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     Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) says that it has started the clean-up of the voter register so as to ensure credible, free and fair elections in 2019. The Administrative Secretary of INEC, Mrs Rose Oriaran-Anthony, said this on Tuesday at a news conference in Asaba. She said that the commission would display the preliminary Register of Voters (PRV) in all the 3,624 polling units of Delta between Nov. 6 and Nov. 12. Oriaran-Anthony said that the purpose of the display was to enable prospective voters, who had earlier registered, to make claims and objections where necessary. She, however, said that INEC officials would be stationed at the ward headquarters to address the claims and objections of prospective voters. She urged prospective voters across the state to check their names in the PRV to ensure that particulars such as names, ages and addresses, among others, were properly captured. Oriaran-Anthony said that objections o...

       The Ogun State Government has commenced disbursement of 65 per cent of the last tranche of the Paris Club Refund to pay backlogs of cooperative deductions, gratuity, severance and furniture allowance of its workforce. This is 15 per cent above the threshold set by the Federal Government on the disbursement of Refund to workers. According to a press release by the State Commissioner for Finance, Mr. Adewale Oshinowo, the State G overnment received the sum of N17.3 billion from the Federal Government, being its last tranche of the Paris Club Refund. "In line with the commitment of the Ibikunle Amosun Administration to the welfare of workers in the State, their payment is being made a priority. Therefore with immediate effect, the sum of N11.8 billion from the Refund will be expended on the workforce including the Local Government while the balance of N5.5 billion will go into social services for the benefit of the entire indigenes of the state," Oshinowo sa...

      President Muhammadu Buhari swore- in Chairman and members of the Code of Conduct Bureau (CCB), and Commissioners for the National Population Commission (NPC), at the Council Chambers, State House, Abuja.More details and more photos below.

      The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Lagos Zonal office, on Wednesday, November 7, 2018 arraigned one Kayode Kikiowo before Justice Sherifat Solebo of the Special Offences Court sitting in Ikeja, Lagos on a five-count charge bordering on obtaining money by false pretence, forgery and use of false documents to the tune of N6,740,000 (Six Million Seven Hundred and Forty Thousand Naira) only. The defendant was said to have presented himself as a registered Customs Clearing Agent to the complainant, Izegaegbe Ehikhueme and assured him that he could help him to clear his 40-feet container carrying vehicles for the sum of N5, 900,000. However, the defendant was said to have collected in all, the sum of N6,740,000 from the complainant. Investigations revealed that all the documents used to transact the business were forged by the defendant. One of the counts reads: "That you, Kayode Kikiowo, sometime in the year 2017 at Lagos within the Lagos judic...

       Governor Kayode Fayemi of Ekiti state has expressed the resolve of his administration to handsoff all commercial ventures of the state to professionals. Governor Fayemi, who spoke to newsmen during the continuation of his on-the -spot assessment tour of project sites in the state promised that his government would soon commence the repositioning of all abandoned and dilapidated projects in the state. He lamented the sorry state of virtually all legacy projects which are supposed to be the pride of all Ekiti people adding that all the projects were in full operation before he left office four years ago. The governor said Fountain Hotel would soon bounce back as his administration will soon embark on rapid rejuvination of the facility to return its old glory. He wondered why a government that claimed to be peoples government would allow projects that belong to the people to almost go to extinction within his watch. Fayemi said, “All these thi...

     Sudan University sent Kano State students that were on state scholarship out of class for failure to pay tuition fees 😭  .The Letter reads ''    Dear sir                              LETTER NOTIFICATION It is important to notify you that,from today 15/10/2018 none of your students will be allowed into their normal classes failure to settle their outstanding fees.It may interest you to know that being absent for a month will affect their attendance and chance of graduating'  Accept our regards.                                                                                                Yours Faithfully       ...

      President Buhari receives in audience "One on One" group from South East Nigeria in State House on 6th Nov 2018 One on One 1: President Buhari with Chief Chido Obidiegwu, HRM Igwe MacAnthony Okonkwo and Dr Stanley Uzochukwu as he receives in audience "One on One" group from South East Nigeria in State House on 6th Nov 2018 One on One 2: President Buhari with HRM Igwe MacAnthony Okonkwo and Dr Stanley Uzochukwu as he receives in audience "One on One" group from South East Nigeria in State House on 6th Nov 2018. WE'RE TRYING TO ORGANIZE THE COUNTRY, AFTER MIND-BOGGLING MISMANAGEMENT – PRESIDENT BUHARI "We are trying to organize the country. The extent of mismanagement we met when we came was mind-boggling," President Muhammadu Buhari has said. Receiving a group from the South-east part of the county under the aegis of One on One Nigeria, Tuesday night, the President added: "Many times, I have spoken about t...

    PRESS RELEASE    1. There is an information making round about Captain Zakari Sani which i wish to put in proper perspective. Captain Zakari Sani, a very courageous and hardworking officer, was ambushed alongside other soldiers in Benue State while on operation WHIRL STROKE. The officer was badly wounded and was evacuated to Benue State University Teaching Hospital, Makurdi where he was initially stabilised and later eva cuated to Ceda Crest Hospital in Abuja for higher management outside of the operations theatre. 2. Ceda Crest Hospital is one of the best hospitals in the country as at today. The team of doctors and other medical staff including expatriate are attending to the officer whose situation though serious is getting better by the day. He has undergone several medical procedures which have helped to stabilised him further. The Chief of Defence Staff has placed Medical Surveillance on the officer for eventual medical evacuation outside the country. ...