Tunde Ibrahim THE Independent National Electoral Commission [INEC] has declared Rotimi Akeredolu of the All Progressives Congress [APC] the Governor elect in the governorship election in Ondo state. Prof Abdul Ganiyu Ambali, INEC’s Returning Officer declared Akeredolu as the governor elect after satisfying all the requirements and having the highest number of votes. He polled…
Osas Musa In Benin A former minister of State for Works under ex-President Goodluck Jonathan’s administration, Engr. Chris Ogiemwonyi on Wednesday queried the existence of dual dollar exchange rates in the country; declaring that the development is “supervised corruption”. He wondered why rate duplicity is maintained with the current interbank dollar rate at N305 while…
Aliu Shehu with Agency report A civilian self-defense commander says a suicide bomber has exploded outside a bus station in Nigeria’s northeastern city of Maiduguri, killing himself and one other person. It is the sixth attack in four weeks on the city that is the birthplace of the oko Haram Islamic extremist group. Most attacks…
Osas Musa in Benin The Economic and Financial Crrime Commission [EFCC] is investigating massive corruption allegations against the Vice Chancellor of the University of Benin Professor Faraday Orumwense. Our exclusive investigation revealed that the Vice Chancellor was arrested on Wednesday at the University Ugbowo Campus, in Benin, the Edo state capital but was later released…
Shell sued in UK for ‘decades of oil spills’ in Nigeria About 40,000 Nigerians mainly from Ogoni land have dragged Royal Dutch Shell to court in London, demanding action from the company to clean up oil spills in their area. Emere Godwin Bebe Okpabi, leader of Nigeria’s Ogale people, unpacked four bottles of water from…
Boko Haram fighters are overrunning villages near the northeastern Nigerian town of Chibok, forcing hundreds of people to flee as the insurgents loot and burn in the area where nearly 300 schoolgirls were kidnapped in 2014, local leaders said Tuesday. “Chibok is now under Boko Haram siege,” the chairman of the Chibok local government area,…
AGENCY REPORT The fight against violent Islamic jihadists truly has become a global war on terror. The threat has metastasized like a cancer and is proving just as difficult to defeat. ISIS, which originated in Iraq and Syria, has conducted some 140 attacks in 29 countries just in the last two years. It has active…
From Osato Michael in Benin Many people were alleged to have sustained injuries today as protest embarked upon by the Civil Society Group turned violent in Benin, the Edo state capital. The coalition of civil society group had embarked on peaceful protest to registered their displeasure over the bill passed by the state House of …
The Minister of Environment, Mrs Amina Mohammed has disclosed that Nigeria’s N36 billion Green Bond would attract about 19 projects in the Environment, Agriculture and Power Sectors as well as the Federal Capital Territory (FCT). This is even as she emphasized that the environment project would address reforestation through Jatropha plant; smart agriculture, biofuel/ Jatropha…
Yari disclosed this on Monday in a statewide broadcast on the security challenges facing the state. He also said that over 50 persons had been kidnapped during the period. He explained that 53 people were killed in Shinkafi Local Government Area; 50 in Maru Local Government Area; 37 in Maradun Local Government Area and 15…
