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Special Adviser to Governor Ihedioha on Media, Steve Osuji, has disclosed that the state government has concluded arrangements to commence payment of pension arrears owed retirees in the next one month. Speaking while fielding questions from journalists on the Peoples ...

‘Ex-governor refutes a claim, says ‘I made my money before I joining politics’ As disputations between Imo State Governor Emeka Ihedioha and his predecessor, Rochas Okorocha continues, Deputy Governor of the state, Gerald Irona, has accused the latter of using ...

The International Society for Civil Liberties and Rule of Law (Intersociety) has condemned the current ranking in the country’s police force in which no Igbo officer is Deputy Inspector General of Police (DIG) or Assistant Inspector General of Police (AIG). ...

The Social Integrity Network (SINET) has blamed incessant insurgency and armed banditry in the country on cancellation of pre-shipment inspection at the nation’s seaports by the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS). Its National Coordinator, Ibrahim Isah, who stated this at a ...

The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) has said oil and gas pipeline vandalism rose by 77 per cent in June this year. The newly released June edition of the corporation’s Monthly Financial and Operations Report (MFOR) showed that 106 pipeline ...

Governor Babagana Zulum has linked the protracted Boko Haram insurgency in Borno State to porous borders linking Nigeria with neighbouring Chad, Cameroun and Niger republics. The governor made the submission while addressing State House correspondents in Abuja after a meeting ...

The United Nations has faulted Nigeria’s education curriculum for lack of objective values, resulting in the continued production of what it described as clever thieves. National Executive Project Director, Free United Nations Human Rights Education and Advocacy Training Project, Nigeria, ...

The National Democratic Institute (NDI) has identified consistent involvement and inclusion of youths in policy formulation, implementation and collaboration among government agencies, as a solution to Nigeria’s poor Global Youth Development Index (GYDI). Nigeria ranked 141st in the 2016 GYDI, 156th in ...

Immediate past Governor of Imo State, Rochas Okorocha has insisted that his administration left N 5.7b in a bank account to offset retirees’ entitlements. Okorocha, who spoke with journalists at his residence in Owerri, maintained that he left the money ...

The National Orientation Agency (NOA) and United Nations Children Education Fund (UNICEF) have expressed concern over child mortality rate in the South East, describing it as alarming. They, however, argued that the situation could be reversed if mothers and caregivers ...