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We’ll provide hotlines for media to enhance accurate reporting – INEC

NewsDeskNgOct 24, 2024October 24, 20240

The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has disclosed that telephone hotlines will be provided for media practitioners that will be covering the forthcoming off-cycle November 16 governorship election in Ondo State in order to verify blurry issues before reportage. The Head of Department, Electoral Operations, INEC, Amosa Lamidi, who revealed...

We didn’t summon FCT Minister, DSS DG — Reps

NewsDeskNgOct 24, 2024October 24, 20240

The Chairman of the House of Representatives Committee on National Security and Intelligence, Hon. Ahmed Satomi, disclosed on Wednesday that the House did not summon the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Barrister Nyesom Wike, regarding the rise in crime in the nation’s capital. Hon. Satomi, speaking during a...

CAN, Abia advert agency at loggerheads over signpost tax on churches

NewsDeskNgOct 23, 2024October 23, 20240

The Abia State chapter of the Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN, has described the state government’s policy of compelling churches to pay signpost tax as a delicate issue that can affect the image of the state. CAN in a letter addressed to the Governor, dated October 22, 2024, expressed its...

Surrender or die from firepower – Nigerian military cautions terrorists in Zamfara

NewsDeskNgOct 22, 2024October 22, 20240

The Nigerian military has warned bandits terrorizing Zamfara and other contagious states to surrender or die from troops’ firepower. This is as it expressed commitment to taking the fight against banditry to the terrorists in their enclaves. Theatre Commander of the newly established Operation Fansar Yamma, Major General Oluyinka Soyele,...

Gov. Alia appointments Dr. Jimmy Terhemen Ajim as DG, plenipotentiary and liaison affairs, Abuja

NewsDeskNgOct 21, 2024October 21, 20240

Governor Hyacinth Alia, has approved the appointment of Dr. Jimmy Terhemen Ajim, as the Director General, Plenipotentiary and Liaison Affairs, Abuja. A graduate of Kingston University, London and Zug University, Switzerland, Dr. Ajim has a strong Academic and Industrial Training background in Leadership & Management, Public Relations, Protocol, Diplomacy and...

Ooni of Ife – Oluwo chased me out of his palace like a child

NewsDeskNgOct 21, 2024October 21, 20240

The Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Ogunwusi, has narrated how Oluwo of Iwo, Oba Abdulrasheed Akanbi chased him out of his palace. The monarch made this known while explaining why he had kept a distance from the Olowu and contained all his excesses. Ooni, in a now controversial video on...

EFCC re-arraigns ex-Kwara gov Abdulfatah Ahmed over alleged N5.78b fraud

NewsDeskNgOct 21, 2024October 21, 20240

Former Governor Abdulfatah Ahmed of Kwara State was on Monday re-arraigned alongside his finance commissioner, Ademola Banu, on a 14-count charge bordering on alleged stealing and mismanagement of N5.78 billion public funds. The Ilorin Zonal Directorate of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, arraigned them before Justice Mahmud Abdulgafar...

Jigawa tanker explosion: Work out alternative means of transporting petroleum products – IPAC to Nigerian govt

NewsDeskNgOct 21, 2024October 21, 20240

The Inter-Party Advisory Council, IPAC, has called on the Federal Government to take urgent steps to make the roads safe and work out alternative means of conveying highly inflammable petroleum products. The council said this while reacting to a fuel tanker explosion at Majiya town, Taura Local Government Area, Jigawa...

Katsina: Governor Radda’s commitment, over N10bn investment in security commendable – Arewa group

NewsDeskNgOct 20, 2024October 20, 20240

A prominent group in North-west region, Arewa New Frontiers (ANF) has called on all the states in the North-west to emulate Katsina State government by establishing a community watch corps model after the Katsina Community Watch Corps in tackling insecurity in their respective states. Since its establishment by Governor Dikko...

Former Sen. Laah in Murky Waters over N390M Kaduna South Senatorial District ZIP, Capital Project Funds

NewsDeskNgOct 20, 2024October 21, 20240

Former Senator Danjuma Tella Laah who represented Kaduna South Senatorial District from 2015 to 2023 at the 8th and 9th Assembly is being accused by the people of the zone of impropriety and unwarranted collection of N390, 000, 000 (Three hundred and ninety million naira), recently, meant for Zonal Intervention...