2019

Good morning! Here is today’s summary from Nigerian Newspapers 1. President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday congratulated Governor Yahaya Bello of Kogi State on his re-election in the November 16 gubernatorial poll. Buhari described the…

President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday advised the Peoples Democratic Party and other parties that were not satisfied with the results of governorship elections in Kogi and Bayelsa states to seek redress in court. Buhari gave this advice…

Some policemen allegedly driving against the traffic, on Monday, crushed two motorcycle passengers to death on the Long Bridge end of the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway in Ogun State. The motorcyclist was also said to have sustained injuries…

Steve Oko, Umuahia Abia Governor, Dr. Okezie Ikpeazu, has secured the approval of the African Development Bank (AfDB), private investors and other multilateral financial institutions for a $430 million investment in the development of…

The Speaker, Abia State House of Assembly, Rt. Hon. (Engr.) Chinedum Orji has thanked the State Governor, Dr. Okezie Ikpeazu for the cordial relationship existing between the executive and legislature. The Speaker, who said this at the…

The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, candidate in the Saturday’s Kogi State governorship election, Musa Wada, has rejected the declaration of Governor Yahaya Bello as the winner of the election. Wada said what happened on Saturday was a…

Governor Dr. Okezie Ikpeazu has proposed a budget estimate of One hundred and Thirty-Six Billion, Six Hundred and Seventeen Million, Three hundred and Sixteen Naira (N136,617,847,316) for the 2020 fiscal year with the promise to ensure the…

I bring to Mr. Speaker and Members of this Honourable House the best regards of the day. I am delighted to present the Abia State 2020-2022 Medium Term Draft Estimates to this Honourable Assembly for your consideration. I wish to thank all…

YIAGA AFRICA, a civil society organisation (CSO), says there are indications that the results of the Bayelsa state gubernatorial election were manipulated. The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) had declared David Lyon,…

Following the alarm raised by the Vice-Chancellor of the Federal University of Technology, FUTO, Francis Eze, over the destruction of their farms by herdsmen, the herders have been given 24 hours to vacate the institution. This was made…