INEC registers fresh 177, 914 voters for Ondo, Edo polls 

• Three top spending items overrun estimates, receive N140.6b in six months • 51% of N19.4b H1 budgetary allocations held back • Agricultural research, foreign missions get zero funding • Stakeholders fear regulatory crisis in oil sector, disregard for PIA • Concerns over idle oil blocks, fate of NNPCL • Nigeria loses $7.2 billion to…

• Russia distances self from protesters’ display of its national symbol • Obi: Tinubu’s speech failed to address realities, triggers of protests The Nigerian military yesterday warned against the display of the Russian flag under the guise of the ongoing #EndBadGovernance protest, saying the action is treasonous and would be met with consequences. Chief of…

Akinyelure hails Ondo youths for shunning rallies Osun State Governor, Ademola Adeleke, has said that some "evil political forces" made efforts to hijack the ongoing #EndBadGovernance nationwide protests but protesters in the state shunned them. He commended the protesters for not allowing themselves to be used to create unrest in the state. In a statement,…

APC women ask Tinubu to review economic polices Angry youths in Jos North Local Council of Plateau State defied the curfew imposed by the government, as they trooped out yesterday in their thousands to confront security agencies, thereby creating tension in the area.   Police shot into the air to scare the youths, whose motive…

Kano probes destruction of properties by miscreants Governor Uba Sani-led administration has imposed a 24-hour curfew on Kaduna and Zaria metropolitan cities, following a fresh outbreak of protest and looting by hoodlums, who broke into shops yesterday, after hijacking the protest against hardship and bad governance. The miscreants took over the protests by aggrieved thousands…

Stakeholders at a two-day workshop organised by Health of Mother Earth Foundation (HOMEF), in collaboration with the Niger Delta University (NDU), Ammasoma, have analysed how crude oil extraction by oil companies and beneficiaries, like the federal and state governments, including those who are benefitting from oil exploration in Niger Delta, have sacrificed and privatised the…

Rivers State Governor, Siminalayi Fubara, has signed an Executive Order to establish an investment agency that will coordinate the barrage of enquiries and business interests expressed by investors who now consider the state as a destination of first choice. Fubara signed Executive Order No. 002 of 2024 for the establishment of the Rivers State Investment…

Fifteen years after some faith-based schools were returned to their original owners in the South-East, their fortunes have remained unchanged. This is confirmed by the derelict infrastructure, and funding gaps, among other teething issues, which they still reel under, LAWRENCE NJOKU reports. In April this year, a lawmaker representing Igboeze South in the Enugu State…

The Nigerian Society of Engineers (NSE) and Vice-Chancellor of Lead City University, Ibadan, Prof. Kabiru Adeyemo, have urged the Federal Government to encourage multi-stakeholder approach to finding solutions to challenges facing Nigeria's energy sector. They made the call during the seventh Ifedayo Akintunde yearly lecture in Ibadan in collaboration with the university, which had the…

Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI) and the World Health Organisation (WHO) have called on researchers and governments to strengthen and accelerate global research to prepare for the next pandemic.    The global health bodies made the call in a statement on its website after a Global Pandemic Preparedness Summit 2024 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. They…