A civil society organisation, Network Against Corruption and Human Trafficking, on Tuesday asked anti-corruption agencies to probe the administration of Senator Godswill Akpabio for alleged corruption while he was governor of Akwa Ibom State. The organisation alleged that the fortunes of Akwa-Ibom people were allegedly mortgaged for personal aggrandisement under Akpabio and so the Economic […]

The Ekiti State Police Command has commenced an investigation to locate the whereabouts of a 33-year-old man, Felix Dada, who went missing in the Ado Ekiti area of the state. In a statement on Tuesday, the state Police Public Relations Officer, Sunday Abutu, said Dada’s whereabouts became unknown after he left his residence in Odo-Ado, […]

The Police Command Delta has apprehended a suspected gunrunner in the Okpe Local Government Area of the state. The spokesman of the command, DSP Bright Edafe, told newsmen on Tuesday in Warri that the suspect was arrested on Monday by the operatives attached to the Orerokpe Police Division. Edafe said that the suspect, who had […]

The President, Major-General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.) has approved the appointment of about 33 new directors in agencies under the Ministry of Aviation and Aerospace. In a statement, Tuesday by the Head, of Press and Public Affairs, Ministry of Aviation and Aerospace, Odatayo Oluseyi, the new appointees are to help reposition the agency to perform its […]

The former Technical Adviser on the Ekiti State Cargo International Airport, Air Vice Marshal Adeniyi Ojuawo (retd), on Tuesday, hinted that commercial operations at the airport would commence in October. Ojuawo, a House of Representatives member-elect, said the runway of the airport which began during the tenure of former governor, Dr Kayode Fayemi, had been […]

The President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.) has commissioned the Second Niger Bridge. The 1.6km bridge linking Asaba, Delta State, to Onitsha, Anambra State, and other regions in the South-East was named after Buhari. Buhari, who performed the opening via Zoom on Tuesday, said the bridge was one of the critical infrastructures delivered by his […]

The Senate, on Tuesday, confirmed the nomination of Abike Dabiri-Erewa for reappointment as the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Nigerians in Diaspora Commission for a second term. The PUNCH reports that the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), reappoints Dabiri and wrote to the Senate to confirm her appointment. In a letter addressed to […]

Some indigenes of Abia State, under the aegis of United Abia Artistes and Patriots, have protested against a ruling by a Federal High Court in Kano State that purportedly nullified the election of Abia State Governor-elect, Dr Alex Otti of the Labour Party. The organisation said the judgement should be regarded as a joke that […]

The Governor of Gombe State, Inuwa Yahaya, emerged as the new Chairman of the Northern Governors Forum, on Tuesday. Yahaya, who was elected governor of the state in 2019, won his re-election bid for a second term in the February 2023 general election. He will be taking over from the outgoing chairman of the forum, […]

The Governor of Oyo State, Seyi Makinde, on Tuesday, terminated the appointments of all political officeholders and dissolved the state Executive Council. This is contained in a letter signed by the Chairman, Transition and Inauguration Committee, Mr. Segun Ogunwuyi, who doubles as the Chief of Staff to the Governor. According to the letter issued in […]