The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has cautioned that members of the group would retaliate should security agencies exhibit any traces of brutality during the burial of the late Eze Israel Okwu Kanu and his wife, Ugoeze Sally Mmeme at ...
Read More »Cross River deputy governor wants end to abuse, violence against women
Deputy Governor of Cross River State, Professor Ivara Esu, has advocated an end to abuse and violence against women in the country. He stated this when members of the Spotlight Initiative Team to eliminate violence against women and the girl ...
Read More »Igbinedioan tasks medical practitioners on standards, excellence
A former Governor of Edo state, Lucky Igbinedion, has stressed the need for medical practitioners in the country to improve on patient care, research and teaching to attain national and global standards. Igbinedion spoke at the inauguration of Abiodun Olatunbosun ...
Read More »Edo govt condemns violence, says bomb explosion, others plot to distabilise state
The Edo State Government has faulted claims that Governor Godwin Obaseki was behind the political violence that resulted in the bombing of residences of perceived political opponents within the state’s All Progressives Congress (APC). Commissioner for Information and Orientation, Paul ...
Read More »Blackworld Institute, CSOs write Sanwo-Olu, reject water privatisation in Lagos By Edu Abade
THE Institute of the Black World 21st Century and a host of African American civil society organisations (CSOs), including Reverend Jesse Jackson’s Rainbow/PUSH Coalition, have written Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu to stop any plans to privatise water in Lagos State. In ...
Read More »Eight reinstated Rivers permanent secretaries resume without offices
The eight permanent secretaries who were sacked by Rivers State Governor Nyesom Wike, but reinstated by the National Industrial Court (NIC) in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State, have resumed work. The senior civil servants, who were sighted at the state secretariat, however, ...
Read More »Imo panel indicts Okorocha over contracts fraud
Imo State Judicial Commission of Inquiry on Contracts has indicted former Governor Rochas Okorocha over alleged fraudulent award of contracts during his time as governor. It, therefore, ordered the state Auditor General and the Auditor General for Local Governments to ...
Read More »EAD successfully carried out in nine councils of A’Ibom, says aide
Special Adviser to Akwa Ibom State Governor, Udom Emmanuel on Political and Legislative Affairs, Sunny Ibuot, has declared that the National Population Commission (NPC) has successfully carried out Enumeration Area Demarcation (EAD) in nine council areas of the state. He ...
Read More »Supreme Court quashes Heineken Lokpobiri’s appeal, affirms David Lyon APC candidate
The Supreme Court has dismissed the appeal filed by former Minister of State for Agriculture, Heineken Lokpobiri, against the candidacy of Bayelsa State Governor-elect, David Lyon. Lokpobiri and Lyon are both members of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the ...
Read More »Militant group seeks transfer of presidential amnesty programme to COS’ office
A Niger Delta militant group, the Joint Revolutionary Council (JRC) has demanded that the Presidential Amnesty Programme (PAP) be transferred to the office of the Chief of Staff (COS) to the President and head of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation ...
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