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By Uko Okon The Action Democratic Congress (ADC) Akwa Ibom State chapter has accused the Federal Government of insincerity and fraud over claims of a 76 billion naira Eket bypass project. According to the party, there is no such project underway in Eket Local Government Area of the region. The party’s Publicity Secretary, Mr Manfred…
No fewer than four persons have been confirmed dead in a motor accident that occurred along the Benin-Lagos road in Edo State. NewsNowng gathered that the accident happened on Tuesday, September 2, 2025, at the Ovia river bridge axis of the road in Ovia North East Local Government Area of the state. It was learnt…
President Bola Tinubu has announced that Nigeria is not borrowing locally and has met its revenue target for the year. Tinubu said this during a reception for members of the defunct Congress for Progressive Change (CPC), led by former Nasarawa State governor, Tanko Al-Makura. “We have met our revenue target for the whole year, and…
Datti Baba-Ahmed believes Nasir El-Rufai’s allegations that the Federal Government is paying bandits should be taken seriously, suggesting a questioning of the former governor of Kaduna State. The Labour Party (LP) vice presidential candidate in the 2023 election made this know on Tuesday during an interview. “If the so-called office of the National Security Adviser…
The Federal Government and the National Assembly have backed the planned commencement of the Computer-Based Test (CBT) by the West African Examinations Council (WAEC). WAEC had earlier disclosed plans to fully migrate from paper-based examination to CBT in 2026, a move that generated controversy in some quarters. But while addressing members of the National Assembly…
The National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Umar Damagum, has insisted there is no going back on the party’s national convention, billed for November in Ibadan, Oyo State. Damagum spoke on Tuesday during the inauguration of the 110-member National Convention Organizing Committee (NCOC) in Abuja. “As you know, the 2025 National Convention is…
The Director-General of the Institute for Peace and Conflict Resolution (IPCR), Dr. Joseph Ochogwu, has called for stronger collaboration between policymakers, religious leaders, and civil society actors in tackling Nigeria’s complex peace and security challenges. He made the call at a validation workshop on the Monitoring and Evaluation Instrument for the Network of Policymakers and…
Stakeholders have warned Nigeria on toying with genetically modified organisms (GMOs) food, asking the government to determine the model of agriculture to embrace. They raised the alarm they allowing genetically modified organisms without proper checks would undermine the nation’s food sovereignty. The stakeholders while advocating for the ban of GMOs in the country at the…
A civic tech organisation, Monitoring Transparency in Nigeria Governance (MonITNG), has called on the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) and the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to investigate a dam project in Edo State that has received repeated budgetary allocations without execution since 2017. The project, titled “Construction of Earth…
By Tracy Ohovwore Dr Nnimmo Bassey, Executive Director of the Health of Mother Earth Foundation (HOMEF), has cautioned that Nigeria’s embrace of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) threatens the country’s food sovereignty, biodiversity, and cultural heritage. Delivering a keynote address at the National Symposium on GMOs held on 1 September 2025, Bassey argued that the root…