The National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), says it has relocated its orientation camp following the attacks by terrorists, especially in Mangu Local Government Area of Plateau State. Its Director of Press and Public Relations, Eddy Megwa, in a statement issued Monday the venue for the 2023 Batch ‘B’ Stream One Orientation Camp in the state has been changed. He noted that the permanent orientation camp in Mangu will, for the time being, no longer serve as the venue for the orientation course for prospective corps members. Megwa said: “All prospective corps members are by this information expected to report at…
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The governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Adamawa state in the 2023 election, Aisha Dahiru Binani has, again, dragged the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to court over the nullification of her declaration as governor of Adamawa in the March 18 governorship election. TheHintsNews reports that the suspended Adamawa state Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC), Hudu Ari had declared Binani as the winner of the supplementary poll held on April 15, 2023 even though the collation of results of the supplementary election had yet to be completed. However, Binani, through her counsel, Michael Aondoaka, SAN, filed the fresh suit…
A former governor of Ekiti State, Ayo Fayose, says he worked against the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and the party’s presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar during the 2024 elections Fayose made this known while featuring on ‘Politics Today’ on Channels Television on Sunday night. According to him I never worked for PDP during the last election. I am not a liar and a pretender. I did not work for PDP. The former governor said he had no regrets working ‘one hundred per cent’ against the presidential ambition of Atiku in the build-up to the February 25 presidential poll. He said he…
The All Progressives Congress (APC) has announced the postponement of its caucus and National Executive Committee (NEC) meetings earlier slated for Monday and Tuesday respectively. TheHintsNews reports that while the national Caucus meeting was scheduled to hold at the Banquet Hall, Presidential Villa Abuja, the NEC meeting was billed to hold at the Transcorp Hotel Abuja. The ruling party noted that the meeting will now hold on the 18th and 19th of July, 2023, respectively. The National Secretary of the party, Senator Iyiola Omisore, in a statement issued Sunday exaimed that the postponement was necessitated by the regional and sub-regional…
The Police Service Commission has approved the dismissal of three senior Police officers for misconduct and abuse of office. Head of Press and Public Relations of the Commission, Ikechukwu Ani in a statement issued Sunday said nine other officers were demoted including a Commissioner of Police. He said the Commission took these decisions at the continuation of its 21st Plenary Meeting which began at its Corporate Headquarters in Jabi, Abuja on Thursday July 6, 2023. Ani noted that the meeting was presided over by Justice Clara Ogunbiyi, a retired Justice of the Supreme Court and Honourable Commissioner representing the Judiciary…
The Department of State Services (DSS) has described as petty, the report in some sections of the media that a former Governor of Zamfara state, Senator Abdulaziz Yari was invited for not picking President Bola Tinubu’s call. The agency said SaharaReporters, Peoples Gazette and Jackson Ude have variously and wrongly fed the public with misleading narratives and accusations against the Service. It said, for instance, SaharaReporters wrote that the Service stormed the Independent Corrupt Practices and other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) and Code of Conduct Bureau (CCB) and carted away certain files from them; while Jackson Ude falsely claimed that…
President Bola Tinubu has emerged as the new Chairman of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) at the 63rd Ordinary Session of the Authority of Heads of State and Government on Sunday in Bissau, Guinea-Bissau. The Special Adviser to the President on Special Duties, Communications and Strategy, Dele Alake in a statement issued Sunday said the President’s endorsement was a unanimous decision. Tinubu, however, warned that the threat to peace in the sub-region had reached an alarming proportion with terrorism, saying emerging pattern of military takeover that now demands urgent and concerted actions. He said insecurity and creeping…
Phrank Shaibu, the Special Assistant on Public Communication to the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the 2023 elections, Atiku Abubakar has warned supporters of President Bola Tinubu, against disrupting proceedings at the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal. Shaibu in a statement issued Sunday said the warning became imperative following the “sponsored protest” Tinubu’s supporters staged at the European Union head office in Abuja after the release of the EU Observer Mission report which revealed how the election failed the credibility test. The EU report had scored the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) low over the handling of…
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), Sunday said it has seized 4,560 kilograms of skunk in an interdiction operation in Lagos, Adamawa, and Osun, arresting four members of a drug syndicate in the process. The agency in a statement issued by its Director of Media and Advocacy, Femi Babafemi, said those arrested by its operatives included two church officials; female staff of a courier company, and another lady, involved in trafficking lethal opioid, fentanyl in Delta. He said: “No fewer than 4,560 kilogrammes of skunk have been seized in interdiction operations in Lagos, Adamawa, and Osun by operatives of…
The carnage in Benue valley continued Saturday as terrorists on launched another attack on Zaki Akpuuna 1 and Diom communities of Mbaterem district in the Ukum Local Government Area of Benue State, killing 24 residents. The terrorists, TheHintsNews gathered, invaded the sleepy communities around 8:00 am on Saturday with the attackers burning several houses in adjourning villages. An indigene, who spoke on condition of anonymity said the terrorists, referredq to by locals as bandits attacked Zaki Akpuuna and killed 24 people. He stated: “You know that the three local government areas in the Sankera axis had long been under these…