APC clears Kebbi State LG poll

The All Progressives Congress (APC) has won all the 21 chairmanship seats in the just-concluded Kebbi State local government elections.

The chairman of Kebbi State Independent National Electoral Commission (KESIEC), Alhaji Aliyu Mera, made the announcement while addressing newsmen in Birnin Kebbi on Thursday.

Court sacks Sokoto APC federal lawmaker, orders rerun

The Court of Appeal, Sokoto Division, on Tuesday ordered a fresh election in the Sokoto North/Sokoto South Federal Constituency of Sokoto State.

Justice Frederick Oho, in his judgment, ordered the Independent National Electoral Commission to conduct a rerun election within ninety days.

Driver crushes KAROTA official to death

KAROTA Official on duty

A 27-year-old Kano Road Traffic Agency official, Tijjni Adamu, was on Tuesday crushed to death by a motorist, who was attempting to evade arrest.

The incident, according to an eyewitness, occurred on the Airport Road when the late Adamu was in the process of arresting the motorist for beating the traffic light.

18 Dead, Dozens Hospitalised as Yellow Fever Hits Katsina

The Executive Secretary of Katsina State Primary Health Development Agency, Dr Shamsuddeen Yahaya on Tuesday confirmed that 18 deaths had been recorded from an outbreak of a disease suspected to be yellow fever in the Matazu Local Government Area of the state.

He stated that laboratory tests carried out in Abuja and in Lagos on the disease had not indicated clearly that it was yellow fever.

Navy recovers 267 cows, 51 sheep, arrests five bandits in Kaduna

Troops of the Nigerian Navy School of Armament Technology, Kachia, in Kacjia Local Government Area of Kaduna State have arrested five bandits who are said to be rustlers too.

The formation paraded the suspects on Tuesday saying that 267 cows and 51 sheep were recovered from the bandits on Saturday, October 26.

FG to ASUU: No going back on IPPIS platform

The Federal Government has insisted on migration of payment of salaries of lecturers teaching at federal universities to the Integrated Payroll Personal System, IPPIS, despite the threat by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) to embark on strike over the issue.

Speaking to reporters at the end of the meeting of National Economic Council on Tuesday, the Minister of Finance, Hajia Zainab Ahmed, said the decision to migrate payment of salaries of lecturers to IPPIS platform was  a presidential  directive binding on all Federal Government’s staff.

FG moves to regulate social media space

NUJ supports move, CSOs kick, lawyers differ ‘Only anarchists will kick against plan’  

The on how to inject Federal Government says it is working sanity into the social media space which, according to it, is totally out of control today.

Addressing journalists in Abuja yesterday, Minister of Information and Culture Lai Mohammed said the social media at present constituted real danger to the unity of the country.