The UK government has announced plans to issue 45,000 seasonal worker visas in 2025. This initiative aims to support the nation’s food production by ensuring sufficient workforce availability during peak demand periods hereby addressing labour shortages in its agricultural and poultry sectors, The seasonal worker visa scheme is intended to provide a temporary labour force…
Erhriatake Ibori-Suenu, the member of the House of Representatives who represents Ethiope federal constituency of Delta State, has defected from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to the All Progressives Congress (APC). Mrs Ibori-Suenu, daughter of James Ibori, former Delta governor, announced her defection in a letter address to the Speaker, Abbas Tajudeen, and read on…
PRESS BRIEFING BY THE COMMISSIONER OF POLICE RIVERS STATE POLICE COMMAND ON SEPTEMBER 12, 2024 PRESS RELEASE: DADDY CHUKWU’S SYNDICATE NEUTRALISED Recall the assassination of the then Community Development Council (CDC) Chairman of Mgbuoshimini, Chief Ndidi Livingstone on 13th January 2024 in front of his church, the Peculiar Faith Ministries, Rumueme. In that operation, four…
GISTSMATE MEDIA reports that the Federal Road Safety Corps in Gombe State has confirmed the death of three members of the Boys Brigade Nigeria in a car crash that occurred along the Gombe-Billiri Road on Tuesday. The victims were reportedly travelling to Tal in Billiri Local Government Area for the funeral of a fellow Boys…
The Ogun State Commissioner for Health, Dr Tomi Coker, has declared an outbreak of Lassa Fever in the state with a casualty. The commissioner said that the hemorrhaging viral fever recently claimed the life of a 25-year-old female National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) member who fell sick in Ondo and was brought to one of…
A Magistrate Court sitting in Abuja has ordered the arrest and detention of Reno Omokri, a former aide to ex-President Goodluck Jonathan, in connection with allegations of defamation against Dunamis Church Pastor Paul Enenche. The court’s decision, issued on January 13, 2025, also applies to former Dunamis Church Pastor Abraham Daniel and two individuals identified…
Former President Goodluck Jonathan tackled ex-Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, Muhammad Sanusi Lamido Sanusi over claims that sum of $49.8 billion dollars got missing from the national coffers under his watch as president. Sanusi made the allegation when he served in the administration of Jonathan as the CBN governor. However, Sanusi who is…
Ebonyi Governor Francis Nwifuru has condemned the gruesome killing of thirteen Ebonyi indigenes in Ogboji community, Orumba South Local Government Area of Anambra State. The victims, according to reports, were attacked during their monthly town union meeting penultimate Monday. In a statement by his Chief Press Secretary, Monday Uzor on Wednesday, Nwifuru described the killings…
Doyin Okupe, former director-general of the Obi/Datti presidential campaign, has said there is an agreement that the north will do eight years and the south will do eight years. Doyin Okupe stated this during an interview on Channels TV’s Politics Today. He said Buhari did eight years as president and now Bola Ahmed Tinubu will…
The 16th Emir of Kano, Muhammad Sanusi II, says he would not help President Bola Tinubu’s administration to correct the administration’s policies affecting the citizens. Sanusi spoke on Wednesday in Lagos as the chairman of the 21st Anniversary of Fawehinmiism (Gani Fawehinmi Annual Lecture 2025). The emir stated that while there were “a few points”…