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The Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) hasinaugurated a 16-member budget committee to prepare its2024 budget through engagements with stakeholders.The NDDC Managing Director, Dr. Samuel Ogbuku, said thatthe committee must first identify the vision of the commissionas an interventionist agency in order to prioritize the allocationof available resources.Ogbuku said that, the 2024 NDDC budget should strike abala...

Former President Goodluck Jonathan is set to receive AfricanDemocracy and Peace Icon Award for being the first leader toconcede power to an opposition government on the continent.Also to be honoured are former President of Tanzania, thelate John Magufuli, Vice President of Liberia, Dr. JewelHoward-Taylor, former President of Botswana, RetiredLieutenant General Seretse Khama and many otherprominent Africans.Announcin...

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) hassaid that supplementary election will hold in places whereresults had not been declared for last Saturday’s NationalAssembly poll.The commission said it will announce the date for thesupplementary poll after conducting the governorship andHouses of Assembly elections on March 11.In a statement after its weekly meeting, INEC NationalCommissioner for Inform...

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The head of Malawi's Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB), Martha Chizuma, has been suspended over a leaked piece of audio in which she can allegedly be heard discussing official matters with a person not employed by her office.The comments that she allegedly made could prejudice the trial of people charged with corruption.Chizuma remained in the job with the president’s backing and went ahead to indict several high profile officials, including Vice-Presi...

 The presidential candidate of the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) Rabiu Kwankwaso has faulted the new naira swap deadline, claiming it only affects the masses and not the political elites who he said have banks. The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) had on Sunday extended the deadline for the swapping of the newly-designed naira notes, bowing to pressure from many quarters.But Kwankwaso said the February 10th deadline given by the apex bank is not e...

A mobile court sitting in Benin City has convicted four more drivers in the metropolis for violating the state’s traffic laws. The erring drivers were slammed with fines totaling 190,000 naira as well as psychiatric evaluation.The convicted drivers are among those apprehended by the Edo State Public Works Volunteers (PUWOV) for driving against the traffic. ...

The Supreme Court has recognised the candidates that emerged from the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, primaries in Edo State for the general elections loyal to Governor Godwin Obaseki of the state.It will be recalled that the party in the state held pararell primaries, one by the faction loyal to Obaseki and the other led by Dan Orbih, Deputy National Chairman of the party.Following a Federal High Court, Abuja judgment, in favour of the Orbih group, the Inde...

The independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) says a total of 2,258 permanent voters cards (PVC) were collected on Wednesday 1st of February. Figures released by the Edo state INEC Head of Voters Education and publicity, Timidi Wariowei showed that Ikpoba okha Local Government Area has the highest number of collection with a total of 702, followed by Oredo with 398 and Ovia North East with 254.Egor 148,Esan West 145, Orhionwon 145, Ovia South West 109,Eaan South East ...