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Terver Akase, spokesman of Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue State, is among the six gubernatorial aspirants of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) that the governor unveiled for the 2023 elections on Sunday. Ortom introduced the aspirants at the JS Tarka Institute of Political Studies, Gboko, during the defection of notable Benue politicians, Joseph Kaaba, Francis Kwaghgba, and their teeming supporters...

Government Special Announcement Abia State Government has received information on a planned rally by a civil society group purportedly billed for Aba and Umuahia on Monday, 14th June, 2021, and we wish to call on the organizers to immediately cancel the program in view of the prevailing security situation in the region in particular and the nation in general. We are...

The Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Police Command on Saturday on Saturday explained why its operatives dispersed the June 12 protesters at the Gudu area of the city. Police operatives deployed to various parts of the city dispersed the protesters with canisters of teargas on Saturday morning. The command’s spokesperson, Yusuf Mariam, who spoke on the development in a statement, said police operatives...

A Nigerian Air Force (NAF) Alpha jet has conducted offensive aerial bombardments around Genu town in Niger State, eliminating many in a convoy of fleeing armed bandits. Sources said some herds of rustled cows were also killed by airstrikes of the NAF jet, which was scrambled from a military base in Katsina State. One of the bombs allegedly strayed at a...

The Danish Football Association has confirmed that Christian Eriksen is “awake” in hospital after collapsing during Denmark’s Euro 2020 opener against Finland on Saturday. The 29-year-old received CPR before the players were taken off the pitch and the match was halted. The Inter Milan star was then rushed to the hospital and his condition is said to have been “stabilised” according...

President Muhammadu Buhari, on Saturday, charged universities in the country to devote greater attention to entrepreneurship trainings in order to produce graduates that will create jobs, not job seekers. Buhari gave the charge in Nsukka during the University of Nigeria, Nsukka (UNN) 49th convocation ceremony for the conferment of masters degree, doctorate degree and award of honorary doctorate on four...

Bayelsa State governor, Senator Douye Diri, Saturday said the state will not resuscitate any grazing route in order to check herders/farmers clashes. Diri who was reacting to the recent directive by President Muhammadu Buhari for states to revive cattle grazing routes across the country, explained that  Bayelsa will not consider such idea after prohibiting open grazing. Speaking during a broadcast monitored...

Residents of states in the South-East on Saturday shunned the June 12 rally organized by youths to protest bad governance and worsening insecurity in the country. This was in contrast to the situation in the South-West where security operatives struggled to maintain law and order in cities across the region. Unlike the sit-at-home order given by the proscribed Indigenous People of...

Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue state yesterday said the state is currently facing the worst humanitarian crisis in recent time with over 1.5 million Internally Displaced Persons, IDPs, arising from ceaseless attacks on communities in the state by armed herdsmen. He lamented that the government had been overwhelmed and unable to cope with the situation and urgently needed help to...

Property owners in Yenagoa, the Bayelsa State capital, have continued to groan over recent demolition of “illegal structures” across the town by the state government. They are accusing the government of being selective in its approach for the exercise. Mostly affected in the ongoing exercise are traders across various markets. The traders’ union in the state claimed that over 10,000...