THE House of Representatives’ will on April 11, 2023, grill ministers and other heads of ministries, departments and agencies of the Federal Government as well as oil companies and banks over the alleged illegal sale of 48 million barrels of crude oil valued at $2.4bn. The House’ Ad Hoc Committee to Investigate Alleged Loss of Over $2.4bn in Revenue from Illegal Sale of 48 Million Barrels of Crude Oil Export in 2015 Including All Crude Oil Exports and Sales by Nigeria from 2014 Till Date is handling the probe. The committee, in a notice to the invitees on Monday, also…
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THE pioneer chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Sokoto state, Usman Suleiman Danmadamin Isa, is dead. He died in the late hours of Friday. Isa was said to have been ill for a brief period. Before his death, he served as Commissioner for Religious Affairs. Danmadamin Isa was also Commissioner for Rural Development. He was the chairman of APC between 2015 and 2018 when he dumped the party and joined People’s Democratic Party (PDP) shortly after the defection of Governor Aminu Waziri Tambuwal. Before venturing into politics, he was a successful businessman and contractor. He owned a furniture…
KEBBI State Governor, Atiku Bagudu, on Friday visited President Muhammadu Buhari at the Presidential Villa in Abuja, Nigeria’s political capital. Although the details of the visit remain sketchy as of the time of filing this reports, the governor’s visit to the President comes days after the electoral umpire declared a March 18 governorship election held in the North-Western State inconclusive. Bagudu, the chairman of the Progressives Governors Forum made up of All Progressives Congress (APC) governors, will end his eight-year two-term by May 29, 2023. He endorsed the APC candidate in the state, Nasiru Idris, in the March 18 election.…
NO fewer than 25 people lost their lives in Udubo along Hadeja-Potiskum road in Gamawa Local Government Area of Bauchi State following a fatal crash. Ten others sustained varying degrees of injuries in the lone crash involving a Toyota Hummer Bus. The crash occurred on Thursday at 4.30 pm. The Sector Commander, Federal Road Safety Corp, Bauchi State, Yusuf Abdullahi, confirmed the incident to our correspondent on Friday morning. He said that a total of 35 people comprising 19 male adults, 11 female adults, two male children and three female children. According to him, the driver of the Hummer Bus…
IN spite of lingering court case, the Federal Government has insisted the National Carrier, Nigeria Air, will take to the sky before May 29, 2023. Minister of Aviation, Sen. Hadi Sirika, gave the assurances during the National Aviation Stakeholders Forum 2023, on Thursday. He said the Federal Government is taking necessary measures to overcome the hurdles introduced by the indigenous airlines that went to court to stop the process. The minister described as unfair the action of the local airlines, adding that the Buhari government had supported local airlines more than all previous governments. He accused them of constituting a…
THE leadership of the Nigeria Labour Congress on Wednesday directed all workers to protest at all the offices of the Central Bank of Nigeria nationwide starting next week over the current cash crunch in the country. The NLC President, Joe Ajaero, who gave the directive at an ongoing press briefing at Labour House in Abuja, said the directive became imperative following the expiration of a one-week ultimatum given to the apex bank to make cash available for Nigerians. More details in a while…
THE Bauchi Police Command have arrested 11 suspects in the state for alleged criminal conspiracy, thuggery, being in possession of dangerous weapons, and disturbing public peace in some parts of the Bauchi metropolitan. Also, at least one person is reported dead in Karofin Madaki as thugs attacked the area. The police are yet to confirm the death but residents of the area identified the deceased as one Ukasha who they said was stabbed. A statement issued by the Police Public Relations Officer, Ahmed Wakili indicates that thirty assorted dangerous weapons have been recovered by the police during a raid of…
ZAMFARA State governor-elect, Dauda Lawal, has reiterated his mission to rescue the state from its backward position. He said this in his acceptance speech to the people of the state and thanked the electorate for their resilience, understanding, and support to accomplish the rescue mission embarked on by the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in the state. The governor-elect promised to effectively implement the rescue agenda to alleviate the socio-economic hardship facing the people of the state. “Let me emphasize that the whole essence of the contest for me is to rescue Zamfara State. As you are all aware, Zamfara is…
INEC’s REC in Kebbi Professor Yusuf Saidu, has declared the governorship election in Kebbi state inconclusive over what he described as irregularities which marred elections in 18 local government areas of the state. The returning officer quoted some sections from the electoral law which gave him the power to declare the results inconclusive. More details in a while…
ALIYU Ahmed Sokoto of the All Progressives Congress, APC has won the governorship election in Sokoto State with 453,661 votes. He defeated his closest rival from the PDP, Umar Saidu Ubandoma who scored 404,632.
