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Barely five days after the inauguration of Bayelsa State Governor, Douye Diri, the state House of Assembly yesterday, elected Abraham Ngobere as the new Speaker. Ngobere, a former Deputy Speaker of the house, was elected following Monday Obolo’s resignation after ...

Publisher of CrossRiverWatch, Agba Jalingo, has described his 179-day detention in prison by the Cross River State government as a “facade manipulation and circumvention of the country’s justice system.” Jalingo who stated this yesterday in Calabar, Cross River State, however, expressed ...

Herdsmen have again killed One Owoh 45 and Samuel Imonkhai in Owan Community in Ovia North East Council Area of Edo State. Until his murder, Owoh, who was a palm wine tapper was shot by the bandits, while plying his ...

President of Afenifere, Chief Ayo Adebanjo, his Ohanaeze Ndigbo counterpart, Nnia Nwodo and Aare Afe Babalola (SAN) have insisted on restructuring of the country. They urged Nigerians to persuade National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Ahmed ...

Rivers State Governor Nyesom Wike has faulted the requirement of Bank Verification Number (BVN) for issuance of electronic-passport by the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS). The governor, who lauded the service for introducing the e-passport with 10-year validity that would enable ...

Tony Iwelu, the Chief Security Officer (CSO) to the Minister of Transportation, Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi, has passed on. The aide, who died on Monday, February 17, suffered an electric shock from a shower rose in a Kaduna hotel while on ...

The Senate has given Seven-Up Bottling Company PLC and Rite Foods Limited two weeks within which to settle their differences. After a close-door meeting with the leadership of both firms yesterday in Abuja, Senate Committee on Ethics, Privileges and Public ...

Fuel scarcity may be looming in Kano soon as petroleum tanker drivers have vowed to embark on industrial action over alleged extortion and harassment by officials of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS). Besides, the tanker owners accused Customs of illegal ...

A Niger Delta militant group, Joint Revolutionary Council (JRC), has blamed rising oil theft and proliferation of illegal refineries in the Niger Delta on the failure of the Presidential Amnesty Programme (PAP). Its Spokesman, Cynthia Whyte, also heaped the blame ...

The Cross River State Government has pledged full implementation of all national health policies, especially those aimed at ending mother and child mortality. Governor Ben Ayade, who was represented by the Deputy Governor, Professor Ivara Esu, gave the assurance at ...