The Independent National Electoral Commission INEC has cancelled the election in Southern Ijaw Local Government Area in the Saturday’s Bayelsa State governorship election. INEC said the decision was taken because of violence, the abduction of electoral officials and ballot box snatching. Re run on a new date to be fixed. (Vanguard)
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By Igbotako Nowinta – Alltimepost.com Nigeria Bureau Chief President Muhammadu Buhari has been asked to wake up to the responsibility of making the implementation of the Freedom of Information Act (FOI A) compulsory at the Federal Executive Council level in Nigeria. It is the only way to ensure 100% compliance by Ministries, Departments and Agencies so that the present war …
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Dr Ibe Kachikwu, the President, Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), says the demand for OPEC crude is expected to rise by 1.2 million barrels per day in 2016. This is contained in a statement signed by Ohi Alegbe, NNPC’s Group General Manager, Group Public Affairs Division, and released to newsmen in Abuja on Saturday. The statement quoted Kachikwu, Nigeria’s …
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The candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the Kogi State governorship election, Mr Yahaya Bello, has been declared the winner of the election. Mr Bello, who is substitute to late Mr Abubakar Audu, defeated the incumbent Governor, Captain Idris Wada, of the Peoples Democratic Party who was seeking a second term in office. Declaring the results of the …
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Abuja – The Governors’ Forum, has stressed the need for the Federal Government, the 36 governors, and the organized labour to agree on a realistic minimum wage for workers. The Chairman of the forum, Gov. Abdulaziz Yari of Zamfara, made this known while addressing State House correspondents on the governors’ stand on the minimum wage especially in view of the …
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A mass of women demonstrators laid siege to the Kogi State offices of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Today(Thursday) . The women, many of whom carried placards and were dressed in black, protested the ruling of the November 21st governorship elections as inconclusive by INEC. The Kogi State Police Command deployed police officers around the INEC offices to ensure …
Read More »ABUJA – President Muhammadu Buhari Tuesday in Paris raised alarm, saying that about five million persons living in the countries within the lake chad basin risk displacement owing to the depletion of the lake. President who addressed a high level meeting on “Climate Change Challenges and Solutions in Africa’’, at the on-going UN Climate Change Conference, COP 21, in France …
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ABUJA — The hardship currently witnessed by Nigerians across the country took a turn for the worse in Abuja in the last couple of days as Abuja Electricity Distribution Company reduced power supply to the Federal Capital Territory and neighbouring states to an average of six hours a day. This was in negation of recent claims by the Transmission Company …
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THE Senate on Monday asked the Federal Government to jack up the 2015 supplementary budget from N465.3 billion to N574 billion to accommodate the figures for fuel subsidy till the end of the year. This came to the fore on Monday as the Senate Committees on Appropriation, Finance and Budget and National Planning hosted ministers and top Federal Government officials …
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PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari has warned that the adverse effects of climate change poses a threat to food security in Nigeria, as extreme events such as flooding and drought are on the increase. Stating Nigeria’s position on Monday at the Conference of Parties 21 (COP21) ongoing in Paris, France, he said such factors have resulted in the destruction of many economic …
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