Ahead of this Saturday's bye and re-run elections across 26 states, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), in collaboration with the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), is delivering materials to the affected locations. The election will be held in 80 local government areas in 26 states of the federation.The commission,
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The students’ community of Ekpri Nsukara, one of the adjoining areas hosting the University of Uyo (UNIUYO) main campus in the state capital, has been thrown into mourning following the gruesome murder of a young lady by suspected ritualists.Her decapitated body without the upper abdomen was discovered tucked in a
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Ebonyi State Governor, Francis Nwifuru, has promised to restore public power supply in Afikpo and environs before the end of March this year. After nine years, the second-largest city in the state was without light.Governor Nwifuru made the promise when he received members of the Ekpukessa Traditional Council of Elders
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The Chairman of the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC), Dr. Musa Adamu Aliyu, has reiterated the commitment of the agency to integrity, accountability, and excellence in building a Nigeria free of corruption and where the rule of law prevails.Adamu made this assertion yesterday at the commission’s
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The Executive Secretary of the Universal Basic Education Commission (UBEC), Dr. Hamid Bobboyi, has reiterated the commitment of the federal government to the provision of quality and inclusive basic education in the country.He said Nigeria cannot attain Sustainable Development Goal (SDG-4)—Access to Equitable, Quality, and Inclusive Education—at basic education institutions
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Jigawa State government has concluded arrangements to relocate its 194 students in Sudan to Cyprus and India to continue their medical studies.Speaking to the students and their parents at the Government House, Dutse, Governor Umar Namadi said, since the outbreak of the civil war in Sudan Republic, the state government
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Vice President Kashim Shettima has commissioned the N15 billion Centre of Excellence Complex at Bayero University Kano (BUK), housing a world standard postgraduate school built by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN).The two separate five-storey buildings in the complex, with one consisting of 190 well-furnished single hotel rooms, and the
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Kano State Governor Abba Yusuf has written to the Kano State House of Assembly for approval to establish the Kano State Centre for Disease Control.The letter was addressed to the speaker, Hon. Jibril Isma'il Falgore, who read it on the floor of the House during yesterday's plenary session.The speaker’s chief
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Kebbi State government, through the Nafisa Nasir Development Foundation (NANAS), founded by the wife of the governor, Hajiya Nafisa Nasir Idris, has married off 300 less-privileged couples in society.The mass wedding, which took place at the Emir of Gwandu's Palace in Birnin Kebbi metropolis, witnessed a large crowd from within
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The Chief of Air Staff (CAS), Air Marshal Hasan Abubakar, has apologised to the families and victims of the accidental air strikes that occurred on January 24, 2023, near Rukubi in Doma local government area of Nasarawa State.At a meeting during the weekend, he told the families in Lafia that,
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