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Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Abdullahi Adamu has said Governor Rotimi Akeredolu of Ondo State is currently incapacitated and receiving treatment abroad. Akeredolu is understand to be suffering from leukemia and has been off duty for over a month to attend to his health.  But Adamu at a meeting between the national leadership of the party and APC state chairmen, said the governor is incapacitated. “We regret to announce the extreme incapacity of the Governor of Ondo state who we understand has been hospitalised overseas. We wish and pray for him for a speedy recovery,” Adamu was quoted as saying by Daily Trust. He also said the list of ministers to serve in the government of President Bola Tinubu was not ready as the president is still consulting wide to get the best team. According to him, Tinubu had just begun "and he is doing his extensive consultation before coming up with his nominees for ministers." He said the nomination of the ministers would come first, adding that "They will go through their screening until they are pronounced after they have been submitted by Mr. President. And Mr President will formally appoint his Ministers and swear them in."

Akeredolu: Southerners won’t back northern candidate for 2023 presidency

Michael Adesina

5 years ago

Rotimi Akeredolu, the Governor of Ondo state, said the southerners won't support any northern candidate for the 2023 Presidency.
Mass arrests of bandits, collaborators in Zamfara

Breaking: Mass arrests of bandits, kidnappers, murderers in Niger

PM NEWS Editor

5 years ago

Commissioner of Police in the state, Mr Monday Kuryas, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Minna on Saturday…
FRSC joins battle against sexual violence

FRSC joins battle against sexual violence

Michael Adesina

5 years ago

Mr. Segun Ogungbemide, the Sector Commander Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) Lagos State Command has said that sexual violence has…
Barrister Olusegun Bamgbose

NNPP presidential candidate Bamgbose is dead

Taiwo Okanlawon

5 years ago

Bamgbose who was the Principal Head, God’s Own Chambers, a legal team based in Aba, Abia State, died on Friday…
Niger CP Monday Kuryas: says 259 arrested for crimes in August

Banditry: Police arrest 259 people in Niger

Michael Adesina

5 years ago

Police have arrested about 259 suspects over banditry, kidnapping, culpable homicide, rape, farmers/herders conflicts, and other crimes in Niger in…
ICPC officials recover the gen set meant for a health centre

ICPC tracks N113.5m empowerment projects in Ondo

PM NEWS Editor

5 years ago

The items, worth N113.5 million, were given out under Constituency Project Empowerment Programmes.
Illustration: Miyetti Allah at a press conference: two chieftains of the group shot dead in Nasarawa

Breaking: Miyetti Allah chairman killed by bandits after ransom paid

PM NEWS Editor

5 years ago

Abdullahi's body was found by the roadside on Friday, after being kidnapped from his home in Lere on Sept. 16…
Uche Edochie with another brother Leo

I saw the face of God: Pete Edochie’s son Uche shares costly COVID-19 experience

PM NEWS Editor

5 years ago

He said many people died of the virus because of the high cost associated with its treatment.
New ABU registrar Rabiu Samaila and bursar Aminu Gurin

ABU appoints Samaila as registrar, Gurin as bursar

PM NEWS Editor

5 years ago

Umar said the appointments of the two principal officers were approved by the Joint Council/Senate Selection Board at its meeting…
Obi Ifechukwude Aninshi Okonjo II during the visit to Otulu Ogwashi-Uku

Thugs attack convoy of Ifechukwude Okonjo, Ogwashi-Uku monarch

PM NEWS Editor

5 years ago

The thugs also attempted to seize a gun belonging to a law enforcement member who escorted the Obi on the…
Isolo LG boss, Olasoju, K1’s visit Tinubu in London

Tinubu returning to Nigeria soon, receives Wasiu Ayinde, Isolo LG Boss

Taiwo Okanlawon

5 years ago

Tinubu has been in the United Kingdom since July recuperating from a knee surgery.
NCDC rapid response takes COVID-19 preventive message to an Akwa Ibom school

Nigeria logs 2 COVID-19 deaths, new cases decline

PM NEWS Editor

5 years ago

The new cases on Friday represented a a big slump from the 601 cases reported on Thursday.
Professor Abass Olajire

LAUTECH’s Professor Olajire dies in mosque

Taiwo Okanlawon

5 years ago

Olajire who joined LAUTECH in 1990 as an assistant lecturer was an alumnus of Obafemi Awolowo University and University of…
Major Stephen Datong

Army rescues Major Datong alive from bandits

PM NEWS Editor

5 years ago

The rescue was carried out by a combined team of troops of the Nigerian Army, Airforce and other security agencies.
Tension brews in health sector over appointment of two acting medical directors by the FG for each of its 3 new National Orthopedic Hospitals.

