archiveSeptember 22, 2020

  Gov. Yahaya Bello of Kogi has suspended the management of the State Internal Revenue Service with immediate effect. The Chief Press Secretary to the Governor, Mr Onogwu Muhammed, said this in a statement on Tuesday in Lokoja. Muhammed said that the suspension was due to alleged violation of corporate...

  By Kevin Okunzuwa, News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) Prior to the Edo governorship election  on Sept. 19, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) had, at several fora, assured the Edo citizens and Nigerians of its readiness to conduct a free, fair and credible election. In one of such occassions...

    Decline in voter turnout worrisome as 25.2% of registered voters cast their ballot Peaceful conduct of poll a welcome development   The Centre for Democracy and Development (CDD) has rated the conduct and outcome of the September 19 governorship election in Edo State, scoring it relatively credible despite...

An observer group in the just concluded Edo State Governorship election, Intercontinental Leadership Initiative, has faulted the integrity of the Sept. 19 poll. Mr Stafford Bisong, the Country Head of the organisation, stated this at a news conference in Benin on Monday, NAN reports. Bisong, who disclosed that he had...

  Nigeria has now reported 1,100 deaths from COVID-19 complications, after two people were reported dead to the virus in the last 24 hours. Despite the toll of over a thousand deaths from COVID-19 complications, many of the country’s 36 states do not have teams of trained staff for handling...

  The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) on Monday said about 57 per cent of Nigerian children under the age of five years don’t have birth certificates. The child protection specialist in charge of UNICEF Zone A Field office, Enugu, Victor Atuchukwu, stated this in Awka during the training of...

The Presidential Task Force (PTF) on COVID-19 pandemic has said it would be multiplying testing for the virus during a planned ‘testing week’, in commemoration of Nigeria’s 60th Independence Day Anniversary celebration. Chairman of the PTF and Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF) Boss Mustapha, who stated this...

The Director-General, Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), Dr Chike Ihekweazu, has said that the reopening of schools and airports would lead to an upsurge in COVID-19 transmission. He made this position known on Monday during a media briefing by the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19 in Abuja, said out...

Even as the All Progressives Congress (APC) lost Saturday’s governorship election, it has congratulated the victor, Governor Godwin Obaseki of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). The Chairman of the APC National Caretaker Committee, Mr. Mala Buni, says that the peaceful conduct of the election and its outcome represents a victory...