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The Abia State Government has denied spending over N900 million on the feeding and welfare of Governor Alex Otti from July to September 2023. Earlier, reports emerged that a budget performance report indicated that the government spent N927 million within three months on refreshments and meals, allowance, settlement of honorarium and welfare packages. As a […]

Stakeholders are urging philanthropists to contribute funds towards the elimination of Neglected Tropical Diseases to meet the 2030 target in Nigeria. The call was made at an NTDs roundtable meeting in Abuja to mark Sightsavers’ 70th anniversary in the country. Speaking, the Director of Public Health, Federal Ministry of Health and Social Welfare, Dr. Chukwuma […]

Supporters of Governor Rotimi Akeredolu of Ondo State and those of the embattled Deputy Governor, Mr. Lucky Aiyedatiwa, have vowed to stage a massive protest in Akure, this week. Plans for the protest were announced on various social media platforms, over the weekend, by loyalists of the deputy governor. Supporters of Akeredolu also vowed to […]

Stakeholders are urging philanthropists to contribute funds towards the elimination of Neglected Tropical Diseases to meet the 2030 target in Nigeria. The call was made at an NTDs roundtable meeting in Abuja to mark Sightsavers’ 70th anniversary in the country. Speaking, the Director of Public Health, Federal Ministry of Health and Social Welfare, Dr. Chukwuma […]

President Bola Tinubu, on the sidelines of the G20 Compact with Africa Economic Conference yesterday November 20th, met with German Federal Chancellor, Olaf Scholz. He notes that Nigeria is determined to pursue German investment in targeted sectors of the Nigerian economy. The President notes that under his leadership, the staggered and unsteady implementation of the […]

A chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Daniel Bwala, has criticized a judgement of the appellate court sacking Governor Caleb Mutfwang of Plateau State. He says it had never been seen where an election was invalidated on the ground that a person disobeyed a court order. However, Bwala, who is a lawyer, says an […]

Protests have continued to trail the judgment of the Court of Appeal which nullified the election of Plateau state Governor, Caleb Mutfwang and other national Assembly members from Plateau who were elected on the platform of the PDP. Leading the protest in Jos alongside other support groups including non-indigenes, the youth leader of the PDP […]

The government of United Arab Emirates has granted Air Peace the approval to operate direct flight to Dubai. Minister of Aviation and Aerospace, Festus Keyamo, SAN, who disclosed this weekend, said Emirates Airlines, which has stopped operations to the country due to its inability to repatriate dollars earned in the country home, also announed its […]

President Bola Tinubu has sympathised with the Alli’s family and Army over the passing of Major-General Chris Alli, rtd, former Chief of Army Staff, who died on Sunday. Major-General Alli was Chief of Army Staff from 1993 to 1994 when he retired from service. According to a statement by his Special Adviser on Media and […]

The Court of Appeal sitting in Abuja has returned the Governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Dr. Nentawe Yilwadta as Governor of Plateau State. As reported by Jayfm correspondent Gilbert Joseph, in a two-hour ruling delivered by a three-man panel of Justices led by Elfrieda Williams-Dawodu, the court says tribunal which affirmed the […]