POWER GENERATION AND ONGOING LOAD SHEDDING NATIONWIDE
The Transmission Company of Nigeria wishes to notify consumers of electricity that the current load shedding being experienced nationwide is as a result of very low power generation by the Generation Companies (GENCOs) for TCN to wheel through the transmission grid to distribution companies nationwide. The media has been awash with reports that TCN has […]
Defection: Court Sacks Ebonyi State Governor Umahi And His Deputy
A Federal High Court in Abuja has ordered the Ebonyi State Governor, Dave Umahi and his deputy, Eric Igwe, to vacate their seats as the sitting governor and deputy respectively, on grounds that the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) won the election in March 2019 and not the candidates. This comes nearly two years after the […]
PDP submits Umahi’s replacement to INEC, sacked governor sits tight
Justice Inyang Ekwo of a Federal High Court in Abuja on Tuesday declared as illegal, the defection of Governor Dave Umahi of Ebonyi State and his deputy, Dr Kelechi Igwe, from the Peoples Democratic Party to the All Progressives Congress. The court made the order in a judgment on a suit filed by the PDP […]
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 […]