The Chairman of the PDP National Campaign Council for the Edo State Governorship Election, Governor, Nyesom Wike, has charged the Independent National Electoral Commission and Security agencies to be apolitical in the election scheduled for September 19, 2020. Wike gave the charge while speaking on a Channels Television programme, urged the electoral …

The Yoruba sociocultural group, Afenifere has condemned the position of President Muhammadu Buhari’s nephew, Mamman Daura who said competence should be placed above zoning arrangement in the 2023 Presidential election. Regarded as the most powerful personality in Buhari’s administration, Daura had in an interview with the BBC Hausa Service said …

The Federal Government expended about N523.3 million on school feeding programme during the lockdown against the coronavirus pandemic. The Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development (MHADMSD), Sadiya Farouq, announced this at the Presidential Taskforce briefing on COVID-19 on Monday in Abuja. Farouk made the revelation against the …

The widow of late former Governor Abiola Ajimobi of Oyo State, Florence, has described her late husband as her greatest supporter and strength. She spoke while playing host to a delegation of the Nigeria Union of Journalists in Oyo State on Saturday evening at her Oluyole residence in Ibadan. Ajimobi …

The President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (rtd.), is currently presiding over a meeting of the security council. The meeting, holding inside the Presidential Villa, Abuja, also has Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo in attendance. All service chiefs and the Inspector-General of Police are attending the meeting. Others are the National Security Adviser, …

Retired Super Eagles winger Tijani Babangida, has revealed the reason he was instructed to play on the left-wing against South Africa at the African Cup of Nations in 2000. The traditional right-winger initially struggled with the idea, but the gamble paid off, with Babangida going on to score two goals …

Ondo State Government on Tuesday said it has spent over N3.1 billion to offset outstanding allowances of workers in the state. Information and Orientation Commissioner Donald Ojogo said this in a statement in Akure that the payment was made during the last Sallah festival. Ojogo said also cleared were the …

ABEOKUTA — Ogun State government has made a U-turn, making COVID-19 tests free for all returning SS3 boarding students. Governor Dapo Abiodun, on Monday, ordered the stepping down of the COVID-19 test as a mandatory requirement for returning students in the exit classes, and equally directed that the “government laboratories …