The Minister of Labour and Employment, Chris Ngige has explained why he cannot support or campaign for any presidential candidate out of the four frontrunners for the seat of presidency. Ngige revealed his reason on Tuesday at his hometown in Read more…
Month: January 2023
Nigeria’s public debt burden may hit N77tn if the National Assembly approves the request by the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), to restructure the Ways and Means Advances. Thee Ways and Means Advances is a loan facility through which Read more…
The Independent National Electoral Commission has imported additional Bimodal Voters Accreditation System machines that will be deployed nationwide in all the polling units for the 2023 elections. The commission, which took delivery of the last batch of the machines at Read more…
A private company linked to terrorism in Ukraine is providing the British military with illegally-gathered smartphone data to aid the planning of attacks and targeted killings, The Grayzone reported on Tuesday. According to files leaked to the outlet, the military Read more…
The former head of Russia’s space agency, Roscosmos, Dmitry Rogozin, who was injured in a Ukrainian strike in Donbass, says he has sent a piece of shrapnel removed from his body and a letter to the French ambassador in Moscow. Read more…
Rivers State Governor Nyesom Wike has criticised his predecessor and erstwhile Transportation Minister Rotimi Amaechi for closing courts for about two years during his tenure. The governor described the development as a coup against the Judiciary. He said the country Read more…
The vice presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and Governor of Delta State, Dr Ifeanyi Okowa, has denied the accusation that he betrayed the purported Asaba Accord for the presidency to shift to the South this year. The Read more…
Voters who are clearly underage will be jailed, according to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), if they attempt to cast a ballot in the elections of 2023. Festus Okoye, the national commissioner for information and voter education for INEC, Read more…
The former Director General of the Presidential Campaign Council of the Labour Party, LP, Dr Doyin Okupe, who was convicted over a breach of the Money Laundering Act, has gone to the Appeal Court to appeal his conviction. In a Read more…
The Nigeria Presidential Project (NPP) 2023 has endorsed the Labour Party (LP) presidential candidate, Peter Obi, as its preferred candidate in the February 2023 presidential polls. The organisation said in Enugu, yesterday, that it took the decision to endorse Obi Read more…
The presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Ahmed Tinubu, has frowned at reports that claimed he met with the five Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) state governors, popularly called the G-5, in London, during the Christmas festive period Read more…
Russian forces have destroyed several US-supplied HIMARS rocket launchers and eliminated scores of Ukrainian troops and dozens of foreign fighters in a fresh series of missile strikes, Moscow’s Defense Ministry said on Tuesday. According to the military, two launchers were destroyed at Read more…