The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) said Nigeria will be witnessing severe flooding this year as indicated by predictions from relevant agencies. Mr Mustapha Ahmed, the Director-General, NEMA, predicted on Wednesday during a two-day Experts’ Technical Meeting on 2023 Climate-Related Disaster Preparedness and Mitigation Strategies in Abuja. He mentioned that the Nigerian Meteorological Agency (NiMet)…
Comedian AY Makun has praised Labour party presidential candidate Peter Obi. Even though Obi lost to Tinubu in the election, AY praised him for his courage, hard work, and ambition and expressed his pride in Peter Obi’s plans for the future of the country. He wrote; ”@peterobigregory From the very day you honoured my open…
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has sacked two of its staff over alleged “gross misconduct”. Fabian Benjamin, JAMB’s head of public affairs and protocol, revealed the identities of the dismissed staff in a statement on Wednesday. JAMB said Bilyaminu Ishaku and Andrew Anebi Candidus were dismissed from the board’s office in Makurdi, Benue…
Twitter is now back and running after suffering a global outage on Wednesday morning, with thousands of users unable to refresh or load their timeline feeds The users reported the outage on the Down Detector website, a website that monitors outages. Down Detector also reported that the issues affecting the microblogging platform started just after…
The Kaduna State Police Command has banned all political celebrations and rallies for or against the election results of the state’s concluded presidential and National Assembly elections. The ban was placed on all supporters of political parties across the 23 local government areas in the state. The ban was disclosed in a statement titled, ‘General…
Comedian Seyi Law has penned down an apology those he offended for supporting All Progressives Congress candidate, Bola Tinubu who was announced as winner of the 2023 presidential election. Seyi Law wrote; ”My fellow Nigerians, I am happy you’re as passionate as you are about your preferred candidates. That is the way politics should be.…
The vice presidential candidate of the Labour Party, LP, Yusuf Datti Baba-Ahmed, Wednesday, vowed to reclaim the party’s mandate, noting that he and the LP candidate, Peter Obi, won the election. He made this known in a statement he signed on Wednesday, hours after the Independent Electoral Commission, INEC, declared the candidate of the All…
Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu the Presidential Candidate of the All Progressives Congress in last Saturday’s general elections, has won the keenly contest polls in Rivers State. The APC flagbearer also swept Niger and Benue states, garnering massive votes in both states. Earlier, there was a strong battle for who would take Rivers State, with the…
The Peoples Democratic Party, the Labour Party and the African Democratic Congress have asked the Chairman of the Independent Electoral Commission, Mahmood Yakubu, to step aside. The three parties in a joint press conference on Tuesday, in Abuja, alleged that the February 2023 presidential and National Assembly elections were marred with violence, rigging and intimidation…
The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC has declared the Labour Party, LP presidential candidate, Mr Peter Obi, the winner of Saturday’s Presidential election in Anambra State. Obi swept all the 21 local government areas in the state by a wide margin. Prof Nnenna Otti, Vice Chancellor of the Federal University of Technology, Owerri (FUTO) who…
