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The presidency says the fight against banditry, terrorism and other forms of criminality currently ravaging the entire nation, is everybody’s business. The Special Adviser to President MUHAMMADU BUHARI on Media and Publicity, FEMI ADESINA, made the assertion in this week’s edition of Fridays With Adesina, titled, ‘WE ARE WALL TOGETHER’. The Special Adviser to President […]
Governor NYESOM WIKE has accused Journalists of failing to hold the All ProgressivesCongress-led federal government accountable for the challenges facing the country. Governor WIKE made the assertion when the Board of Editors of anational Newspaper paid him a courtesy visit to notify him of his award as “Governor of the Year 2020 for Infrastructure Development”. […]
Tanzania’s Samia Suluhu Hassan was on Friday sworn in as the country’s first female president after the sudden death of John Magufuli from an illness shrouded in mystery. Hassan, 61, a soft-spoken Muslim woman from the island of Zanzibar, will finish Magufuli’s second five-year term, set to run until 2025. Wearing a bright red headscarf, […]
Rivers State Governor, NYESOM WIKE, has alleged that politics has been used to deny the state access to agricultural loans offered by the Central Bank of Nigeria. Governor WIKE made the accusation when he hosted the Minister of State for Agriculture, and Rural Development, MUSTAPHA BABA SHEHURI at Government House, Port Harcourt. The governor decried […]
The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, wants President BUHARI to explain the whereabouts of the alleged missing 1billion dollars for arms purchase. The PDP equally charged the National Security Adviser, retired Major General BABAGANA MONGUNO, to commence a system wide investigation of the matter. In a statement by its National Publicity Secretary, KOLA OLOGBONDIYAN, said the […]
The United States Secretary of State ANTHONY BLINKEN has made a blunt new push for United Nations-led peace effort in Afghanistan. In a letter to the Afghan President ASHRAF GHANI, BLINKEN called for a 90-day reduction in violence and a transitional government formed from both sides. BLINKEN also said no decision had been made about […]
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has directed all Resident Electoral Commissioners (RECs) to submit an inventory of all election materials under their care before March 12. INEC Chairman, Professor MAHMOOD YAKUBU, who gave the directive at a meeting with the RECs in Abuja, said the move would enable the commission prepare early for 2023 […]
Governor WIKE said the critics were disappointed that the project was completed and not abandoned. WIKE made the comment in a speech at the inauguration of the newly-built Rumuogba Flyover otherwise known as Artillery on Aba Road. In a remark, former Governor of Kano State, RABIU KWANKWANSO, hailed Governor WIKE for the bridge and other […]
Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike has boasted that Nigerians will vote out the All Progressives Congress, APC, in 2023 because of the governing party’s failure to tackle insurgency, banditry and corruption. Governor WIKE noted with the supposed economic woes of the country and escalating banditry, it was obvious that Nigerians had realised they made a […]
The Asari-Toru Local Government Council Chairman, ALASO JOHNBULL OBI and the principal officers of the council are to appear before the Rivers State House of Assembly House Committee on Public Complaints and Petitions today. The Committee summoned the ASALGA Chairman over the issues of an alleged impeachment by some legislative members and other matters in […]
