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PRESIDENT TINUBU ANNOUNCES 30-DAY NATIONAL YOUTH CONFERENCE President Bola Tinubu has announced a 30-day confab for Nigerian youths to discuss challenges confronting them. Tinubu made this announcement on Tuesday during his 64th Independence Day Anniversary Broadcast. He said in a bid to bequeath a worthy future to the youths, the government cannot do it without making them its architects. “Considering …

WE’RE HUNGRY, ENOUGH IS ENOUGH: NIGERIANS CHANTED AS THEY BEGIN PROTEST IN ABUJA Thousands of Nigerians in the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, on Tuesday morning joined the #FearlessInOctober protest against hardships and poverty that the President Bola Tinubu-led administration has unleashed on them. The protesters chanted “We are hungry” as they marched on the roads. Some of the banners they …

ATIKU SEEKS CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT FOR SIX-YEAR SINGLE TERM PRESIDENCY A former Vice President and the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in the 2023 general elections, Atiku Abubakar, has written to the National Assembly, requesting an amendment to the Constitution to allow for a six-year single term for the President and state governors. In a memorandum to the …

I WASN’T SUSPENDED OVER BOBRISKY – PRISON OFFICIAL … HE WAS SUSPENDED – CONTROLLER-GENERAL Michael Anugwa, Deputy Controller of the Nigerian Correctional Service (NCoS), says he was not suspended by the service. Anugwa is the officer in charge of Medium Security Custodial Centre (MSCC), Kirikiri, Lagos state, where Idris Okuneye, a popular crossdresser better known as Bobrisky, served his time. …

REDUCE PUMP PRICE OF FUEL NOW, PDP TELLS TINUBU The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has asked the All Progressives Congress (APC) led Federal Government to immediately reduce the pump price of fuel and stem the slide in the value of the Naira. The opposition party also charged Nigerians to use the 2024 Independence Day Anniversary to reawaken the spirit of …

FUBARA REACTS TO WIKE’S BOASTFULNESS, SAYS ONLY EMPTY CONTAINER MAKES A NOISE Governor Siminalayi Fubara of Rivers State has revealed that God has left his traducers, saying that is why they keep falling and will continue to fail in their evil agenda.Fubara, who stated that he doesn’t need anybody to stand with him once he is doing the right thing, …

MINIMUM WAGE: 17 GOVERNORS SET UP COMMITTEES.FOR IMPLEMENTATIONThe 17 states which set up the implementation committees are Ogun, Ekiti, Sokoto, Kebbi, Osun, Enugu, Borno, Zamfara, Kogi, Kwara, Gombe, Kano, Taraba, Delta, Rivers, Jigawa and Abia.The development is happening as the Federal Government commenced payment of the new minimum wage to its 1.2 million workers last Thursday.The Accountant General of the …

IPOB BANS INDEPENDENCE ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION ACTIVITIES IN SOUTH EAST ON OCTOBER 1 The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has banned any form of Independence Day celebration activities in the entire South-East region of Nigeria on Tuesday, October 1, 2024. In a statement issued on Monday by its Media and Publicity Secretary, Emma Powerful, IPOB asked people of the South-East at …

CONFUSION IN RIVERS OVER OCTOBER 5 LOCAL GOVT ELECTIONWhile an Abuja high court had on Monday September 30, 2024, halted the Independent National Electoral Commission INEC from making its national electoral register available for the conduct of local government election in Rivers state, another federal high court in Rivers State had reportedly affirmed that the local government election in the …

ENUGU GOV, PETER MBAH, SWEARS IN NEWLY ELECTED LG CHAIRMEN Governor of Enugu State, Dr. Peter Mbah, Monday, inaugurated the 17 Local Government Council chairmen and the deputy chairmen elected during the September 21 council elections in the state, charging them to hit the ground running, delivering people-centered projects and programmes in line with their campaign promises.Mbah also directed the …