In addition, the Board approved the promotion of 30 Assistant Directors to Deputy Directors, 35 Chiefs to Assistant Directors. It ratified the promotion of 169 other staff members from one grade level to the next, a statement from Osagie Edward, NIMASA Deputy Director/Head, Public Relations, said on Sunday. The Governing Board of the Nigerian Maritime […]

The Emir of Zuru in Kebbi State, Major General Muhammadu Sani Sami (Rtd.), also known as Gomo II, is dead. He died in a London hospital after a brief illness. He was 81. SaharaReporters learnt that the late monarch, a retired military officer, is survived by four wives and seven children. Confirming the death, Kebbi

The All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate, Garba Gwarmai, has been declared the winner of the Ghari/Tsanyawa supplementary election in Kano State. The Returning Officer, Professor Muhammad Waziri of Bayero University, announced on Sunday that Gwarmai won with 31,472 votes, defeating his closest rival, Yusuf Maigado of the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP), who scored 27,931

Abdul Oroh is an unlikely avatar of the Nigerian dream. An Afenmai from Ivbiaro in Owan West Local Government Area of Edo State in the south-south of Nigeria, Abdul had the privilege of seeing Nigeria’s promise at independence and its descent to the edge of the proverbial precipice. Born in August 1960, he was less than two

President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s Chief Security Officer (CSO), Adegboyega Fasasi, and Chief Personal Security Officer, Usman Shugaba, have been implicated in a $1.5 million bribery scandal. Sources told SaharaReporters that the duo allegedly facilitated access for the embattled Group Chief Executive Officer (GCEO) of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC) Limited to meet with the

The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has called on Senate President Godswill Akpabio and House Speaker Tajudeen Abbas to urgently refer allegations that lawmakers pay as much as N3 million to present bills, motions, and petitions in the National Assembly to anti-corruption agencies for thorough investigation and prosecution of those implicated. SERAP also urged Mr.

In the midst of Nigeria’s complex socio-political landscape, marked by entrenched corruption and systemic injustices, a revolutionary approach has emerged, championed by Omoyele Sowore. This paradigm shift seeks not to perpetuate violence or destruction, but to dissolve the existing corrupt system that has been imposed upon the Nigerian people by imperialist forces. Sowore’s methodology is

The New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) has emerged as the winner of the Bagwai/Shanono State Assembly by-election in Kano State. The Returning Officer, Professor Hassan Shitu, who announced the result at about 12:36 a.m. on Sunday, declared the NNPP candidate, Dr. Ali Kiyawa, winner with 16,198 votes. His closest rival, Ahmad Kadamu of the All

The candidate of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), Ifeoma Azikiwe, has been declared the winner of the Onitsha North I State Constituency by-election. Announcing the result in the early hours of Sunday, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) Returning Officer, Prof. Ibiam Ekpe, said Azikiwe secured 7,774 votes to defeat her closest rival, Justice