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The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), has called on FCT residents to collect their Permanent Voter Cards (PVCs) ahead of the February General elections. The Electoral Officer of Gwagwalada Area Council, Mr Shamsudeen Musa, made the call in an interview with NAN
Gov Mai Mala Buni of Yobe has declared Monday and Tuesday as public holidays to welcome President Muhammadu Buhari to the state. This is contained in a statement by the state Head of Service, Alhaji Garba Bilal, in Damaturu on Sunday. Buhari
Gov. Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos State has urged Nigerians not to only remember the nation’s fallen heroes, but also to give adequate support to the families they left behind. Sanwo-Olu gave the advice during the Dedicated Jumaat, in commemoration of the Year
The Federal Government on Friday ordered temporary suspension of construction works on Lagos-Ibadan Expressway, to make traveling experience easier for holiday makers returning to their destinations after the festive season. Julius Berger returned to site on Tuesday after leaving in December 2022,
President Muhammadu Buhari has commiserated with the Government and people of Kebbi State over loss of many lives, following the capsizing of a boat conveying farmers. In a condolence message issued by his spokesman, Mr Femi Adesina, on Friday in Abuja, Buhari
Gov. Seyi Makinde of Oyo State, has been nominated as the Governor of the Year 2022 by the management of Vanguard Newspapers. This is contained in a statement issued on Friday in Ibadan by Mr Taiwo Adisa, the Chief Press Secretary to
Suspected Mastermind of the Okene explosion of Dec. 29, 2002 that left some innocent persons dead and wounded has been arrested and in custody of the Department of State Services (DSS) in Abuja. The suspected mastermind, Abdulmumin Ibrahim-OTARU (aka Abu Mikdad) and
Hajiya Sa’adatu Kirfi, the Bauchi State Commissioner for Cooperatives and SMEs Development, has resigned her appointment. This is contained in a letter addressed to Gov. Bala Mohammmed and dated Jan. 4 in Bauchi on Wednesday. “Your Excellency, I wish to humbly tender
The Federal Government said it spent N12.87 trillion against the N17.126 trillion budgeted for 2022 as at Nov. 30, 2022. Mrs Zainab Ahmed, Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, said this at the Public Presentation and Breakdown of the Approved Federal
More than 20 farmers were feared dead as a boat carrying about 100 farmers capsized in Koko/Besse Local Government Area of Kebbi on Tuesday. Police spokesman in Kebbi, DSP Nafiu Abubakar, confirmed the accident and promised to release details later. Speaking with