The leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Bayelsa State is in a fix on how to handle a petition against its governorship candidate, Senator Douye Diri, over his failure to declare his assets before the Code of Conduct Bureau (CCB) while he served as Deputy Chief of Staff ...
Read More »Mayor of Banjul, Rohey Lowe Launches REFELA in Gambia
The Mayor of Banjul, the capital city of Gambia was amazed with the generosity and benevolence of Rohey Lowe who recently launched the Gambian faction of REFELA, a network of women elected officials of substantial and local governments in Africa. According to Mayor Lowe, she is interested in the growth ...
Read More »Lagos officials frustrate vehicle registration, milk applicants
Some Lagos residents, who want to re-register their vehicles, have lamented how officials of the Motor Vehicle Administration Agency under the state Ministry of Transportation frustrate and extort them. They said aside from paying N46,000 for change of ownership documents and number plates, they were being made to part with ...
Read More »Gates, France, US pledge $14bn to end malaria, HIV by 2030
The government of France, led by President Emmanuel Macron; the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, represented by Bill Gates; the US government and other Global Fund donors have pledged $14.02 billion to end malaria, HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis by 2030. This is the biggest amount ever raised for a multilateral health ...
Read More »Online media will be regulated in Nigeria – Lai Mohammed
Lai Mohammed, minister of information and culture, says online news platforms will soon be regulated. The minister said this on Thursday in Abuja when he inaugurated a seven-man committee set up to implement reforms in the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC). Mohammed said the reforms that will be implemented by the ...
Read More »President Buhari Extends the Retirement of His Nephew with 3 years more than 35 Service years
President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the extension of service of his Chief Personal Security Officer, Abdulkarim Dauda, by three years. Dauda, who was promoted to the rank of Commissioner of Police last year, is Buhari’s nephew. By the presidential approval, the CPSO, who was due to retire from service on ...
Read More »My daughter deserves appointment as Special Assistant —Gov Okowa
Governor Ifeanyi Okowa of Delta State has said that his daughter, who was appointed as Special Assistant to the Governor on Girl Child, deserved the appointment. He said this on Tuesday in Asaba, while addressing the issue of appointments into his cabinet for his second term in office. Okowa said that ...
Read More »United Nations to Owe Salary as Nigeria, others Fail to Pay Dues
The United Nations Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres, has called on member states to pay their outstanding contributions, as the organisation faces such a “severe financial crisis” that staff salaries risk not being paid next month. Guterres said this on Tuesday while addressing the UN General Assembly to introduce a proposed budget ...
Read More »Gunmen abduct 9 people, including a boy in Abuja
Nine persons, including a 12-year-old boy have been abducted in Pegi community, a resettlement area in Kuje Area Council of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja. The victims were kidnapped last night around 8:00pm by gunmen who dressed in military camouflage. The gunmen shot at two vehicles, including one NISSAN ...
Read More »Sagay, Olorunyomi, Oyeyemi, Stolpe to speak as Akin Fadeyi Foundation launches FLAG’IT App
The Akin Fadeyi Foundation, Conveners of the Corruption Not In My Country Project are set to launch a new mobile and web application device designed to empower Nigerians to report corruption on October 10, 2019 at the ShehuYar’Adua Centre, Abuja. The Report-Corruption-App, called FLAG’IT, a project initiated by the Akin ...
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