BVP MEDIA STATION NEWS HEADLINES Good Morning to our Cherished Readers. Tuesday 9 April, 2019. *NIGERIA** Ndume meets Osinbajo, says he’s still in Senate Presidency race Rivers APC: Supreme Court strikes out Abe’s appeal Zenith Bank appoints Ebenezer Onyeagwu as new GMD/CEO Buhari assures foreign investors of huge turn-over EFCC arrests railway staff, two others for fraud in Kaduna Kogi Judiciary asks Court to nullify Assembly resolution FG signs $523,823 technical assistant grant with Islamic Development Bank Xenophobia: Two Nigerians stabbed to death in South Africa Offa banks robbery: Court admits medical examination report on wounded suspects Kidnappers of Lagos fire director, others yet to contact families 48 hours after Fresh headache for Wike, Ganduje as PPP asks tribunal to nullify their elections FG to move two more coaches to Abuja-Kaduna railway ICT firm partners Ekiti to curb cybercrime, others At K Fair, world leaders set to gather for the Future of plast...
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Home News News INEC Releases Timetable For Bayelsa, Kogi Gov Polls This Week By Afemai Reporter - April 8, 2019 …Proposes N45.5bn annual budget The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on Monday said it will release, before the end of this week, the timetable and schedule of activities for the end of tenure governorship elections in Bayelsa and Kogi States billed to hold at separate dates later this year. Its chairman, Professor Mahmood Yakubu, made the disclosure when he led other members of the Commission to defend the Commission’s 2019 budget proposal before a joint session of the Senate Committee on INEC and House Committee on Electoral matters. Yakubu, while breaking down the Commission’s 2019 budget proposal of N45.4 billion, explained: “This year we are going to conduct two end of tenure elections into the offices of the governors in Kogi and Bayelsa States. “This year towards the end of the year we are going to conduct governorship elections in Kogi ...
APC Will Lose 2023 Election If It Disrespects Zoning Of Presidential Ticket To The South-West. By Agency Report - April 8, 20190 The All Progressives Congress (APC) has been warned not to renege on its zoning formula that cedes power to the South-West in 2023, else it risks quitting the political stage after just two terms. Umar Duhu, pioneer National Vice Chairman of APC (North-East), dropped the warning in an exclusive chat with SaharaReporters on Monday. He was reacting to media comments credited to Babachir Lawal, former Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), as saying “there’s no law that mandates the ceding of power to the South-West”. Duhu also spoke on a wide range issues, and accused President Muhammadu Buhari of self-centeredness and failure to provide the right leadership for the party. He expressed dismay at how candidates of the party contesting at various levels worked for the President’s reelection, but he could not return same gesture, only asking th...
BREAKING NEWS: Bank robbery @ First Bank, Isewa qtrs, Idoani The robbers reportedly stormed d area around 2 in d afternoon shooting sporadically as they blew open d bank security door with dynamite. During d operations dat lasted about 1 hr, 7 ppl including bankers, a police Inspector & about 2 ATM customers were allegedly shot dead. Equally, 5 ppl wit serious injuries r now on d danger list @ d General Hospital Idoani. According to eyewitnesses, some of d armed bandits escaped wit unspecified amount of money b4 d arrival of men of the Nigerian Army. Luck however ran against one of them as he was caught by the brave & vigilant soldiers. Sola Obagbemiloye