Governor Siminalayi Fubara of Rivers State led a strong delegation to the Rivers State Independent Electoral Commission (RSIEC) office in Port Harcourt in the wee hours of Friday following the alleged attempt to break into the facility to cart away materials meant for Saturday’s local government election. Policemen allegedly deployed from neighboring Abia State were said to have stormed the ...

Kidnappers have demanded N30 million ransom payment for two women abducted in Igbaja, Ifelodun Local Government Area of Kwara State. Tontrends reported that gunmen abducted three women in the early hours of Sunday, September 29, 2024, but one of them escaped. The kidnappers also k!lled a vigilante commander, the Jagun of Igbaja land, Chief Lukman Balogun, who led his team to the forest in the ...

A bill for an Act to establish Nigeria Surrogacy Regulatory Commission has passed second reading in the House of Representatives. The bill, which sought monitoring and supervision of surrogacy arrangements and to provide for the registration and regulation of surrogacy, was sponsored by Rep. Olamijuwonlo Alao-Akala (APC-Oyo) at plenary on Thursday. Surrogacy is a process in which a woman carries ...

The Yobe State government is finalising a 25-year development plan tagged ‘‘Yobe Development Planning 2050’’ for the economic recovery and growth plan.   The Commissioner of the Ministry of Budget and Economic Planning, Hon. Muhammad Garba Gagiyo, stated this at Town Hall/Consultative Meeting with Citizens in Preparation of Yobe State 2025 Annual Budget held in Damaturu. He said the ...

Nasarawa State Governor Abdullahi Sule has granted amnesty to no fewer than twelve inmates across five custodial centres in Nasarawa as part of celebration marking the 64th independence celebration and twenty-eight years of the creation of Nasarawa State. Governor Sule who granted the inmates freedom in Lafia, the state capital, admonished them to make the best use of their stay in the ...

The Chairman, Board of Trustees (BoT), Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF), Alhaji Bashir Muhammad Dalhatu, has warned that the current situation of insecurity in the North is not only frightening but also threatening the existence of the northerners. The ACF board chairman gave the warning yesterday in Maiduguri when he led a delegation to visit and  sympathise with the people of Borno State over ...