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The Supreme Court is billed to deliver final judgement on the PDP governorship tussle in Delta State on Friday. A violent crowd of party supporters has pulled down the entry doors of the Supreme Court in Abuja where judgement will be delivered on Friday in the Delta State PDP governorship dispute. David Edevbie, a former Commissioner of Finance in the former …

The Conference of Speakers of State Legislatures of Nigeria has accused the National Assembly of blackmailing and undermining the powers of the state Assemblies. Chairperson of the conference and Speaker of the Bauchi House of Assembly, Abubakar Sulaiman, in a statement, yesterday, specifically targeted Deputy Senate President and chairperson of the Constitution Review Committee, Ovie Omo-Agege, of deliberately demonising state assemblies …

Edo State Government said today that it has uncovered plans by mischief makers to disrupt the presidential campaign rally of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), scheduled for Saturday, October 22, 2022 in the state. Then government warned that it would bring the full weight of the law upon any individual involved in the reprehensible act. Secretary to the Edo State …

The low rating of Edo State (34) in the Ease of Doing Business (EoDB) is a source of worry as the government has vowed to work with all stakeholders to reverse the trend. At a workshop held in conjunction with GIZ in Benin City yesterday, Kelvin Uwaibi, who is the Secretary of the Ease of Doing Business in the state, …

The apex Igbo socio-cultural organisation, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, has commended the regime of the President, Major General, Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), for the completion of the second Niger Bridge. The organisation said the completion of the project had earned Buhari forgiveness from the Igbo people for not fulfilling his 2015 electoral promises, which included revamping the Enugu coal mine. In a statement …

A new management team and governing board is to be set up for the commission. President Muhammadu Buhari has sacked Effiong Akwa as the sole administrator of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC). A statement issued on Thursday by the spokesperson of the Ministry of Niger Delta Affairs, Patricia Deworitshe, said Mr Akwa’s sack, which has been approved by Mr Buhari, takes …

The President of the Senate, Dr. Ahmad Lawan, yesterday, reiterated that the collaboration between the Executive and the National Assembly was responsible for the success of the 9thassembly as the most productive. Lawan, in a statement by his Media Adviser, Olu Awoniyi, also disclosed the same-page policy propelled President Muhammadu Buhari, to sign into law, 84 bills passed by the …

• Nigerians demand end to police brutality, occupy Lekki Tollgate with mock coffins Many people were injured yesterday when the police fired teargas canisters at people who converged to commemorate the second anniversary of #EndSARS protest. Outside the teargas canisters, popularly known as smoke, the police were also accused of firing gunshots to disperse the mammoth crowd that converged at the …

The Forcados Export pipeline which has a capacity to export over 400,000 barrels of crude per day was vandalised by crude oil thieves. Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) has resumed export operations at the Forcados Oil Export Terminal, where repair works on the pipeline went in for weeks. The SPDC’s media relations manager, Abimbola Essien-Nelson, confirmed this to the News Agency …

The governorship candidate of the Zenith Labour Party in Rivers State, Leyii Kwanee, has urgef the Independent National Electoral Commission to punish politicians who violate provisions of the new Electoral Act. Kwanee stressed the need for INEC to invoke its powers and file charges against politicians who run short of the law, especially against the backdrop of the executive order …