A governorship aspirant of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Edo State, Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu at the weekend assured that there will be no hard feelings should he lose in the party’s primary scheduled for June. In a statement issued ...
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Redirect security votes, life pension to healthcare funding, SERAP charges governors
The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has sent Freedom of Information (FoI) requests to governors urging them to redirect their security votes and life pensions to funding of public healthcare facilities and quality education. It urged governors of the ...
Read More »Groups canvass house-to-house scientific data collection in C’River as Ayade threatens defaulting clerics
Amid fear of the rising cases of coronavirus in the country, some groups in Cross River State have canvassed door-to-door scientific data collection to ensure that the virus does not spread to and escalate in the state. So far, Cross ...
Read More »Total Upstream, partners support people living with HIV in Lagos
The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation/National Petroleum Investment Management Services ((NNPC/NAPIMS) and Total Upstream Nigeria Limited with partners- CNOOC, SAPETRO and PRIME- have collaborated to support people living with HIV in Lagos with bags of palliatives within the period of the ...
Read More »Yoruba elders canvass geopolitical restructuring, states should be innovative, says economist
As the nation witnesses the plummeting of crude oil prices, Yoruba Council of Elders (YCE) has said that geopolitical restructuring is imperative, urging the Federal Government to give grants to small-scale enterprises to remain afloat after the coronavirus disease. Meanwhile, ...
Read More »Ohanaeze, Okorie call for national emergency
Apex Igbo socio-cultural organisation, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, and former National Chairman of the defunct United Progressives Party (UPP), Chief Chekwas Okorie, have called for national emergency to navigate out of the present health and economic crisis wreaked by coronavirus. They insisted ...
Read More »Adebanjo, Isuwa, others want country restructured
A Chieftain of Yoruba socio-cultural organisation, Afenifere, Chief Ayo Adebanjo, has said the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) has really exposed the weaknesses of the governing structure in Nigeria and ineptitude of elected officers to manage the country. Adebanjo, while reacting to the ...
Read More »Yakasai flays calls for true federalism, wants agriculture to replace crude oil
Elder statesman, Tanko Yakasai, has described renewed calls for true federalism in the country as uncalled for in the prevailing circumstances. He expressed concern over the fall in the price of crude oil, which is the mainstay of the economy, ...
Read More »Niger Delta groups insist on restructuring as oil price falls
As the price of crude oil crashes in the international market due to the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), groups in southern Nigeria, especially the Niger Delta, have called for immediate restructuring of the country. Publicity Secretary of the Pan Niger Delta ...
Read More »Restructuring will save Nigeria after COVID-19, Middle Belt Forum declares
Nigeria can come out stronger from the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), if it commences restructuring and battle forces of insecurity that are unleashing bloodshed across the land. President of the Middle Belt Forum (MBF), Dr. Pogu Bitrus, said this against the ...
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