To ensure that families displaced by flood are not exposed to water-borne diseases, the Kogi State Governor, Ahmed Usman Ododo has begun the drilling of boreholes at the Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) camps. According to the state government, this will also help to ameliorate the hardship the displaced persons go through while in search of water. The Kogi State Commissioner for Information and Communications, Hon. Kingsley Fanwo, who stated this on Thursday, noted that the...

Former Governor of Benue State and lawmaker representing Benue North-East at the Red Chamber of the National Assembly, Senator Gabriel Suswam has said that the calls for the acting national chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Umar Damagum to step aside are necessitated by his abysmal performance. The PDP chieftain disclosed this on Thursday  on Arise TV, stressing that Damagum’s leadership style has caused the crisis in the party to deepen. He said, “Damagum’s...

The Ekiti State government has warned herders operating in the state to steer clear its huge agriculture investment in the state. The govrenmnet urged the herders not to make a mess of the government’s huge investment in agriculture by allowing their flocks to invade and destroy farms in the state. The Special Adviser to the Governor on Security Matters, Brig. General Ebenezer Ogundana (rtd) gave the warning in Ado Ekiti yesterday during a stakeholders’ meeting of...

The House of Representatives Committee on Constitution Review is set to engage key stakeholders, like the Nigeria Governors’ Forum, Nigeria Guild of Editors, Conference of Speakers of State Legislatures, chairmen of the 18 political parties, and Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) in the ongoing process to amend the 1999 Constitution. Hon. Benjamin Kalu, the Deputy Speaker and Chairman of the committee, stated this on Tuesday during the committee’s meeting in Abuja. According to him, the committee...