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The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Edo State has alleged that some policemen suspected to be from the Intelligence Response Team, IRT, in Abuja, said to have been compromised by the All Progressives Congress, APC, have developed a disturbing pattern of harassment, unlawful arrest, and kidnap of PDP chieftains in the state.


read more: https://frontiernewsng.com/edo-pdp-alleges-harassment-abduction-of-party-chieftains-by-police/

Delta State Government has taken a firm step on the implementation of the new minimum wage with a directive to the Secretary to the State Government, SSG, Dr. Kingsley Emu, and the Commissioner for Finance, Chief Fidelis Tilije, to hold talks with the State Council of the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, on its implementation in the state.


read more: https://frontiernewsng.com/delta-takes-step-on-implementation-of-n70000-new-minimum-wage/

A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja has turned down the request to stop the People’s Democratic Party, PDP, from conducting its planned local government and state congresses in Kaduna State.


read more: https://frontiernewsng.com/abuja-court-turns-down-request-to-stop-kaduna-pdp-lg-state-congresses/

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has secured the conviction of five internet fraudsters in Abuja.
The convicts were jailed by Justice C.O. Agashieze of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT High Court on a one -count separate charges of obtaining by false pretense.

read more: https://frontiernewsng.com/court-jails-5-for-internet-fraudsters-in-abuja/

The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has said that the All Progressives Congress, APC, in the Delta State lacked the credibility to talk about debt management measures being undertaken by Governor Sheriff Oborevwori of the state.


read more: https://frontiernewsng.com/apc-lacks-credibility-to-discuss-debt-mgt-in-delta-state-pdp/

Presidential candidate of Labour Party, LP, in the February 25, 2023, poll, Mr. Peter Obi, has blamed the raging insecurity, banditry, violent agitations, and uprisings in parts of the country on the neglect of youths by government over the years.


read more: https://frontiernewsng.com/insecurity-banditry-violent-agitations-due-to-neglect-of-youths-by-govt-obi/

Mr. Peter Obi, Labour Party, LP, presidential candidate in the February 25, 2023, poll, has called for a probe into the allegations that some injured athletes, not physically fit to represent the country were taken to the Paris Olympics to receive estacodes.


read more: https://frontiernewsng.com/probe-injured-physically-not-fit-athletes-taken-to-paris-olympics-obi/

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has secured the conviction and sentence of 59 internet fraudsters to various jail terms before five state High Court judges and a Federal High Court judge.



read more: https://frontiernewsng.com/59-internet-fraudsters-jailed-in-oyo-ogun-osogbo/

The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has said that its flagbearer in the September 21, 2024, Edo State governorship election, Dr. Asue Ighodalo remains its candidate and is campaigning and engaging the people of Edo State on issues ahead of the election.


read more: https://frontiernewsng.com/edo-guber-asue-ighodalo-is-our-candidate-campaigning-pdp/

Conference of Nigeria Political Parties, CNPP, has condemned the raid by a team of security operatives on the Nigerian Labour Congress, NLC, headquarters, Abuja.


read more: https://frontiernewsng.com/cnpp-condemns-security-operatives-raid-on-nlc-headquarters/

Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has called for a thorough investigations into instances of violence perpetrated by the military, police, and other security agencies during the on-going #Endbadgovernance protests.


read more: https://frontiernewsng.com/endhunger-protest-investigate-violence-perpetrated-by-military-others-atiku/

The Nigerian Bureaucracy sulks. There is hardly any thing done for national interest. Every file or every assignment is an opportunity to make money or advance a personal interest.


read more: https://frontiernewsng.com/favour-ofili-a-metaphor-for-nigerias-failed-sports-administration/

Governor Sheriff Oborevwori of Delta State, has assured that his administration was committed to the security of lives and property in the state, insisting that the state was peaceful despite few security challenges in some parts of the state.


read more: https://frontiernewsng.com/were-committed-to-securing-lives-property-in-delta-gov-oborevwori/

The Nigerian Bar Association, NBA, has mourned the passing of its former Ikeja branch chairman, Mr. Adesina Ogunlana.


read more: https://frontiernewsng.com/nba-mourns-passing-of-adesina-ogunlana-past-chairman-ikeja-branch/

Chief Executive Officer of Delta State Orientation and Communications Bureau, Dr. Fred Oghenesivbe, disclosed on Tuesday, that the state government is not borrowing money to fund mega infrastructure projects, because Governor Sheriff Oborevwori had efficiently blocked financial leakages, and saved billions of Naira within one year and two months in office.


read more: https://frontiernewsng.com/why-delta-is-decreasing-its-debt-rapidly-under-oborevwori-oghenesivbe/

A Federal High Court sitting in Lagos on Tuesday, ordered the Lagos State Government to ensure an investigation into the death of Mr. Pelumi Onifade, a 20-year journalist with Gboah TV, an online television channel, who was reportedly arrested by officers attached to a Lagos State task force while covering the #EndSARS protests in 2020, and later found dead at a mortuary in Ikorodu in Lagos, where his body was deposited.


