The Council of State is an organ of the federal government saddled with the responsibility of advising the executive on policy making. Its duties include: advising the president in the exercise of his powers with respect to the national population…
Day: February 22, 2018
ADAMU’S SACK: WE ARE SUPPOSED TO BE WISE MEN- SEN. WAKILI
Senator Ali Wakili, Lawmaker representing Bauchi South Senatorial District, on Thursday protested against the removal of Senator Abdullahi Adamu as Chairman of the Northern Senators Forum without the general knowledge of its members. Wakili, raised this point of order at…
AIB BEGINS INVESTIGATION INTO DANA AIR INCIDENT
The Accident Investigation Bureau (AIB) has commenced investigation into the Dana Air incident, which occurred on Tuesday when the aircraft overshoot the Port Harcourt Airport runway. The investigation of the incident is in accordance to ICAO Annex 13, just as…
NIGERIANS NO LONGER INTERESTED IN BEING GOVERNED WITH PROPAGANDA – FAYOSE TO FG
Governor Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti State has called on the Federal Government to publish all the properties it claimed to have recovered and their owners as well as buyers of the properties when they are eventually sold. The governor, who said…
NEW SECRETARIAT: KOGI APC CRISIS GETS MESSIER
Rumbles in the All Progressives Congress, APC, in Kogi State got messier yesterday, as Governor Yahaya Bello opened a new secretariat and announced the constitution of new state executive to pilot the affairs of the party in acting capacity. Members…
OFFA/IJAGBO COMMUNAL CLASH: POLICE ARRESTS SUSPECTS
Communal clash on Wednesday morning broke out between the people of Offa in Offa Local Government Area and the people of Ijagbo in Oyun Local Government Area of Kwara State. One person was reportedly killed and about 21 others, including…
RICE SCANDAL: EDO PDP INSISTS OBASEKI ACCOUNTS FOR MISSING BAGS OF RICE
Edo State chapter of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, yesterday, insisted that the Governor Godwin Obaseki-led administration must account for the missing 4, 781 bags of rice of the 6,822 approved for the Internally Displaced Persons Camp at Uhogwa in Ovia…