The governor of Anambra State, Professor Chukwuma Soludo, has been nominated as the flagbearer of his party, the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) for the November 8, 2025 governorship election in the state. The incumbent, who was returned unopposed, polled over 300 votes during the primary which held in AwkaContinue Reading
Kanwan Katsina 111 District Head Ketare leading his contingent on the second day of the Sallah Durbar in katsina The Kanwan Katsina District Head of Ketare, Alhaji Usman Bello Kankara, mni, has commended the Katsina State Government for its commitment to reviving the century-old tradition of the Sallah Durbar inContinue Reading
The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) on Wednesday announced that it had reopened the Bridgehead Drug Market in Onitsha following a month-long closure aimed at sanitising and enforcing regulatory measures in the pharmaceutical trade. The market, which includes Ogbo Ogwu and three adjoining market places,Continue Reading
The Rivers State High Court sitting in Port Harcourt, the state capital, has issued an order restraining the police, the Department of Security Services (DSS), security services and others from arresting Edison Ehie, the suspended Chief of Staff to the suspended Governor Siminalayi Fubara. The court presided over by JusticeContinue Reading
No fewer than ten persons were killed on Wednesday in different attacks on five communities in Bokkos Local Government Area of Plateau State. These attacks occurred just six days after a similar attack in Ruwi community where ten persons were shot dead and three others injured while observing a wake-keepContinue Reading
Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan of Kogi Central Senatorial District says she will soon present evidence of sexual harassment against Senate President Godswill Akpabio. “At the right time and at the right space, I will present the evidence that I have,” the female lawmaker said on Channels Television’s Politics Today programme onContinue Reading
Deputy Senate President Barau Jibrin yesterday visited Bunkure Local Government of Area of Kano State to sympathise with the families of 16 travellers killed in Uromi in Edo State. He met the families of the deceased who hailed from Bunkure, Kibiya, Rano and Garko Local Government Areas at the At-TaqwaContinue Reading
The leadership of the Neighborhood Care Well Foundation has confirmed the empowerment of about 30,000 children and at least 7,000 families in Cross River, Akwa Ibom, and Rivers states in the last 25 years. The Executive Director of the foundation, Dr. Victoria Emah-Emah, disclosed this in Calabar on Monday duringContinue Reading
President Bola Tinubu’s decision to sack Mele Kyari and other board members of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited stems from mounting concern over performance and a failure to meet key production targets, Presidency officials have disclosed. In an abrupt move on Wednesday, Tinubu removed Kyari, who had been atContinue Reading
Wednesday’s overhaul of Nigeria’s state-run oil company NNPCL did not come as a surprise to keen observers who have vociferously pressed for reforms in the upstream and downstream sectors after the epochal birthing of the Petroleum Industry Act (PIA) 2021, and the subsequent commercialisation of the state-run oil company inContinue Reading