Federal government has received over one million doses of the pentavalent meningococcal conjugate vaccine (Men5CV) from the global emergency stockpile funded by Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, as part of efforts to curb a deadly meningitis outbreak in the country’s northern region.
The shipment targets the ongoing outbreak of meningococcus serogroups C and W, which has so far claimed more than 70…
and appointed Engr. Bashir Bayo Ojulari as the new GCEO and Ahmadu Musa Kida as non-executive chairman
President Bola Tinubu has sacked the board of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC) including its Group Chief Executive Officer, Mele Kyari and board chairman Pius Akinyelure.
The decision, effective April 2, 2025, was announced in a statement by presidential spokesperson Bayo…
Governor Monday Okpebholo and the All Progressives Congress (APC) have won round one in the series of the peitions challenging their declaration as winners of the September 21, 2024 governorship election in Edo state.
A petition instituted against them by the Action Alliance (AA) and one Adekunle Rufai Omoaje was thrown out by the Edo State Governorship Election Peition Tribunal for lacking in…
The Edo State Election Petition Tribunal sitting in Abuja, on Wednesday, threw out the petition filed by the Action Alliance (AA) and Adekunle Rufai Omoaje, challenging the election of Governor Monday Okpebholo.
In its first judgement on Wednesday, the tribunal held that the case instituted by the AA ”lacked merit and was frivolous”.
The three-member tribunal led by Wilfred Kpochi held…
President of the Senate, Godswill Akpabio, has condemned the murder of 16 travellers in Edo State, describing it as a senseless act of violence, unacceptable and having no place in our society.
According to a release by his Special Assistant on Media, Jackson Udom, Senator Akpabio said, he is deeply saddened and disturbed by the gruesome murder of 16 travellers in Edo State, adding that the…
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has approved an extension of Mrs. Kemi Nanna Nandap’s tenure as the Comptroller-General of the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) through December 31, 2026.
Mrs Nandap began her career in the Nigeria Immigration Service on October 9, 1989.
President Tinubu appointed her as Comptroller-General on March 1, 2024, to serve till August 31, 2025.
Under her…
Former Governor of Sokoto State, Senator Aminu Waziri Tambuwal, has argued that the Senate did not meet the constitutional two-thirds majority required to approve President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s proclamation of a State of Emergency in Rivers State.
The Senate, last Thursday, held a closed session to deliberate on the president’s proclamation and later approved it during plenary through a…
It is astonishing how the factional chapter of the caretaker committee of the Peoples Democratic Party and the appointed publicity secretary, Chris Nehikhare, rush to issue statements without first understanding the subject at hand.
Nehikhare’s latest press release is another embarrassing display of ignorance, completely missing the point Governor Monday Okpebholo raised.
The Governor was…
Despite the declaration of a state of emergency in Rivers State by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, life in the state remains calm and peaceful. Our correspondent, Doris Tams Morrison, took a tour around major roads in Port Harcourt to assess the situation.
At the Rivers State Secretariat, workers were seen heading to their respective ministries. Though many expressed dissatisfaction with the…
In a Nationwide broadcast delivered this evening, President Tinubu said
“In the circumstance, having soberly reflected on and evaluated the political situation in Rivers State and the Governor and Deputy Governor of Rivers State having failed to make a request to me as President to issue this proclamation as required by section 305(5) of the 1999 Constitution as amended, it has become…