No fewer than 25 persons have been killed in suspected herdsmen attacks in parts of Nasarawa, Anambra and Ekiti states, as militants shot a police officer in Cross River State. While the attack on Noma Village of Andaha in Akwanga ...
Read More »Ohanaeze Ndigbo condemns attacks as militants kill police officer in C’River
National leader of Ohanaeze Ndigbo youth wing, Arthur Obiorah Uchena, has condemned the killing of six farmers at Mmiata Anam in Anambra West Local Government Area of Anambra State. Obiorah lamented that those attacked were youths who died in their ...
Read More »Again, Abuja locals protest against land takeover, shutdown official activities in FCT
Abuja indigenes yesterday shutdown official activities in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) due to renewed protest against alleged forceful takeover of their land at Tunga Maje village by military authorities. The natives, who blocked the FCT Ministry’s main entrance, resulted ...
Read More »PDP condemns INEC’s non-release of electoral materials
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) yesterday condemned Chairman of Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Professor Mahmood Yakubu’s refusal to obey a Court of Appeal order to release the February 23, Presidential election materials. In a statement by its National Publicity ...
Read More »Tribunal grants APC, Adelabu access to guber election documents
The Oyo State Election Petition Tribunal yesterday ordered INEC to allow APC’s gubernatorial candidate, Adebayo Adelabu, to inspect the March 9, 2019 governorship election materials. The commission had declared Seyi Makinde of PDP winner of the poll by scoring 515,621 ...
Read More »Caverton Helicopters promises to pay protesting workers in six weeks
The management of Caverton Helicopters yesterday met with aviation unions over outstanding benefits and promised to pay the former workers within six weeks. However, the move, seen as a response to picketing of the company that begun on Monday, did ...
Read More »LASU denies alleged graft at institution
The Lagos State University (LASU) yesterday denied borrowing from staff contributory fund to finance accreditation expenses at the institution. This follows allegations of financial misappropriation leveled against the institution’s management, However, the school authorities explained clarified that it borrowed N474m ...
Read More »Civil servant loses N124.5m property to FG
A Federal Capital Territory (FCT) High Court, sitting in Zuba, has ordered the final forfeiture of property worth N124.5 million illegally acquired by a Principal Accountant in the Finance and Accounts Department of the Ministry of Niger Delta Affairs, Daniel ...
Read More »BLOOD AND TEARS: OTODO GBAME COMMUNITY DEMAND FOR JUSTICE
The Nigeria slum/ informal settlement federation is standing in solidarity with the over 30,000 people who where violently evicted in a state –led land grab from Otodo Gbame community in November 9, 2017. Speaking on the occasion at freedom pack ...
Read More »IMF alerts to Africa’s worsening poverty crisis in 2030
Unless urgent and proactive rescue plans are employed, nine of every 10 African nations would be living in abject poverty, the World Bank has warned. Paradoxically, the same year is the global financial institution’s target for ending extreme poverty worldwide. ...
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