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Members of the Enugu State House of Assembly, Monday, reelected the former speaker, Edward Ubosi, as the new speaker of the 7th Assembly. Ubosi, representing Enugu East Urban Constituency was first elected into the Assembly in 2011 and in 2015. Uche Ugwu, representing Udi North Constituency and first term member, …

Former President Goodluck Jonathan has said African countries still lag behind the rest of the world in making democracy work for the electorate. He stated that when leaders encouraged impunity in the conduct of elections, they pushed the aggrieved people to desperate limits. According to him, this fuels crises and …

The Nigeria elections in 2019 that gave President Muhammadu Buhari a second term were marred by political violence, Human Rights Watch has said. The report issued by the organisation on Monday said some cases of the violence were carried out by soldiers and police officers. “Buhari should take concrete steps …

An official of National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), Isiaka Olarewaju, says the bureau will publish the findings of the ongoing survey on corruption in September. The survey is the second National Household Survey on Quality and Integrity of Public Services in Nigeria, 2019. Olarewaju, a Project Director of the Survey, …

Eighteen states in Nigeria will benefit from the Rural Access and Mobility Project (RAMP), a Word Bank Programme in Nigeria by 2020. The National Coordinator of the programme, Ubandoma Ularamu, made the disclosure on Monday at the Bid Opening of Second Phase of RAMP-2 held in Yola, the Adamawa State …

  President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday at the Presidential Villa, signed the Public Holidays Act Amendment Bill into law. The Senior Special Assistant to the President on National Assembly Matters (Senate), Ita Enang, disclosed this to State House correspondents in Abuja. Enang, a former senator, said the Act declared June …

In recognition of Governor Godwin Obaseki’s growing political clout across the country, engrained in his clean politics and people-cantered policies, members of the Progressive Governors Forum have elected the Edo State governor as their vice chairman. The Progressive Governors Forum comprises all state governors of the All Progressives Congress (APC), …

A prosecution witness, Ibinabo Micheal-West, on Monday, told a Federal High Court sitting in Lagos, that the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) recovered over N100 billion from International Oil companies (IOC) He said this at the resumed trial of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) against a former NDDC …

Francis Alimikhena (APC-Edo), one of the contesters in the race for Deputy President of the 9th Senate, says he is still in the race. Alimikhena in an interview with journalists on Sunday in Abuja denied stepping down as being insinuated in some quarters, saying, “that will not happen.” He called …

The presidency has announced the death of “scores of people” in an attack in Sokoto on Saturday. The presidency said the attack occurred in “three communities in Rabah Local Government Area (LGA) of Sokoto State.” Sokoto, like neighbouring Zamfara and Katsina states, has witnessed random attacks by armed men who …