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By Halimah Olamide There is currently tension at the Garki, head office of the Nigerian Postal Service (NIPOST) on Monday as workers of the government-owned postal company shut the gate against the newly appointed Postmaster General of the Federation, Tola Odeyemi. NPO Reported on Sunday that the sacked Postmaster General, Sunday Adepoju, had claimed that President Bola Tinubu had changed his mind and had asked Odeyemi to see him for consideration for another position. On Monday, some workers in the agency displayed placards at the gate of the postal company, a parastatal struggling for survival in view of the new…

Halimah Olamide Social media influencer and Public Relations specialist, Adegoke Pamilerin, and his wife Motunrayo have welcome their first child. Pamilerin revealed this in a short post on his X handle on Sunday. The couple got married last year in a court event in Lagos. Sharing the good news with his fans, Pamilerin wrote : My Housemate don born with a love emoji. daddy Boy. Almost immediately, Pamilerin updated his bio on his profile to indicate he has become a father in addition to its initial “Husband PR Media.” A baby boy, the influencer said that they were aware of…

By Kamil Opeyemi The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) National Working Committee (NWC) says the party’s candidate in the Nov. 11 Imo State Governorship election, Sen. Samuel Anyanwu remains the party National Secretary. The party made the clarification in a statement by its National Publicity Secretary, Debo Ologunagba, in Abuja on Friday. Ologunagba said that the attention of the NWC of PDP had been drawn to a statement by a group mischievously purporting that the NWC had relieved Anyanwu of his elected position as national secretary. “The NWC states in very clear terms that the claim by the group is completely…

By Kamil Opeyemi The Ondo State House of Assembly has suspended the impeachment proceedings against Lucky Aiyedatiwa, the Deputy Governor of the state. Olusegun Odusola, the Chief Judge of the state High Court, had declined the Assembly’s request to set up a seven-man panel to investigate allegations of gross misconduct against Aiyedatiwa. The CJ was said to have cited a subsisting court’s ex-parte order restraining him from carrying out the directive of the Assembly. Speaking on the matter on Friday, the Chairman, House Committee on Information, Mr. Olatunji Oshati, said the House would abide by the order of the court,…

By Kamil Opeyemi The All Progressives Congress (APC), has postponed the flag-off of its Bayelsa Governorship Campaign earlier scheduled for Saturday, Oct. 14, in Yenagoa. Mr Felix Morka, the party’s National Publicity Secretary, announced this in a statement on Friday in Abuja. He said that a new date would be communicated to the public in due course. Recall that an Abuja High Court recently disqualified Timipre Sylva, the APC candidate, from contesting the Nov. 11 governorship race. Justice Donatus Okorowo, while delivering the judgement, held that Sylva had been sworn in twice and ruled Bayelsa for five years as governor.…

By Kamil Opeyemi The ICPC says it is set to begin Phase 6 tracking of the constituency and executive projects valued at N500 billion, which started in 2019 in 25 states and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT). The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) spokesperson, Mrs Azuka Ogugua, said in a statement in Abuja on Friday that the exercise would have teams tracking 1,932 projects. She explained that the focal states for the exercise included Nasarawa, Benue, Kogi, Niger, Kwara, Plateau, Adamawa, Borno, Bauchi, Taraba, Gombe and Yobe. Others, according to her, are Kano, Katsina, Kebbi, Sokoto,…

By Kamil Opeyemi The Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Mr Nyesom Wike, has set up two joint security task forces to ensure the safety and security of residents of the FCT. The Commissioner of Police, FCT Command, Haruna Garba, made this known while briefing journalists on the outcome of the FCT Security Council meeting in Abuja on Friday. Garba said that one of them was a Joint Task Force, consisting of all security agencies in the FCT, on “one chance” activities. The other, he said, is a Joint Task Force to curtail the activities of armed robbers, kidnappers…

By Kamil Opeyemi President Bola Tinubu has approved the appointment of Mr Bayo Onanuga, the former Managing Director of the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) as Special Adviser on Information and Strategy. This is contained in a statement by the Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Chief Ajuri Ngelale, on Friday in Abuja. The president also approved the appointment of Ms Delu Bulus Yakubu as Senior Special Assistant to the President on Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Alleviation. “It is part of efforts to prioritize effective and efficient working synergy between the Presidency and Federal Ministries through the…

By Kamil Opeyemi The Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Mr Nyesom Wike, on Friday confirned that President Bola Tinubu has approved the pulling out of FCT Administration from the Treasury Single Account (TSA). Wike, who disclosed this while briefing journalists in Abuja, said that the development would take Abuja capital city to where it was supposed to be. He lamented that FCT was littered with prokects, adding that the projects were being awarded without the requisite financial backing. Wike said that part of the problem was the inclusion of FCTA into the TSA, however describing it as a…

By Kamil Opeyemi The Governorship Candidate of PDP in Lagos State, Dr Abdulazeez Adediran (a.k.a. Jandor), has filed an appeal to challenge the judgment of Lagos State Election Petition Tribunal which upheld the re-election of Gov. Babajide Sanwo-Olu. He filed the appeal before the Lagos Division of the Court of Appeal. Adediran filed the suit together with his party, PDP Adediran said in the 34-ground appeal dated Oct. 13, that it was to express his dissatisfaction with the verdict of the tribunal. He claimed that miscarriage of laws characterised the judgment, and prayed the Court of Appeal to set aside…