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The first runner-up at the Kogi Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governorship primary and son of former Governor Ibrahim Idris, Alhaji Abubakar Idris, has denied meeting secretly with Governor Yahaya Bello. Bello, who is seeking a second term in office, is the candidate of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), for the November 16 governorship election […]
Kwara state High Court sitting in Ilorin, the state capital on Wednesday sentenced another internet fraudster Akinbamidele Femi Johnson to six months imprisonment. Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) had dragged the convict before the high court on a-three count charge that bordered on Internet fraud and other fraud related offences. The charge reads “that […]
President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday proposed the highest allocation of N262bn to the Ministry of Works and Housing, just as Power, Transportation and Defence followed with N123bn, N112bn and N100bn, respectively in the 2020 budget estimates presented to the National Assembly. These are some of the details of N10.33tn budget for the 2020 which is […]
President of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Ayuba Wabba, has said the nation’s workers deserve to earn a decent minimum wage for their contributions to wealth creation. Wabba noted that there cannot be decent work without decent wages. He stressed that the national minimum wage is the floor for decent wages. The NLC president spoke […]
Acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crime Commission (EFCC), Mr Ibrahim Magu, has alleged that some state governors are afraid of organising flamboyant parties because of the commission’s eagle eyes. Magu spoke yesterday during his working visit to the commission’s zonal office in Makurdi, the Benue State capital. The acting chairman noted that some […]
As controversies continue to trail the recent revelation of the BBC Africa Eye Sex-for-grades investigation, Ransford Gyampo, a professor of political science at the University of Ghana, has vowed to sue the BBC over its sex-for-mark video documentary. Gyampo, who was implicated in a 13-minute video documentary released, described the documentary as an entrapment, insisting […]
WHEN a lecturer in the Department of European Languages and Integrated Studies, University of Lagos (UNILAG), Dr Boniface Igbeneghu, met a ’17-year-old’ and made amorous advances at her, it never occurred to him that she was trouble. He woke up trouble. Now, he will find sleeping a Herculean task. A secret video recording gave the […]
THE Code of Conduct Bureau (CCB) has received a petition on former Chief of Justice of Nigeria Alfa Belgore. Belgore was accused of testifying against the country in favour of Process and Industrial Developments (P&ID), which secured a $9.6b arbitral award against Nigeria. The petition was filed by Human and Environmental Development Agenda (HEDA), whose […]
Kwara State Community and Social Development Agency (KWCDA) is to access over N1billion from the World Bank to implement micro-projects in interested communities in the 16 local government areas of the state. This development followed an approval by Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq of N60 million counterpart funds to key into the World Bank-funded Community and Social […]
A LECTURER at the Kogi State University (KSU), Ayingba, Dr. Usman Ogbo, was attacked in Ankpa at the weekend during a ‘thank you’ tour embarked on by People’s Democratic Party’s (PDP’s) governorship candidate Musa Wada. The opposition PDP last Friday inaugurated its campaign committees in Lokoja ahead of the November 16 governorship poll. The Deputy […]