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November 4, 2020Eric Ikhilae, Abuja GOVERNORS will meet today (Wednesday) to review the effects of the just-ended #EndSARS protests on internal security, the distribution of COVID-19 palliatives and other related issues.Head of Media and Public Affairs of Nigeria Governors’ Forum (NGF), Abdulrazaque Bello-Barkindo, announced this in a statement on Tuesday in Abuja.The spokesman said the […]

Special Adviser on labour matters to the former Governor of Ondo state, Olusegun Mimiko, Comrade Dayo Fadahunsi has passed on. A family source confirmed to Radio Nigeria – Positive FM Akure, that the Owo born veteran Journalist died this morning after a brief illness. The late Fadahunsi was a Chairman of the Nigeria Union of […]

November 3, 2020 By Adebisi OnanugaA civil society group, Access to Justice (A2J) has said the directive given by some state governors to security agencies to embark on house-to-house search to recover items looted by hoodlums during the #EndSARS protests was illegal and unconstitutional.The group therefore advised all levels of governments that are pursuing what […]

November 3, 2020 By Eric Ikhilae, Abuja The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Monday re-arraigned former Benue State Governor Gabriel Suswam before a Federal High Court in Abuja on a fraud-related charge.Suwam was re-arraigned with a former Finance Commissioner in the state, Omadachi Oklobia, on an amended 11-count charge filed by the EFCC.The […]

Published November 3, 2020 Adeyinka Adedipe , BeninThe Edo State Governor, Mr Godwin Obaseki, on Monday urged the state Commissioner of Police , Johnson Kokumo , to appeal to officers and men of his command to return to their duty post o secure lives and property of the citizens of the state .The governor made […]

Published November 3, 2020 The Minister of Education , Malam Adamu Adamu , has blamed a previous administration for being responsible for the continuous strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities .Although Adamu was not specific on which administration he was referring to, he said the government shouldn ’ t have entered into agreement […]

Published November 3, 2020 Daniels Igoni , YenagoaThe National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party , Uche Secondus , has said Nigeria is currently in distress.Secondus said this during the Bayelsa State Thanksgiving Day celebration , held at the Ecumenical Centre , Yenagoa , on Monday .The party chairman who was accompanied by some members […]

Published November 2, 2020 Kayode OyeroThe General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, Pastor Enoch Adeboye ; the Bayelsa State Governor , Duoye Diri ; his Deputy Governor , Lawrence Ewhrudjakpo; and former Governor Seriake Dickson , gathered in Yenagoa , the state capital, on Sunday , on the occasion of the state […]

Barring last minute changes , 94 post -graduate students under the Niger Delta Development Commission foreign scholarship in the United Kingdom will today ( Monday ) begin another round of protest over the inability of the agency to pay their tuition .The students , it was gathered, were likely to march to the Nigerian High […]

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has queried the Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development, Sadiya Umar Farouq, over alleged diversion of funds the Federal Government provided for COVID-19 palliatives.In a statement on Sunday by its spokesman Kola Ologbondiyan, the party accused the minister and some Federal Government officials of cover-up in the […]