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The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has presented Certificates of Return to the newly elected members of the House of Representatives. INEC had earlier published a statement noting that the event will take place at Africa Hall of the International Conference Centre (ICC) in Abuja on Thursday. At an earlier ceremony which kicked off at … Read more
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has been barred by the Adamawa State High Court, from conducting the supplementary governorship election scheduled for the state on March, 23. Justice Abdulaziz Waziri, granted an interim injunction by one of the governorship candidates stopping INEC from conducting the supplementary polls in the 44 polling units where voting … Read more
The Senate President, Dr Bukola Saraki, alongside other prominent personalities, on Wednesday held a candle light memorial in honour of Nigerian-born Canadian scholar, Professor Pius Adesanmi in Abuja. Late Adesanmi was among the 157 passengers and crew on board the Ethiopian airline, ET 302, which crashed en route Nairobi, Kenya from Addis Ababa. None of … Read more
At least 24 victims, mostly children have been rescued from the rubbles of a three-story building which collapsed in the Ita Faji area of Lagos Island. The children, most of whom are pupils of a primary school located on the top floor of the building, were rescued by officials from emergency rescue agencies and residents of the … Read more
Six more people were recovered from the accident scene in Lagos where a three-storey building housing a children’s school collapsed on Wednesday morning. Only one of the bodies was confirmed dead at the point of recovery with the fate of the five others uncertain. More than 100 people, mostly pupils of Ohen Nursery and Primary … Read more
President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the appointment of Mrs Stella Ojekwe-Onyejeli and Mr Aminu Umar-Sadiq as Executive Directors on the Nigeria Sovereign Investment Authority (NSIA) board. President Muhammadu Buhari appointed an Acting Managing Director of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) three years after the last board was sacked. [The Guardian Nigeria] The NSIA spokesman, … Read more
The governor of Lagos State, Akinwunmi Ambode has arrived the scene of the building collapse on Lagos Island where over 100 school pupils are reportedly trapped. The Governor, who came in at exactly 2:45pm, said from the briefing he got from the Lagos State Emergency Management Agency boss, 25 bodies have been rescued so far. He … Read more
The Kaduna State government have imposed a dusk-to-dawn curfew in all parts of Kajuru Local Government Area, effective from today, Wednesday, 13th March 2019. In a statement issued by the Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity to the governor, Samuel Aruwan, el Rufai appealed to all residents and communities in the affected areas to … Read more
The Nigeria Labour Congress in Borno State on Wednesday appealed to Governor Kashim Shettima to clear the N20 billion being owed pensioners in gratuity and pension before he leaves office. The NLC Chairman in the state, Mr Titus Abana, made the call in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria, in Maiduguri. Abana said … Read more
The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) says it has opened its portal for recruitment of fresh graduates and experienced professionals into the system. Ndu Ughamadu, its Group General Manager, (Public Affairs Division), confirmed this to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja on Wednesday. He said that the portal for the recruitment was opened … Read more
The Federal High Court sitting in Abuja ordered the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, (EFCC) not to arrest Femi Fani-Kayode and Yinka Odumakin without following due process of the law. Ruling on a fundamental rights suit filed by the duo, Justice John Tsoho, maintained that such arrest by the EFCC, Department of State Services (DSS) … Read more
A former Deputy National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Olabode George, has slammed members of the party who are hurriedly defecting to the All Progressives Congress (APC) shortly after the presidential election. Speaking to newsmen on Tuesday, George said he had no objection to the decision of the party to challenge the outcome … Read more
Residents have brought down the statue of the Imo state governor, Rochas Okorocha. This comes after the state governor’s son-in-law, Uche Nwosu lost the governorship seat of the state and his (Okorocha)’s Senate victory was unrecognized by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). Reports also confirmed to Naija News that the campaign posters of Okorocha, … Read more
Opposition political parties under the aegis of the Coalition of United Political Parties on Tuesday released a list of five Justices of the Court of Appeal who it said had been approved to hear the petition of the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, against the results of the February 23 … Read more
Buhari just returned to Abuja after participating in Saturday’s Gubernatorial and State House of Assembly elections in his hometown, Daura, Katsina State. President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday met behind closed doors with seven state governors of the governing All Progressives Congress (APC), at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the … Read more
The Assistant Inspector General of Police in charge of Zone 11, Leye Oyebade and the Commissioner of Police in Oyo State, Shina Olukolu, have revealed that one person has been arrested in connection with the killing of a member representing Akinyele/Lagelu in the House of Representatives, Hon. Temitope ‘Sugar’ Olatoye. While addressing journalists on Monday, … Read more
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) will conduct supplementary election on March 23 in Sokoto, Kano, Adamawa, Benue, Plateau and Bauchi states where the March 9 elections are deadlocked. Festus Okoye, head of the commission’s information and voter education committee, announced INEC’s decision on Tuesday in a statement. “The Commission met today, 12th … Read more
President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday returned to Abuja after he participated in the Saturday’s Gubernatorial and State House of Assembly election in his hometown, Daura, Katsina State. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the presidential aircraft conveying the president, his wife Aisha Buhari and some of his aides landed the at presidential wing … Read more
President Buhari today in Daura, declared that he would want to be remembered as a leader who kept his word that elections in Nigeria must be free, fair and credible. Receiving Governor Aminu Bello Masari of Katsina State, who came to formally inform him of his election victory in last Saturday’s Governorship poll, the President … Read more
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has declared the governorship election in Kano State, inconclusive. Professor Belo Shehu the INEC Returning officer for the state, declared the election inconclusive, saying that the margin of lead between the two leading parties (PDP and the APC) was not enough to declare a winner. Prof. Shehu … Read more