The Pan-Northern socio-political organisation, Arewa Consultative Forum, has kicked against the reintegration of repentant Boko Haram insurgents into the society. The National Chairman of the group, Chief Audu Ogbeh, said the repentant Boko Haram members should be prosecuted for the crimes committed against Nigerians. Ogbeh, a former Minister of Agriculture, said this in a statement…
Former President of the Senate, Senator David Mark has expressed shock and sadness over the demise of former Deputy President of the Senate, Ibrahim Mantu, saying “It is devastating and a loss to the political class”. Reacting to Mantu’s death through Paul Mumeh his Media Adviser in Abuja, Mark lamented that the former lawmaker died…
The National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Prince Uche Secondus has congratulated the Zambian opposition leader, Hakainde Hichilema on his deserving victory at the nation’s Presidential election. The opposition leader Hichilema was pronounced winner by the country’s Electoral body after landslide victory with over a million votes more than the incumbent President Edgar…
President Muhammadu Buhari has signed the Petroleum Industry Bill, PIB 2021, into law. According to his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity Femi Adesina, working from home in five days quarantine as required by the Presidential Steering Committee on COVID-19 after returning from London on Friday August 13, the President assented to the Bill on…
The Chief of Army Staff in Nigeria, Lt. Gen. Faruk Yahaya, has affirmed the resolve of the military to continue to foster better and peaceful military civil relations in the country. Lt. Gen.Yahaya stated the affirmation during the commissioning of an infrastructural project at the Saint Pius Xth Grammar School, Onicha Ugbo in Aniocha North…
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has, once again, taken bold steps to position the party to win the November 6, 2021 election with the unveiling of a star-studded campaign council, Advisory Council, Elders Forum, and Campaign Committee, which will serve as the PDP Gubernatorial Campaign Organisation, Anambra State. The announcement of the campaign structures was…
-APC has begun the rigging of 2023 Polls. Secondus screams. Says INEC is abdicating its responsibilities The National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Prince Uche Secondus has raised alarm that underhand rigging of 2023 general elections by the ruling All progressives Congress, APC may have begun. Prince Secondus said in a statement from…
Hours after announcing a dusk to dawn curfew in three Local Government Areas of Jos North, Jos South and Bassa, Plateau State Governor Simon Bako Lalong has directed the imposition of a 24-hour curfew in Jos North to contain further security threats. A statement by the Director of Press and Public Affairs to the governor…
The Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, has started discussions with the Industrial Training Fund, ITF, in furtherance of the Commission’s training and skills acquisition programmes for Niger Delta youths. Speaking during a visit to the ITF Area office in Port Harcourt, the NDDC Interim Administrator, Mr Efiong Akwa, stressed the importance of manpower development in…
Nigeria High Commission office in London has been shut as more staff tested positive to covid 19. A statement from the High Commission stated that the shut down is in line with covid 19 protocols and the laws of the United kingdom. The shutting down of the high Commission is coming at a time two…
