Unemployment Registration: FG Sends Important Message To Graduates, Tells Them What To Do Immediately The National Directorate of Employment (NDE) registration exercise of unemployed graduates in the 27 Local Government Areas of Imo State has intensified with an advice to the participating graduates to follow the laid down rules and instructions. The Imo State Coordinator of (NDE), Mrs Chisara Winifred Egwim-Chima, gave the advice while supervising the number of unemployed persons who turned out for the registration exercise at the weekend, at the different Local Government Area registration points at the Federal Secretariat, Owerri. While assuring them of NDE’s relentless…
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BREAKING: 10th NASS Leadership: Heavy Crisis Looms As Lawmakers Reject APC NWC Zoning Arrangement A fresh crisis is looming in the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) as some of its aspirants for the leadership of the 10th National Assembly have rejected the party’s consensus candidates for positions of the Senate President, Deputy Senate President, Speaker, and Deputy Speaker. At a press conference on Monday night, the current House of Reps Deputy Speaker, Ahmed Idris Wase, and current Majority Leader, Alhasan Ado Doguwa, rejected the consensus arrangement announced by the party earlier on Monday. The APC National Publicity Secretary, Felix Morka,…
Igbo Leaders Warn Against Swearing-in Tinubu Ahead of the May 29, 2023 handover date, Igbo leaders under the auspices of the Igbo Patriotic Forum have cautioned against the swearing-in of Bola Tinubu before the apex court judgment, saying it might be an invitation to anarchy if done. The Igbo leaders advised that the judiciary must be allowed to conclude hearing on the presidential election petitions before swearing in a new president of Nigeria. The forum which made this known yesterday at a press conference presided over by its chairman, Simon Okeke in Abuja, condemned what it called a delayed tactic…
He Never Wanted To Be President, Turai Reveals Why Yar’Adua Died A former First Lady and widow of the late President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua, Turai, has said that her late husband became the president of the country by destiny, disclosing that he was never desperate about it. Speaking to BBC Hausa on the 13th-year anniversary of his death, Turai said her late husband never liked politics and she could only describe him as an accidental politician. “His life ambition was to be a teacher, come home from school, sit with his family and crack jokes till another day. He never…
FULL LIST: Tinubu To Merge Government Agencies, Ministries, Others Indications have emerged that the President-elect, Bola Tinubu, will take tough decisions when he assumes duty in order to revive the ailing economy. Some of the decisions he is likely to take include the implementation of the Stephen Oronsaye panel’s report on the reform of the civil service and the removal of the controversial fuel subsidy, which has become a drain on resources, job cuts, introduction of higher taxes, privatisation of public corporations and the sale of some government assets. So This Happened (129) reviews man who killed father… Sunday PUNCH…
NASS Leadership: Plot Thickens Against Tinubu’s Preferred Candidates Ahead of the June 13 inauguration of the 10th National Assembly (NASS), there are strong indications that politicking and intense horse-trading would dog the jostle for key leadership positions till the final day. This is mainly because of an alleged growing resistance of a host of Senators-elect and some Members-elect to align with the supposed endorsement of the National Working Committee (NWC) of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) of some candidates eyeing the Senate Presidency and House Speakership. In a crowded field of qualified and ranking members, the President-elect, Asiwaju Bola…
Senate Presidency : Crisis Rocks NASS, After Ignoring Tinubu, Yari Meets Tambuwal, Other PDP Senators-elect Former Zamfara State governor and Senator-elect, Abdul’Aziz Yari, on Saturday met with Governor Aminu Tambuwal of Sokoto State and some other Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) senators-elect in Bayelsa. The burial ceremony of the father of Governor Douye Diri, which took place on Saturday, was said to have provided opportunity for the PDP senators-elect to meet with Yari. According to a source, the meeting was not unconnected to Yari’s quest to emerge as Senate President in the 10th National Assembly. Naija News House reports that the…
Nigerian Police In Trouble Over Released Of Disgraced Adamawa REC The Nigeria Police Force has freed the arrested Adamawa State Resident Electoral Commissioner.The Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA) has, however, kicked against the quick release of the suspended REC. Spokesman of the Police, CSP Muyiwa Adejobi, who announced the release, yesterday, said: “NPF hereby confirms that Barr. Hudu Yunusa-Ari, the suspended Adamawa State REC, who has been in custody for interrogations by the police in the course of investigations into allegations of impropriety during the supplementary gubernatorial polls in the state has been granted administrative bail by the…
REVEALED: How Buhari Spent N8 Trillion On ‘Non-existent’ Petrol Subsidies Before he won the 2015 presidential election, President Muhammadu Buhari led the opposition party, the All Progressive Congress (APC) in grand opposition to the removal of petrol subsidies. President Buhari’s contention then was that there was no subsidy on petrol and that the government then under President Goodluck Jonathan was corrupt and was looking for ways to fraudulently enrich themselves at the expense of the Nigerian masses. Eight years down the line and with just days before the end of his two terms in government, President Buhari is leaving the…
My Wife Locks Me In The Room, Beat Me, Took Over My ATM Card —Man Cry Out A man, Charles Sijuade, has approached Grade A Customary Court, Mapo, Ibadan, Oyo State praying that it end the relationship between him and his wife, Dasola on the grounds of neglect, abandonment and lack of love by the latter. Charles told the court that he took ill and was incapacitated for long. According to him, Dasola neglected him, locked him up in a room and gave him no care. He added that all she was interested in was his money. Charles explained that…