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Poverty: Senate passes agency bill to give rural dwellers facelift

Poverty: Senate passes agency bill to give rural dwellers facelift

By Levinus Nwabughiogu, Abuja Senate on Tuesday passed to second reading a bill seeking to establish National Integrated Community Development Agency to second reading. The major objective of the Bill is to give rural areas a boost in terms of infrastructural development, as well as the improver their living standard. The establishment of the agency […]

Bayelsa by-election: CSOs hail INEC over credible poll

Bayelsa by-election: CSOs hail INEC over credible poll

Neutrality ensures hitch-free exercise By Samuel Oyadongha – Yenagoa A coalition of civil society organisations, Tuesday, hailed the Independent National Electoral; Commission (INEC) over its conduct of last Saturday National Assembly by-elections in the west and central senatorial districts of Bayelsa State saying electoral umpire neutrality and adequate provision of necessary logistics was the reason […]

PDP to INEC: Deregister APC

PDP to INEC: Deregister APC

By Nwafor Sunday The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Tuesday asked the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, to deregister the All Progressives Congress, APC, over what it described as total failure, humongous corruption as well as the plagues of economic recession, violence, killings and hardship the party brought to the people. Disclosing this in a statement […]

Governors keep mum after meeting with Buhari over insecurity 

Governors keep mum after meeting with Buhari over insecurity 

By Johnbosco Agbakwuru— ABUJA The 36 states’ governors, on the platform of Nigeria Governors Forum, NGF, on Tuesday, kept sealed lips after meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. The meeting, it was learned, was not unconnected with the security challenges in the country and the recent massacre of rice farmers in Borno […]