Senator Adedayo Adeyeye (Ekiti South) has been appointed chairman of the Senate Committee on Media and Public Affairs. By the appointment, he becomes the spokesman of the Ninth Senate. Five other Senators were also appointed members of the committee by Senate President, Ahmed Lawan.
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Nobel laureate Prof Wole Soyinka joined the raging cattle settlements dispute, describing the policy as a keg of gunpowder. The planned Ruga (settlements) is the Federal Government’s antidote to the bloody herders/farmers clashes, which have taken many lives, setting Nigeria on edge. Even before its execution, the policy has sparked …
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The Nigeria Police Force, Ebonyi Command, said that no fewer than 1,679 applicants were shortlisted to take part in the ongoing screening/recruitment exercise into the Constable cadre of the Force. Loveth Odah, Police Public Relations Officer, Ebonyi Command, made this known in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria …
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Hundreds of protesters have called for the prosecution of Senator Elisha Abbo and his police orderlies. The call came following a video that went viral where the newly elected senator under the platform of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) was seen assaulting a female at a sex toy shop in Abuja. …
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Bakassi youths took to the streets and marched to the Cross River State House of Assembly on Tuesday to demand the return of the 76 oil wells handed to Akwa Ibom State by former President Olusegun Obasanjo in 2007. The youths led by Kingsley Asuquo carried placards with inscriptions such …
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Oyo State Governor Seyi Makinde inaugurated a seven-man committee to probe the accounts of the 33 local government areas and the 35 local council development areas from January 2018 to May 2019. The development came three days after Makinde threatened to expose the Abiola Ajimobi government. The committee headed by …
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The Immediate past governor of Imo State, Rochas Okorocha, has denied the claim by the Attorney General of the state, Ndukwe Nnawuchi, that he (Okorocha) handed over a N20b judgment debt to the incumbent governor, Emeka Ihedioha. Okorocha, in a statement in Owerri, the state capital issued by his media …
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The Ijaw Youth Council has described the proposed Ruga settlements for herdsmen in some parts of the country as a recipe for crises, insisting that the Ijaw people will resist such a plan. IYC President, Eric Omare, said it was wrong for one ethnic group to impose its wish on …
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Justice Yusuf Birnin-Kudu of Jigawa State High Court sitting in Gumel, has sentenced a Deputy Director of the Independent National Electoral Commission, Auwal Jibrin, to six years in jail for unlawful enrichment and gratification. He was convicted alongside one Garba Ismaila who bagged seven years in jail for benefiting from …
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Governor Seyi Makinde of Oyo State has threatened to reveal how the administration of former Governor Abiola Ajimobi allegedly ran the state into debt, if the ex-governor and his All Progressives Congress (APC) continued to disturb him. Makinde, who spoke during a media chat to mark his first 30 days …
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