A North Dakota state legislative candidate who died of coronavirus last month won his Tuesday election. Republican David Andahl, who was 55 when he died, and another GOP candidate, Dave Nehring, were elected to represent the 8th district in the state’s House of Representatives. The district has two representatives — and both Andahl and Nehring…
Under the first phase of the Presidential Mass Metering Initiative, we are making funding immediately available for DisCos to roll out 1,000,000 Meters in the first phase, at no cost to consumers. Deployment has already started in parts of Kano, Kaduna, Lagos and Abuja. Future phases of this Metering Initiative will help us fully meet…
An American woman, Sarah McBride has made history, BBC reports. McBride has now become the very first transgender state senator in the US after she won her race in Delaware. She beat Republican Steve Washington to take over the seat from Democrat Harris McDowell, who is standing down. Ms McBride, 30, has worked as the…
The brother of Jonathan Lyndale Kirk, the rapper who is popularly more known as DaBaby, has died. DaBaby is now in mourning following the death of his older brother Glen Johnson who committed suicide on Tuesday. Reports have it that Johnson died in their hometown of Charlotte, North Carolina from a self-inflicted gunshot wound to…
Many parents and candidates who sat for the 2020 West African Examinations Council (WAEC) have been thrown in anxiety. They are currently in a state of anxiety as the examination body withheld the results of all candidates that sat for it in all public schools in Ekiti State. Parents and their children, who besieged cyber…
The Ministry of Youth and Sports Development and the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19 have advised the Edo State Government and the Nigeria Football Federation against allowing fans into the Samuel Ogbemudia Stadium, Benin City, during the 2021 AFCON qualifier between the Super Eagles and Sierra Leone on November 13. This is coming after the…
The Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Ogunwusi Ojaja II has described the #EndSARS protest in Nigeria as a lesson to the Federal and State governments. The monarch charged President Muhammadu Buhari and state Governors to come up with ideas that would bring the government closer to its people. Ooni stated this while speaking at the…
*2023 Election: INEC Announces Resumption Of Voter Registration, Earmarks N1billio* Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Professor Mahmood Yakubu has announced the resumption time for voter registration. Professor Yakubu stated that the Continuous Voter Registration (CVR) exercise will commence in the first quarter of 2021 ahead of the 2023 general election. The sum…
A Nigerian woman, Esther Agbaje has been elected into the Minnesota House of Representatives in Tuesday’s U.S. general elections. Agbaje who will be representing District 59B in the 134-member House on the platform of the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party (DFL), an affiliate of the U.S. Democratic Party, won by a landslide polling 17,396 votes or 74.7 percent of…
The International Criminal Court (ICC) has commenced an inquiry into the End SARS protests in Nigeria. On Wednesday, BBC reported that the court confirmed that it is conducting a preliminary examination. The office of the ICC prosecutor said it had received information on alleged crimes. The probe will, “assess whether the legal criteria for opening…