DIG Joseph Egbunike slumps, dies in Abuja
A deputy Inspector General of Police in-charge of the Force Criminal Investigations Department, Joseph Egbunike, is dead. Egbunike who hails from Onitsha, Anambra State, reportedly slumped and died in his office in Abuja in the late hours of Tuesday. Until his death, Egbunike headed the Special Investigation Panel constituted by the Inspector General of Police, […]
OSUN PDP PRIMARIES: Adeleke Emerges Winner
The Chairman of the Osun Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) primary election, Lawrence Ewhrudjakpo, has announced Senator Ademola Jackson Adeleke, as the candidate of the party in the July 16 gubernatorial election. He said Ademola Adeleke polled 1,887 votes to pick the ticket of the party for the governorship poll. Presenting the PDP Certificate of Return […]
HAPPY INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY (IWD)
…PIus Ayim Pius Felicitates With Nigerian Women As the world stands up for women on this auspicious occasion of the International Women’s Day (IWD), I join all men of goodwill in celebrating our women for all they do to maintain the balance of the human society. I am sad, that our women in Nigeria, will […]
Int’l Women’s Day: Rescue all women, children in bandit’s, terrorist’s captivity – Groups tell FG
National President, Foundation for the Protection of Women and Children in Nigeria, Hajiya Samari Tijjani, has called on the Federal and State Governments to help rescue all the women and children held in bandits and Boko Haram captivity across the north. Speaking in a telephone interview with selected Journalists in Kaduna on Sunday, Hajiya Tijjani, […]
Candidates can expect WASSCE results in 45 days – WAEC
The West African Examinations Council has said the use of Information and Communication Technology has reduced the period for the processing of results of the West African Senior School Certificate Examination for candidates from 84 days to 45 days. Speaking at a press briefing about the forthcoming 70th annual council meeting of WAEC, the Head, […]
ASUU attacks El-Rufai over land, demands gov’s ABU certificate withdrawal
Members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria branch, on Monday, protested against the alleged forceful takeover of the institution’s land by the Kaduna State Governor, Malam Nasir El-Rufai. At the Mando campus of the College of Agriculture and Animal Science of ABU in the state capital, the lecturers called on […]
ASUU shuns renegotiation panel inauguration, report ready June
Efforts to woo members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities back to the negotiating table may have hit a brick wall as executive members of the striking union failed to take part in the inauguration of a seven-man committee set up by the Federal Government to renegotiate the existing agreements. Journalist, who where at […]
Fresh voter registration hits 6.6 million-INEC
The Independent National Electoral Commission has disclosed that fresh registration in the ongoing Continuous Voter Registration across the country has hit 6.6 million. The commission disclosed this in Abuja in an update on Quarter three, week nine of the CVR. The update showed that as at 7am on Monday, March 7, the fresh batch of […]
Medical Trip: Buhari Hands Over To Osinbajo, Flies Out To London
The President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), on Sunday in Abuja, said Vice President Yemi Osinbajo will be in charge while he is away in London, the United Kingdom, on a two-week routine medical check-up. Buhari said this just before his aircraft, Nigeria Air Force 1, took off from the Presidential Wing of the Nnamdi […]
Hijab does not protect female officers from AK-47 bullets, HURIWA slams IGP
Civil rights advocacy group, Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria, on Sunday, lambasted the Inspector General of Police, Usman Baba, over the introduction of new dress code for female police officers. HURIWA, in a statement by its National Coordinator, Emmanuel Onwubiko, said the new dress code for female police officers negated the provisions of the […]