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A nine-point agenda to be executed in three short years? This was the question on the minds of many Nigerians when President Muhammadu Buhari listed on Tuesday last week nine priority areas that he said his administration would pursue in its remaining three years in office. The aim, he said, is to improve the livelihood of…
Statement of Northern Elders Forum(NEF) on the Senate’s Call for Memoranda on Review of the Constitution. Northern Elders Forum (NEF) has taken note of the published invitation by the Senate ad-Hoc Committee on the Review of the 1999 Constitution (as amended)to the public to submit Memorandum to assist the “further alteration of the provisions of…
A former member of Kogi State House of Assembly and Chieftain of All Progressive Congress(APC) Hon. Babadoko on Monday congratulated Governor Yahaya Bello of Kogi State on his victory which affirmed his victory in the Governorship election of November 2019. The lawmaker in a congratulatory messege said, “The decision of the apex court lays to…
The Director and Head of Administration Lokoja Local Government, Engineer Yahaya Farouk Muhammed Danladi has congratulated Gov. Yahaya Bello on the supreme Court ruling which re-affirmed his victory at the November Governorship election,describing it as a victory for democracy. Farouk, in a statement he personally signed and made available to newsmen in Lokoja on Monday,said…
Kogi state Chairman of Nigeria Motorcycle Transport Union,Comrade Gimba Ibrahhim ,has congratulated Governor Yahaya Bello of Kogi State on his victory at the supreme Court which on Monday 31,August 2020 upheld his election as the winner of November 2019, Governorship election This was contained in a congratulatory messege he personally signed on Monday and made…
The supreme Court siting in Abuja, today dismissed the appeal filed by PDP Governorship aspirant in November 2019 election, Engineer Musa Wada challenging the election of Governor Yahaya Bello of APC. The judgement,which was read by Hon. Justice Uwani Abba_Aji ruled that the appeal lack merit. Details later.
Motorists plying the Abuja/Lokoja highway can now heave a sigh of relief following the deadly blow dealt to kidnappers and criminal elements that have been terrorizing travelers on that axis for sometimes now. Men of the Nigerian Army from the 177 Battalion and the Army Records Lokoja with supports from local vigilantes have cleared the…
A 27-years-old farmer, Abraham Alamu, is now in the net of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) Oyo State Command over alleged murder . Oyo state NSCDC Commandant, Alhaji Iskilu Akinsanya stated this while speaking on the activities of the command. According to the NSCDC Commandant, the farmer, a native of Ogbomoso South…
Ahead of the October 10 governorship election in Ondo State, Dr Jimoh Ibrahim on Friday officially dumped the People’s Democratic Party, PDP, for the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC. The News Agency of Nigeria reports that Ibrahim also donated 20 Kia Picanto cars to Gov. Oluwarotimi Akeredolu APC candidate toward his re-election campaign. Mr Ibrahim,…
Dear NUJ President, My recent verbal altercation with a member of your union, who is the Cross River State Correspondent of Daily Trust newspaper during a Press Conference I addressed in Calabar refers. I wish to convey my regrets to the reporter for my response to him and I also wish to express my regrets…
