No fewer than 40,000 state and local government employees would be trained in e-governance, data policy, regulation, and ICT compliance to modernize governance and enhance digital literacy. Benue State Commissioner for Communications and Digital Economy, Mr. Kwaghgba Amande disclosed this while signing a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) in Abuja between the Benue State Government and the Nigeria Data Protection Commission (NDPC) Amande, said Governor, Rev. Fr. Hyacinth Alia, has approved the training, stressing that the...

A Federal High Court in Abuja, presided over by Justice Obiora Atuegwu Egwuatu, has ordered the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) to postpone the election of its zonal committee members and national ex-officio for the North East, which is slated for today, Saturday. The judge, gave the order in the suit no: FHC/ABJCS/298/2025 filed by Dr Nicholas E. Msheliza and two others (as applicants) against the PDP, its national chairperson, national financial secretary, national organising secretary, national vice...

… Ready to Investigate Any Evidence The United States Ambassador to Nigeria, Richard Mills, has dismissed claims that the U.S. government, through USAID, has been funding the Boko Haram terrorist group, insisting there is no evidence to support such allegations. Speaking with journalists after a meeting with the Nigerian Governors’ Forum in Abuja on Wednesday night, Mills made it clear that the US has always stood against Boko Haram. “There’s no friend of Nigeria that...

The Nigerian Senate has resolved to summon key security officials to a closed-door session following allegations by the US Congressman Scott Perry that the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has been funding Boko Haram and other terrorist organisations in Nigeria. The officials invited include National Security Adviser Nuhu Ribadu, Director-General of the National Intelligence Agency (NIA) Mohammed Mohammed, Director-General of the State Security Service (SSS) Adeola Ajayi, and Chief of Defence Intelligence at...

The National Secretariat of the Patriots, an eminent body of Leaders of thought, Statesmen and women aspiring to birth a united and prosperous Nigeria under the chairmanship of Chief Emeka Anyoku, GCON, has mourned the demise of Chief Edwin Clark, Leader of the Niger Delta People who died at the age of 97 years old. The General – Secretary of the group, Olawale Okunniyi, has in a press statement on Tuesday noted that The Patriots...

Former President Goodluck Jonathan has mourned the demise  sadness of elder statesman, Chief Edwin Kiagbodo Clark, who passed on to eternal glory on Monday at the age of 97 years. Jonathan described the late nonagenarian as a father figure, peerless icon and a relentless crusader for justice who devoted his life to the betterment of our society. In a condolence message to his immediate family, the former President also noted that late Chief Clark was...