By Akintunde Jacobs, Akure The leadership of the support campaign groups working towards the victory of the presidential candidate of All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, in the forthcoming 2023 general elections, ‘Asiwaju Tinubu-Shettima Coalition for Good Governance’…
…Reconciliation moves in PDP, APC firm-up as Tinubu sets to meet APC presidential aspirants …Atiku warns supporters, party stakeholders against deriding Wike By Moses Adeniyi The struggle by the major political blocs to gain Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, on…
…Inaugurates Governing-Councils in Ogun tertiary institutions As the feud between the Federal Government and the academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) continues, the Ogun State governor, Dapo Abiodun, has appealed to both parties to find ways of resolving the crisis…
…As NDPHC spends N1trn to subsidize power By Uthman Salami The Executive Secretary, Association of Power Generation Companies (APGC), Dr Joy Ogaji has revealed that the generation companies were owed about N1.75 trillion for power generated for the electricity market…
Ayodele Ariyo, Abuja The white paper committee set up by the federal government to review the parastatals, agencies and commissions created since 2014 has submitted a draft report. The secretary to the government of the federation (SGF) Boss Mustapha, inaugurated…
Bankole Taiwo, Abeokuta The police command in Ogun says it has arrested a 23-year-old lady, Mary Olutayo at Mowe in Obafemi-Owode Local Government Area of the state for allegedly selling her three weeks old baby for N600,000. Mary, a native…
Police in Borno paraded four kidnap suspects before journalists in Maiduguri on Thursday. Commissioner of Police, Mr Abdu Umar said the suspects, Abdu Isa, Musa Haro, Wada Hassan and Saleh Bukar were arrested in a joint operation between the police…
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) said it has destroyed illicit drugs worth N2 billion between 2014 and Sept. 2021 seized in Akwa Ibom. The NDLEA Chairman, retired Brig. Gen. Buba Marwa, represented by the Agency’s Secretary, Mr Shedrach…
By Matthew Denis, Abuja The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has made a vow to clamp down on unscrupulous politicians who would want to cause violence and social upheavals through drug abuse during the electioneering period. The Chairman/Chief Executive…
By FEMI ADESINA When an old man dies, a library burns to the ground, says Amadou Hampate Ba, Malian writer, historian, and ethnologist (1901-1991). And so it was with frontline journalist, essayist and image maker of the Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida…
