archiveJune 2023

Former Vice President of Nigeria and presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party in the 2023 election, Atiku Abubakar, has said that democracy in the country was still in bondage despite the end of the military administration in 1999. The former Vice President noted that what the country is currently...

Nigerians have been urged to protect the nation’s democracy at all cost, doing all they can to ensure that the values upon which a government of free people has been established, is not lost in the country. President Bola Tinubu gave this charge on Monday, during his first Democracy Day...

The Presidential Candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi, has appealed to Nigerians to let the June 12, 1993 elections inspire us to correct what he described as the error of February 25, 2023 election in order to restore and deepen democracy. June 12 is being commorated as Nigeria’s Democracy...

Professor Jerry Gana, a former Minister of Information and National Orientation, says the annulment of the June 12, 1993 presidential election was a tragic mistake that was not supposed to have happened. Gana said this when he spoke with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Minna on Nigeria’s democracy;...

  Osun State Governor, Senator Ademola Adeleke, is set to announce palliative measures to cushion the effect of the recent fuel subsidy removal by the Federal Government. This was disclosed by the Spokesperson to the Governor, Mallam Olawale Rasheed, when he featured on ‘Imole Ayo’, a sensitization programme promoting the...

The Deputy Chairman, Lagos State chapter of Trade Union Congress, Comrade Idogen Emmanuel, said the realisation that neighbouring countries were benefiting immensely from Nigeria’s subsidised fuel informed the decision to shelve the planned strike of the congress. While noting that the fuel subsidy regime threatened the survival of the country,...

The Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ), Kano Council, has called on the Federal Government to put in place palliative measures to cushion the effects of the removal of fuel subsidy. NUJ made the appeal during its council’s monthly congress meeting in Kano. In a communique issued at the end of...

A new report by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) reveals that Lagos, Kano, and Kaduna had the most registration with the National Identity Management Commission between 2019 and 2021.  According to the report, Kaduna state had the most registration in 2019 with 595,284 followed by Lagos and Kano with...

The 10th Ogun State House of Assembly will be inaugurated on Tuesday, June 13, 2023. The inauguration follows the dissolution of the 9th Assembly and the issuance of a proclamation for the holding of the first session of the 10th Assembly by Governor Dapo Abiodun. According to a release by...

President Bola Ahmed Tinubu is expected to broadcast to the nation on Monday, June 12, 2023, at 7am to commemorate this year’s Democracy Day. A statement by Abiodun Oladunjoye, Director Information, State House on Sunday, intimated television, radio stations, and other electronic media outlets to hook up to the network...