The Senior Special Assistant to President Bola Tinubu on Students Engagement, Hon. Comrade Asefon Sunday Dayo has procured 500 UTME forms for 500 Ekiti Students, GISTSMATE MEDIA gathered. In a press release signed by Asefon, the former NANS National President said 50 UTME forms has been procured for Ado Grammar School students, with another 450…
The Ebonyi State Governor, Francis Nwifuru, has suspended the state Commissioner for Health, Dr. Moses Ekuma and his Housing and Urban Development counterpart, Francis Ori. Our correspondent gathered they were suspended on Monday during the State Executive Council meeting in Abakaliki, the state capital. A statement issued by the Commissioner for Information and State Orientation,…
TikTok restored service in the United States Sunday after briefly going dark, as a law banning the wildly popular app on national security grounds came into effect. TikTok credited President-elect Donald Trump, who retakes power on Monday, for making the reversal possible ā though the outgoing administration of President Joe Biden had earlier said that…
More facts are emerging on possible reasons the operatives of the Department of State Services (DSS) arrested the President of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Comrade Joe Ajaero. The NLC President was picked up by DSS operatives on Monday morning at the Nnamdi Azikwe International Airport, Abuja on his way outside the country for an…
The General Overseer of Mountain of Holy Ghost Intervention Deliverance Ministry, Onitsha, Anambra State, Pastor Chukwuemeka Ohanaemere, also known as Odumeje, has claimed that TikTok blocked his account due to ādangerous miracles.” In a viral video addressing his congregation, the cleric revealed the social media platform’s decision in disconnecting him. Odumeje claimed that his supernatural…
The National Counter Terrorism Centre, Office of the National Security Advisor, says at least 5,000 repented Boko Haram fighters have been reunited with their families. It says none of the ex-combatants returned to the battle ground after six months of the deradicalisation programme. Amb. Mairo Musa Abbas, Head of Preventing and Countering Violent Extremism (PCVE),…
The people of Bayelsa State have been thrown into mourning by a fatal accident that claimed the life of the traditional ruler of Ofoni Community in Sagbama Local Government Area of the state. A statement by the Chief Press Secretary to the State Governor, Daniel Alabrah, said the incident occurred when the vehicle conveying the…
Singer Habeeb Okikiola, popularly known as Portable, is in the news again after he was reportedly attacked on his way to his Zazu Bitters office. In a video sighted online by GISTSMATE MEDIA correspondent, the controversial artiste narrated how the man pointed a gun at him. While the man denied it, Portable asked him who…
An irate mob, on Saturday morning, killed a yet-to-be-identified Assistant Superintendent of Police with the Lagos State Police Command in the Agege area of the state. PUNCH Online gathered that the deceased had led a team of policemen to an accident scene along the WEMCO junction by Mobil road, Agege, before his team came under…
Governors elected on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) have asked President Bola Tinubu to āurgentlyā review his economic policies that are causing hardship for citizens. The governors spoke in a communiquĆ© issued at the end of a two-day meeting held at the Plateau state government house in Jos. Bala Mohammed, chairman of…