A group under the aegis of the Civil Society for Peace, Security and Development (CSPSD) has said that disgruntled oil thieves are behind the campaign of calumny against the Chief of Naval Staff, Vice Admiral Emmanuel Ogalla. Recall that the Nigerian media space was recently awash with the most bizarre and unfounded campaign of calumny against Ogalla with allegations of collecting bribes to the tune of $170 millions to facilitate crude oil theft in connivance with foreign nationals. The Convener of the group, Obadiah Ovye, while addressing a press conference on Friday in Abuja said while it was almost a…
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The All Progressives Congress (APC) had dissociated itself from the call for boycott of the rerun elections in Plateau state. TheHintsNews reports that the State Chairman of the Inter- Party Advisory Council (IPAC) had during a press conference held Thursday called for the boycott of the Saturday rerun election in state. The IPAC Chairman, Dogara Abubakar claimed to be speaking on behalf of all political parties in the state. The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) is comducting the rerun election in Saturday to fill the vacant seats of Jos North/Bassa Federal Constituency and Plateau North Senatorial District. However, APC State…
The Inter-party Advisory Council (IPAC) has dissociated itself from the purported boycott of the rerun elections in Plateau state. The National Publicity Secretary of IPAC, Chinyere Ogekalu in a statement issued Thursday also dissociated itself from the purported press conference held by the Plateau State chapter of the Council where the leadership decried the exclusion of PDP from the forthcoming rerun election taking place in the State, especially Plateau north. It said the action of the Plateau State chapter was misguided as it was not a representation of the outcome of the consultative stakeholders’ meeting held by INEC with the…
The Minister of Niger Delta, Abubakar Momoh, will on Friday, February 23, 2024 commission a solar mini grid project located in Burutu and Bomadi local government areas of Delta state. The mini grid project which has a combined installed capacity of 605 kWp was constructed by Saf-Aga Renewable Energy Limited. However, Momoh while receiving the team of the company led by its Managing Director, Godbless Safugha, in his office on Thursday in Abuja said the ministry would not hesitate to key into the project in order to connect communities in the region that are without electricity. The minister said the…
The hope of the common man is now a weapon of abuse in Ilorin, the Kwara state capital by some religious fanatics and some so-called powerful nuisances. These people are using the Court of law and members of our revered body of Benchers in Kwara state as tools of abuse. The abuse of courts in Ilorin is now so alarming that court processes and legal procedures are now causing harm, delay, and obstruction in pursuit of justice through the use of religious tactics to manipulate the legal system for their personal gain and ego. The case of TANI OLORUN as…
Bandits who abducted seven residents of Kuduru, a neighbouring community of Bwari Area Council in Abuja, have demanded for N290 million ransom to release the hostages. The residents, including a pregnant woman, three children and four adults, who have spent one month and four days in captivity were abducted on January 28 at the Kuduru extention by the bandits. According to a leader of the community who did not want to be named, the bandits have threatened to kill two out of the victims if the N290 million is not paid on time. He said the abductors also demanded for…
Ahead of the February 17 Edo state governorship primary election, a former Minister of state, Budget and National Planning, Clem Agba, has said that contrary to insinuations in some quarter he was not the anointed candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the state. Agba made this known on Wednesday in Abuja while addressing journalists at the APC National secretariat after submitting his nomination form to the party. He stressed that if he were to be the anointed candidate that he would not bother campaigning. His words: “If I were the anointed, do I need to go about campaigning?…
The national leadership of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has set aside the purported suspension of the Benue state APC Chairman, Augustine Agada. TheHintsNews reports that Agada was purportedly suspended by by party executives in Ehaje Ward 1, Owukpa, Ogbadibo Local Government Area of the state. However, the National Publicity Secretary of the party, Felix Morka, in a statement issued Wednesday said Agada remained the party chairman in the state. He noted that his suspension was set aside pending further review and decision of the party’s National Working Committee (NWC) on the matter. Morka noted: “The attention of the National…
The Deputy Speaker and Chairman Constitution Review Committee of the House of Representatives, Hon. Ben Kalu has said that the committee has set December, 2025 as the target time to conclude the constitutional review process. He said it was the view of the Speaker, Hon. Tajudeen Abbas that the committee set a realistic timeline that does not conflict with electoral activities which would advertently or inadvertently affect the alteration process. Kalu, who disclosed this Wednesday in Abuja at the pre-inaugural meeting of the committee revealed that the committee present has 40 bills that are at various stages of consideration which…
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has deplored what he termed mislabelling and blanket stereotyping of Nigeria as a country with the highest prevalence of cybercrime and other forms of corrupt practices among its population. This, he said, undermines the majority of the citizens maintaining the principles of integrity and diligence. The President made the observation on Wednesday during a Public Engagement on Youth, Religion, and the Fight Against Corruption, as well as the Launch of Inter-Faith Manual and Fraud Risk Assessment Project for Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs). The event organised by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) was a…