Sunday Aborisade and Leke BaiyewuThe Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission , Prof . Mahmood Yakubu, has said the commission was battling with over 1 ,700 cases in various courts 20 months after the 2019 general elections.Yakubu said this when he appeared before the Senate Committee on INEC , during the 2021 budget defence […]
Continue ReadingAdelani Adepegba and Ade AdesomojuFor demanding better conditions of service and regularisation of their appointment , the Department of State Services has sacked 140 teachers and other staff members of its Community Staff Schools , Asokoro , Abuja.The service also shut down the institution and directed the 1 ,800 pupils in the nursery / primary […]
Continue ReadingThe Act for Positive Transformation Initiative has raised an alarm on the plight of Nigerian youths sent abroad on scholarship by the Niger Delta Devepment Commission (NDDC), calling on President Muhammadu Buhari to urgently intervene to save them. The group in a statement signed by itsHead, Directorate of Research, Strategy & Programme, Kolawole Johnson, and […]
Continue ReadingTalk about individuals with an acute identity that distinguishes them from the crowd, ones with a renowned brand that represents the people and everything progressive; Senator Nicholas Tofowomo stands aloft.He represents the distant old and the new century breed of progressives and classical individuals which he has always exhibited consciously or unconsciously.One who is greatly […]
Continue ReadingThe Adejubu community in Akure, Ondo State, heaved a sigh of relief, as the member representingAkure North/South Federal Constituency, Hon. Omolafe Adedayo donated a transformer to boost public power to the area. This he said was done as part of his community development project in his constituency. He also added that, he has embarked on […]
Continue ReadingNovember 4, 2020 •’Caretaker Commitee reviews three-month action plan’•No reconciliation yet in Ekiti, Oyo, Ondo THE Caretaker/Extra-Ordinary National Convention Planning Committee (CECPC) of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) on Tuesday said it has reconciled aggrieved camps in nine state chapters.The states are Bauchi, Cross River, Edo, Ekiti, Enugu, Zamfara, Ondo and Oyo states.Rising from […]
Continue ReadingNovember 4, 2020 •Voters wait to cast their ballots on Election Day at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design Our Reporter AMERICANS cast their votes on Tuesday in a bitterly contested presidential race between incumbent President Donald Trump and challenger former Vice President Joe Biden after a tumultuous four years under the Republican businessman-turned […]
Continue ReadingNovember 4, 2020 Sanni Onogu, Abuja NIGERIA’S external and domestic debts have been projected to hit N38.68 trillion by December 2021, Finance, Budget and National Planning Minister Zainab Ahmed, alerted on Tuesday.Mrs. Ahmed, who appeared before the Senate Committee on Local and Foreign Debts to defend the ministry’s next year budget, blamed abandonment of road […]
Continue ReadingNovember 3, 2020 Osagie Otabor, Akure The leadership crisis rocking the Social Democratic Party (SDP) has deepened following insistence by State Chairmen and Zonal leaders in the Southern States that Acting National Chairman of the party, Alhaji Abdul Isiaq, must leave office.Isiaq emerged Acting National Chairman of the SDP after former National chairman, Dr. Tunde […]
Continue ReadingNovember 4, 2020 Robert Egbe THE surveillance camera at the Lekki toll gate stopped working at about 8 pm because it was tampered with, Lekki Concession Company Managing Director, Mr Abayomi Omomuwa, said on Tuesday.He said the audio recorder on the camera was not activated throughout the recording or before because it was only used […]
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