Month: July 2025

A political group, Obidient Movement, in Ebonyi State has rejected moves by alleged members of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and other political groups to hijack the opposition coalition movement in the state. However, the group, while noting it won’t allow such a move in the state, reaffirmed its support and commitment to the Labour […]

A Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) group has faulted the alleged adoption of an aspirant as the party’s consensus flag bearer ahead of the 2027 governorship election in Nasarawa State. The group known as “Concerned Stakeholders” of the PDP, described the alleged adoption as undemocratic and unreflective of the will of the majority of party members […]

A group of political leaders under the Concerned Bayelsa Stakeholders Forum (CBSF) has appealed to Governor Douye Diri to join the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), insisting that the people of Bayelsa State do not want to be dragged into what they described as a political trap under the African Democratic Congress (ADC). At a […]

State programme manager of Malaria Consortium, Okwulu Andrew, has disclosed that 40,678 confirmed Malaria cases in children under five years were recorded in Kogi State in 2024.. Okwulu, who disclosed this yesterday during the 2025 Seasonal Malaria Chemoprevention (SMC) media parley in Lokoja, noted that of the figure, 683 were severe cases leading to hospitalisation, […]

The South East national vice chairman of All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), Augustine Ehiemere, has urged Abia State governor, Alex Otti, to return to the party. ‎Ehiemere made the appeal when he addressed the Abia South Senatorial District APGA stakeholders’ meeting in Umuahia, the state capital, ahead of the 2027 general election. ‎He described APGA, […]

Pro-Chancellor and chairman of the Governing Council of the University of Nigeria, Nsukka (UNN) and an APC leader in Ekiti State, Engr. Kayode Ojo has called on South-West governors to immediately organise a joint rally to endorse President Bola Tinubu as the sole APC presidential candidate for the 2027 general election. In a statement yesterday, […]

Some Kaduna residents have paid their last respects to former President Muhammadu Buhari, who died last Sunday in a London hospital . Our correspondent, who spoke with a cross-section of Kaduna residents, reports that they prayed for the soul of the deceased, who spent most of his years in Kaduna, to rest in peace. They […]

To strengthen Nigeria’s non-oil export base and formalise informal trade flows, the Nigerian Export Promotion Council (NEPC), in collaboration with the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), West African Cross-border Trade and Agricultural Fair (WACTAF), and other key actors, embarked on a three-day stakeholder s’engagement in Ṣaki and Oke-Ogun in Oyo […]

Chief judge of Kogi State and trial judge of High Court One sitting in Lokoja, Josiah Majebi, has struck out an application seeking enforcement of the removal of Ohinoyi of Ebiraland, Alhaji Tijani Anaje. He awarded the sum of N200,000 as cost against the applicants. The application with number HCL/34/2024 sought the enforcement of an […]