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MPOX OUTBREAK HITS BENUE, RECORDS 31 SUSPECTED CASES Benue State has recorded 31 suspected cases of Mpox across five Local Government Areas (LGAs) — Makurdi, Ushongo, Gwer East, Katsina-Ala, and Guma. The Executive Secretary of the Benue State Primary Health Care Board, Mrs. Grace Wende, disclosed this on Thursday during the Benue State Stakeholders Engagement/Townhall Meeting on the Mpox Vaccination …

ADC REJECTS BALA’S CLAIM TO PARTY’S LEADERSHIP, RELEASES RESIGNATION LETTER The African Democratic Congress (ADC) has dismissed the claim of its former Deputy National Chairman, Hon. Nafiu Bala, to the party’s national chairmanship. Speaking at a press conference in Abuja, Bala, who previously served as the ADC’s national deputy chairman, accused the David Mark-led interim leadership of unlawfully taking over …

IT’S LUNACY TO TALK ABOUT PETER OBI PLOTTING COUP AGAINST TINUBU – MEDIA AIDE Media aide to Mr Peter Obi, the 2023 presidential candidate of the Labour Party, LP, Mr Valentine Obienyem, has described the allegation against his principal, plotting a coup to dethrone President Bola Tinubu, as a dangerous joke taken too far. He also described the allegation as …

HOW UNIVERSITY STUDENT WAS GUNNED DOWN OVER LAND DISPUTE IN ENUGU Tears streamed down Felicia Onoh’s face as she struggled to understand why her son, Sochima, was gunned down in cold blood, right in the middle of a community land dispute that had dragged on for years. The 25-year-old 200-level Accounting student of Akanu Ibiam Federal Polytechnic, Uwana, Ebonyi State, …

FOOD CRISIS: 34 MILLION NIGERIANS AT RISK OF HUNGER AS UN FOOD AID ENDS About 1.4 million Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in northeastern Nigeria are at the risk of starvation following the withdrawal of humanitarian funding by the United Nations (UN). The Cadre Harmonisé Food and Nutrition Insecurity Analysis, led by the government of Nigeria, with support from the Food …

TINUBU EXTENDS TENURE OF CUSTOMS CG Bayo Onanuga, Presidential spokesman, announced this in a statement on Thursday. “The Presidency announces that the tenure of the Comptroller-General of the Nigeria Customs Service, Mr. Bashir Adewale Adeniyi, MFR, which is due to expire on August 31, 2025, has been extended by one year.” “The extension, approved by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, GCFR, …

WE’RE FACING SERIOUS EDUCATION CRISIS – GOVS Governors of the 36 states of the federation have expressed worry that the country is faced with a challenging crisis in education, saying foundational skills are critical building blocks for achieving educational objectives.Chairman of the Nigerian Governors Forum (NGF) and Kwara State governor, AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq, stated this on Thursday in Abuja, during the …

STILL WAITING FOR PAYMENT OF ENUGU STATE GRATUITY It is now over three months since retired civil servants of Enugu State had gone through the rigorous and excruciating pains of physical and bio-metric verification exercise ordered by the state government for them to receive their long outstanding retirement benefits. The expectation among these pensioners was that immediately the exercise was …

STILL WAITING FOR ENUGU STATE GRATUITY It is now over three months since retired civil servants of Enugu State had gone through the rigorous and excruciating pains of physical and bio-metric verification exercise ordered by the state government for them to receive their long outstanding retirement benefits. The expectation among these pensioners was that immediately the exercise was concluded, they …

MEET GOODLUCK JONATHAN’S ALLEGED SECOND WIFE In Nigerian political history, few leaders have maintained as much intrigue post-tenure as former President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan. His quiet demeanour and rare public appearances since leaving office in 2015 have kept many Nigerians curious about the man. Now, nearly a decade later, a new name has emerged in the public sphere, Dr. Ayima …