Students in primary six, JSS3 and SSS3 in Oyo State will on Monday resume at their various schools. Schools are billed to open for three hours, between the hour of 8 am and 12 noon, with students in boarding houses expected to have returned to their hostels on Sunday. Recall Governor Seyi Makinde had on […]

The 49-member Governor Abdullahi Ganduje-led National Campaign Council of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) for the September 19 Edo State Governorship Election will be inaugurated on Monday. National Chairman of the Caretaker/Extra-Ordinary National Convention Planning Committee of the party Governor Mai Mala Buni will conduct the ceremony slated for 12 noon at the National […]

Ogun State Government said on Sunday that it would pull down houses and structures obstructing waterways, causing flood. Environment Commissioner Abiodun Abudu-Balogun, who spoke while inspecting areas affected by flood in Abeokuta, urged residents living along river courses to move to safer locations or be ejected. The Nation reported that a downpour last Saturday left […]

Edo State indigenes in diaspora are supporting the re-election bid of Governor Godwin Obaseki and his deputy, Philip Shaibu, on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). The indigenes, through the Coordinator of a Europe-based socio-political pressure group, Edo Diaspora Front of UK, Jolly Iguodala, during a solidarity walk to the Nigeria High Commission […]

Akwa Ibom state government has approved a tax holiday for all categories of tax payers in the state in a bid to cushion the adverse effect of the Coronavirus pandemic on people and businesses. Governor Udom Emmanuel gave the approval on Friday during the State Executive Council meeting, directing the state ministry of finance is […]

A former Commissioner for Information and Orientation in Edo State, Prince Kassim Afegbua, said on Sunday that the choice of Governor Godwin Obaseki as the Peoples Democratic Party’s (PDP’s) governorship candidate was a bad omen. He said it was wrong for PDP to concede the governorship ticket to Obaseki because he controlled state’s funds to […]

• Detectives nab motorcycle snatchers in Ogun The Ogun State police command has warned notorious cult groups planning to unleash terror across the state tomorrow, Tuesday. The warning came on the heels of an intelligence report that the violence is meant to mark what they tagged 7/7, According to the state’s Police Public Relations Officer, […]

The Nigerian Insurers Association (NIA), said it generated about N196 million from data upload on the Nigerian Insurance Industry Database (NIID) in the 2019 business operation. NIID is a platform where policyholders can verify the genuineness of their policies sold by insurance agents or peddlers. In its 2019 financial report made available to The Guardian […]

Newly deployed Commissioner of Police (CP) to Ebonyi State, Philip Maku has said no fewer than five persons have been reported missing in the communal clash between Ekoli Edda, Afikpo South Council Area and their neighbours in Biasie Council of Cross River State. The communities were said to have clashed over disputed land around the […]

There was a mild drama yesterday as a family of the late Governor Abiola Ajimobi denied the state’s Deputy Governor, Rauf Olaniyan, access to the eighth-day fidau prayers held for the deceased at his Oluyole Estate residence in Ibadan. Olaniyan arrived the residence at about 11:20 a.m. in a convoy of five vehicles. On getting […]

• APC stakeholders pass confidence vote on the governor, others • Landlords, landowners to pay property tax, says Ekiti govt Ekiti State Governor Kayode Fayemi said that the Special Adviser to the President on Political Affairs, Babafemi Ojudu; former Minister of State for Works, Dayo Adeyeye and others who launched attacks against him were not […]

Don’t lose focus, Utomi urges members of NCF Former Governor of Kaduna State, Alhaji Balarabe Musa; Coalition of Northern Groups (CNG) leader, Shettima Yerima; and labour activist, Issa Aremu have urged Nigerians to support the newly formed political group, National Consultative Front (NCF) as a platform to save Nigeria from its woes. Asserting that President […]