Akeredolu: Assembly won’t probe signature forgery allegation, say lawmakers

Akeredolu: Assembly won’t probe signature forgery allegation, say lawmakers

The Ondo State House of Assembly has said it won’t investigate the allegation that the signature of ailing Governor Rotimi Akeredolu is being forged by some state actors. There have been allegations from different quarters that the signature of the governor was forged on some official documents of the state. The allegation was first raised by a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Kayode Ajulo, who said last week that, “I have […]

December 11, 2023 20

NEWS

Budget: FG to spend N837bn on 2,254 roads, bridges

The Federal Government is planning to rehabilitate and construct 1,925 roads and highways across the country in the 2024 budget proposal' The government also allocated N548.56b for roads construction in 2024, with the East-West and Benin-Akure roads getting N2bn and N3.75bn respectively. This is however separate from the N288.44bn allocated for the modernisation of 329 roads and bridges in the 2023 supplementary budget. If road projects in the supplementary budget […]

December 11, 2023 22

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Policemen ‘kidnapped’ me, collected N1m for my release, man alleges

One Mr. Samuel Soyemi has recounted how some men who claimed to be police officers from Zone 2, Onikan, Lagos State invaded his house and drove him and his family away in their vehicle. In what Soyemi described as both an abduction and armed robbery, he said the cops transferred the sum of N1,025,000 from his account before he, his wife and other family members were let go. According to […]

December 11, 2023 14

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B’Haram commander, others killed in Niger air strike – NAF

The Nigerian Air Force has said air strikes by the air component of Operation Whirl Punch in Niger State killed a terrorist kingpin identified as Yellow Janbros and other terrorists. The service said the terrorists were trailed from Zamfara to Niger State. The Air Force added that Janbros and his fighters were about to cross the Jikudna River in Galadima Kogo District, heading towards the Wurukuvhi axis of Chikun LGA […]

December 11, 2023 55

BUSINESS

Court jails cashier five years for defrauding employer N64.4m

The Lagos State High Court sitting in Ikeja has sentenced cashier, Tunde Abdulramon, to five years’ imprisonment for his employer’s N64,420,900 to marry a new wife and also for opening the same kind of his employer’s business for his new wife. Justice Raliat Adebiyi who handed down the sentence also ordered the convict to make restitution by returning all the properties he bought while in his employer’s establishment and also […]

November 15, 2023 29

NEWS

NGE lauds A’Ibom Gov’s performance

The Nigerian Guild of Editors said on Tuesday it was closely following the ARISE agenda of the Akwa Ibom State Governor, Umo Eno, saying it had started yielding the targeted dividends. The NGE President, Mr Eze Anaba, stated this at the Government House during a courtesy visit to the governor ahead of the 19th All Nigerian Editors Conference, scheduled to hold from November 15 to 19, 2013. While thanking the […]

November 15, 2023 91

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THE ELECTION DAY PROCESSES AND PROCEDURES, POTENTIAL FOR VIOLENCE AND ELECTORAL VIOLENCE- KIMPACT DEVELOPMENT INITIATIVE

KDI observed the Bayelsa, Imo and Kogi elections on November 11, 2023, and set up her Election Day Data Room (EDDR) to get reports from 254 trained observers deployed across the fifty-six (56) LGAs of the 3 states for swift, credible, real-time information, analyses and escalation of incidents on the election during and after the poll. Also, to give objective insights into the incidence of election violence, document the same […]

November 15, 2023 97

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Nigerians make unfair demands on lawmakers – Senate President

The Senate President, Godswill Akpabio, says of the three arms of government, legislators are the most misunderstood and attacked by Nigerians. According to him, Nigerians blame lawmakers for everything, including things not directly under their control. The Senate President, represented by the senator representing Ogun Central, Shuaib Salisu, said this on Sunday at the 100th birthday colloquium of a Second Republic lawmaker, Senator Kunle Oyero, organised by the Abeokuta Grammar […]

November 13, 2023 74

BUSINESS

PDP, LP kick as Uzodimma, Ododo win, protests in Bayelsa

The Peoples Democratic Party and the Labour Party on Sunday cried foul as Governor Hope Uzodimma, the candidate of the All Progressives Congress, was declared the winner of Saturday’s governorship poll in Imo State by the Independent National Electoral Commission. The electoral body affirmed Uzodimma’s re-election, having won in all the 27 local government areas of the state. The governor clinched a second term in office after scoring a total […]

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