President Bola Tinubu has directed immediate settlement of outstanding electricity bill due to the Abuja Electricity Distribution Company. The President’s directive follows the reconciliation of accounts between the State House Management and AEDC. Contrary to the AEDC’s initial claim of N923million debt in paid advertorial in newspapers, the State House outstanding bill is N342, 352,…
The State Working Committee of the Edo All Progressives Congress has passed a vote of confidence in its acting Chairman, Jarret Tenebe; Secretary, Lawrence Okah; and Publicity Secretary, Peter Uwadiae. The vote of confidence may not be unconnected with the crises that came up after the party’s primary election on Saturday which had three aspirants…
The Indigenous People of Biafra has banned protests against hunger in any South-East territory, adding that any Nigerian agent who dares to organise any protest in Biafraland will regret it. The pro-Biafran group stated this in a press statement issued by its spokesman, Emma Powerful, stressing that the current hardship in Nigeria should be the…
No less than 109 alleged illegal miners have been taken into custody by the Nasarawa State Police Command as they were working in the state’s Nasarawa Eggon Local Government Area. The state commissioner of police, Umar Nadada, made the announcement Tuesday while parading the suspects at the police area command in Lafia, the state capital….
On Tuesday, the House of Representatives approved a bill for the nation’s state police to be established for second reading. The bill, which has 14 sponsors including Benjamin Kalu, the deputy speaker of the house, aims to change the appropriate sections of the 1999 constitution to allow states to create their own law enforcement agencies….
In an early-morning collision on Tuesday, the Lagos-Abeokuta expressway at the Kere bridge in the Ewekoro LGA, Ogun State, claimed nine lives and injured seven more. A truck and a Mazda bus with the license plate SMK 808 YD were involved in the collision. The truck and the Mazda bus collided head-on as a result…
Due to early morning rains that caused key highways to flood, residents of the Alimosho Local Government Area in Lagos State’s Command area have been advised to take alternate routes to reach their destinations. The rainstorm that began in some places at 2 and 5 a.m. and moved throughout the state on Tuesday continued for…
Niger State government employees have proclaimed an indefinite strike in response to the government’s unwillingness to accommodate their requests. Under the auspices of the Nigeria Labour Congress state chapter, the public servants made a number of requests of the state administration, all of which the NLC claimed the state had broken. It did, however, state…
According to Senator Ekong Sampson of the National Assembly, who represents the senatorial constituency of Akwa Ibom South, the actions of illegal miners are posing a major threat to national security. In addition, he said that Nigerians were working with their foreign partners to cheat the country out of its mining riches. The senator promised…
Fellow Nigerians, Friends, and the Social Media Community, I would like to take this opportunity to address you today, not merely for the sake of communication, but because it is the right thing to do in these challenging times when we are all experiencing pain. Undeniably, times are tough, the pain is unbearable, and the…
