The ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) in Benue state has won all 23 chairmanship seats in the local government elections which held Saturday. Chairman of the Benue State Independent Electoral Commission (BSIEC), Richard Tombowua, announced the results of the election on Sunday in Makurdi, the state capital. Tombowua said the APC also won all 276…
The Bashar Communities’ Development Association (BACODA) in Wase Local Government Area (LGA) of Plateau State has rejected the suspension of its traditional ruler, the Rekna of Bashar, Alhaji Abdullahi Idris Isa, by the state government. Addressing a press conference in Jos, the state capital, chairman of the association, Dr. Zakari Mohammed described the suspension of…
The Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) in the North West Zone, has kicked against non representation of Christians in the governing board of the North West Development Commission (NWDC). President Bola Tinubu had on September 28, submitted names of members of the Governing Board of the Commission to the Senate for confirmation. Those nominated by…
By Callistus Agwaza in Jalingo Former Defence Minister, Gen. Theophilus Danjuma (rtd) inaugurated an ultra-modern mortuary he constructed for the Federal Medical Centre (FMC) Jalingo, Taraba state. The state-of-the-art facility, equipped with some of the best preservation technologies available, is aimed at addressing long-standing challenges faced by the hospital. Speaking while inaugurating on Thursday, Danjuma…
A federal capital territory (FCT) high court in Maitama, Abuja, has granted a N150 million bail to former Taraba state governor, Darius Ishaku. Ishaku was arraigned on Monday alongside Bello Yero, former permanent secretary, bureau for local government and chieftaincy affairs. Both men are being prosecuted on a 15-count charge bordering on criminal breach of…
Israeli has ban the Secretary General of the United Nations (UN), Antonio Guterres, from entering the country. The Israeli foreign minister, Israel Katz, announced this on Wednesday in a post on X, describing Guterres as undesirable personality. “I decided today to declare U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres an undesirable personality in Israel and to ban his…
