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The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has denied hiring individuals or groups as consultants for staff recruitment. Festus Okoye, National Commissioner and Chairman, Information and Voter Education Committee, made this known in a statement in Abuja. Okoye urged members of the public to report to security agencies, individuals or group claiming to be consulting for […]
The Nigeria Army are facing allegations of flogging pregnant lady in Oyigbo, Rivers State after alleged violation of the curfew. In an interview with our correspondent, the victim who pleaded anonymity alleged the incident took place at the Ehime Camp axis of Oyigbo on Monday. Our correspondent is making moves to reach the army spokesman […]
The United Kingdom Prime Minister, BORIS JOHNSON, has urged Britons to receive their Covid-19 vaccination when invited, following concerns about potential side effects of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine. BORIS JOHNSON said getting vaccinated was “the key thing” and the regulator’s advice was to keep giving the jab. This came after a European Medicines Agency official, speaking […]
The Chief Justice of Nigeria, CJN, Justice TANKO MUHAMMAD, has urged the Judiciary Staff Union of Nigeria, JUSUN, to call off their ongoing strike. JUSUN had ordered its members across the federation to shut all courts to press home their demand for implementation of financial autonomy for the judiciary. Consequently, members of the union locked […]
Gunmen have razed the Divisional Police Headquarters, in Ehime Mbano Local Government Area in Imo State. This came on the heels of an attack on Owerri Correctional Centre and the Imo State Police Command headquarters, which led to release some one thousand eight hundred inmates and destruction of over 50 vehicles. Recall that Professor YEMI […]
The Operatives of the Anti-cultism unit of the police in Rivers State are facing allegations of arresting the Chief Security Officer of the Diobu Security Services in Elechi Street, GODSTIME IHUNWO, his wife and four-year-old child. Our correspondent gathered that the operatives who are stationed office of the disbanded SARS in Rupokwu, had initially released […]
Russia and India are discussing “additional” production of Russian military equipment in India. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov revealed this in a move that could anger the United States which frowns upon countries engaged in defence trade with Moscow. Speaking at a joint news conference with India’s Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar, Lavrov did not specify […]
The Managing Director of Port Harcourt Refinery Company, AHMED DIKKO, has signed the contract with the Tecnimont SpA, for the rehabilitating of the refinery. The Managing Director, Tecnimont, the contractor for the project DAVIDE PELLIZOLA signed on behalf of the company for the contract which is expected to last 44 months. The Group Managing Director […]
President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the appointment of Deputy Inspector General of Police, DIG, USMAN ALKALI BABA as the acting Inspector General of police. BABA immediately replaces MOHAMMED ABUBAKAR ADAMU. The Minister of Police Affairs, MAIGARI DINGYADI disclosed this to State House correspondents. The president had on the 4th of February, extended the tenure of […]
Sudan has declared a state of emergency in West Darfur state following inter-communal fighting that left at least 40 dead and thousands of people displaced. The UN said that at least 40 people had been killed and more than 50 injured after violence broke out on Saturday between Arab groups and the non-Arab Massalit ethnic […]
