Governor Okezie Ikpeazu of Abia State, on Tuesday, inaugurated a 24-man state transition committee, with a charge to ensure a successful handover process. Speaking during the event at the Government House, Umuahia, Ikpeazu said that the committee had been set…
The Inspector General of Police (IGP), Usman Baba, on Tuesday ordered the Commissioner of Police on election duty in Adamawa State, Mohammed Barde, to withdraw from the state. The Force Public Relations Officer, Muyiwa Adejobi, who disclosed this during a…
The Federal High Court in Abuja on Tuesday refused to entertain the ex-parte application brought before it by Senator Aisha Dahiru Ahmed, also known as Binani, the Adamawa governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in the 2023 election…
No fewer than 84,000 candidates sat for the rescheduled mock Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) in 387 Computer Based Test (CBT) across the country. The Registrar, Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), Prof. Ishaq Oloyede, while monitoring the examination in…
The Nigerian Export Promotion Council (NEPC) has trained no fewer than 200 coffee farmers in Plateau to boost production and export of the commodity. The one-day capacity building on Production and Processing of Coffee for Export, held on Tuesday in…
The Rice Processors Association of Nigeria (RIPAN) has called on the President-elect, Sen. Bola Tinubu, to sustain ongoing initiatives on food production for economic development. The Director-General of RIPAN, Mr Andy Ekwelem, made the call on Tuesday in Abuja at…
The Governor of Osun State, Ademola Adeleke, has ordered regular patrols by a combined team of security personnel to stem the recent upsurge in robberies and kidnappings and reinforce the successes currently being recorded by the security agencies. Governor Adeleke,…
The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has described the action of the Adamawa State Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC), Mallam Hudu Yunusa Ari, as a “civilian coup”. PDP Acting National Chairman Umar Iliya Damagum made the remark during a press conference in…
The President of the Association of Senior Civil Servants of Nigeria, ASCSN, Mr Innocent Bola-Audu, has been cleared of human trafficking charges. Three others who were charged alongside him were on Tuesday cleared by a High Court of the Federal…
A Karu Upper Area Court in Abuja on Tuesday sentenced a 22-year-old businessman, Musa Uba, to five years imprisonment for stabbing his neighbour with a bottle. Delivering his judgment, the judge, Malam Ishaq Hassan gave the convict an option of…
