Outrage in Ondo communities over huge BEDC electricity bills despite erratic supply

Residents of villages and new communities in Ondo State are in agony due to the huge bills slammed on them by Benin City Electricity Distribution Company due to lack of prepaid metres. Investigation showed that the affected communities are paying huge bills following the introduction of bulk metres, security deposit which have put the residents […]

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Ondo set to return missionary schools

Ondo State Government is working with the Catholic Bishop of Ondo Catholic Diocese, Most Rev Jude Arogundade, to ensure smooth and seamless return of missionary schools to the owners. Governor Oluwarotimi Akeredolu who on Wednesday confirmed that discussion is still ongoing on the terms of return, assured that his administration is ready to return the […]

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I stopped quit church because pastor always attacked Buhari — Adesina

The Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina, says he stopped attending a branch of a church in Abuja because the pastor was always attacking President Muhammadu Buhari. He said this in an article on Thursday titled, ‘This Kumuyi is simply different’, which was written in support of a statement by […]

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Use Anambra, Ekiti polls to boost your image, Bishop tells INEC

INEC boss, Prof Mahmoud Yakubu The Catholic Bishop of Ekiti, Most Reverend Felix Ajakaye, has urged the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to use the forthcoming governorship elections in Anambra and Ekiti states to boost its image positively. The cleric spoke at the weekend in Ado-Ekiti, the state capital, while delivering a lecture, titled: “Ekiti […]

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INEC free to transmit Anambra poll results electronically, says Senate panel

Chairman of the Senate Committee on the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Kabiru Gaya, has said the electoral body is free to transmit the November 6 Anambra State governorship election result electronically, if it so desires. He said this yesterday while addressing reporters after the National Assembly Joint Committee on Electoral Matters and INEC met […]

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Court fines EFCC N5m for illegally declaring man wanted

A Lagos Federal High Court sitting in Ikoyi has ordered the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission to pay the sum of N5million to a businessman, Dr Kennedy Izuagbe, for illegally declaring him wanted. The court presided over by Justice Lewis Allagoa, also ordered the commission to publish an unreserved apology to the businessman on its […]

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Abducted UNIAbuja lecturers, family members freed

The four lecturers  of University of Abuja and their family members abducted by gunmen on Tuesday morning from their staff quarters residence have been freed. This was confirmed bye Federal Capital Territory Police Command spokesperson, DSP Josephine Adeh, who added that their suspected abductors were also arrested. She said: “The FCT Police Command wishes to […]

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Criminals hiding under IPOB’s name unleash mayhem in South-east – Governors

Umahi reading, flanked by his brother governors and other major stakeholders from the region South-East governors have absolved the Indigenous People of Biafra of blame over security challenges in the zone, saying cultists, robbers and kidnappers among other criminals are merely using the organisation’s name to foment trouble. They also said they will soon meet […]

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