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Three days to the deadline of the directive issued by President Muhammadu Buhari to political appointees seeking to participate in the 2023 elections to resign, three ministers have complied, but others are still hanging on. The Minister of State for Education, Emeka Nwajiuba; the Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Godswill Akpabio, and the Minister of Science and Technology, Ogbonna Onu, …

• Vows to be resolute against political pressure as 18 parties submit register• Considers relocation of sensitive materials from CBN• Says commission can’t regulate cost of nomination forms for politicians The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), yesterday, announced it might move sensitive materials from the Central Bank of Nigeria to another location. Speaking during a consultative meeting with the media, …

…Ohuabuwa insists country must get right leadership in next year’s polls Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has said Nigeria was still battling with leadership deficiency, as it goes into the general elections next year. Obasanjo, who noted that the void in leadership needed to be filled to enable the country succeed in its yearnings for economic growth and development, said the …

The Director-General, Department of State Service (DSS), Yusuf Bichi, says the service has removed a journalist, Lanre Arogundade, from its watch list in which his name featured for 38 years. Bichi said this when a delegation from the Nigerian chapter of the International Press Institute (IPI Nigeria) visited him in Abuja. The Secretary of IPI Nigeria, Ahmed Shekarau, in a …

A former Governor of Abia State and Chief Whip of the Senate, Orji Kalu, has lamented the gruesome murder of a student of Shehu Shahari College of Education, Sokoto, Ms Deborah Yakubu, by her course mates who accussed her of blasphemy to Prophet Muhammed (SAW). The deceased was set ablaze by the culprits. Describing the act as evil, cruel and …

The United Arab Emirates President Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al-Nahyan died aged 73 on Friday, state media said, after battling illness for several years. “The Ministry of Presidential Affairs condoles the people of the UAE and the Islamic world… on the passing of Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al-Nahyan on Friday, May 13,” the official WAM news agency said. The ministry …

The amendment of the Electoral Act will allow statutory delegates participate in political parties’ congresses and conventions. The House of Representatives has passed Section 84(8) of the Electoral Amendment Act, 2022 to allow statutory delegates participate in political parties’ congresses and conventions. The House amended the clause after considering a Bill sponsored by the Chairman, House Committee on Rules and …

The minister of Niger delta affairs, Godswill Akpabio has resigned from the cabinet of the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari(retd). This was disclosed in a statement released by his aide, Jackson Udom, late Wednesday. This is as the media aide to the Minister of Justice and Attorney General of the Federation, Jibrilu Gwandu, kept mum on the resignation plans of …

COEASU said after extensive deliberation, the national executive council (NEC) of the union agreed on the ultimatum beginning on May 9. The Colleges of Education Academic Staff Union (COEASU) has given the Nigerian government a 21-day ultimatum to address the union’s demands, else it will embark on industrial action. This is contained in a statement signed by the union’s president …

The Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics has appealed to well-meaning Nigerians to prevail on the government so that the polytechnics across the country are not shut indefinitely. The union’s National President, Mr Anderson Ezeibe, made the call on Wednesday after declaring a two-week strike, which would commence from May 16, 2022. Ezeibe said ASUP took the decision after an emergency …