The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on Saturday, declared Piket Plang, a candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), as the winner of the Plateau Central Senatorial election. INEC Returning Officer, Dr. Jimam Lar, declared that Diket, a former member of the Plateau state House of Assembly, scored 131,129 votes, to defeat Yohanna Gotom of…
The federal government has lifted the suspension on Twitter operations in the country, effective from 12 am, January 13, 2022. This was disclosed in a statement on Wednesday by the Director-General of the National Information Technology Development Agency and Chairman Technical Committee Nigeria-Twitter Engagement Committee, Kashifu Abdullahi. “The Federal Government of Nigeria directs me to inform…
The Gombe state government has a 24 hour curfew in Balanga Local Government Area of the state following renewed communal violence between Lunguda and Waja ethnic groups. The Secretary to the State Government (SSG), Prof. Ibrahim Njodi, in a statement on Wednesday said the decision was aimed at curtailing the violence that erupted among communities…
President Muhammadu Buhari’s wife, A’isha has withdrawn the case against Aminu Muhammad, a student of Federal University Dutse (FUD), a final-year student of the department of environmental management. Mohammad was arrested by the police over a tweet which alleged that the President’s wife has eaten poor people’s money and is now full. The tweet, which…
Plateau state governor, Caleb Mutfwang, has asked government appointees to explore ways of sourcing funds for investment and development of the state. The governor stated this, in Jos, at the swearing in of heads of government agencies, constituencies liason officers and special advisers. He said government officials must to put on their “thinking caps because…
In this column, last week, I wrote about “The madness which manifests as nothing more than a sickness, to borrow from Michel Foucault, that points at the abnormality that had seized the mind of Abuja, and elsewhere”. I posited, among others, that the madness which manifests in the officialdom has turned our quarters of political…
