By Aluta News April 15, 2022 Rights activist, Mr Femi Falana (SAN) on Friday in Ikeja urged the Federal Government to extend Thursday’s presidential pardon granted some top Nigerians, to people serving terms for petty offences. Falana made the call at the 1st anniversary of late Afenifere’s spokesman, Yinka Odumakin’s LectureContinue Reading
By Aluta News April 15, 2022 UN humanitarians on Thursday said no fewer than 870,000 people who fled abroad since the Russian invasion of Ukraine on February 24, have now returned home. UN humanitarians said in their latest emergency update that the population returned to Ukraine amid concerns about deterioratingContinue Reading
By Aluta News April 15, 2022 Sections of Taraba residents on Friday celebrated the release of former Gov. Jolly Nyame from prison. Nyame, 66, was governor of Taraba from 1999 to 2007. He was serving a 12-year jail term for financial malfeasance and abuse of office until Thursday when theContinue Reading
By Aluta News April 15, 2022 The National Executive Committee (NEC) of All Progressives Congress (APC) will meet on Wednesday to consider the timetable and schedule of activities for the 2023 general election. Mr Felix Morka,the APC National Publicity Secretary, said this in a statement on Friday in Abuja. HeContinue Reading
By Aluta News April 15, 2022 Dr Rasheed Odunola, the Director, Health Services, University of Ilorin Teaching Hospital (UITH), has advised people with Tuberculosis (TB) to avoid sleeping in the same room with their loved ones. Odunola, who gave this advice while speaking with newsmen at the university on Friday,Continue Reading
By Aluta News April 15, 2022 Gov. Samuel Ortom of Benue has expressed appreciation to President Muhammadu Buhari and the National Council of State for granting state pardon to Sen. Joshua Dariye and Rev. Jolly Nyame. Dariye and Nyame, former governors of Plateau and Taraba, respectively, were serving terms atContinue Reading
By Aluta News April 15, 2022 Gov. David Umahi of Ebonyi has suspended the Permanent Secretary, Office of the Head of Service, Mr Martin Uguru, indefinitely for extortion of civil servants. The suspension which took effect from April 1, 2022, is contained in a statement issued in Abakaliki on FridayContinue Reading
By Aluta News April 15, 2022 There is hope for conjugal experience with their partners for no fewer that 20 million Nigerian girls and women who have undergone female genital mutilation (FGM), says Dr David Ikudayisi. Ikudayisi, a U.S. Board Certified Internist and Regenerative Medicine Specialist, said this is possibleContinue Reading
By Aluta News April 15, 2022 The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has further suspended Continuous Voter Registration (CVR) in all 54 additional centres created to facilitate the registration of voters across Imo . Mr Festus Okoye,INEC’s National Commissioner and Chairman, Information and Voter Education Committee,made the disclosure in aContinue Reading
By Aluta News April 15, 2022 The Lagos Commandant of Peace Corps of Nigeria (PCN), Mr Olanrewaju Kuforiji, on Friday urged youths to shun cultism and electoral violence. Speaking with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos, the commandant said Nigerian youths should avoid being used for violence duringContinue Reading
