THE Bayelsa State Governorship Election Petition Tribunal has ordered Deputy Governor Lawrence Oborawharievwo Ewhrudjakpo to appear before it tomorrow to produce the original copy of his disputed certificate. The tribunal’s order followed a subpoena earlier issued on Ewhrudjakpo to appear and produce the original of the exemption certificate issued to him in 1998 by the […]
Oyo State COVID-19 Task Force headed by Governor Seyi Makinde on Tuesday said it is yet to relax the ban on religious activities and curfew imposed as a result of the pandemic. Speaking through his Chief Press Secretary, Mr Taiwo Adisa, Makinde said the decision was reached after a meeting of the Task Force which […]
The Senate on Tuesday approved President Muhammadu Buhari’s $5.513 billion external loan request to finance the revised 2020 budget. The approval followed the presentation and consideration of the report of the Senate Committee on Local and Foreign Debts, Senator Clifford Odia (Edo Central) by the upper chamber. Buhari had, in his letter of request, said […]
This time, perhaps, is the most of the troubling and worrisome of times in the life of the Nigerian born crack international technocrat and president of the Abidjan based African Development Bank, Akinwumi Adesina, who has stuck out his neck to seek a second term of five years as the president of the 56-year old […]
President Muhammadu Buhari has ordered the Office of the National Security Adviser (ONSA), Defence Headquarters (DHQ) and other security agencies to protect telecom infrastructure across the country. This followed the request of the Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Dr Isa Ibrahim Pantami. The Department of State Security, Department of State Service (DSS), the Police […]
The Corps Marshal of the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), Dr Boboye Oyeyemi, has decorated the Corps Public Education Officer, (CPEO) Mr Bisi Kazeem and others with the new rank of Assistant Corps Marshal. Boboye announced this in statement signed by Deputy Route Commander (DRC) (Media), Mr Festus Evarestus on Tuesday in Abuja. The News […]
The Corps Marshal of the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), Dr Boboye Oyeyemi, has decorated the Corps Public Education Officer, (CPEO) Mr Bisi Kazeem and others with the new rank of Assistant Corps Marshal. Boboye announced this in statement signed by Deputy Route Commander (DRC) (Media), Mr Festus Evarestus on Tuesday in Abuja. The News […]
Nasarawa State Governor Abdullahi Sule has praised President Muhammadu Buhari for approving the Special Forces command headquarters in Doma, Nasarawa State. Sule spoke yesterday at the foundation laying/official inauguration of the building of the command headquarters. “I wish to also appreciate Mr President for the establishment of two super camps at Mararaban-Udege and Kanyehu in […]
Owners of mechanic workshops, automobile dealers and occupants involved in trading along the Apo road corridor, known as Outer Southern Expressway (OSEX), have been handed a seven-day notices FCT Ministerial Task Force on City Sanitation Chairman Ikharo Attah said the FCT Minister Muhammad Bello decried the continued defacing of the environment. He ordered that the […]
There is no agreement between the National Working Committee (NWC) of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and Edo State Governor Godwin Obaseki on the mode of shadow poll for the choice of standard bearer for the September election. Obaseki acknowledged that his relationship with Oshiomhole was still frosty. He however said he was prepared to […]
Businesses got on Monday a new lease of life as government commenced the phase two of the ease of lockdown by gradually reopening the economy. Banks were given immediate clearance to operate fully. Hotels got the nod to reopen “but must observe all mandatory non-pharmaceutical intervention”. The Presidential Task Force (PTF) on COVID-19 Control unveiled […]
Department of State Service (DSS) has said its investigation revealed alteration in the exemption certificate issued by the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) Bayelsa State Deputy Governor Lawrence Oborawharievwo Ewhrudjakpo. The Head of Legal Department at DSS, Abdulsalam Ibrahim (who represented service’s Director General), told the Bayelsa State Governorship Election Tribunal in Abuja that his […]