The Independent Electoral Commission (INEC) says it will conduct a mock accreditation exercise on the 4th of February. According to the Commission, the exercise is to test the efficacy of the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System (BVAS) ahead of the Presidential and National Assembly elections on February 25. The Chairman of INEC, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, […]
The All Progressives Congress Presidential Campaign Council has said that the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), is too busy to attend all the election campaigns of the party’s presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu. A member of the Public Affairs Directorate APC PCC, Mariya Ibrahim Baba, said this on Friday, while fielding questions during an […]
The Sokoto State Chapter of the Muslim Rights Concern has appealed to the Federal Government to extend the deadline for the expiration of old naira notes by at least two weeks. The PUNCH reported that the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), on November 23, 2022, unveiled redesigned N200, N500, and N1,000 notes and […]
Imo State Governor, Senator Hope Uzodinma has advocated the use of digital technology for the management of forests in Nigeria, saying it would make the fight against the use of forests for criminal activities easier. The Governor stated this Thursday at the programme of the inauguration of the Imo State Command of the Nigerian […]
The organised labour on Thursday said that its decision to support the Labour Party, LP, Presidential candidate, Mr. Peter Obi and his running mate Datti Ahmed was sacrosanct. The organised labour under the aegis of the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, said that Nigerian workers will only vote for candidates that are workers friendly in […]
The Governor of Nasarawa State, Engr Abdullahi A. Sule, has lost his son, Alhaji Hassan AA Sule in the early hours of Friday. According to Vanguard, Hassan died after a brief illness. Meanwhile, condolences have started pouring in following the demise of the governor’s son. In a condolence message signed by the Publisher of […]
The Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, has urged his All Progressives Congress (APC) counterpart, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, to leave me out of his plot to blackmail President Muhammadu Buhari. The former vice president asked Tinubu not to drag him into his alleged feud with Buhari, which resulted in […]
Rivers State Governor Nyesom Ezenwo Wike has urged Nigerians not to allow the 2023 general elections to fail. Allowing such failure, he said, will increase political polarisation, exacerbate social fault lines, and set Nigeria’s democracy backward. Governor Wike gave the charge at the 2023 Port Harcourt International Conference, sponsored by the Rivers State government, […]
Nigerians and other immigrant students in the United Kingdom are at high risk of deportation after completion of their academic programmes as a result of conflicting visa and educational policies. BBC said the looming deportation is due to the row between the UK Home Secretary Suella Braverman and the Department of Education. Braverman is […]
The commercial banks yesterday told the House of Representatives that they were bound by the guidelines of the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, as their regulator in the implementation of the cashless policy. The banks in a meeting with the adhoc committee of the House set up to interface with them on the withdrawal […]
