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A civil society organisation, Rule of Law and Accountability Advocacy Centre, RULAAC, has condemned the arrest of Dele Farotimi by the police over allegation of defamation, saying it is a stark reminder of the lawlessness that has afflicted the police.


read more: https://frontiernewsng.com/rulaac-condemns-arrest-of-dele-farotimi-calls-for-his-immediate-release

Media Adviser to former Edo State governor, Godwin Obaseki, Crusoe Osagie, has accused Governor Monday Okpebholo of the state of making false comments about the Stella Obasanjo Hospital to dodge payment to contractors.


read more: https://frontiernewsng.com/okpebholos-false-comments-on-stella-obasanjo-hospital-to-dodge-payment-to-contractors-osagie/

Media Rights Agenda, MRA, Thursday condemned in strong terms a recent statement by a group of individuals describing themselves as Save Nigeria Movement, SNM, urging the Police and other security agencies to “checkmate” the activities of non-state actors allegedly blackmailing and extorting government officials using the Freedom of Information, FOI Act.



read more: https://frontiernewsng.com/mra-condemns-calls-on-police-security-agencies-to-restrict-use-of-foi-act-by-csos/

Governor Monday Okpebholo of Edo State in a bid to further right the wrongs of the immediate-past administration and foster cordial relations between the government and the people, has restored the full statutory rights of the Benin Monarch over the contentious issue of the ownership of ancient artefacts looted from the palace of the Oba of Benin during the 1897 Benin Massacre by the British colonial forces.


read more: https://frontiernewsng.com/gov-okpebholo-restores-full-statutory-rights-to-oba-of-benin/

Governor Monday Okpebholo of Edo State has suspended all Market Unions and Associations in Edo State with immediate effect.
The governor also ordered the Police and other security agencies in the state to arrest defaulting leaders of the various suspended Unions and Associations without any delay.


read more: https://frontiernewsng.com/okpebholo-suspends-market-unions-sends-police-after-defaulters/

A Federal High Court sitting in Calabar, Cross River State, has convicted and sentenced five internet fraudsters to various jail terms.
The convicts: Michael Aregbesola (a.k.a Amin Deera), Adeleke Richard(Alias Jason Avtandil), Mkpoikanke Udoh (a.k.a Tom Jones), Gideon Effiong (a.k.a Gianluca Jinoble) and Momodu Modupe (a.k.a George Woods), were charged to court by the Uyo Zonal Directorate of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, for criminal impersonation, fraudulent messaging and money laundering.


read more: https://frontiernewsng.com/federal-high-court-jails-5-internet-fraudsters/

Governor Sheriff Oborevwori of Delta State has presented start up packs to 311 beneficiaries of the Women Economic Skill Acquisition Programme, WESAP of the state government in his determination to expand the frontiers of entrepreneurial development in the state.



read more: https://frontiernewsng.com/gov-oborevwori-presents-start-up-packs-to-311-wesap-beneficiaries

Conference of Nigeria Political Parties, CNPP, has congratulated Governor Lucky Aiyedatiwa of Ondo State on his declaration as the winner of the state governorship election held on Saturday.


read more: https://frontiernewsng.com/cnpp-congratulates-aiyedatiwa-on-ondo-electoral-victory/

The Nigerian Association of Chambers of Commerce, Industry, Mines, and Agriculture, NACCIMA, has petitioned the Federal Government over the illegal operations of Nigeria-India Business Council, NIBC India in Nigeria, noting that the illegitimate entity was operating without proper registration and authorization.



read more: https://frontiernewsng.com/naccima-petitions-fg-over-illegal-operations-of-nibc-india-in-nigeria/

The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has described the just concluded governorship election in Ondo State as the worst poll conducted by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC.



read also: https://frontiernewsng.com/ondo-governorship-poll-worst-conducted-by-inec-says-pdp/

A Federal High Court sitting in Lagos has ordered National Broadcasting Commission, NBC, to “stop using the NBC Act and the Nigeria Broadcasting Code to impose fines, threaten to impose sanctions, harass and intimidate the broadcast stations and other independent media houses in the country.”



read more: https://frontiernewsng.com/court-stops-nbc-from-imposing-fines-on-broadcast-stations/

President Bola Tinubu appointed Mr. Daniel Bwala, Special Adviser, Media and Public Communications (State House).
The President also made three other major appointments.


read more: https://frontiernewsng.com/tinubu-appoints-daniel-bwala-special-adviser-3-others/

Activist and lawyer, Mr. Ebun-Olu Adegboruwa, SAN, has called on Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos State to show responsibility over the unbearable traffic situation on the Epe to Lekki expressway.



read more: https://frontiernewsng.com/the-lekki-epe-traffic-gov-sanwoolu-should-show-responsibility-adegboruwa/

Governor Sheriff Oborevwori of Delta State on Thursday, presented a N936,078,818,719 billion Appropriation bill for the 2025 fiscal year to the State House of Assembly.


read more: https://frontiernewsng.com/oborevwori-presents-n936bn-2025-budget-to-delta-assembly/

A Lagos State High Court sitting in Ikeja, on Thursday reserved January 23, 2025, to hear the alleged defamation suit filed against the controversial online activist, Vincent Otse, popularly called Very Dark Man, VDM.


read more: https://frontiernewsng.com/court-adjourned-falana-suit-against-vdm-to-jan-23/

President Bola Tinubu, has said the country’s democracy could not have been possible without the invaluable contributions of the media.
He also hailed the individual and collective efforts of veteran journalists towards ensuring Nigeria’s democracy remained unbroken.


