Rivers state governor, Nyesom Wike, has asked stakeholders of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to focused on promoting peace and unity in the party to ensure victory in the 2023 elections. The governor stated this on Tuesday after a meeting with the PDP board of trustees (BoT) in Portharcourt. The party had been in crisis…
Rev. Fr. Hyacinth Alia, candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), has won the Benue state governorship election.Alia polled 473,933 votes to defeat Titus Uba, the candidate of the Peoples Democracy Party (PDP), who polled 223,913 votes. Herman Hembe of the Labour Party (LP) scored 41,881 votes. INEC returning officer and vice chancellor of the…
Kaduna state governor, Mallam Nasir El-Rufai, lost his polling unit to the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Saturday’s Local government elections. Announcing the results for the El-Rufai’s Angwan Sarki 001 polling unit, the Presiding Officer, Mohammed Sani said, in the Chairmanship election, the PDP scored 86 votes while the APC got 62 votes. Sani said…
The Management of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) has confirmed that Hannatu Musawa, Minister of Art, Culture and Creative Economy, is a serving corps member. According to reports by the TheCable, an online newspaper, this follows a claim by the Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA), a civil society organisation, that Musawa is…
President Bola Tinubu has hinted that ministers failing in their responsibilities to Nigerians will be sacked. Tinubu said this on Thursday during a meeting with the leaders of the Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF) at the presidential villa in Abuja. The President said he will sack any minister anytime he feels that they are failing Nigerians….
A federal high court presided byJustice Binta Nyako, has sentenced notorious Taraba-based kidnap kingpin, Hamisu Bala, popularly known as Wadume, to seven years imprisonment without an option of fine. In the trial that lasted three years, Wadume was convicted on counts two and 10 of the 13 counts brought against him and six others by…
