FG approves N453.90bn for the construction of the Kano-Niger rail line

24 Mar 2023

The Federal Executive Council, on Wednesday, approved the sum of N453.90bn for the procurement of rolling stock, operation and maintenance equipment for the Kano-Maradi standard gauge rail line currently under construction. The amount also includes N510.93m meant for procuring four customised fire service/search and rescue vans in seaports at Port Harcourt, Lagos Port Complex, Tincan […]

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FG set to construct NDLEA barracks for N5.2 bn

24 Mar 2023

The Federal Executive Council yesterday approved N5,157,265,770 for construction of barracks for personnel of the National Drugs Law Enforcement Agency. The Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, said this was to NDLEA personnel with security because of the threat from drug criminals. “Accordingly, two contracts were awarded. Whitchino Engineering Limited was […]

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Actor Olumide Oworu finally speaks out after his name was omitted from ballot papers during the house of assembly election

23 Mar 2023

Olumide Oworu, a Nollywood actor and politician, has finally spoken out after his name was omitted from the ballot papers during the Lagos State House of Assembly election. Olumide, a Labour Party candidate, ran for the Surulere Constituency seat in the March 18 election, but his name was not on the ballot. He was defeated […]

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“Wear your battle scars with pride,” Yul Edochie writes in an open letter to Funke Akindele after she deleted all political posts on her Facebook page

23 Mar 2023

Yul Edochie, a Nollywood actor, has written a heartfelt message to his colleague, Funke Akindele, following her loss in the Lagos state governorship election. In the recently concluded election, the thespian was the People Democratic Party’s (PDP) deputy governorship candidate. However, less than six hours after the APC’s Babajide Sanwo-Olu was declared the election winner, […]

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INEC declares Peter Mbah winner of Enugu Governorship Election

23 Mar 2023

The candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Enugu State, Dr Peter Mbah, has won the March 18 governorship election in the state. He scored 160,895 votes to defeat his closest rival, Chijioke Edeoga of the Labour Party (LP), who polled 157,552 votes. Frank Nweke Jnr of the All Progressive Grand Alliance (APGA) scored […]

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Breaking: NLC declares Strike all over the country

23 Mar 2023

President of the Nigeria Labour Congress, Joe Ajaero has directed public sector workers in the country to embark on strike beginning from Wednesday next week. He also directed that affiliate unions constituting the Nigeria Labour Congress should also be on standby for picketing exercises across all branches of the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, nationwide. […]

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Nigerians can’t heal from the violence until they get justice- GRV to Tinubu

23 Mar 2023

Governorship candidate of the Labour Party (LP) in Lagos, Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour says Nigerians can’t heal from the violence and bigotry until victims of electoral violence in the country get justice Gbadebo lost to Babajide Sanwo-Olu of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the Lagos state gubernatorial election that had widespread reports of electoral violence, voter […]

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INEC debunks claim of the falsifying Abia Governorship Election results as fake

23 Mar 2023

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has debunked claim of its Chairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, attempting to falsify Abia governorship election results An earlier report had it that Nnenna Oti, the returning officer, had said during the collation exercise that Yakubu personally called her and gave her some criteria to follow in collating the governorship […]

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PDP win all 32 seats in River State House of Assembly

23 Mar 2023

The People’s Democratic Party (PDP) under the leadership of Governor Nyesom Wike; has swept all the 32 seats in Rivers State House of Assembly in a historic landslide victory over any opposition in the state’s political history. The PDP is the incumbent party and among the eighteen political parties that participated in the just concluded […]

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