After 179 days in incarceration, social critic and publisher of an online publication, CrossRiverWatch, Agba Jalingo, has been released from Afokang prison in Calabar South Local Council of Cross River State. Jalingo, according to his close associate and a fellow ...
Read More »Lawyer sues Edo State government, IGP over ban of rallies
A legal practitioner, Emankhu Isibor Addeh has sued Edo State Governor, Godwin Obaseki and Inspector General of Police (IGP), Mohammed Adamu over the ban on political rallies and demonstrations in Edo State. Addeh, who instituted the suit marked FHC/ABJ/CS/123/2020 before ...
Read More »Tension will end in Bayelsa after pre-election matters, says AP candidate, as police extend curfew to Sunday
The Accord Party governorship candidate in Bayelsa State, Ebizimo Diriyai, has said the state was not yet out of the woods until all pending pre-election matters are concluded. Diriyai who polled 1,339 votes to emerge third in the November 16, ...
Read More »Protesters besiege APC secretariat, demand Oshiomole’s removal
All Progressives Congress (APC) Youths Stakeholders Forum (YSF) have protested to the party’s secretariat in Abuja seeking the removal of its National Chairman, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole. The protesters who wielded several placards blamed Oshiomhole for losing Bayelsa State to the ...
Read More »ASUU canvasses review of existing laws on sexual harassment, not new ones
National President of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) Professor Biodun Ogunyemi has canvassed a review of existing laws on sexual harassment, saying such laws should recognise universities autonomy. Raising concern on the confusion between sexual harassment and sexual ...
Read More »Drug insecurity looms in Nigeria over outbreak of Coronavirus, says NAFDAC
The National Agency for Food, Drugs Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has alerted that Nigeria may experience drug insecurity due the outbreak of Coronavirus in China, saying the situation portends danger for the country. Briefing the media yesterday in Abuja on ...
Read More »Embrace peace or leave Urhoboland, UPU spokesman tells herdsmen
The Urhobo Progress Union (UPU) has asked all Fulani herdsmen in any part of Urhobo land to embrace peace or leave the area. Insisting that the people would not cede any part of their land to strangers, the group said ...
Read More »Police ban planned protests, rallies in Imo over Supreme Court’s judgement
World Igbo Congress supports review of ruling The Imo State Police Command yesterday banned all protests and rallies relating to Supreme Court’s verdict on the Imo State gubernatorial election in which it removed Emeka Ihedioha as governor. This followed increasing ...
Read More »Buhari’s aide seeks expansion of Calabar-Odukpani-Itu highway with N50.2 billion contract
Senior Special Assistant to President Muhammadu Buhari on Niger Delta Affairs, Ita Enang, has canvassed immediate expansion of the remaining portion of the Calabar-Odukpani-Itu federal highway project, which contract has been awarded for N50.2b. In a correspondent to the President ...
Read More »Acknowledge sabotage in terrorism fight, Falana tells Buhari
Monopoly democracy killing Nigeria, say Ezekwesili, Utomi Human rights lawyer, Femi Falana has said President Muhammadu Buhari must be prevailed upon to acknowledge internal sabotage within the military in the war against terrorism in the country. Falana also insisted that the ...
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