A member of Seventh Day Adventist Church has dragged the federal government before a Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, seeking an order to stop the conduct of the 2023 general election and examinations on Saturdays. The member, also an ...
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Ballot Paper: Local Printers Set To Sue INEC
Nigerian printers under the Chartered Institute of Professional Printers of Nigeria have threatened to drag the Independent National Electoral Commission to court for allegedly printing a large chunk of its electoral materials overseas. The agency said this was illegal and ...
Read More »Marketers Predict Six-Month Fuel Scarcity, Prices Rise
The supply hitches associated with the distribution of Premium Motor Spirit, popularly called petrol, may persist till June this year, oil marketers stated on Wednesday. Nigeria’s downstream oil sector has been grappling with cases of incessant petrol scarcity since last ...
Read More »CP Olatoye Durosinmi Gives Recipe For Violence Free Elections In A’Ibom
…As He Tours Divisions On Advocacy …As Stakeholders Promise Orderliness By Samuel Udo The Commissioner of Police, Akwa Ibom State Command, CP Olatoye Durosinmi has said that 2023 general elections in Akwa Ibom State would be the freest if citizens ...
Read More »EDO TRAIN ATTACK: Soldiers, Police, Vigilantes Track Abductors, 31 Passengers Missing
…Railway workers, non-passengers, S’South residents among abductees – NRC boss, official …Two underage victims rescued, suspect arrested as FG, Obaseki condemn kidnapping Soldiers, police personnel and vigilantes are currently tracking the abductors of no fewer than 31 train passengers who ...
Read More »Elections Hold In All 774 LGAs – INEC
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has said it strongly believes that the 2023 general election will hold in all the 36 states, including the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) and the 774 local government areas of the country. The chief ...
Read More »Cross River Clamps Down On Fake Doctors, Illegal Health Facilities
To sanitise the health sector, the Cross River State government has begun a crackdown on fake medical practitioners and illegal health facilities. The exercise is being carried out by Cross River State Health Taskforce, which has arrested a fake surgeon ...
Read More »CBN Contributes To Nigeria’s N77trn Debt Stock – DMO
The proposed securitisation of the N22. 7 trillion Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Ways and Means (loan) to the federal government when approved by the National Assembly would be the largest source of the projected N77 trillion debt stock at ...
Read More »2023: Police Begin Training Of Personnel For Election Duties
Ahead of the 2023 general elections in Nigeria, the Nigerian Police Force (NPF) has commenced the training of its personnel on how to manage electoral offences before, during and after the elections. Speaking at the flag-off ceremony of the training ...
Read More »Court Hears FG Suit Against ASUU Jan 26
The Court of Appeal will decide on the suit filed against the Academic Staff Union of Universities by the Federal Government on January 26, 2022, Sunday PUNCH reports. The government had in 2022 dragged ASUU before the National Industrial Court over the failure ...
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