Fear Grips Nigerian Governor, Approves Mass Promotion For Civil Servants Few Days To Guber Poll Fear Grips Nigerian Governor, Approves Mass Promotion For Civil Servants Few Days To Guber Poll Some days to the governorship and state house of assemly elections, Governor Okezie Ikpeazu of Abia State has approved one Grade Level Command Promotion for all workers in Abia State Local Government System with effect from April 2023. Ikpeazu broke the news on Wednesday while meeting with the workers in Local Government Service at the International Conference Centre, Umuahia. He said his relationship with the workers in the state has…
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BREAKING: Gunmen Burns Down PDP Candidate, Father’s House In Imo Gunmen Burns Down PDP Candidate, Father’s House In Imo Gunmen on Tuesday razed the country home of the Peoples Democratic Party candidate for Imo State House of Assembly, Ifeanyi Ozoemena and that of his father. The candidate confirmed the arson to journalists in Owerri Wednesday that his house and that of his father in Okigwe Local Government Area of the state were razed by the gunmen. He said: “My house and that of my father at Umuokparaoha village in Umulolo community in the Okigwe Local Government Area of Imo State…
EXCLUSIVE: Governorship Candidate Promises Dialogue With Bandits Terrorists To Win Election Governorship Candidate Promises Dialogue With Bandits Terrorists To Win Election The All Progressives Congress (APC) Campaign Council in Kaduna State has kicked against the plan by the governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Isa Ashiru, to dialogue with bandits as a solution to the insecurity bedeviling the state. The Director of Strategic Communications of the APC campaign council, Malam Ibraheem Musa, in a statement yesterday, said Ashiru had poor understanding of insecurity and how to tackle it. Earlier yesterday, Ashiru said during a chat with ARISE…
TENSION: Missing Teenager Found Hanging On Tree Tension: Missing Teenager Found Hanging On Tree The Bagbe Community in Ondo West Local Government Area of Ondo State was thrown into a mourning mood on Sunday when the body of a 17-year-old boy was found hanging on a tree. The deceased identified as Elijah Akinrinlola was said to be living with his father, Tope Akinrinlola, along the College Road area of the community before the incident. It was gathered that the deceased was initially declared missing but his body was later found hanging on a tree in the community. A source in…
Security Agent Recovers 1,671 PVCs, Ballot Papers In Apartment Security Agent Recovers 1,671 PVCs, Ballot Papers In Apartment Personnel of the 9 Brigade of the Nigerian Army, yesterday, recovered 1,671 Permanent Voters Cards, PVCs, in an apartment in the Olodi-Apapa area of Lagos State. Three persons were subsequently arrested in the apartment, while the prime suspect was said to be on the run. Also recovered in the apartment were ballot papers, cutlasses and Indian hemp. Vanguard gathered that the startling discovery was made in the course of a preliminary investigation into an incident that occurred in the area, yesterday. The…
BREAKING: INEC Declares No Winner In Doguwa’s Constituency, Fixes New Date For Rerun BREAKING: INEC Declares No Winner In Doguwa’s Constituency, Fixes New Date For Rerun The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has declared that there was no winner in the February 25 National Assembly Election in Doguwa and Tudunwada Federal Constituencies. Alhassan Doguwa, Majority Leader of the House of Representatives, who contested on the All Progressives Congress (APC), was initially declared winner of the exercise. However, the electoral umpire delisted his name from the reps-elect and failed to issue him a certificate of return. The commission had said he…
Man Hacks 100-year-old Grandmother To Death Man Hacks 100-year-old Grandmother To Death A 37-year-old man, identified as Artur B., hacked his 100-year-old grandmother, Amalie G., to death using an axe. The incident happened on Monday in Hamburg, Germany, according to a Daily Mail report on Wednesday. Chief Public Prosecutor Liddy Oechtering told a local news platform, “According to the preliminary autopsy result, it can be assumed that a cervical cord severing caused by sharp and blunt force was the cause of death. The suspected crime is an axe found at the crime scene.” During a reconstruction of the autopsy, coroners…
Many Killed As Drone Strikes Information reaching Ibom Focus says that Many Killed As Drone Strikes A drone strike killed four people in government-held eastern Syria on Wednesday in an area controlled by Iran-backed factions, a war monitor said. “Four people were killed and eight wounded in a drone strike near a weapons factory belonging to Iran-backed groups and near a truck loaded with weapons,” Rami Abdel Rahman of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights told AFP. There was no immediate word on who carried out the strike in the eastern city of Deir Ezzor or whether the dead were…
Ignores Buhari’s Plea, Maintains Indefinite Visa Ban On Nigerians, UAE Ignores Buhari’s Plea, Maintains Indefinite Visa Ban On Nigerians, UAE The United Arab Emirates has disregarded the pleas of President Muhammadu Buhari to lift a visa ban slammed on Nigerian nationals since October 2022. The ban, however, does not affect persons holding diplomatic passports. Last month, Mr Buhari had appealed to Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayad Al Nahyan, the UAE president, to remove the visa ban on his country people in a telephone conversation whose content was relayed by his media aide, Garba Shehu. The Nigerian leader, via the phone, disclosed…
Leaked Video: I’ll Win Election At All Cost, Even By Theft – Governorship Candidate Vows Leaked Video: I’ll Win Election At All Cost, Even By Theft – Governorship Candidate Vows The governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Aishatu Dahiru Ahmed Binani, has boasted that she would win the 2023 gubernatorial election in Adamawa State by all means. In a leaked video, Binani who spoked in Fulfulde language was heard saying that she would clinch the governorship seat, even if by theft. “APC party is prepared for anything, even if it means to steal the ballots or by persuasion;…