The Independent National Electoral Commission has said a total of 269,992 new voters were registered during the voter registration exercise in Edo and Ondo states. The National Commissioner and Chairman of the Information and Voter Education Committee, Sam Olumekun, announced this in a statement on Tuesday. “Statistics from the CVR as of Sunday 9th June…
The Lagos State Police Command has said it does not have information regarding the alleged arrest of an activist, Juwon Sanyaolu, one of the organisers of a protest slated to occur in Lagos on June 12, Democracy Day. Reports on social media on Tuesday night suggested that the activist was allegedly picked up by the…
The ruling All Progressives Congress, on Tuesday, faulted former Vice President Atiku Abubakar and his Peoples Democratic Party for blaming President Bola Tinubu for the current economic hardship in the country. In two separate statements issued in Abuja on Tuesday to commemorate Nigeria’s Democracy Day, celebrated annually on June 12, both Atiku and the PDP…
The Senate President, Godswill Akpabio, on Tuesday, called out the National Orientation Agency for teaching Nigerians the wrong version of the newly adopted old National Anthem. Akpabio noted that what the agency was circulating was different from the one approved by the Senate. The Senate after deliberations had gone on executive sessions for over two…
The leadership of the All Progressives Congress in Rivers State said, on Tuesday, that it was studying Monday judgment, which declared the Martin Amaewhule-led 27 members of the state House of Assembly members of the Peoples Democratic Party. The Rivers APC Publicity Secretary, Chibuike Ikenga, said the party would take a position after receiving advise…
Teesside University in the United Kingdom has announced a new initiative to support Nigerian students facing severe financial difficulties by funding their flights home, as reported by BBC on Tuesday. This move came after several students were removed from their courses and ordered to leave the UK due to their inability to pay tuition fees….
The Federal Government has rolled out plans to subsidise Compressed Natural Gas vehicle conversion kits by 50% for road transport union members across the country. The Programme Director and Chief Executive of the Presidential Compressed Natural Gas Initiative, Michael Oluwagbemi, disclosed this at the Northern stakeholders engagement held on Tuesday in Kaduna. According to Oluwagbemi,…
The Attorneys- General of the 36 states have filed an objection to the local government funds suit instituted by the Federal Government at the Supreme Court. The Commissioner for Justice and Attorney General of Gombe State, Zubairu Umar, in an interview with The on Tuesday, confirmed that the 36 states were challenging the Supreme Court’s…
The 2023 presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi, has asked that the country should be returned to a truly democratic nation. Obi made the call in a statement on Wednesday, marking the nation’s Democracy Day. He said the nation can achieve the feat by collectively voting for democracy as it did on June…
Veteran Nollywood actor, Dayo Adewunmi, popularly known as Sule Suebebe, is dead. The Yoruba actor died on Wednesday morning at an undisclosed hospital in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital. The news of his death was announced by a popular Ibadan-based cleric, Pastor Ademola Amusan, also known as Agbala Gabriel, who had been caring for the…
President Bola Tinubu has revealed that a consensus has been reached on the long-debated new minimum wage between the Federal Government and organised labour. In his national broadcast to mark the 2024 Democracy Day in Abuja on Wednesday, Tinubu revealed that an executive bill will soon be sent to the National Assembly to formalise the…
President Bola Tinubu on Wednesday, delivered the 2024 Democracy Day speech, addressing a variety of issues affecting the country. Tinubu pledged to implement democracy as Nigerians’ way of life. Read the full text below: My fellow Nigerians, let me begin by congratulating all of us for witnessing the celebration of another Democracy Day today, the…