JOHESU, AHPA issue fresh 15-day strike notice

PM NEWS Editor

5 years ago

This followed a unanimously adopted resolution by the two groups to step down the notice of strike due to expire…
Tension brews in health sector over appointment of two acting medical directors by the FG for each of its 3 new National Orthopedic Hospitals.

JOHESU, AHPA issue fresh 15 days nationwide strike notice

Kazeem Ugbodaga

5 years ago

The Joint Health Sector Unions (JOHESU) and Assembly of Healthcare Professional Associations (AHPA) have issued a fresh 15 days strike…
Emefiele: EFCC vows to appeal N100m fine

CBN donates branch building to NTA Abeokuta

Nimot Sulaimon

5 years ago

It was donated as part of the CBN Abeokuta branch’s corporate social responsibility to its host community,

Ogun Assembly orders ex-OPIC MD, Odusolu to return N40m

Nimot Sulaimon

5 years ago

Ogun State House of Assembly has directed former Managing Director of State Property and Investment Corporation (OPIC), Mr Babajide Odusolu,…
Femi Fani-Kayode

PDP breaks silence on Fani-Kayode’s defection to APC

Kazeem Ugbodaga

5 years ago

The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has reacted to the defection of former Aviation Minister, Femi Fani-Kayode to the All Progressives…
Sanwo-Olu during inspection of the Sangotedo House Scheme

Brace up or be  blacklisted: Sanwo-Olu issues deadline to erring contractors

Kazeem Ugbodaga

5 years ago

Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu on Friday vowed to blacklist contractors handling the phase two of the Sangotedo Housing project if they…

EFCC releases names of 16 internet fraudsters busted in Enugu

Nimot Sulaimon

5 years ago

Operatives of the Enugu Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) have arrested 16 suspected internet fraudsters in…
CP Sylvester Alabi briefs the media on the protest in Bauchi

Normalcy restored on Bauchi-Jos highway

PM NEWS Live

5 years ago

The Commissioner of Police, Mr Sylvester Alabi, stated this at a press conference on Friday in Bauchi.
Minister of State for Education, Yusuf Sununu says not plan to stop students who are not up to 18 years old from writing WASSCE, NECO exams.

Yusuf Sununu joins Osinbajo-led Health Reform Committee

Nimot Sulaimon

5 years ago

Sununu had served as Secretary-General of the Nigerian Medical Association and Associate Member of the World Medical Association.
Fraud

Precious Ibe remanded for stabbing man to death

PM NEWS Live

5 years ago

An Ebute-Meta Chief Magistrates’ Court in Lagos on Friday ordered the remand of a 29-year-old, Precious Ibe at the Ikoyi…
L-R: Sunday Dare, Esther Kumuyi, Pastor William Kumuyi, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo and Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu at the launch of the book

Why Kumuyi deserved to be celebrated – Osinbajo, Sanwo-Olu

Kazeem Ugbodaga

5 years ago

Nigeria's Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo and the Governor of Lagos State, Babajide Sanwo-Olu on Monday said the General Superintendent,…
Femi Fani-Kayode

OPC to Fani Kayode: You are just a jobber lacking integrity

Muhamin Olowoporoku

5 years ago

The group described him as a mole among Yoruba nation agitators, a political jobber, lacking any measure of integrity.
Appeal Court affirms victory of Senators Mohammed Ndume and Sen. Kaka Lawan of Borno South and Central Districts in February 25 election

Senate rush to approve FG’s loans worrisome – Ndume

Nimot Sulaimon

5 years ago

However, he said the failure of the Senate to critically look at requests from the presidency justifies claims of a…
Sunday Igboho

FG set to appeal Sunday Igboho’s N20B award

PM NEWS Editor

5 years ago

The AGF, Mr Abubakar Malami (SAN), announced the decision of the government in an interview with the News Agency of…
Bala Mohammed wins governorship ticket after losing presidential primary

Gov. Bala swears-in new Head of Service, 22 Perm. Secs

Nimot Sulaimon

5 years ago

At the inauguration in Bauchi on Friday, the governor called on the appointed government officials to discharge their duties with…
Department of State Services (DSS)

DSS reacts to Igboho’s N20B claim

Muhamin Olowoporoku

5 years ago

My official response is that I don’t have any comments, says DSS spokesman Peter Afunanya .
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