Felix Duru Mbah

By Okerafor Athanasius, Jalingo National Deputy Women Leader of All Progressives Congress (APC), Hajiya Zainab Abubakar Ibrahim has tasked the people of Taraba State on the need to participate actively in the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC)'s ongoing  Continuous Voters Registration (CVR) exercise. Hajia Ibrahim spoke during a one-day sensitization and mobilization program on exercise, at conference hall of C2C Events Centre, Jalingo, the State capital. Disclosing that the exercise has national significance, Ibrahim, who is also the Chairperson, Federal Teaching Hospital, Gombe, Gombe State, said the power of democracy rests not only in the hands of political parties but…

By Sylvia Kodilichukwu, Enugu Enugu State governor, Dr Peter Mbah, has approved a comprehensive restructuring of the State Forest Guard as part of his administration’s drive to strengthen security in the state. The reform includes an upward review of salaries of the operatives to a minimum of N80,000 in line with the state's new minimum wage. The governor also ordered a clampdown on illegal logging, directing that anyone caught felling immature trees or engaging in deforestation across the state’s forests, be arrested and prosecuted under existing laws. The measures were announced by the State Commander of the Forest Guard, Dr.…

By Achadu Gabriel, Kaduna Relative calm in southern part of Kaduna State was punctured today (Sunday, September 7) as gunmen, suspected to be terrorists, struck in Kachia Local Government Area (LGA), killing eight persons, injuring 20 and kidnapping several others. The incident reportedly occurred in the morning in Wake village of the LGA. These were contained in a statement today by the former Chairman, Middle Belt Forum (MBF), Kaduna State branch, Comrade Isaac Tanko. According to him, "8 were killed, 20 injured while several persons were kidnapped." Lamenting the apparent increasing return of bloodletting in Southern Kaduna, he stated: "It's…

Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and Federal Government (FG) workers have demanded an urgent review of the national minimum wage, insisting that the current N70,000 is no longer sustainable. They made the demand following the bold steps taken by several states across the country to increase the minimum wage of their workers above the N70,000 benchmark, in response to the prevailing economic realities. The labour unions and workers who spoke to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in separate interviews contended that in the face of galloping inflation, rising costs of food, transportation, housing, and other essential services, the N70,000 minimum…

*Secret Police Lacks Constitutional Right To Censor Nigerians Or Procure Same Via Platforms -Lawyer *Tomekun Urges X To Disregard DSS' Letter, Not Aid, Abet State Repression By our reporter Tope Tomekun, lawyer to activist and 2023 presidential candidate, Omoyele Sowore, today disclosed that US-based social media platform, X.com, has notified his client (Sowore) of the request by Nigeria's Department of State Services (DSS) that the firm should deactivate the activist's tweet against President Bola Tinubu. Sowore himself has vowed never to delete the alleged offensive post. On his social media platform, he wrote: "This morning, X (formerly Twitter) officially contacted…

Presidential candidate in the 2023 elections, publisher and activist, Omoyele Sowore, today responded to a letter by Department of State Services (DSS) to US-based X.com demanding that the firm pull down within 24 hours a tweet by Sowore which allegedly disparaged President Bola Tinubu. The tweet had labelled Tinubu in a language which DSS protested against, over the President's pronouncement during his Brazil visit that his administration had eliminated corruption in Nigeria --a statement Sowore stated was false. In a strongly-worded statement posted on his Facebook page, Sowore described the DSS move as “a national disgrace, an assault on institutions,…

Department of State Services (DSS) has formally given world's richest man Elon Musk's X.com 24 hours to pull down what it saw as an anti-President Bola Tinubu tweet posted by 2023 presidential candidate and activist, Omoyele Sowore, criticizing Tinubu over a pronouncement the latter made in Brazil that corruption had been eliminated in Nigeria by his administration. The tweet reads: “This criminal @officialABAT actually went to Brazil to state that there is NO MORE corruption under his regime in Nigeria. What audacity to lie shamelessly!” Firing a letter to Musk, who is the Chairman of X.com, Bastrop County, Texas, USA,…

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