Nigeria News
March 2023
Former Minister of Education, Obiageli Ezekwesili, has dismissed as “nonsense” a call by Festus Keyamo for the State Security Service to arrest Peter Obi and Yusuf Datti Baba-Ahmed for treason.
The Benue State governor-elect, Rev. Fr. Hyacinth Iormem Alia, has said that he has worked for over 32 years as a Catholic Priest without a wife, therefore he did not need a First Lady to govern the
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has declared Umar Bago of the All Progressives Congress (APC) as the winner of Saturday’s governorship election in Niger State.
The presidential candidate of New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP), Rabiu Kwankwaso, has expressed his disapproval of alleged attempts to declare the governorship election in Kanos State inconclusive.
The National Chairman of the ruling All Progressives Congress, Senator Abdullahi Adamu, has lost his polling unit to the Peoples Democratic Party in the governorship and House of Assembly elections held yesterday in Nasarawa State.
The doctors under the umbrella of the National Association of Government General Medical and Dental Practitioners (NAGGMP), Ekiti State chapter, are set to down their tools beginning from midmight Friday today.
Bauchi state government has declared a two-day break for the state-owned schools ahead of the governorship and state Houses of Assembly elections on Saturday.
The National Identity Management Commission (NIMC), has said Nigerians would, from April 1, pay a N1,000 fee for verification of their National Identification Number (NIN) during passport application.
Rivers Governor Nyesom Wike has described the Labor Party (LP) presidential candidate, Peter Obi, as the hero of the just-concluded election.
President Muhammadu Buhari has hailed Saheed Aderinto, the US-based Nigerian professor, who won the Dan David history prize of $300,000.
The Presidency said regardless of alleged irregularities and harsh criticism of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, the results of the February 25 presidential and National Assembly elections stand until otherwise proven in court.
The deputy governorship candidate of the African Democratic Party in Abia, Ifeoma Okoya-Thomas, says she has dumped the ADP for the Labor Party.
Governor Seyi Makinde of Oyo has said he was glad to sacrifice his political career for the emergence of Bola Tinubu as president-elect of the country.
The scarcity of Premium Motor Spirit, popularly called petrol, has again returned to Abuja, Nasarawa, Niger, Kaduna and other states, causing massive queues at the few filling stations that dispensed the product in the affected areas.
The Labor Party has picked Mr Kelvin Chukwu, the younger brother of the slain senatorial candidate for Enugu East senatorial zone, Oyibo Chukwu, for the March 11 senatorial election for the zone.
The Court of Appeal Abuja has granted the request of the candidates of Labor
Party (LP) and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Peter Obi and
Atiku Abubakar, respectively, to have access to all the sensitive materials the Independent
National Electoral Commission (INEC) deployed for the conduct of the
presidential election held on February 25.
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, said it has dismissed two of its staff for gross misconduct.
