An assassination attempt targeted at Ehie Edison, the factional Speaker of the Rivers State House of Assembly, was aborted by the lawmaker’s security escorts on Sunday night. The lawmaker, at a press briefing yesterday, said two senior police officers led the gunmen who stormed his residence from the state police command. The gunmen, he said, attempted to force themselves into his residence but his security men warded them off. The State Assembly spokesperson Ken Uchendu,...

The former member of the House of Representatives, Salisu Zakari Ningi has been stripped of his traditional title as the Kauran Ningi by the Ningi Emirate Council of Bauchi State with immediate effect for criticizing the Bauchi state Government. The former lawmaker also perceived a lack of commitment to the development of the Emirate. The Emirate council stated that Zakari had criticized the recently flagged off dual carriageway in Ningi township, Bauchi–Ningi–Kano road by the...

Federal universities in Nigeria would no longer remit 40 per cent of their internally generated revenue, IGR, to the federal government, the Minister of Education, Tahir Mamman said on Friday. Before the discontinuation of the policy, the remittance was set to commence this month. But Mamman, while speaking at the 75th Founder’s Day ceremony of the University of Ibadan, UI, said the policy was ill-timed. “The 40 per cent IGR automatic deduction policy stands cancelled....

The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has presented Certificates of Return to Hope Uzodimma, Duoye Diri and Usman Ododo, Governors-elect of Imo, Bayelsa and Kogi States respectively. They were elected governors of their respective states during the off-cycle governorship polls on Saturday, 11 November. INEC also presented Certificates of Return to their deputies on Friday. Ododo will be sworn in as governor of Kogi State on 27 January 2024. Diri and Uzodimma will also take...

The pockets of conflicts recorded in some parts of Taraba State have necessitated  the Taraba Independent Peace Committee, in partnership with the Kuka Centre Secretariat of the National Peace Committee and UNESCO, to organize a two-day summit with the theme: “In Search of Peace, Unity, and Reconciliation among Communities in Taraba State.” Speaking at the event held at the Catholic Pastoral Centre event hall in Jalingo, Prof. Talla Ngarka, the Chairman of the Taraba State...