•Olumide Akpata casts vote The Labour Party, LP, candidate at the Edo State Gubernatorial elections, Olumide Akpata, has cast his vote at his polling unit at Oredo Ward 6, Unit 11. The voting has been largely peaceful across the state, except for a few cases of late arrival of voting materials and hitches with the […]
•Wike and Obaseki The Governor of Edo State, Godwin Obaseki, insists that his fallout with the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike, will not hurt the chances of the Peoples Democratic Party to emerge victorious in Saturday’s governorship election in the state. Wike was one of the figureheads that worked for Obaseki’s victory...
•Minimum wage Representatives of state governments at the last Federation Accounts Allocation Committee meeting have bemoaned the decision by the federal government to save additional revenue for the payment of the new minimum wage. This development, which affected their revenue distribution from the federation committee, was received with opp...
•Nigerian lawyers The 2024 election of new national leaders of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) is ongoing. NBA National Publicity Secretary, Akorede Habeeb Lawal, in a statement made available to The Frontier today says the voting process began at midnight today, Saturday, July 20, 2024, and will end precisely at 11:59 pm also today. Accord...
The Security Council will vote tomorrow on a new draft resolution that seeks an immediate ceasefire in Gaza, diplomats said, but the United States has indicated it may veto it. The vote will come a day after the United States put forward a text on the need for a ceasefire that was vetoed by Russia […]
•UK Parliament Pro-Palestinian protesters and politicians responded in outrage yesterday when a United Kingdom parliamentary debate and vote on a Scottish National Party motion calling for a ceasefire in Gaza ended with the adoption of a Labour Party amendment. The SNP had put forward a call “for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza and Israel,” con...
The Lagos High Court sitting in Ikeja has sentenced Wahab Hammed, a ward Leader of the All Progressive Congress (APC) in the Surulere Local Government Area of the state, to a one-year jail term or in the alternative a fine of N1m. Justice Ismail Ijelu sentenced the defendant after convicting him on a two-count charge […]
•SAG-AFTRA executives Hollywood today anxiously waited to learn if actors have approved their union’s hard-fought deal with studios, or if an entertainment industry still reeling from months-long strikes could be plunged back into turmoil. While the Screen Actors Guild (SAG-AFTRA) deal is widely expected to pass, criticism — mainly over its pe...
•Voting An election observer in Bayelsa State has raised the alarm about shooting, vote buying and abduction during Saturday’s governorship election in the South-South state. Nengi James of the Transition Monitoring Group told our correspondent that it was surprising that operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) came a...
With the United Nations Security Council deadlocked on the war between Israel and Hamas, the General Assembly prepared to vote Friday on a non-binding resolution calling for a “humanitarian truce.” Israel has already rejected the draft resolution that Jordan has proposed in the name of 22 Arab countries, as the war entered its 21st day, [&hell...
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