By Segun Adewale in Bauchi The Bauchi State Coordinator of the North East Development Commission (NEDC) says the Commission is yet to finalise modalities for the distribution of 10,330 electric vehicles across the six states of the North East. The Coordinator, Alhaji Aliyu Isiyaku, disclosed this yesterday in Bauchi during a stakeholders’ engagement workshop themed “Powering the North-East: Embracing Electric Mobility for a Cleaner, Smarter and Prosperous Future.” Isiyaku said the Commission is proposing to deploy 10,000 electric tricycles, 300 electric taxis and 30 electric buses to promote cleaner, cheaper and more sustainable transportation in the region. He explained that…
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pThe All Progressives Congress (APC) Presidential Campaign Council has accused the African Democratic Congress (ADC) of owing its workers more than 12 months’ salaries, using the allegation to question the party’s credibility and capacity to govern Nigeria. The allegation was contained in a statement issued on Monday, 26 October, 2026, by Dele Alake, spokesperson for the APC Presidential Campaign Council, who criticised the ADC’s leadership over the reported salary arrears. Alake specifically named former Senate President David Mark, the ADC’s National Chairman, and former Osun State Governor, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola, party’s National Secretary, accusing them of failing to ensure that…
The Federal Government through the Federal Ministry of Health and Social Warfare is entering into partnership with a US Based organization, ‘Operation End Starvation’ to support the nation in combating hunger and child malnutrition. The Coordinating Minister of Health and Social Welfare, Prof. Mohammed Ali Pate, disclosed this when he led a delegation of the organization and other agencies under the Health Ministry to seek collaboration with the First Lady of Nigeria Senator Oluremi Tinubu to kick hunger out of Nigeria. Prof. Pate emphasised Nigeria’s commitment to addressing malnutrition through existing government frameworks noting that the recently concluded roll out…
The First Lady of Nigeria Senator Oluremi Tinubu has said that Nigeria is on the right path to total economic recovery and sustainable development emphasising that the confidence of investors in the nations economy has greatly improved. She stated this at the commissioning of the PBAT Door-to-door Movement Headquarters in Abuja. Senator Oluremi Tinubu urged members of the Movement to not just go door to door but pass on the message of hope assured and shared prosperity. “The door-to-door campaign approach remains one of the most vital avenues for true community engagement, which gives us the privilege to listen to…
By Emmanuel OladesuDeputy Editor, The Nation There is a gang-up by men of yesteryear who seek to make the construction of the Lagos-Calabar Coastal Highway a campaign issue ahead of next year’s presidential election.Should President Bola Ahmed Tinubu have kicked-off the expansive and expensive road project at all? Should he also contemplate the construction of the Lagos-Sokoto Road, which has been in the pipeline since the days of the late former President Shehu Shagari?Unlike the Ebora Owu, former President Olusegun Obasanjo, who could not successfully reconstruct or rehabilitate the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway in eights years, and who left the Lagos-Sango-Ota Road…
By Abdulaziz Abdulaziz Through Kaduna, its old political capital, the North spoke yesterday. And the echo will haunt those who have spent months marketing the lie that the North has abandoned President Bola Ahmed Tinubu. The Kaduna Township Stadium was full beyond capacity, and the mammoth crowd overflowed into the well-adorned streets. It was a confetti of colours, flags raised high and proudly: a sea of red caps, white babban riga, green wrappers, placards of Sai Asiwaju. It was a cacophony of languages — Hausa, Fulfulde, Tiv, Idoma, Gbagyi, Yoruba, Nupe, Kanuri, and English. Entire APC governors from the North,…
The All Progressives Congress (APC) governorship candidate in Lagos State, Dr Kadri Obafemi Hamzat, will unveil his manifesto for the 2027 election on Friday, October 30, 2026, with a focus on his vision, policy priorities and plans for the state’s development and growth reports rhegazellenews.com. The Director-General of the PBAT-KOH Campaign Council, Senator Musiliu Obanikoro, announced the date at a press conference in Ikeja on Sunday, 25 October, 2026, saying the manifesto would outline Hamzat’s approach to sustaining Lagos’s development and addressing challenges facing residents. The launch is scheduled to take place at the Wole Soyinka Centre for Culture and…
Otutochi Channel Uzoamaka Wigwe, daughter of the late Group Chief Executive Officer of Access Holdings, Herbert Onyewumbua Wigwe, has approached the High Court of Justice of the British Virgin Islands (BVI) to secure control of a company holding her late parents’ luxury yacht. The yacht, named Chitochi, is said to be the sole remaining asset of Grosvenor Marine Ventures Ltd., a BVI-registered company jointly owned by Herbert Wigwe and his wife, Doreen Chizoba Wigwe, before their deaths. According to court documents obtained by Metropolix Online, the company was struck off the BVI Register of Companies and dissolved on November 5,…
By Lanre Adewole Last Monday, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu finally emptied his chest about his now late, latter-day political partner and presidential predecessor, Muhammadu Buhari.He called him a ruinous fellow, who handed him a decrepit Nigeria. Tinubu was justifying petrol subsidy removal to a band of youths herded and sheltered under the City Boy Movement umbrella by his son; Seyi and rationalizing, using a popular biblical story as an anecdote, why the policy of government helping the citizenry lift the affordability burden a bit, should never return. Recalling the Nigeria handed to him, the President alleged; “We owed money to…
By Adetutu Audu Professor Kamene Okonjo, mother of the Director-General of the World Trade Organisation (WTO), Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, has dïed at 96. The renowned sociologist, matriarch of the Umu Obi Obahai Royal Family and wife of the late Obi Professor Chukwuka Okonjo, immediate past traditional ruler of Ogwashi-Uku in Delta State, passed away on Friday, according to a statement by the family on Sunday said. She was also the mother of the kingdom’s current traditional ruler, Obi (Dr) Ifechukwude Anishi Okonjo II. The statement issued by the Palace Secretary, Prince Ifeakanachukwu Emordi, described the dēceased as a woman of…