Budget Padding: CSO Threatens Mass Protest Against Akpabio

A Civil Society Organisation (CSO), National Association For Peaceful Coexistence and Good Governance has threatened to organise a massive protest against the Senate President, Godswill Akpabio over allegation of budget padding leveled against him by suspended Senator Abdul Ningi. Comrade Isiaku Balogun Nathaniel, founder of the organisation stated this in a press statement on Saturday, pointing out that the Senate President couldn’t justify the padding of the budget. Recall that Ningi had alleged that the...

NAFDAC Seal Supermarket Over Alleged Selling Of Fake Products

One of the supermarkets in Ibadan, PINNACLE, located in Dugbe area was sealed by National Agency for Food and Drugs Administration and Control, NAFDAC over alleged selling of fake products. A NAFDAC staff member who preferred anonymity said on Friday that the enforcement unit of the agency sealed the supermarket. According to the source, the owner of the supermarket was earlier refused to honour an invitation by the regulatory agency. The source added that sealing...

Minister Apologises To Nigerians Over Comments

Adebayo Adelabu, Minister of Power has apologized to Nigerians over his comments about people leaving their freezer and air conditioners on when they are not home. Addressing journalists at the ministerial press briefing a week ago, Adelabu Nigerians lack the culture of power consumption management due to its affordability. “A lot of people will come back from work, they want to have dinner, or they want to see their colleagues down the road, they switch...

FG Launches Citizens’ Delivery Tracker App to Track Ministers’ Performance

The Nigerian government launched the Citizens’ Delivery Tracker App, which aims to increase transparency and citizen engagement, on Monday. The app enables Nigerian citizens to monitor government ministries’ projects and policies, empowering them to hold the government accountable. Hadiza Bala Usman, President Bola Tinubu’s special adviser on policy and coordination, unveiled the app in Abuja on Monday. She emphasised the app’s significance in creating a “strong feedback loop between citizens and government.” The Citizens’ Delivery...

EID-EL-FITR: Anambra Speaker felicitates Muslims, calls for religious tolerance

The Speaker of Anambra State House of Assembly, Right Honourable Somtochukwu Udeze has enjoined Muslims to always promote values of universal justice, peace, mutual understanding and love in their religious obligations. Udeze, made the call in his 2024 Goodwill Message to Muslim Faithful in Nigeria on behalf of the State Legislature. His call was contained in a press statement made avaliable to journalists in Awka on Tuesday through the press Secretary, Mr Emma Madu. Udeze...

APC Felicitates Muslims Faithful At  Eid el-Fitr

The All Progressives Congress (APC) felicitates Muslim compatriots, on the occasion of Eid el-fitr celebration. In a goodwill message on Tuesday by Felix Morka, Esq. National Publicity Secretary of the party, the APC noted that Eid-el-fitr is the breaking of the month-long fasting, marking the official end of Ramadan, which recalls the revealing of the Quran to Prophet Muhammad. “The sunrise-to-sunset fast leading to this celebration is usually characterised by repentance, supplications, piety, charity, spiritual...

New Electricity Tariff, Pro-poor Initiative By Tinubu’s Govt – Analyst

An analyst and a member of the Independent Media and Policy Initiative (IMPI), Dapo Okubanjo has stated that the new electricity tariff is a deliberate pro-poor initiative to increase liquidity in the sector by the government of President Bola Tinubu. Okubanjo in a press statement on Tuesday noted that when the National Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) announced what has been described as a hike in electricity tariff, there was bedlam in the land even before...

Godwins Replaces Shuaibu As Edo State Deputy Governor

Following the impeachment of Philip Shaibu as Deputy Governor of Edo State by the state Assembly, 37-year-old Omobayo Godwins has been sworn in as the new Deputy Governor of the state. He was sworn in around 1:40 pm on Monday by the Chief Judge of the State, Justice Daniel Okungbowa at the Edo State Government House in Benin City. After administering an oath of office on him, Omobayo was greeted by a rousing crowd of...

Twenty-five Victims Of Banditry At Agojeju-Odo Community Buried

The District Head and Ochala Onu-Ife Bagaji Odo, Omala, Kogi, Chief David Akpa says 25 victims of Thursday’s banditry at Agojeju-Odo community in Omala Local Government Area of Kogi were buried on Saturday. It was gathered that a running battle between militia groups in parts of Benue and some bandits led to the onslaught on the sleepy towns of Agojeju-Odo, Ajokpachi-Odo, Bagaji, and environs. Akpa explained that Thursday’s attack was the second in the year,...

FCT Police Command Arrests 85 Suspects In Four Days

The Federal Capital Territory Police Command has arrested 85 criminal suspects in different parts of Abuja, the nation’s capital. The arrests were carried out in a coordinated raid exercise between March 31 to April 4, 2024, when the police stormed some identified black spots and criminal hideouts serving as places of hibernation for hoodlums in Durumi and Dei-Dei axis of Abuja. According to a statement on Sunday by the FCT Police Public Relations Officer, SP Josephine...

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