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The Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom, said on Thursday the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governors and other elected officials are defecting to the All Progressives Congress (APC) because of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). The governor, who stated this in Makurdi shortly after returning from Oyo State where he commissioned some projects on the invitation of his Oyo...

Nigeria’s power generation has increased by 8.46 percent to reach a peak of 4,469.80 Mega Watts on Sunday. This is according to the latest data sourced from Nigeria electricity System operator. The data showed power generated had increased from 4,120.9MW it stood on Sunday, 6 June the previous week. As at 6.00am on Monday 14 June, Ripples Nigeria observed grid Generation was at 3,937.50...

Seventeen fresh deaths have been recorded in one day as a cholera outbreak in Bauchi State continues to ravage the state, bringing the number of recorded deaths to 37, the state Ministry of Health has announced. Ripples Nigeria had reported the outbreak on May 26 which led to the deaths of 20 people in some local government areas of the...

Governor of Akwa Ibom State, Udom Emmanuel, has blamed policies of the Federal Government for hindering his investments in the state’s power sector, saying all his efforts at getting the state to distribute power are being frustrated. Emmanuel who disclosed this on Sunday at a press briefing to present his score card in the past six years, noted that the...

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...