The chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, Prof Mahmood Yakubu, has sworn in six resident electoral commissioners, RECs. Yakubu conducted the inauguration at an event held at the commission’s headquarters in Abuja on Friday. He urged the new RECs to use their experiences to discharge their responsibilities in line with the electoral legal framework.
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Leaders of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP in Ovwian Ward 7, Udu Local Government Area of Delta State have warned members not to allow anybody deceive them into joining the All Progressives Congress, APC. The PDP leaders handed down the warning at a meeting held at the Ovwian Community’s town hall, calling on members to
Former member of House of Representatives, Nkem Uzoma Abonta has said that Governor Alex Otti of Abia State may be afraid of being sabotaged, hence he runs the State without accommodating the members of the opposition in his inner team. He claimed that the members of the opposition are still in “fighting and war mood”
The National Secretary of the Coalition of United Political Parties, CUPP, Peter Ameh, has accused President Bola Tinubu of destroying every fabric of the economy within his two years in office. Ameh, a former presidential aspirant, stated this during an interview on Arise News on Friday night, insisting that the way and manner the fuel
Governorship candidate of All Progressives Congress (APC) in Anambra State, Prince Nicholas Ukachukwu, was on Saturday welcomed back to the state after a visit to President Bola Tinubu in Abuja. Ukachukwu used the opportunity to debunk rumours that the party and Tinubu had entered into an alliance to support the incumbent, Governor Chukwuma Soludo of
Former spokesman of ex-President Goodluck Jonathan, Reno Omokri, has expressed his unalloyed loyalty to President Bola Tinubu. Posting on X, Omokri wrote: “I met with President Bola Ahmed Tinubu today and reaffirmed my full, unequivocal, and unwavering support for his Renewed Hope agenda and the goal of making Nigeria a better place for all Nigerians
The president of Dangote Group, Aliko Dangote, has said that in the next two years, the 650,000 barrels per day refinery will be exporting almost 16,000 tonnes of fertiliser. Dangote disclosed this when he paid the managing director of NPA, Abubakar Dantsoho, a courtesy visit in Lagos. Africa’s richest man said the company’s fertiliser exports
The chairman, Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS), Zacch Adedeji, has revealed that the recognition of informal work by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) has contributed to the drop in Nigeria’s unemployment index. He revealed that the workforce in the informal sector in Nigeria accounts for about 92.6 percent of the employed population in the
The Managing Director of the Nigerian Ports Authority, Abubakar Dantsoho, said the last time the country built a new port was 48 years ago, in 1977. He disclosed this recently when the President of Dangote Group, Aliko Dangote, paid him a visit in Lagos. This comes as he announced that the Nigerian government has approved
The Security and Exchange Commission has said Nigeria’s collective investment or mutual funds targeted at children has grown to N8.6 trillion. The commission said this as it pushed for improved investment literacy among children in Nigeria. The Director General of SEC, Emomotimi Agama, disclosed this on Tuesday at a 2025 Children’s Day event in Abuja organised by Ryan