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The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has said there are no factions in the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA). This is as the commission also denied reports that it disqualified the party from participating in the November 6 Anambra State governorship election. Mr Rotimi Oyekanmi, the Chief Press Secretary (CPS) to the INEC Chairman, Prof Mahmood Yakubu, said this on Thursday...

Gunmen broke into Hilltop Hotel at Tunga Maje in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) on Wednesday night and abducted some guests and the owner of the hotel. The hotel owner, who was identified as Prince Adejo and six other people where said to be holding a meeting inside his hotel when the gunmen struck. Tungan-Maje has been witnessing series of kidnapping...

President Muhammadu Buhari will today depart Abuja for London for a scheduled medical follow-up. Buhari, according to a statement by his spokesman, Femi Adesina, is due back in Nigeria during the second week of July 2021. The president had, on March 30, 2021, left Nigeria for his first medical trip in over a year and returned home on April 15. Protesters stormed...

The Caretaker Committee And Extra-Ordinary Convention Planning Committee of the All Progressives Congress (APC) will get another six months extension, according to sources. The committee was put together on June 25, 2020, following the sack of Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, National Chairman of the party, by a court. It had the mandate to stabilise the party and organise a convention to usher...

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has released the results of candidates who sat in more than 720 CBT centres for the 2021 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) conducted between Saturday 19 and Tuesday 22 June 2021. But it is withholding few for “further investigation”, said Fabian Benjamin, head of protocol and public relations at the board. Benjamin, who noted...

The Abia Central PDP Zonal Chairman, Chief Chukwudi Ezebuiro has frowned at the recent clandestine meetings and attendant communiqués flying around on the issue of the successor of Dr. Okezie Ikpeazu. In a Press Statement signed by Chief Ezebuiro and sighted by ABIAPULSENEWS, the party chieftain stated that the focus of every genuine PDP member should be to “encourage our...

The Federal High Court, Abuja, on Monday, ordered the Federal Government to pay $951 million to the Bayelsa Government. The amount is the 13 per cent derivative sum due as arrears of revenue and payable to the Bayelsa government. Justice Inyang Ekwo, who delivered the judgment, held that the Attorney- General of the Federation (AGF), the sole defendant in the case, failed...

Justice Taiwo Taiwo of the Federal High Court, Abuja, on Monday, ordered the Mobil Producing Nigeria Unlimited and its joint venture partner, the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) to pay N81.9 billion to Ibeno villages in Akwa Ibom State for oil pollution in the communities. The judge ordered the oil companies to pay the money within 14 days, after which...

President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday approved the appointment of Mr. George Ekpungu as the new Secretary of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). The Special Adviser on Media and Publicity to the Attorney-General of the Federation, Dr. Umar Gwandu, disclosed this in a statement on Monday. Ekpungu served as the Commissioner for New Cities Development in Cross River State from...

The hearing of the suit filed by Slok, a firm owned by the former governor of Abia State, Orji Uzor Kalu, against the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), would continue on July 13. The firm is seeking for the court to restrain EFCC from a retrial in the alleged N7.1 billion fraud case against it and its chairman Kalu. Justice Inyang...