Sunday, commended the Supreme Court for overriding President Muhammadu Buhari on the legality and validity of the old Naira...