Category: News

Supreme Court Sacks Lyon, Declares PDP’s Diri Duoye Bayelsa Governor-Elect

The Supreme Court has sacked the governor-elect of Bayelsa State, David Lyon, and his Deputy, Biobarakuma Degi-Eremieoyo. A five-man panel of the apex court led by Justice Mary Peter-Odili ordered the Independent National Electoral Commission to withdraw the Certificate of Return issued to the All Progressives Congress’ candidate as the winners of the November 16, […]

FCMB Tracks Little Girl Who Was Pictured Using The Light From ATM To Read…

…Identifies her as Rasheed Fathia Dele …Opens a Trust Fund for her A young school girl identified as Dele, made the news few days ago after a photo of her using First City Monument bank (FCMB) ATM Gallery’s light in Ondo, to do her homework went viral. Reports reaching Procyon News has it that little […]

ATM FRAUD: How I was Duped

…fraudster who claimed to be a police officer nabbed in a hotel with a lady. This story has gone viral online…. My mum was duped of 500k last night. She went to the Atm, tried to put her pin, it wasnt working. She saw a young man standing behind her, and turned to him to […]

Chikun LG Boss Commits to abide by Public Procurement Law

…As Councillor of Rido Ward holds community town hall meeting In accordance with Open Government Partnership (OGP) principles – State Public Procurement Law and guidelines – the Chikun Local Government Council of Kaduna state has marshaled out a procurement plan and other related data for citizens to access, monitor and track budget implementation and procurement. […]

Wamakko flags off disbursement of N 317.7m assistance to Orphans by IIRO

By Ado Hassan, Sokoto No fewer than 1,176 Orphans in Sokoto state benefitted from N317.7 million International Islamic Relief Organization(IIRO) assistance disbursed Friday by Senator Aliyu Magatakarda Wamakko, Chairman of the Senate Committee on Defence and Vice Chairman, Senate Committee on Anti Corruption. The benefiting orphans,comprising of males and females, were drawn from the twenty three […]

LG Autonomy: Sokoto LGs staff tasked on punctuality, efficient service delivery

By Ado Hassan, Sokoto IN view of the pivotal role of the third tier of government to the development and well being of the grassroots populace, the Permanent Secretary,  Sokoto state Local Government Service Commission (LGSC), Alhaji Ahmadu Rufa’i has tasked local government staff in the state to brace up, rededicate themselves and be alive […]

Kidnappers Release Children Of Kaduna Doctor After Killing Mother

Chimezie Enyiocha , Channels tv The children of a Kaduna-based medical doctor, Philip Ataga who were abducted in January have been released by their abductors. They were released around 7:00 p.m. on Thursday night. The two children who were identified as Christabel and Jasmine were abducted alongside their mother from their residence at Juji area […]

INEC Deregisters 74 Political Parties. (see full list)

The Presidential Election Petitions Court on Wednesday ruled that INECwas at liberty to decide the mode of transmission of election results.

The Independent National Electoral Commission has deregistered 74 political parties. Only 16 political parties have survived the latest exercise by the agency. The commission carried out a review of the performance of political parties after the 2019 general elections to ascertain the ones that qualify. As a result, 74 parties were deregistered Full list: 74 […]

AQAP’s Leader Qasim Al-Raymi Presumed Dead After U.S. Airstrike

Commander Was Key Player In Yemen, Potential Heir To Lead Al-Qaeda (New York, N.Y.) – On January 31, 2020, the United States announced that they recently conducted an airstrike that is believed to have resulted in the death of Qasim al-Raymi, al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula’s (AQAP) leader. After having led al-Qaeda’s branch in Yemen since 2015, it is […]