By Musa Ubandawaki The Kebbi state chapter of the Peoples Redemption Party (PRP) has inaugurated a 75-member Gubernatorial Campaign Council for electioneering in the 2023 general elections in the state. Led by the former Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Professor Attahiru Jega, the Campaign Council was inaugurated at a stakeholders meeting held at Saffar Conference Center, Birnin Kebbi on Saturday. Speaking at the event, the governorship candidate, Abubakar Udu Idris congratulated members of the campaign council and thanked them for accepting to serve despite their other important engagements. “I will like to use this auspicious moment to…
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The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has called for a bill to regulate how children of public officers enroll in schools outside the shores of Nigeria. Prof. Kingdom Tombra, Chairman of the University of Niger Delta University Wilberforce Island chapter of the union, made this call at the solidarity protest organised by the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) in Yenagoa on Tuesday. The NLC embarked on the nationwide protest in solidarity with the ASUU and other affiliate unions over the lingering industrial action in public universities in Nigeria. “If this is done, it will build a better society by developing…
Most Rev. Daniel Chukwudumebi Okoh has emerged the new president of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN). This is contained in a statement by the CAN General Secretary, Mr. Joseph Daramola on Tuesday. The General Superintendent of Christ Holy Church, also called Nation Builders (Odozi-Obodo), Okoh was born on November 12, 1963 in Kano to Christian parents. He is a native of Ndoni in Ogba/Egbema/Ndoni local government area of Rivers state, Nigeria. Meanwhile, PRNigeria gathered that the Kano-born and an indigene of Rivers State, Most Rev. Daniel Okoh is a de-tribalized Nigerian who has built friendship across religious and ethnic…
The Federation Account Allocation Committee (FAAC) has disbursed N802.407 billion as June allocation, an increase of N121,624 billion over the N680,783 billion disbursed in May. A communiqué issued at the end of July 2022 FAAC meeting held in Abuja, also said the balance in the Excess Crude Account (ECA) grew to $376,655.09 million in June from $35.377 million recorded in May. The N802.407 billion total distributable revenue comprised distributable statutory revenue of N608.580 billion and distributable Value Added Tax (VAT) revenue of N193.827 billion. In June 2022, the total deductions for cost of collection was N44.606 billion and deductions for…
By Justina Auta The Nigerian Union of Journalists (NUJ) has advocated the creation of special desks in media organisations and other offices to handle cases of Sexual Gender Based Violence (SGBV). The Chairman of the FCT Council of the NUJ, Mr Emmanuel Ogbeche made the call on Tuesday at an event organised by Supporting Hands Initiative, ComfortStream Aid Foundation, NUJ and NAWOJ in Abuja. Ogbeche, while making a presentation on “Gender Based Violence Reporting,” described it as a pandemic, stressed the need for more advocacies and awareness to curtail the menace. According to him, the need to encourage people to…
Kogi state governor, Yahaya Bello of Kogi has expressed grief over the death of the Army officials killed in an ambush on the Presidential Guard Brigade on Sunday by suspected terrorists in the Federal Capital Territory. Bello also commiserated with the families of the deceased and the Nigerian Army in a statement made available by his Chief Press Secretary, Onogwu Muhammed on Tuesday in Abuja. The Army officers were ambushed after they responded to a distress call from the Nigeria Law School, Bwari. The governor stated that it was more saddening to find out that two out of the fallen gallant…
The Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Lt.-Gen. Faruk Yahaya, says the ongoing counter-insurgency and anti-banditry operations across the country has made the Nigerian Army to scale down its participation in peace support operations across the world. Yahaya made this known at the opening of the maiden Nigerian Army Peace Support Operations seminar on Tuesday in Abuja. The seminar has the theme “Nigeria in Contemporary Peace Support Operations Environment”. He said Nigeria’s participation in peace support operations dated back to the 1960s with notable achievements and commendations that contributed to regional and global stability and peace. The COAS noted the various…
Chevron Nigeria Ltd. has restated its commitment to take deliberate actions in ensuring that the country attain its net zero carbon emission goal by 2060. Mr Victor Anyaegbudike, Communications Manager, Chevron Nigeria and Mid-Africa, said this at the Nigerian-American Chamber of Commerce (NACC) breakfast meeting in Lagos on Tuesday. President Muhammadu Buhari, at the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow in November 2021, pledged that the country would reach net zero emissions by 2060 to save the environment. Anyaegbudike said that Chevron had taken steps before Nigeria’s decade of gas declaration which resulted in achieving 95 per cent reduction of gas…
The Ekiti State Governorship Election Petitions Tribunal has granted the prayers of Segun Oni of the Social Democratic Party (SDP) to conduct physical inspection of INEC ballot papers used in the June 18 election Oni is challenging the victory of Mr Abiodun Oyebanji, the governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), before the tribunal headed by Justice Wilfred Kpochi, which had its inaugural sitting on Tuesday in Ado-Ekiti. Also joined as respondents in the case are the All Progressives Congress (APC), the APC National Chairman, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) and the Deputy Governor-elect, Monisola Afuye. Other members…
The South African High Commissioner to Nigeria, Mr Thami Mseleku, has called for stronger collaboration between his country and Nigeria for effective implementation of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) agreement. The envoy said the collaboration would help to facilitate the acceleration of developing on the continent. Mseleku made the call in Abuja at the grand finale of a stage play titled “Philomena’’ produced by Monalisa Chinda, Bimbo Mannuel, Zack Ineydo and Rekiya Ibrahim-Atta to advocate the course of girl child in Africa. He said that Nigeria and South Africa, the two leading African economies, had deeper collaboration but if…