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Mr. Peter Obi, Labour Party, LP, presidential candidate in the February 25, 2023, poll, has called on the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, focus more in investigating grand theft and corruption in government and public asset management, such as oil theft, budget padding, contract inflation, among others.


read more: https://frontiernewsng.com/efcc-should-focus-more-on-oil-theft-budget-padding-contract-inflation-obi/

Governor Sheriff Oborevwori of Delta State, Tuesday, said the ban on motorcycle, popularly known as Okada, for commercial transportation, had led to a noticeable reduction in crime rate in Asaba, the state capital and its environs.


read more: https://frontiernewsng.com/okada-ban-has-reduced-crime-in-delta-state-oborevwori/

Media Rights Agenda, MRA, has expressed deep concern over weekend’s abduction of two journalists based in Kaduna State, along with their wives and children.


read more: https://frontiernewsng.com/mra-condemns-kidnap-of-journalists-families-calls-on-govt-to-secure-their-release/

The Conference of Nigeria Political Parties, CNPP, has vehemently condemned the recent Appeal Court ruling on Rivers State Assembly lawmakers’ defection, saying that the judgment has a semblance of a verdict procured from the black-market “meant to destabilise the state, leading to a parallel State House of Assembly, which is a very dangerous development for Nigeria’s democracy.”



read more: https://frontiernewsng.com/rivers-lawmakers-defection-acourt-ruling-dangerous-for-democracy-cnpp/

The Chief Judge of the Federal High Court, Justice John Tsoho has dismissed an application by a former Kogi State governor, Mr. Yahaya Bello, seeking to transfer his N80.2billion fraud case from Abuja to the court’s Kogi State division.



read more: https://frontiernewsng.com/n80-2b-fraud-chief-judge-rejects-yahaya-bellos-bid-to-transfer-case-to-kogi/

The Okun-Ajah Community in the Eti-Osa Local Government Area of Lagos State has commended President Bola Tinubu and Minister of Works, Dave Umahi, for reverting to the original gazetted route for the Lagos-Calabar coastal highway project and saving over 2,000 of their homes from demolition.


read more: https://frontiernewsng.com/coastal-road-okun-ajah-praises-tinubu-umahi-for-reversal-to-original-route/

As the July 13, local government council elections approaches in Delta State, the state Orientation Bureau on Sunday called on all eligible voters in the state to come out en masse to cast their vote for chairmanship and Councillorship candidates of their choice in all DSIEC ward across the 25 local government areas.


read more: https://frontiernewsng.com/delta-orientation-bureau-calls-for-peaceful-council-polls/

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has told Justice Oyindamola Ogala of a Lagos High Court, Ikeja that the Chairman of Ibeto Energy Development Company, Chief Cletus Ibeto, has paid back the sum of N2.25billion to the Commission.

read more: https://frontiernewsng.com/n4-8bn-fraud-ibeto-has-paid-back-n2-250bn-efcc-tells-court/

Labour Party, LP, presidential candidate in the February 25, 2023, poll, Mr. Peter Obi, has lamented the non inclusion of Nigeria in Harvard Business School class of 2025 programme for select 16 countries for its global immersion course.



read more: https://frontiernewsng.com/obi-laments-nigerias-exclusion-from-harvard-business-school-global-immersion-course/

The African Population and Health Research Center, APHRC, in partnership with Wellcome, has today begun receiving applications for the Mental Health Data Prize—Africa 2024.


read more: https://frontiernewsng.com/applications-open-for-mental-health-data-prize-africa-2024/

The Labour Party, LP, has called on the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, to suspend any action with regards to the Enugu South Rural Constituency election till further notice.


read more: https://frontiernewsng.com/labour-party-asks-inec-to-suspend-enugu-south-rural-constituency-poll/

A Federal High Court sitting in Lagos, has sentenced one Freeman Ogbonna, to 25 years imprisonment.
Ogbonna, an Delhi, India-bound passenger, was arrested months after vomiting and excreting 80 wraps of cocaine following his arrest by operatives of National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA.


read more: https://frontiernewsng.com/india-bound-drug-trafficker-bags-25-years-imprisonment/

Deputy Governor of Delta State, Sir Monday Onyeme, has called on the electorate to ensure 100 per cent votes for candidates of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, during the July 13, 2024, local government elections in the state.


read more: https://frontiernewsng.com/lg-polls-delta-dep-gov-onyeme-calls-for-100-vote-for-pdp/

Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Chairman, Mr. Ola Olukoyede has said that public corruption was the bane of development in Nigeria.



read more: https://frontiernewsng.com/public-corruption-bane-of-devt-in-nigeria-olukoyede-efcc-chair/

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has opposed the application of the former Minister of Power and Steel, Olu Agunloye to travel abroad for medical check-up.



read more: https://frontiernewsng.com/alleged-6bn-fraud-efcc-opposes-agunloyes-plea-for-overseas-medical-trip/

Labour Party, LP, presidential candidate in the February 25, 2023, poll, Mr. Peter Obi has warned that the country’s borrowing may hit N150 trillion by the end of the year, if the current trend was not checked.

