Plateau state governor, Simon Lalong, has said that those who lost out in their bids to be appointed running mate to Bola Tinubu, Presidential candidate of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), have resorted to promoting religious sentiments. Speaking with State House Correspondents on Wednesday in Abuja after a meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari, Lalong…
The organised Labour, on Monday night, agreed to suspend its indefinite strike planned to commence on Tuesday. The resolution followed over five hours of deliberations between the federal government, leaders of the Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC) and the Trade Union Congress (TUC) at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. A 13-point communique read at the end of…
Former Defence Minister, Theophilus Danjuma, has urged the military to end the lingering insecurity and stop the killings in many parts of the country. Danjuma who spoke in Abuja on Tuesday at the public presentation of a book, ‘Big Boots: Lessons from My Military Service’, authored by Solomon Udounwa, a retired major general, tasked service chiefs…
A Kaduna state high court has declared that the state government has no constitutional powers to take over markets. Deliverung judgment in a suit filed by some aggrieved traders at the Kasuwan Barchi market, Kaduna South Local Government Area of the state, whose shops were demolished by the state government, the court presided by Justice…
Six people were reportedly killed when gunmen on Friday evening attacked the convoy of the General Overseer of the Omega Fire Ministries International, Apostle Johnson Suleman in Auchi, Edo state. The vehicle conveying the cleric was said to have been riddled with bullets. The spokesman of the Edo state police command, Chidi Nwabuzor, who confirmed…
Another office of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) was set ablaze on Sunday in Njaba Local Government Area of Imo state by unknown persons. The commission in a statement, by its spokesman, Mr. Festus Okoye, condemned the attacked on its offices. Okoye said, the building was substantially burnt down, along with electoral materials,…
