KOGI PDP PRIMARY: FIVE ASPIRANTS STEP DOWN FOR WADA
A few hours to the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) Governorship Primary Election in Kogi State, five aspirants Tuesday morning stepped down from contesting the party candidacy in favour of immediate past state governor Capt. Idris Wada. Wada was defeated in the November 2015 governorship election by Prince Abubakar Audu of the All Progressive Congress (APC) […]
FG SUMMONS SOUTH AFRICAN HIGH COMMISSIONER OVER XENOPHOBIC ATTACKS
The Federal Government has summoned the South African High Commissioner to Nigeria, Mr Bobby Moroe, over xenophobic attacks on Nigerians in South Africa. Moroe and an official of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs confirmed the development to Daily Sun in Abuja. The meeting, Moroe and the official said, was billed to commence at 11 am. The summon […]
RECAPITALISATION DEBACLE: WHY MOST DISCOS MAY CLOSE SHOP
If there is one sure way most observers of the current political dispensation would want to assess President Muhammadu Buhari’s success or otherwise at the end of the next four years as Commander InChief of the Nigerian nation, perhaps its fledgling power sector could readily fill the log. But as if it understands this urgency of […]
FG SETS UP COMMITTEES ON REVENUE SHARING FORMULA, EXPAND REVENUE BASE
The Federal Government has constituted 12 committees to review the present revenue sharing formula of the federation as well as ways to expand the revenue base of the nation. Chairman, Revenue Mobilisation Allocation and Fiscal Commission (RMAFC), Mr. Elias Mbas made the disclosure, yesterday, in Abuja at the inauguration of chairmen and members of the Committees. […]
IHEDIOHA TO PAY 30,000 PENSIONERS IN SEPTEMBER
Hope has finally come for Imo State pensioners as Governor Emeka Ihedioha has promised to pay over 30,000 of them who are documented in the biometric database for state workers. According to the governor, who was represented by his Technical Adviser and Chairman of the verification exercise, Paschal Madu, during a press briefing on Wednesday, […]
EBOLA VIRUS DISEASE
Ebola virus disease (EVD), formerly known as Ebola haemorrhagic fever, is a severe, often fatal illness affecting humans and other primates. The virus is transmitted to people from wild animals (such as fruit bats, porcupines and non-human primates) and then spreads in the human population through direct contact with the blood, secretions, organs or other […]
EFCC ARRAIGNS ATIKU’S SON-IN-LAW, LAWYER FOR MONEY LAUNDERING
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has arraigned Abdullahi Babalele, a son in-law of former Vice President and Presidential Candidate of the People’s Democratic Party in the 2019 general elections, Atiku Abubakar. Mr Babalele was docked on Wednesday before Justice Nicholas Oweibo of the Federal High Court, Lagos, on a two-count charge of alleged […]
EL-ZAKZAKY ALLEGEDLY DECRIES SITUATION IN INDIAN HOSPITAL
The embattled leader of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria (IMN), Ibrahim El-Zakzaky, has allegedly decried the condition of Medanta Hospital, New Delhi, where he was taken for treatment, insisting that the situation is worse than what obtains in Nigeria. El-Zakzaky was quoted as saying an audio message issued on Wednesday that the condition in the health facility […]
NIGERIA PRISONS SERVICE NOW NIGERIAN CORRECTIONAL SERVICE
President Muhammadu Buhari has assented to an act, changing the name of Nigeria Prisons Service to Nigerian Correctional Service. The Senior Special Assistant to the President on National Assembly Matters, Senator Ita Enang, disclosed this to State House correspondents on Wednesday. According to him, the Nigerian Correctional Service Act, 2019, repeals the Prisons Acts and changes […]
IGBO GROUPS CONVOKE SECURITY SUMMIT IN OWERRI, US
A coalition of Igbo and pro-Biafra groups, have concluded plans to organize the first global Igbo national summit on peace, security and development of Igboland and its neighbours. The summit slated to hold in Owerri, Imo state on August 22 and Houston, United States of America from August 31 to September 2, would be a mega […]