By Omeiza Ajayi The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has unveiled an intelligence-led security framework to curb violence ahead of the 2027 General Election, vowing to hunt down anyone who threatens its ad-hoc staff, National Youth Service Corps NYSC members or permanent personnel. INEC Chairman, Prof. Joash Amupitan SAN, disclosed this in Gombe on Tuesday…
Details have emerged of how alleged illegal miners held in a cell at the Niger State Command of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) drank urine or sweat because they had no access to drinking water before 33 of them died. Read Also: Full List: Names of 37 miners who died in NSCDC…
Two widows whose husband was allegedly killed and buried in Obagie N’ Evbousa community, Oredo Local Government Area of Edo State, have appealed to Governor Monday Okpebholo to intervene and ensure justice. DAILY POST reports that the widows, Mrs Joy Azuka, 28, and Mrs Favour Azuka, 34, made the appeal when they staged a protest…
The Take It Back Movement, TIB, has rejected the Ekiti State Police Command’s account of the attack on its leader and presidential candidate of the African Action Congress, AAC, Omoyele Sowore, in Ado-Ekiti. The group also demanded the immediate removal of the Commissioner of Police, CP Falade Adegoroye Michael, and the identification and prosecution of…
The Presidential Candidate of the Advanced Peoples Movement, APM, and Governor of Oyo State, Seyi Makinde, has criticized President Bola Tinubu over his trip to Saudi Arabia to pray for Nigeria. Makinde said there is no need for the president to travel all the way to Saudi Arabia to pray for the country when prayers…
The Convener of the Northern League of Democrats, Umar Ardo, has accused other political parties of abandoning grassroots campaigns ahead of the 2027 elections. Ardo made this assertion on Thursday while fielding questions in an interview on Arise Television’s ‘Prime Time’. According to him, going round the nation’s capital, Abuja, and other states, it is…
By Chioma Obinna WHEN late Dr Ameyo Stella Adadevoh insisted that Patrick Sawyer be isolated at a Lagos hospital in July 2014, she was confronting a disease Nigeria had never experienced on that scale. Her decision to trust her clinical judgement, despite the pressure surrounding the patient, became a defining moment in the country’s fight…
*Adds Lagos-Calabar, Sokoto-Badagry highways, power, ports’re drivers of $1trn economy *NLC demands justification for $20.5bn, €1.45bn loans By Johnbosco Agbakwuru and Olayinka Ajayi ABUJA — President Bola Tinubu has defended his administration’s external borrowing plans, saying Lagos-Calabar Coastal Highway, Sokoto-Badagry Superhighway, Trans-Sahara Superhighway, electricity grid upgrades and modernisation of key commercial ports in Lagos among…
…ILO backs modern employment service, stronger labour market data to improve job opportunitiesBy Johnbosco AgbakwuruABUJA –The National Directorate of Employment (NDE) has launched a five-year strategic plan aimed at expanding job creation and upgrading its 87 Skills Training Centres, many of which need rehabilitation, modern equipment, or full renovation to meet present-day training requirements.The 2027–2031…
By Johnbosco AgbakwuruABUJA —PRESIDENT Bola Tinubu has responded to criticism, especially from opposition leaders, over new loans the country has accessed from international institutions and banks.In an essay titled “From reforms to delivery: Our infrastructure investment and growth strategy,” to be published on Nigerian news platforms, President Tinubu wrote: “The real question is not how…
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