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By Princess-Ekwi Ajide Abuja
The Independent National Electoral Commission has announced the timetable for the 2023 general elections following the assent to the Electoral Act 2022 by President Muhammadu Buhari.
INEC Chairman, Mahmood Yakubu, while briefing journalists on Saturday stated that,...
By Princess-Ekwi Ajide Abuja
President of the Federal Republic Nigeria, Muhammadu Buhari, has signed the Electoral Bill 2022 into law.
Reacting to this, the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC says it appreciates the importance of proceeding with the implementation in earnest...
By Princess-Ekwi Ajide Abuja
The World Health Organisation (WHO) says the newly recorded Wild Polio Virus (WPV) case in Malawi was imported.
The WHO Regional Immunisation Advisor for Africa, Richard Mihigo, who disclosed this while addressing journalists at Area 2 Primary Health Care...
By Mmaduabuchi Onwumelu
The Catholic bishop of Awka Diocese, His Lordship Most Rev Paulinus Ezeokafor, has admonished youths to shun unbridled quest for materialism and embrace hardwork, honest labour as well as patience, even as he described life as a...
By Princess-Ekwi Ajide Abuja
President of the Senate, Ahmed Lawan says as soon as the Electoral Act 2021 is returned to the Legislature by the Executive, the National Assembly will commence work immediately to expunge section 84.12 from it.
The Senate...
By Princess-Ekwi Ajide, Abuja
The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mr. Geoffrey Onyeama says, Africa has the largest trading area in the world based on the Continental Free Trade Agreement that has been signed.
The Minister who was speaking, at the close...
By Savinews Reporter
Major General Abba Mohammed Dikko (Rtd), National Coordinator of the National Centre for the Control of Small Arms an Light Weapons (NCCSALW, has said the group will established zonal headquarter in Enugu.
The NCCSALW made this known they...
By Joseph Uwakwe, Port Harcourt
A frontline politician in Rivers State, Prince Tonye Princewill, has described the ongoing battle against soot and illegal refining of petroleum products by the Rivers State government as motion without movement.
Princewill, in a statement issued...
By Princess-Ekwi Ajide Abuja
The Minister of Sports, Sunday Dare, has condemned in strong terms the unpleasant treatment of the national women senior football team, the Super Falcons on their return to the country from Cote'd Ivoire early Thursday morning.
The...
By Princess-Ekwi Ajide Abuja
The 2021 Ethics and Integrity Compliance Card (EICS) of the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) indicates the Bureau of Public Enterprises (BPE) emerged the second highest ranking agency with a score of...
By Princess-Ekwi Ajide Abuja
A Non governmental Organisation, Farmers Support Initiative, FSI, has given out some basic information for complete greenhorn in catfish farming in a society where access to basic information is as difficult as raising start up funds:
Some...
By Princess-Ekwi Ajide Abuja
The United States government has announced its plans to surge resources to Nigeria through the Initiative for Global Vaccine Access (Global VAX) to boost access to COVID-19 vaccination.
United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Assistant Administrator for Global...
By Princess-Ekwi Ajide Abuja
Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Professor Mahmood Yakubu has asked the 6 new National and a Resident Electoral Commissioner to be mindful while serving in INEC as the task ahead is challenging.
He urged...
By Princess-Ekwi Ajide Abuja
The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Geoffrey Onyeama, has asked delegates to the Fourth Session of the Nigeria-Jamaica Joint Commission, holding in Abuja to put mechanisms in place to ensure they implement what they sign up to.
The...
By Mmaduabuchi Onwumelu
The Catholic bishop of Awka Diocese His Lordship Most Rev Paulinus Ezeokafor, has exhortated the leadership of the All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA led Anambra State Government not to lower the standard of governance in the State,...
By Princess-Ekwi Ajide, Abuja
The Federal Ministry of Foreign Affairs has described as fake the document circulating on social media on supposed travel advisory.s
In a release signed by the spokesperson of the Federal Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Mrs. Francisca K....
By Savinews Reporter
The Senate will next week Tuesday vote on the report of the Senate Committee on Constitution Review on amendments to the 1999 Constitution.
Chairman of the Committee, Senator Ovie Omo-Agege, who gave the hint at the start of plenary, disclosed...
By Savinews Reporter
The United States has reiterated commitment to supporting Nigeria and other countries around the world to address issues rising from the COVID-19 pandemic
In her opening remarks at the Flag-Off of the COVID-19 Mass Vaccination Campaign in Imo...
By Princess-Ekwi Ajide
The Federal Ministry of Youths and Sports and the Nigeria Institute of International Affairs (NIIA) have agreed to work together to drive Nigeria's Foreign Policy agenda for Africa.
This was contained in a press statement signed by the...
By Savinews Reporter
The Sports Minister, Sunday Dare has congratulated Nigeria's Anuoluwapo Juwon Opeyori on his victory at the All Africa Individual Badminton Championships in Kampala, Uganda over the weekend.
Opeyori defeated the home boy Brian Kasirye of Uganda in straight...
By Our Reporter
Reports reaching Savinews.ng had it that two students male and female of Nnamdi Azikiwe University Awka, were on Sunday 20th February, 2022 found dead at a private Hostel in the school.
According to sources, the room in one...
By Joe Akwarandu - Umuahia
A security expert of Abia state extraction Mazi Chikwe Udensi, has described charity work as a trait he inherited from his family.
Udensi who is currently giving out palliative to pensioners in the state revealed that...
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From Princess-Ekwi Ajide, Abuja
USAID says it has since 2018, mobilized $2.3 billion in new investments, enabled 1,200 megawatts of new electricity generation, and brought electricity to 2.6 million homes and businesses in Nigeria.
In a bid to bridge the gender...
From Fidlis Ndigwe, Awka
The death has been announced of Chief Onwuzulike Udengba of the "egwu ekpili minstrels" in Omabala area of Anambra State.
Late Chief Onwuzulike and his colleague, Chieke Umungalagu who was the back up artiste were from Umueri...
From Princess-Ekwi Ajide, Abuja
The Chief of Defence Staff (CDS), General LEO Irabor, says the abysmally low oil production in Nigeria is adversely affecting the economies of the oil producing states and the nation.
The CDS who stated this in Abuja...
From Princess-Ekwi Ajide, Abuja
The Federal Capital Development Administration (FCDA) on Thursday, disobeyed an extant and clear orders of the FCT High Court by levelling to rubbles a wing of a popular estate in Abuja.
The demolition which happened in the...
From Princess-Ekwi Ajide' Abuja
The World Health Organisation, WHO, has named Nigeria and five other African countries that will receive its needed technology to establish mRNA vaccine production in Africa.
An mRNA vaccine uses a copy of a molecule called messenger...
By Princess-Ekwi Ajide, Abuja)
The Chief of Army Staff, (COAS), Lieutenant General Faruk Yahaya, has reiterated resolve and commitment to addressing infrastructural development, as well as ensuring the welfare of Nigerian Army (NA) personnel.
The COAS who stated this during...
By Princess-Ekwi Ajide, Abuja
The Inspector-General of Police, IGP Usman Alkali Baba, has emphasized the inclination of his administration to upholding the sanctity of the Criminal Justice System and rule of law which is vital to professionalism and citizen-based policing.
The...
By Princess-Ekwi Ajide, Abuja
The Minister of Defence, Major General Bashir Salihi Magashi (rtd) is seeking renewal of existing bilateral Military agreements between Nigeria and France to reflect real-time security related needs of the two Countries.
General Magashi made the call...
