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DEATH TOLL FROM KANO MOSQUE ATTACK RISES TO EIGHT Death toll from the Gezawa Mosque attack in Kano State has risen to eight, with 17 others still in critical condition receiving treatment. Seven more victims died while receiving treatment at the Murtala Muhammad Specialist Hospital in Kano, as confirmed by the police. SP Abdullahi Haruna Kiyawa, the Police Public Relations …

FUBARA RELEASES DOCUMENTS OF MASSIVE CORRUPTION UNDER FORMER GOVERNOR WIKE Rivers State Governor, Siminalayi Fubara, after months of stooping low in the face of onslaughts from the camp of his former principal, turned political adversary, Nyesom Wike, has finally braced for battle. The governor has since last week continued to fire shots at the immediate past governor of the state, …

TIME RUNNING OUT FOR APC CHAIRMAN, GANDUJE, AS GOVS PUSH FOR REPLACEMENT Time is running out for Abdullahi Ganduje as national chairman of the ruling All Progressive Congress (APC), according to sources within the party. Governors elected on the platform of the party are said to have resolved to persuade President Bola Tinubu to sacrifice the former governor of Kano …

FG TO EMPOWER NYSC MEMBERS WITH N10M EACH The Federal Government has announced its plan to support 5,000 National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) members with N10 million each for their entrepreneurial ventures after their service year. This was revealed by Dr. Jamila Ibrahim, the Minister of Youth Development, during the inaugural meeting of the NYSC management with heads of Corps …

SENATE TELLS TINUBU TO STOP ALLOCATION OF FUNDS TO LG CARETAKER COMMITTEES The Senate, on Wednesday, accused state governors of misappropriating funds allocated to Local Government Councils in Nigeria. It claimed that Area Council chairmen were usually compelled to sign off cheques by State governors, who in turn allocate peanuts to them. This is coming, even as the Senate has …

ENUGU GOVT, LABOUR PARTY DISAGREE OVER N100BN AGRO PROJECT The Enugu State chapter of the Labour Party, LP, and the Enugu State government are not on the same page as the government consummates an agriculture partnership agreement with Pragmatic Farms Limited. The partnership between the Enugu State Government and Pragmatic Farms Limited, worth N100 billion, is for the revival of …

ONLY COURT WILL DETERMINE FATE OF RIVERS LAWMAKERS  WHO DEFECTED FROM PDP – INEC CHAIRMAN The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), has finally broke its silence on the controversy trailing the status of the members of the Rivers State House of Assembly that crossed from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to the All Progressives Congress (APC). Commission’s chairman, Mahmood Yakubu, …

NIGERIANS ARE IN PAINS, KUKAH TELLS TINUBU Catholic Bishop of Sokoto Diocese, Bishop Matthew Hassan Kukah, says Nigerians are in pains, calling on President Bola Tinubu to open a channel of communication with the people on when his policies will begin to yield result. Kukah said even though the “pains are unintended”, it was brought about as the results of …

LABOUR REJECTS ₦48,000 FG’S MINIMUM WAGE OFFER, WALKS OUT OF COMMITTEE MEETING THE Organized labour on Wednesday stormed out of the minimum wage committee meeting with the Federal Government over the later’s offer of N48,000 new wage. Recall that the organized labour had made a demand of N615,000 as the new minimum wage and had given the government up till …

BREAKING: FUBARA LOSES FIVE COMMISSIONERS IN ONE DAY AS TWO MORE WIKE LOYALISTS QUIT GOVT The Commissioner for Social Welfare, Inime Aguma and Jacobson Nbina, Commissioner for Transport, have all tendered their resignation letters to the state government. Their resignations were contained in separate letters addressed to the governor, Siminalayi Fubara, through the Office of the Secretary to the Rivers …