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• Wants National Interest To Override Personal Aggrandisement Coalition of Civil Society Groups (CCAG) in Nigeria has cautioned that the current security situation and supremacy of a region dominating the affairs of the country is affecting the nation’s unity. President of CCSG, Bassey Etuk Williams, who stated this, in Abuja, during a world conference, vowed the body would deploy its …

Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo has stressed the need for constant dialogue among the various ethnic nationalities in Nigeria as a means of taking the advantages of the country’s diversities.Osinbajo gave the charge in Abuja Thursday night at the 10th anniversary of UFUK Dialogue Foundation, an organisation devoted to the promotion of dialogue and a culture of peaceful co-existence. This is contained …

Following threats by its workers to embark on a three-day warning strike this week, the Police Service Commission has summoned the Inspector-General of Police, Usman Baba, to a meeting on the ongoing recruitment of 10,000 constables. It was learnt that the PSC management agreed during their meeting to meet with the IGP to seek the way forward on the workers’ …

*Says campaigns start 90 days to elections *Vows to sanction violators of extant rules Worried by the proliferation of billboards and campaign posters of some political parties and aspirants across the country, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has warned the parties and their various aspirants to wait for the official commencement of campaigns as provided by the law. The …

Newly appointed Permanent Secretaries in Edo State are to be sworn into office on Tuesday January 25, 2022 by the State Governor, Mr. Godwin Obaseki. In a statement, Secretary to the State Government, Osarodion Ogie Esq., said the swearing-in will hold at the New Festival Hall in Government House, Benin City, Edo state capital. The newly appointed Permanent Secretaries include: …

*Distress call numbers: Network Central Base Control Room:  09153333340 or 09153333341 Twenty eight victims of human trafficking have been rescued by a team of local vigilantes in Benin City, Edo State of Nigeria. The State coordinator, Edo State Community Vigilante Security Network, Oboh Emmanuel Otoide, disclosed this while addressing journalists at the weekend in Benin City. He said the victims, …

The Federal High Court, sitting in Port-Harcourt, Rivers State has struck out the suit challenging the competence of the Governor Mai Mala Buni led Caretaker Extra-Ordinary Convention Planning Committee of the All Progressives Congress, APC.  . Delivery judgment on the Suit No: FHC/ABJ/857/2021brought before it Odjebobo Desire Onayefeme and others, the presiding Judge, Justice Pheobe Msuen Ayua struck out the …

The National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Iyorchia Ayu, four former governors and members of the party’s National Working Committee (NWC) are currently holding a meeting with former President Olusegun Obasanjo in Abeokuta. The meeting is holding at the former President’s penthouse in the Olusegun Obasanjo Presidential Library in Abeokuta, capital of Ogun State. The PDP bigwigs arrived at …

Indications emerged at the weekend in Abuja that a former Governor of Imo state and senator representing Imo West, Owelle Rochas Okorocha is set to join the league of All Progressives Congress APC chieftains who have declared interest to take over from President Muhammadu Buhari in 2023. Feelers from the Buhari House national secretariat of the party point to the …

President Muhammadu Buhari has reassured Kaduna State residents of the resolve of the Nigerian Armed Forces, under his watch, to crush terrorists and criminal gangs operating in the state and other parts of the country. The president’s media aide, Garba Shehu, in a statement on Friday, said the president stated this at a State Banquet to commemorate his official visit to …