C’River pegs presidential campaign ads at N150m, govs N100m
..PDP, ADC, others kick, say tariff outrageous, exorbitant By Ike Uchechukwu CALABAR — The Cross River State Signage and Advertisement Agency, CRISSAA, has fixed N150 million as the tariff for outdoor campaign advertisements by presidential candidates ahead of the 2027 general elections. Under the new tariff, governorship candidates are to pay N100 million, while senatorial, […]
Edo: Obaseki inflated road contract – C’ttee; APC’s Tinubu induced inflation, aide retorts
“Why not just review it and take the entire purse of Edo State, if we can review from N8 billion to upward of between N12 billion and N16 billion in one year?”
Akpabio mocks PDP, Fubara at Wike’s birthday event
Senate President Chief Godswill Akpabio took aim at Rivers State Governor Sir Siminialayi Fubara and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) during the public lecture and book launch organized to celebrate the birthday of Chief Nyesom Wike, Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), in Port Harcourt.
Why Tinubu made Wike Minister – Akpabio
By Henry Umoru ABUJA- PRESIDENT of the Senate, Senator Godswill Akpabio has given an insight into why the former Governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Wike, was nominated into the Federal Executive Council (FEC) by President Bola Tinubu. According to Akpabio, President Tinubu appointed Wike because of his performance as a local government chairman, Chief of […]
Appeal Court vacates order stopping allocations to Rivers State
The Court of Appeal sitting in Abuja, on Monday, vacated the judgement that barred the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, from releasing monthly statutory allocations to Rivers State.
Photos: Tinubu, Abbas, govs, senators, others attend Senator Barau’s children’s wedding
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, Speaker of the House of Representatives, Rt Hon Tajuddeen Abbas, governors, senators, national chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Dr Abdullahi Umar Ganduje and nephew of the former president Muhammadu Buhari, Mamman Daura, were among the dignitaries who attended the wedding fatiha of the children of the Deputy President of […]
Court grants Yahaya Bello N500m bail, fixes Feb 24 for trial
The court, in the ruling delivered by trial Justice Emeka Nwite, held that the sureties must be owners of landed properties in Abuja.
LG Autonomy: We’ll jail officials helping govs divert allocations — FG
The Federal Government, yesterday, said it would initiate criminal actions against elected officials that collude with governors to divert allocations meant for the 774 Local Government Areas in the country.
Senate to Wike: Stop further demolitions in FCT
THE Senate has urged the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory Administration, FCTA, Mr Nyesom Wike to stop further demolition of structures in the nation’s Capital Territory.
With BVAS, PVCs should no longer be sole requirement for voting – INEC
Ahead of future elections, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has recommended using computer-generated voting slips for those without Permanent Voter Cards (PVCs).
Just in: Labour Party loses another lawmaker to APC
Speaker Abbas Tajudeen announced Iliya’s defection during Thursday’s plenary after reading a letter from the lawmaker.
