Former Governor Yahaya Bello of Kogi State has again honoured the invitation of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) over alleged misappropriation of funds. The former Governor went to the office with his lawyers on Tuesday morning, following the Supreme Court judgment which dismissed states’ case on the constitutionality of the anti-graft agency. Bello drove himself in a black hilux to the EFCC office with his lawyers. At the last hearing on November 14,...

Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, the National Chairman of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) has approved the draft content for the proposed National Conference on Skills Acquisition and Youth Empowerment, developed by the party’s Think Tank, The Progressive Institute (TPI) in Abuja. It will be recalled that Ganduje was at TPI on Thursday where he discussed the proposed conference with the institute’s management. A press statement on Sunday signed by Wale Abideen, Head of Media and...

Dr. Adetokunbo Pearse, a chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and convener Reset Lagos PDP, has charged the Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF) to join other Nigerians in 2027 to reject 12 years of the All Progressives Congress (APC) abysmal administration. Pearse, a member of the PDP National Presidential Campaign Council, 2023, had in an interview on Sunday stressed that notwithstanding, the argument of the ACF that Tinubu, a Yoruba has failed them, the argument...

Governor Peter Mbah of Enugu State has commissioned multiple Type-3 primary healthcare centres across the three senatorial zones of the state. This was even as the World Health Organisation (WHO), traditional rulers, presidents-general and other community stakeholders commended the governor for prioritizing the welfare and health needs of the people, recommitting their support for the project. Commissioning the facilities at the primary healthcare centres at Adani, Agbogugu and Nara-Unateze in Uzo Uwani, Awgu and Nkanu...

The Pan Niger Delta Forum (PANDEF) has condemned the marginalisation  of the Niger Delta region. The socio-cultural organisation in a press statement on Friday signed by its National Spokesman, Chief (Dr.) Obiuwevbi Christopher Ominimini, noted that the Niger Delta resources feed the nation while the resources from other geopolitical zones including the North are purely for themselves and the individual pockets. The statement read, “The gold deposits in Northern Nigeria and other parts of the...