Month: May 2022

Governor David Umahi of Ebonyi state has said he saved N895 million in designing the ongoing construction of the International Cargo Airport, Abakaliki. The governor stated this Sunday when he received the national president of the Nigerian Union of Journalists (NUJ), Chief Chris Isiguzo, national president of the National Association of Women Journalists (NAWOJ), Mrs. Ladi Bala, and the Central Working Committee Read More

The FCT Ministerial Taskforce on City Sanitation Monday, dismantled scavengers’ camp and illegal markets at Lugbe on Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport Road. The Senior Special Assistant on Monitoring, Inspection and Enforcement to the minister of FCT, Ikharo Attah, who led the exercise, stated that the babanbola activities with the illegal markets constituted nuisance. He stated that Lugbe Federal Housing Authority Read More

Justice Inyang Ekwo of the Federal High Court, Abuja on Tuesday, granted bail to a former governor of Imo state, Senator Rochas Okorocha. Okorocha was arraigned on Monday, May 30, 2022, alongside Anyim Nyerere (a.k.a Anyim Chinenye), Naphtali International Ltd, Perfect Finish Multi Projects Ltd, Consolid Projects Consulting Ltd, Pramif International Ltd and Legend World Concepts Ltd on 17-count charge of stealing, Read More

Hajia Ramatu Shehu Atta, an aspirant in the last Saturday APC primaries in Kogi Central Senatorial district has rejected the outcome of the process and called on the national body of the party to reschedule a free, fair and credible  election. Attah,  Alhaji Dalhatu Sherif and Sadiq Abubakar Ohere contested for the Senate ticket of Kogi Central senatorial district. At a Read More

  The Federal Capital Territory Minister, Alhaji Muhammad Musa Bello, has stated that work would soon commence on the plot of land allocated for a new secretariat for the NYSC, FCT. He said this is in pursuance of his administration’s determination to offer more support for the smooth operations of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC). Alhaji Bello stated this Read More

Governor Bello Matawalle of Zamfara state has paid for the 2022 NECO examination fees for final year secondary school students of the state. This was announced by the executive secretary, Zamfara state Examination Board, Hajiya Zuwaira Abdu Gusau, in a statement made available to Blueprint in Gusau, Tuesday. She stated that Governor Matawalle has also mandated the board to speed Read More

Ahead of the forthcoming gubernatorial poll scheduled to hold on June 18 in Ekiti state,over 1,000 members of the Labour Party (LP) Tuesday joined the All Progressives Congress (APC) with a pledge to work for the victory of the party’s governorship candidiate, Mr. Biodun Abayomi Oyebanji. The defectors who came from all the 16 local government areas of the state Read More

Hon Jabiru Yusuf Yauyau, a member representing Batsari at the Katsina state House of Assembly, has rejected the primary election declared results of the Batsari/Safana/ Danmusa federal constituency, threatening to go to  court if issues raised are not addressed. Yauyau stated this, Tuesday, at a press conference in Katsina, saying 160 delegates were accredited to vote during the exercise and that seven Read More

  Immediate past Commissioner of Commerce in Anambra state and member of the Board of Trustees of the All Progressive Grand Alliance (APGA), Chief Uche Okafor, Tuesday, announced his entrance into the Young Progressives Party (YPP). Okafor, who disclosed this at a media parley organised by the senator representing Anambra South, Dr Ifeanyi Ubah, and other candidates of YPP for Read More

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has released 4th Quarter week 7 update of the ongoing Continuous Voter Registration. According to figures released by the Chief Press Secretary to the INEC chairman, Rotimi Oyekanmi, at 7am, on Monday 30th May 2022, the commission recorded a total of 10,235,569 fresh registrants in the in week 7 of the fourth quarter. Out of this,the Read More

 The Centre for Information Technology and Development (CITAD) in collaboration with ActionAid have donated 100 economic trees, including refreshment, to Kuchibuyi and Guto communities in Bwari area council of the Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA), in commemoration of this Children’s Day celebration. Speaking at the event on Friday last week, Partnership and Local Right Advisor ActionAid, Mrs Hajara Opaluwa-Adamu, said Read More

Former chairman of Inter Party Advisory Council (IPAC), Enugu state, Barrister John Nwobodo,  Tuesday, emerged the governorship candidate of Accord Party in Enugu state. Nwobodo who was the sole aspirant of the governorship primary election monitored by Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), polled 140 votes through affirmation and was declared winner. The chairman of electoral committee, Mrs Chinasa Nwekeke, announcing Read More