THE All Progressives Congress (APC) governorship candidate in Katsina State, Dr. Dikko Radda has been declared the winner of Saturday’s elections. Radda scored 859,892 votes to defeat his closest opponent, Senator Yakubu Lado Danmarke of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) who polled a total of 486,620 votes. The State Returning Officer for the election, Professor Mu’azu Gusau, who is also the Vice Chancellor of the Federal University Gusau, announced the result on Sunday at about 8:56 pm at the Governorship Election Collation Centre, Katsina. The total votes cast stand at 1,386, 427, valid votes stand at 1,365,848 whereas the rejected…
THE governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Ahmed Aliyu is coasting to victory after winning 16 out of the 20 local government areas declared so far. Sokoto has 23 local government areas. Aliyu is leading the PDP’s candidate, Sa’idu Umar Ubandoma with 41,585 votes. According to the results, the APC’s candidate scored 352,606 votes while Ubandoma polled 311,021. Results from the remaining three local government areas are still pending.
PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari has urged voters not to succum to vote buying, telling them to pocket politicians’ money and voter their conscience. He also said outcomes of the Governorship and State Assembly elections will favour the All Progressives Congress (APC) across the country, saying Nigerians know the party “means what it says, and says what it means.’’ The President stated spoke in Daura, Katsina State after casting his vote at Ward A, Sarkin Yara Polling Unit, 003 alongside his family members and aides. President Buhari said he was not surprised at the results of the presidential elections on February 25,…
AHEAD of the governorship and state assembly elections, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has deployed personnel of the agency across the states where the elections would be held. The teams led by senior officers began arriving at their assigned locations on Friday, the EFCC Head, Media and Publicity, Wilson Uwujaren said in a statement. According to Uwujaren, a number of them had begun holding consultation with the other security agencies involved in election security and officials of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). “The team for Ebonyi State, arrived Abakaliki and met with the Commissioner of Police at…
THE Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has approached the Abuja Division of the Court of Appeal, praying it to set aside the judgement that ordered it to allow electorates with Temporary Voter Cards, TVC, to vote in the Governorship and National Assembly elections billed for Saturday. In the legal process it filed through a team of lawyers led by Mr. Taminu Inuwa, SAN, the electoral body applied for “an order of injunction against execution of the judgement delivered 9th March 2023, directing the Applicant to allow the Plaintiffs/Respondents to use the Temporary Voter Cards in lieu of the Permanent Voter…
AHEAD of the March 18 governorship and state assembly elections, the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the February 25 presidential election, Atiku Abubakar has urged Nigerians to come out and vote in defense of democracy. The former Vice President said all hope is not lost, saying he will reclaim his “mandate”. Atiku, in a broadcast on Wednesday, urged Nigerians not to give in to voter apathy due to the inability of the electoral body to transmit election results electronically in consonance with the provisions of the Electoral Act 2022. He said, “Indeed, what the Independent National Electoral…
WITH few days to the March 18 Governorship and House of Assembly elections, the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) has cautioned broadcast stations to adhere strictly to its broadcast code, the Electoral Act as well as other extant laws governing the coverage and reportage of the 2023 general polls. The Director General of NBC, Mister Balarabe Ilelah gave the warning on Wednesday during a press conference in Abuja which had representatives of some media organisations in attendance. Underscoring the need for broadcast stations to be professional in the discharge of their duties, Ilelah disclosed that 25 stations were sanctioned by NBC…
THE Federal Government has said that a total of 12,988,978 attacks were recorded during the February 25 Presidential and National Assembly elections period in Nigeria. Originated from both within and outside Nigeria, the attacks were made on public websites and portals and averaged around 1,550,000 daily, the Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Prof Isa Ali Pantami said in a statement on Tuesday. However, Pantami said the attacks skyrocketed to 6,997,277 on presidential election day. “It is worth noting that our (cybersecurity) centers successfully blocked these attacks and/or escalated them to the relevant institutions for appropriate action,” the minister said.…
THE police have declared a member of the House of Representatives, Bauchi Federal Constituency, Yakubu Shehu, wanted. Yakubu, a member of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), is being wanted in connection with a case of criminal conspiracy, causing grievous hurt, inciting disturbance of public peace, and culpable homicide. This was contained in a gazette citing CRO Form 5 issued from the Office of the Inspector General of Police. The security agency is asking anyone with useful information about his whereabouts to contact them, promising a N1m as a bounty on the lawmaker.
OFFICERS of the Zamfara State Police Command have rescued 14 kidnap victims after 68 days in captivity. The rescue, the Command’s spokesman Mohammed Shehu said, was in conjunction with the vigilante, and the victims were freed near Munhaye forest after the officers dislodged a bandits’ camp belonging to kingpin Dogo Sule. “As a result of the operation, fourteen ( 14) hostages comprising two (2) male adults, seven (7) females, and five (5) children below of age of 2 years were rescued,” the statement from Shehu added. “In the course of debriefing, the victims informed the Police detectives that, on 1st…