read more: https://frontiernewsng.com/nigerias-borrowing-may-hit-n150trn-by-end-of-2024-obi-warns/

Some civil society groups, have petitioned the National Human Rights Commission, NHRC, to investigate actions amounting to systematic human rights violations in South East.


read more: https://frontiernewsng.com/csos-ask-nhrc-to-investigate-systematic-human-rights-violations-in-south-east/

Labour Party, LP, presidential candidate in the February 25, 2023, poll, Mr. Peter Obi has expressed worry that Nigeria without being at war, is the third country with the most Internally Displaced Persons, IDPs, in Africa.


read more: https://frontiernewsng.com/without-war-nigeria-is-3rd-with-most-idps-in-africa-peter-obi/

The Inspector General of Police, IGP, Mr. Kayode Egbetokun, has condemned the recent outbreak of violence and subsequent breakdown of law and order at various Local Government Council secretariats in Rivers State, in which a police Inspector and a vigilante member were killed.


read more: https://frontiernewsng.com/rivers-unrest-igp-condemns-killing-of-inspector-vigilante-member/

Governor Godwin Obaseki of Edo State, has said his government in the last seven and a half years has paid critical attention to infrastructure development as well as human capacity development, ensuring the grooming and empowering of a new generation of Edo people to drive the state’s development.


read more: https://frontiernewsng.com/weve-prioritized-infrastructure-human-capacity-devt-obaseki/

The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has cautioned the immediate past Rivers State Local Government Chairmen, whose tenure had expired against any conduct that was capable of disrupting the peace in the state.


read more: https://frontiernewsng.com/rivers-lg-tenure-expiration-pdp-calls-for-calm/

A former vice chairman of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in Edo State, Francis Inegbeniki, has urged Edo people of Esan extraction to rally round their best and ensure the emergence of a credible and competent candidate with the knowledge and expertise to drive the state’s development.


read more: https://frontiernewsng.com/edo-2024-ex-apc-vice-chair-inegbeniki-makes-case-for-asue-ighodalo/

Former President Goodluck Jonathan, has urged Edo people to elect only leaders that can sustain the vision and legacy of Governor Godwin Obaseki, noting that the governor’s impact on the state’s education and public service sectors is highly commendable and worthy of emulation.



read more: https://frontiernewsng.com/edo-people-should-elect-a-leader-that-can-sustain-obasekis-vision-legacy-jonathan/

Former President Goodluck Jonathan, has commissioned the Edo State Secretariat Complex, on Sapele Road, Benin City, commending Governor Godwin Obaseki’s commitment to the progress and development of the state.


read more: https://frontiernewsng.com/ex-president-jonathan-commissions-edo-secretariat-complex/

Labour Party, LP, presidential candidate in the February 25, poll, Mr. Peter Obi, has said that Nigeria’s democracy has deteriorated to classical state capture and instead of benefiting all, has become a deprivation to all.



read more: https://frontiernewsng.com/our-democracy-has-deteriorated-to-classical-state-capture-peter-obi/

There is something quite extraordinary and intriguing about Temitope Balogun Joshua the Prophet.
Most people spent around nine months in their mothers’ wombs before they were born but TBJOSHUA’S case was different. He stayed in the womb to spend double periods, eighteen solid months.


read more: https://frontiernewsng.com/tbjoshua-a-phenomena-in-the-mystery-of-universe/

Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project, SERAP, dragged the President Bola Tinubu government before a Federal High Court sitting in Lagos, “over the failure to publish spending details of the loans obtained by the governments of former presidents Olusegun Obasanjo, Umaru Musa Yar’Adua, Goodluck Jonathan and Muhammadu Buhari.”


read more: https://frontiernewsng.com/serap-drags-tinubu-govt-to-court-over-loans-by-ex-presidents/

Operatives of National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, have again seized another consignment of 175,000 bottles of codeine-based syrup imported from India.
This is coming barely a week after the agency seized a shipment of 175,000 bottles of codeine-based syrup at the Port Harcourt Ports complex in Onne, Rivers State.



read more: https://frontiernewsng.com/ndlea-operatives-seize-codeine-shipment-from-india/

Governor Sheriff Oborevwori of Delta State, Sunday, said the state was enjoying peace and progress in hard times despite not borrowing in the one year of his administration.


read more: https://frontiernewsng.com/delta-enjoying-peace-progress-in-hard-times-gov-oborevwori/

Presidential candidate of Labour Party, LP, in the February 25, 2023, poll, Mr. Peter Obi, has expressed worries over the trafficking of Nigerian teenage girls, urging government to take swift and decisive action to bring the perpetrators to justice.


read more: https://frontiernewsng.com/obi-worries-over-trafficking-of-nigerian-teenage-girls/

Movement for the Survival of Ogoni People, MOSOP, has reiterated its stands on the conditions that can lead to drilling of oil in Ogoni land.


read more: https://frontiernewsng.com/mosop-gives-conditions-for-resumption-of-oil-production-in-ogoni/