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Some residents of Awka in Anambra and environ have said that they were ready to exercise their franchise in the Saturday Governorship election in the state. The electorate in the state told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Awka on Friday that they were in high spirit to vote for their preferred candidate on the Nov. 6 election. They …

Amid the brewed mix of fear and optimism ahead tomorrow’s governorship election in Anambra State, the outlawed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) last night cancelled the one-week sit-at-home order it issued across the Southeast. IPOB said it called off the order after consultations with elders, traditional and religious leaders from the region. The group’s Director of Media and Publicity, Emma …

French farmers were ordered Friday to keep their poultry indoors due to the heightened risk of bird flu being spread by migratory birds. The order published in the French official journal follows a similar measure adopted in the Netherlands last week after a case of the highly-contagious H5 strain of bird flu was discovered on a poultry farm and 36,000 …

The Minister of Power, Abubakar Aliyu, had on Tuesday appeared before the Senate Committee on Power to defend the ministry’s 2022 budget proposal. He, however, faltered when the panel began to pick holes in the budget and question how previous funds were expended. Mr Aliyu assumed duty as power minister in September after he was appointed to replace the former minister, …

The Lagos governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, has ordered the indefinite suspension of the general manager of the Lagos State Building Control Agency (LASBCA), Gbolahan Oki, following the collapse of a 21-storey building in the Ikoyi area of the state. Gbenga Omotosho, the commissioner for Information, said in a statement on Tuesday. At least 10 bodies have been recovered while others are …

*Police beef up security in UNIABUJA *Bandits’ attack in varsity under Buhari’s watch shocking — PDP After the mutilated corpse of an unidentified young lady, whose internal organs were reportedly harvested by her killers, was yesterday found by the Makurdi bridge in North Bank Area of the town, Benue State police command has raised concern over the activities of a …

Stakeholders in the food packaging and plastic recycling sectors said that lack of waste disposal infrastructure, negative behaviour of consumers toward waste disposal and lack of education are reasons companies cannot manage plastic waste disposal in the country which has resulted in environmental issues like flooding and pollution. Speaking at the FairTrade 6th International Nigeria agro-food and plastprintpack Exhibition/Conference in …

Former Senate Leader, Victor Ndoma-Egba, SAN, has warned that except something is done and urgently too, Nigeria was on the verge of structural implosion, because the structures are no longer working. Ndoma-Egba also observed that the nation was more of a unitary state than a federal state that it was supposed to be. Ndoma-Egba, who stated this on Tuesday in …

• Payment for transformers, wires, poles persist as supply averages 4,000MW• Fashola, Mamman, El-Rufai, NASS, others’ attempts fail to spark optimism in sector• Grid collapse averages 130 times in eight years• EKEDC blames vandalisation of installations for prolonged blackout In what most industry players and consumer right groups, yesterday, described as payment for darkness, Nigerians, in the past eight years, have spent about …

The Governor of Kaduna State, Nasir El-Rufai, has commiserated with families of victims of bandits’ attacks in Chikun and Igabi local government areas of the state. According to a statement by the state’s commissioner for Internal Security and Home Affairs, Samuel Aruwan, on Monday, security forces reported that armed bandits attacked worshippers at Emmanuel Baptist Church, Kakkau Daji in Chikun LGA where …