Unknown gunmen have kidnapped wife of the Onojie of Ewatto Kingdom in Esan South East Council Area of Edo State, His Royal Highness Ikhumhen 11, Queen Florence Ikhumhen, alongside one of her daughters. The queen, who recently retired from the ...
Read More »Ogoni cleanup mismanaged via jettisoning of emergency measures, says MOSOP
FACTIONAL president of the Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (MOSOP), Fegalo Nsuke, has alleged the mismanagement of the Ogoni cleanup, insisting that the ‘jettisoning of the emergency measures of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) by the ...
Read More »NDDC’s IMC opens can of worms, alleges sleaze in contracts execution
Senate recognizes interim committee, supports forensic audit Acting Managing Director of Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), Joy Yimebe Nunieh yesterday opened a can of worms on activities of the commission, insisting that some contractors were awarded contracts before their companies ...
Read More »Amnesty International urges restraint ahead of funeral rites
Amnesty International (AI) has enjoined the Nigerian military and police to reduce the rising tension in Afara Ukwu, Abia State ahead of the 14 February 14, 2020 funeral of the parents of IPOB leader, Nnamdi Kanu. The human rights group ...
Read More »IPOB threatens reprisals if security agents harass members at Kanu’s parents’ burial
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, ...
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