The New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) has won all the Local Government elections in all the 44 council areas of Kano State in the Saturday’s Council polls. Chairman, Kano Independent Electoral Commission (KANSIEC) Prof. Sani Lawan Malunfashi, who announced the results at the commission’s headquarters in Kano said six political parties participated in the elections. “Kano State Independent Electoral Commission (KANSIEC) had exercised and observed its Constitutional mandates of planning, organizing, coordinating, observing and conducting...

No fewer than 200 persons were arrested and charged before mobile courts across Kwara state during Saturday’s environmental sanitation exercise for violating Kwara State environmental law. The spokesman of the state Ministry of Environment, Kamaldeen Aliagan in a statement in Ilorin on Sunday, said the Commissioner for Environment, Nafisat Musa Buge, She warned residents and commercial transporters against violating the environmental law of the state during the monthly sanitation exercise. The commissioner urged residents to...

Engr. Sani Yabagi, the National Chairman of Action Democratic Party (ADP) and immediate past National Chairman of Inter-Party Advisory Council (IPAC) has condemned the blackouts in three regions of the country, saying that  efficient supply of energy is vital to economic growth. It will be recalled that three regions across the country, South-East, North-West and North-East regions have experienced blackouts in as a result of national grid collapse in the past three weeks. Yabagi in...

Disturbed by the lack of electricity in some parts of Northern Nigeria for some days, the Northern Senators Forum has asked the federal government to swiftly restore electricity supply in the affected states. Some parts of the North are experiencing blackout following a fault at the 330kV DC Transmission Line. The incident, which caused a blackout in the North-East, North-West and parts of the North-Central, affected the line that is supposed to be a backup...