read more: https://frontiernewsng.com/court-orders-lagos-govt-to-investigate-gboah-tv-journalists-death-prosecute-killers/

The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has called on the electorate in Edo State to disregard fake All Progressives Congress, APC, judgments, ahead of the September 21, 2024, governorship election, that the party’s governorship candidate, Dr. Asue Ighodalo, has been disqualified.


read more: https://frontiernewsng.com/edo-2024-disregard-apcs-fake-court-judgments-edo-pdp-tells-electorate/

Governor Godwin Obaseki of Edo State, gas commended the contractors for the completion of both primary and secondary drains along Adolor, Uwelu, and Power line-axis in Egor Local Government Area of the state and for the quality of work done on the flood control measures in the area.


read more: https://frontiernewsng.com/obaseki-inspects-newly-constructed-drainages-in-adolor-uwelu-power-line-axis/

Rule of Law and Accountability Advocacy Centre, RULAAC, has condemned the continued clamp down on citizens participating in, or associated with, the ongoing #Endbadgovernance peaceful protest in Nigeria against economic hardship and widespread suffering under the President Bola Tinubu administration.


read more: https://frontiernewsng.com/crackdown-on-peaceful-protesters-unconstitutional-rulaac-tells-tinubu/

The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has called for the All Progressives Congress, APC, and its governorship candidate in the September 21, 2024, poll in Edo State, Monday Okpebholo to be investigated for alleged roles in the violence that led to the death of a Police officer in Benin City, Edo State capital on July 18, 2024.


read more: https://frontiernewsng.com/investigate-apc-okpebholo-over-killing-of-police-officer-in-benin-city-pdp/

The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has said that the speech by President Bola Tinubu over the on-going nationwide #Endbadgovernance protests was an indication that the All Progressives Congress, APC, administration was insensitivity towards Nigerians and the precarious situation in the country.


read more: https://frontiernewsng.com/protests-tinubus-speech-diversionary-fails-to-address-issues-pdp/

Conference of Nigeria Political Parties, CNPP, has slammed President Bola Tinubu’s recent broadcast, calling it a “grossly inadequate response” to the widespread protests sweeping the nation.


read more: https://frontiernewsng.com/tinubus-broadcast-a-masterclass-in-blame-shifting-cnpp/

The Nigerian Bar Association, NBA, is to provide free legal services to protesters as the #Endbadgovernance protest starts across the country Thursday.


read more: https://frontiernewsng.com/endbadgovernance-nba-to-provide-free-legal-services-to-protesters/

Lawyer and activist, Mr. Ebun-Olu Adegboruwa, SAN, has appealed to protesters in the August 1, 2024, scheduled #endbadgovernance to be orderly, peaceful and conducted in the locations that you have already sent to the police.


read more: https://frontiernewsng.com/endbadgovernance-be-orderly-peaceful-adegboruwa-tells-protesters/

Barely few hours to the proposed nationwide protest against economic hardship, Youth Party has asked the Federal government to focus more on governance, alleviate the suffering of Nigerian.


read more: https://frontiernewsng.com/focus-on-alleviating-suffering-not-protesters-youth-party-tells-fg/

Governor Godwin Obaseki of Edo State, has empathized with Nigerians over the pervading hardship and difficulties that they have had to endure particularly over the last one year, arising from various policies that have been implemented by the Federal Government.


read more: https://frontiernewsng.com/hunger-protests-obaseki-empathizes-with-nigerians-over-pervading-hardship/

Labour Party, LP, presidential candidates in the February 25, 2023, poll, Mr. Peter Obi, has called on government to take more decisive actions against trafficking in persons, by investing in human development through investments in education, health and fighting poverty.



read more: https://frontiernewsng.com/10515-2invest-in-education-health-fighting-poverty-to-check-human-trafficking-obi/

#TAKEITBACKMOVEMENT, one of the protest coordinators for August 1, 2024, hunger protest has written the Inspector General of Police, IGP, listing protest points in Lagos, Abuja, Ibadan, Rivers, Bauchi, Yobe, Benin City, and Oshogbo.



read more: https://frontiernewsng.com/takeitbackmovement-writes-igp-names-lagos-abuja-other-protest-points/

Governor Sheriff Oborevwori of Delta State, Tuesday, appealed to Nigerians, particularly those behind the planned hunger protest, to shelve the idea, saying such protests would rather aggravate the nation’s challenges.



read more: https://frontiernewsng.com/protest-not-solution-to-nigerias-challenges-gov-oborevwori/

Governor Godwin Obaseki of Edo State, has restated the government’s commitment to the welfare of workers in the state, pledging that his administration will ensure that no worker in the country earns better than those in the State’s employ.


read more: https://frontiernewsng.com/well-ensure-no-state-pays-higher-wages-than-edo-obaseki-tells-workers/

The Nigerian Bar Association, NBA, has called on organisers, proponents and supporters of the planned nationwide hunger protest to call off the protest.
It wants the organisers to come together with the Federal Government, for a frank and sincere discussion on what must be done to immediately begin to turn around the plight of the people for good.



read more: https://frontiernewsng.com/hunger-protest-call-off-protest-nba-urges-organisers-supporters/