The Federal Government has set up a committee to review the technical and financial aspects of the demands by the striking Joint Health Sector Unions. This was part of the decisions reached at a meeting of top government officials held on…
Month: April 2018
CONVENTION ON COURSE-IZUNASO
The National Organizing Secretary of the All Progressives Congress, Senator Osita Izunaso, has dismissed claims that some National Working Committee (NWC) members were allegedly working to thwart the move to hold the party’s congresses and national convention. Some members of the…
OFFA ROBBERY: THE INSIDE STORY
Fresh facts emerged in Ilorin at the weekend on how the armed robbers who raided five banks in Offa, Kwara State, succeeded in their operations without any resistance from the security agencies in the town. During the attack, 17 persons including nine…
INEC DENIES CREATING ADDITIONAL POLLING UNITS
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has denied creating 30,000 additional polling units in order to compromise the 2019 general elections. National Publicity Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party`s (PDP), Mr. Kola Ologbondiyan, on Friday alleged that INEC was planning to create…
DISQUALIFY FAYEMI – APC GROUP
A group, under the aegis of Concerned All Progressives Congress (APC) members, has called on the party top hierarchy to disqualify former governor and minister of Mines and Steel Development, Kayode Fayemi, over alleged indictment by the state government and…
BBNAIJA: MIRACLE IGBOKWE WINS
A 24-year-old pilot and model in the Big Brother Naija (BBN) reality show, Miracle Igbokwe, has been crowned winner of the competition, carting home the cash prize of N25million, an SUV and other benefits totaling N45 million during a glamorous…
2019: SARAKI, TAMBUWAL GIVES PDP CONDITION
Will the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) grant the request of Senate President Bukola Saraki and some of its former members for a name change before rejoining the party? The party is wooing Saraki, Sokoto State Governor Aminu Tambuwal, his predecessor,…
POLICE ARRESTS DINO MELAYE
Senator Dino Melaye (APC-Kogi West) has been arrested after checking in at the international wing of the Nnamdi Azikiwe Airport, Abuja. The senator tweeted that he was picked up on Monday on his way to Morocco for an official engagement…
16 KILLED IN KOGI, BORNO ATTACKS
An early morning attack by unknown gunmen yesterday resulted in the death of five persons and burning of 15 houses as well as unspecified number of vehicles and motorcycles at Kpanche village in Bassa council area of Kogi State. The…
MONICA OSAGIE: DENIES BEING INVITED BY OAU PANEL PROBING SEX-FOR-MARKS AUDIO
Miss Monica Osagie, the student at the centre of a sex-for-mark scandal rocking the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, has denied shunning an invitation by the panel probing her audio tapes of her conversation with disgraced Professor Richard Akindele, who demanded…