The White House has dismissed reports that President Joe Biden is considering quitting the presidential race. White House Senior Deputy Press Secretary and Deputy Assistant to the president, Andrew Bates, described the New York Times’ report as false. Posting on X, Bates wrote: “This claim is absolutely false and if we had been given more than 7 minutes we could have communicated this before it was publicized. “That claim is absolutely false. If the New York Times had provided us with more than 7 minutes to comment we would have told them so.” Bates was reacting to a report by…
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Edo State Government has withdrawn the 29-count charges preferred against the Secretary to the Benin Traditional Council, Mr Frank Irabor, and six palace officials over alleged demolition of houses. In August 2022, the state government brought a 29-count charge against the defendants over the demolition of houses at Ulegun community in Ikpoba-Okha Local Government Area of the state. The accused were then remanded in prison by Justice Mary Itsueli of Edo State High Court. But at the resumed hearing of the case on Wednesday, July 3, 2024, the State Director of Public Prosecution, DPP, Orobosa Okunbor, applied for the withdrawal…
Independent National Electoral Commission says its office in the Sankara area of Ukum LGA in Benue has been burnt down. INEC’s National Commissioner and Chairman for Information and Voter Education Committee, Sam Olumekun, said in a statement on Wednesday, that the incident was reported by the state’s Resident Electoral Commissioner, Sam Egwu. According to him, youths in the area protesting activities of bandits in the communities attacked the INEC office and other government facilities around 2pm. The INEC statement read, “Although no casualties were reported, the building has been extensively damaged. Office furniture and other movable and immovable materials, including…
A former speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara on Wednesday said lawmakers’ monthly earnings can not last them for more than three days. This was as he urged the legislators to open their finances to dispel the insinuation that they were taking a humongous monthly salary. Dogara made this disclosure while speaking at the first-ever legislative open week of the House in Abuja. According to the Peoples Democratic Party chieftain, his monthly salary was less than N400,000 during his time as a Rep member, while his monthly allowance as a presiding officer was N25 million, stressing that the…
Senate has blamed the recent suicide bombings in Gwoza town in Borno State on failure of intelligence on the part of security agencies. Senate President Godswill Akpabio stated this while contributing to the debate on a motion on the incident. The motion was sponsored by the Senate Chief Whip, Mohammed Ali Ndume, during the plenary. Leading the debate, Ndume identified Mandara Mountains, Sambisa Forest and the Lake Chad region as the remaining terrorists’ havens. In its resolution, Senate urged the Federal Government to direct the military to re-think its conventional strategies in fighting insurgency and other crimes by deploying modern…
…allege former gov, two ex-ministers behind planned action, warn organisers to desist . It’s another #EndSARs violence in disguise, says Coalition 259 Civil Society Organisations under the aegis of the Coalition for Transparency and Economic Reforms (COTER) have kicked against the Friday July 5, 2024 proposed nationwide protests against the operations of the anti-graft agency, Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) by a group, @PIDOM Nigeria. The Coalition has also identified some aggrieved politicians, including a former governor of one of the Northern states, two former ministers and others as the brains behind the planned nationwide protests against the EFCC.…
Christian Association of Nigeria has enjoined Nigerians to stand strong against terror. This is following the recent suicide attacks in Gwoza, Borno State. CAN, in a statement by its President, Archbishop Daniel Okoh, expressed deep worry about the recent suicide attacks. Last Saturday’s incident had claimed numerous lives and injured many others. CAN said, “We are concerned about the resurgence of suicide bombing in our country and the threat it poses to the lives and livelihoods of Nigerians. “This senseless act of violence is a stark reminder of the evil that terrorism represents, and the need for collective action to…
Bayelsa State Governor, Senator Douye Diri, on Wednesday, dismissed calls being made to former Vice President Atiku Abubakar to pick him as his running mate in the 2027 presidential election. A group, Diri Angels, had called on Atiku Abubakar to consider the Bayelsa State Governor as his Vice-Presidential candidate in 2027. The group had in a statement on Tuesday by its Secretary, John Ondowari, said there was no doubt that Atiku would still emerge as the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party in 2027. It added that the only way for Atiku to realise his ambition to unseat President…
Ola Olukoyede, Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), has shared his frustration over the level of corruption in the country. Speaking while receiving the management team of the Revenue Mobilisation Allocation and Fiscal Commission (RMAFC) led by its Chairman, Mohammed Shehu, Olukoyede said anytime he checks case files and sees the amount stolen, he wonders how the country still exists. He said if Nigerians saw some case files they would weep. He said public corruption ranks as the biggest cause of corruption in Nigeria, adding that if public corruption was taken out of the polity, the country…
Federal Government of Nigeria has settled the $850 million outstanding debt owed European airlines, the European Union has said. EU Ambassador to Nigeria and the ECOWAS, Samuela Isopi, disclosed this at the ongoing 9th edition of the Nigeria-EU business forum in Abuja. The forum, with the theme ‘Investing in Jobs and a Sustainable Future’, was attended by the Director-General at the EU, Myriam Ferran; the Minister of Budget and National Planning, Atiku Bagudu, and the Permanent Secretary at the Ministry of Industry, Trade, and Investment, Ambassador Nura Rimi. On the occasion, the EU and Eurocham Nigeria (The European Business Chamber)…