read more: https://frontiernewsng.com/our-democracy-not-possible-without-contributions-of-media-tinubu/

The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project, SERAP, Thursday, told a Federal Capital Territory High Court that the officials of Nigeria’s secret police, the Department of State Services, DSS, who invaded our Abuja office used fake names and came with two unmarked vehicles.”


read more: https://frontiernewsng.com/dss-used-fake-names-came-in-2-unmarked-vehicles-to-our-office-serap-tells-court

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo; former First Lady, Dame Patience Jonathan; former governor of Sokoto State, Senator Aminu Tambuwal and former governors of Edo State, Chief Lucky Igbiendion and Odigie Oyegun, among other prominent leaders, on Wednesday, took turns to pour encomium on Governor Godwin Obaseki of Edo State, for his sterling and impactful leadership in Edo State over the last eight years.


read more: https://frontiernewsng.com/obasanjo-jonathan-others-celebrate-obasekis-achievements-impact-in-8-years/

Labour Party, LP, presidential candidate in the February 25, 2023 poll, Mr. Peter Obi, has decried the frequent national grid collapse in the country, noting that Nigerians suffer equally from this failure despite tribe and religion.


read more: https://frontiernewsng.com/obi-decries-frequent-national-grid-collapse/

Governor Kabir Yusuf of Kano State , has commended President Bola Tinubu for responding to public calls and releasing 76 detained minors, who had been arrested following the August 2024 protest.


read more: https://frontiernewsng.com/73-detained-minors-will-be-reintegrated-into-society-kano-gov/

The House of Representatives Committee on Finance has commended the level of progress and achievements being made by the Federal Inland Revenue Service, FIRS, promising not withhold any support needed by the agency.


read more: https://frontiernewsng.com/were-satisfied-with-progress-at-firs-house-cttee-on-finance/

Governor Godwin Obaseki of Edo State, has said the investment in the State’s creative, arts and culture sectors over the last eight years, has transformed the State into a centre of excellence for the creative arts, repositioning the State as Africa’s arts, culture, and tourism hub.


read more: https://frontiernewsng.com/were-satisfied-with-progress-at-firs-house-cttee-on-finance/

Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, has tackled the President Bola Tinubu administration for proposing a national prayer led by the First Lady and the National Security Adviser, NSA, as answer to the economic hardship and hunger ravaging the country.


read more: https://frontiernewsng.com/atiku-tackles-tinubu-govt-national-prayer-as-response-to-hunger-in-the-land/

Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project, SERAP, has asked President Bola Tinubu to use his “leadership position and good offices to direct the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Mr. Lateef Fagbemi, SAN, to take urgent steps to ensure the immediate and unconditional release of all the #EndBadGovernance protesters, including the 32 hungry and malnourished children.”


read more: https://frontiernewsng.com/serap-gives-tinubu-48-hours-to-release-detained-endbadgovernance-protesters-minors/

Governor Douye Diri of Bayelsa State, on Thursday, presented the 2025 fiscal year budget proposal of N689.440 billion to the State House of Assembly for consideration and passage.


read more: https://frontiernewsng.com/diri-presents-n689-44bn-2025-budget-proposal-to-bayelsa-assembly/

In a gallant and joyful show of gratitude for the crusade held in Argentina by the Synagogue Church Of All Nations, SCOAN, along with its landmark charity programme for the “poorest of the poor” in the country, Pastor Evelyn Joshua has been showered with multiple honours and awards by the government authorities in Argentina.

read more: https://frontiernewsng.com/multiple-honours-for-evelyn-joshua-in-argentina/

A Federal High Court, Lagos, Thursday, convicted and sentenced two men, Abbah Yahaya and Abbah Abdullahi, to a total of seven years for trafficking in 104 kilograms of cannabis Sativa popularly called marijuana.


read more: https://frontiernewsng.com/2-men-jailed-7-years-for-trafficking-in-indian-hemp/

Eastwind Aviation Logistics Limited has appealed to the media and public to respect the privacy of the affected families following the crash of one of its helicopters, Sikorsky S76.


read more: https://frontiernewsng.com/helicopter-crash-eastwind-aviation-seek-respect-for-privacy-of-affected-families/

Governor Peter Mbah of Enugu State, has approved the sum of N80,000, as the new minimum wage for workers both at the state and local government levels, as against the N70,000 approved by the Federal Government.



read more: https://frontiernewsng.com/mbah-approves-n80000-new-minimum-wage-for-enugu-workers

Balastro II, Fontana in Resistencia CHACO Province of Argentina is a lesson in the tragedy of existence. The high level of poverty is terrifying. Life here is a simulacrum of Thomas Hobbes horrific classification: “Brutish, nasty and short.”


read more: https://frontiernewsng.com/when-evelyn-joshua-elevates-the-poorest-of-the-poor-in-argentina/

The Edo State Government has counseled associates of Sen. Monday Okpebholo, the state governor-elect to wait until November 12, 2024, to begin governance, instead of making spurious allegations and claims aimed to create the impression that there were two governors in Edo State.


read more: https://frontiernewsng.com/your-administration-begins-nov-12-edo-govt-tells-okpebholo/

The Edo State Commissioner for Communication and Orientation, Mr. Chris Nehikhare has disclosed that the inaugural joint-session of the Transition Committee for the Edo State Government and incoming administration will hold Friday.



read more: https://frontiernewsng.com/handover-edo-govt-okpebholos-transition-committees-meet-friday/