INEC Announces Dates For Collection of PVCs
The Independently National Electoral Commission (INEC) has fixed dates for prospective voters to collect their permanent voter cards (PVC). In a statement on Friday, Festus Okoye, INEC’s national commissioner and chairman, information and voter education committee, said the commission met on Thursday and deliberated on a number of issues, including the dates for PVC collection. […]
Bayelsa Is More Than Oil – Tinubu
Hundreds of Bayelsa State people and residents defied the downpour on Thursday to receive the All Progressive Congress (APC) Presidential campaign train led by the Presidential Candidate, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu in Yenagoa. Tinubu, who spoke to the mammoth crowd at Ox- Bow Lake Pavilion, venue of the rally, described Bayelsa as more than oil. […]
Practitioners launch Public Interest Lawyering Initiative in Nigeria
Lawyers, civil society, and media executives converged on Benin, the Edo state capital on Wednesday November 30, 2022, for the launch of the Public Interest Lawyering Initiative for West Africa (PILIWA) Nigeria chapter. The initiative which was founded in 2016 has a membership that cuts across nine West African countries including Cote d’ Ivoire, Ghana, […]
Don’t Tamper With Our Campaign Materials Again, Bayelsa APC Warns Gov. Diri
Bayelsa State Chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has warned the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) government under Mr. Douye Diri to never again tamper with its campaign materials. APC in a statement on Wednesday by its State Publicity Secretary, Mr. Doifie Buokoribo, revealed that on Tuesday night officials of the Bayelsa State Government in […]
Court Remands Medical Doctor In Ikoyi Prison Over Alleged Rape
A special offences and domestic violence court in Lagos has remanded Femi Olaleye, managing director of Optimal Cancer Care Foundation, in Ikoyi prison pending the fulfilment of his bail conditions. Olaleye was arraigned by the Lagos state government on Wednesday. The medical doctor pleaded not guilty to the two-count charge of defilement of a child […]
APC Presidential Candidate, Tinubu, Holds Rally in Bayelsa
The Presidential Campaign Council of the All Progressives Congress (APC) will be rallying in Bayelsa State on Thursday, December 1. The Yenagoa rally is in continuation of Asiwaju Bola Tinubu’s campaign trail around the country to gather support for his 2023 presidential bid. On arrival in the state, Tinubu, his running mate, Senator Kashim Shettima, […]
Court Sentences IGP To Three Months In prison For Contempt
A federal high court sitting in Abuja has sentenced the Inspector-General of Police, Usman Baba to three months in prison for disobeying court order. The ruling for contempt against the police chief was delivered by Justice Mobolaji Olajuwon on Tuesday. Olajuwon issued the ruling following a suit filed by Patrick Okoli, a former police officer who […]
BREAKING: Senate President Lawan Loses Yobe North Senatorial Ticket
The senate President Ahmad Lawan has lost the senatorial ticket as the candidate of All Progressives Congress (APC) for the Yobe North Senatorial District. Bashir Sheriff Machina was declared as the authentic APC candidate for the district by the appeal court. The appellate court upheld a judgment of the Federal High Court sitting in Damaturu, […]
Anyaoku, Kukah, Omogui Okauru, Falola praise Musikilu Mojeed’s The Letterman
A former Secretary General of the Commonwealth, Emeka Anyaoku; the Catholic Archbishop of Sokoto Diocese, Mathew Hassan Kukah and a former Chairman of the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS), Ifueko Omogui Okauru, have heaped praises on The Letterman: Inside the ‘Secret’ Letters of former Nigerian President, Olusegun Obasanjo, a new book by the Editor-in-Chief of PREMIUM […]
Now that the north has found oil
In October 1973, Egypt and Syria launched a surprise attack on Israel over its occupation of the Golan Heights and Sinai Peninsula, two Arab territories. With the now-defunct Soviet Union (read Russia) backing Egypt and Syria, the US automatically queued behind Israel. Arab countries, in solidary with Egypt and Syria, retaliated by placing an oil […]
