At least 21,640 persons nationwide have received anti-drug abuse/trafficking sensitisation counselling by the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA. This was done through the agency’s offline counselling services nationwide between 2010 and 2014, Ahmadu Giade, NDLEA Chairman said in a statement. Giade also disclosed that the agency has launched online counselling services to complement existing…
Lagos: PDP, APC Supporters Engage In Shouting Match
A mild drama ensued today at the Archbishop Vining Memorial hall, Ikeja, Lagos State where winners of the April 11 governorship and House of Assembly election in the state were presented with their certificates of return. The event had in attendance, groups of supporters backing PDP and APC politicians who had emerged victorious at the…
Abuja: NNPC Promises End To Fuel Scarcity
The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC said it has deployed more fuel tanks to ease the long queues of motorists in the various fuel stations in Abuja, the federal capital territory and its environs. In a statement, Ohi Alegbe, Group General Manager, group public affairs division, NNPC, urged the public to resist the “temptation of…
Police Rescue Three Kidnapped Children
The three missing Orekoya children ─ Aderomola, 11 months old; Adedamola, 4 and Demola, 6, that were kidnapped by Mary Akinloye who was employed as Nanny about three weeks ago at Surulere area of Lagos State have been found. Kennet Nwosu, Lagos State Police Public Relations Officer, PPRO who confirmed this to TELL said they…
Oyintiloye Commends Voters’ Determination
The people of Obokun Constituency of Osun State have been praised for their doggedness to exercise their voting rights in the face of stiff confrontations during the last governorship and states House of Assembly elections. Olatunbosun Oyintiloye, serving lawmaker and candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, said his re-election in the April 11 poll…
Lagos PDP Rejects Outcome Of Governorship Election
The Lagos State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has described the outcome of governorship election in the state as a “case of stolen mandate.” Reacting to the outcome of the election that threw up Akinwumi Ambode of the All Progressives Congress, APC, as the governor elect, Tajudeen Jaye Agoro, PDP state agent said…
PDP Declared Winner in Rivers
In spite of protests and allegations that elections did not hold in most parts of the state, the PDP has been declared winner of the April 11 governorship election in the Rivers State. The party’s standard-bearer Nyesom Wike was said to have polled 1,029,102 (87 per cent) of the total votes cast, to beat his…
Ambode Emerges Winner Of Lagos Governorship Election
Akinwumi Ambode of the All Progressives Congress, APC has been declared winner of the April 11 gubernatorial election in Lagos State. He polled 811,994 out of 1,534,029 being the total votes cast in the governorship race to defeat his major rival, Olujimi Agbaje of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP. Agbaje came second with 659,788…
APC Accuses PDP Of Disrupting Elections
The All Progressives Party, APC has accused the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP of using some miscreants to disrupt today’s governorship and state House of Assembly election in some states. Addressing journalists at his Ikeja GRA residence in Lagos State on Saturday, Lai Mohammed, national spokesman for the APC said political violence recorded in Rivers State…
Tinubu Casts His Vote
Bola Tinubu, national leader of the All Progressives Congress, APC has voted in ward 32, Alausa, Ikeja Local Government Area, LGA, Lagos State. Speaking with reporters after casting his vote, the former governor of Lagos State said there is every need to vote in his party for continuation of “developmental strides” in the state. Tinubu…
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