By PATRICK ABANG, Calabar – Traditional rulers from Mbume blocs of clans, Etung Local Government Area of Cross River State, have called for reinstatement of suspended Etung LGA paramount ruler, His Royal Majesty, Ntue-Atue,Dr. Emmanuel Oru Ojong. Mbume blocs of clans’ traditional rulers made the call yesterday in...
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By DAVID IORJA, Abuja – The Federal Government has the soon-to-be resuscitated National Home Grown School Feeding Programme will cater for over 10 million pupils across the country. Senior Special Assistant to the President on school feeding programme, Dr Yetunde Adeniji, disclosed this in a statement...
President Bola Tinubu on Wednesday in Abuja urged members of his cabinet to work assiduously towards achieving the mandate of their ministries or be ready to leave the government. Tinubu stated this in his address at 2023 Cabinet Retreat for Ministers, Presidential Aides, Permanent Secretaries and Top government...
By BARBARA KALU, Enugu – Ohaneze Ndigbo Worldwide, has expressed over the death of the former Chairman of Union Bank Plc and a chieftain of Ohanaeze, Dr Kalu Uke Kalu, who died at the age of 88. The National Publicity Secretary, Ohanaeze Ndigbo Worldwide, Dr Alex...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – The North East Development Commission (NEDC) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Mutual Commitment Group (MCG), a chinese construction company for the ongoing Reconstruction, Rehabilitation and Resettlement (RRR) of millions of Internally Displaced Persons, IDPs and other victims of Boko Haram. The...
The Nigeria Police Command in Rivers, has denied claims that its personnel deliberately attacked Gov. Siminalayi Fubara of Rivers during his visit to the state House of Assembly complex in Port Harcourt. Fubara alleged that some policemen shot, tear-gassed and used water cannons on him and his...
Nine out of 10 councillors in Kaura Local Council of Kaduna State have removed the council Chairman, Mr Mathias Siman, from office for alleged gross misconduct. The removal was conducted through the process of impeachment, following a motion moved by Zachariah Achi, (Bandon ward) and seconded by Fidelis...
Pensioners in the Calabar branch of the Nigeria Union of Pensioners (NUP) say the 400 bags of rice given to 2.5 million of them to share as palliative are grossly inadequate. The Calabar branch of NUP covers Odukpani, Calabar Municipality, Calabar South, Akpabuyo and Bakassi local government areas...
By BARBARA KALU, Port-Harcourt – The Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, has restated its determination to establish collaborative relationships and focus on governance, as part of its commitment to transformative change in the Niger Delta region. Speaking during a meeting with representatives of the United States Agency...
The Canadian Government will support humanitarian and poverty alleviation in Nigeria with 18 million dollars. The Canadian High Commissioner to Nigeria, Mr Jamie Christoff, made this known when he visited the Minister of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Alleviation, Dr Betta Edu in her office in Abuja. Christoff said...
Some Nigerians who applied for international passports have accused personnel of the Nigerian Immigration Service (NIS) Abuja passport office, of massive extortion. The passport applicants said in spite of recent directive of the Minister of Interior, Dr Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo to the immigration authorities to sanitise the system, nothing...
The Labour Party (LP) in Lagos State says it is worried by the Supreme Court judgment on the appeal filed by its Presidential Candidate, Mr Peter Obi against President Bola Tinubu’s electoral victory. Pastor Dayo Ekong, the chairman of the party in the state, made the remarks while...
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Kogi State Governor, Francis Nwifuru, has decried the poor state of power supply to the state, saying residents no longer get up to four hours of electricity daily. Nwifuru made the assertion when he received the management team of the Enugu Electricity Distribution Company (EEDC) in his office...
The Senate has confirmed the appointment of Mr Zaccheus Adedeji as the Executive Chairman, Federal Inland Revenue Services (FIRS). This follows the adoption of a motion by the Senate Leader, Sen. Opeyemi Bamidele (APC-Ekiti) at the Committee of the Whole on Tuesday. Presenting the motion, Bamidele urged the...
Senior Pastor, Dunamis International Gospel Center (DIGC), Pastor Paul Enenche, has admonished Nigerians to put their trust and hope in God in these trying moments for the country and citizens. Enenche gave the admonition on Tuesday at the Makurdi Airport, while speaking with newsmen. The Man of God,...
President Bola Tinubu has intervened in the crisis rocking the executive and the legislature in Rivers. Governor Bala Mohammed of Bauchi State stated this while briefing State House Correspondents after a closed-door session with Tinubu, at the Presidential Villa, Abuja on Tuesday. “We had a...
President Bola Tinubu, has presented the 2023 Supplementary Budget of N2.1 trillion to the National Assembly. The request was contained in a letter to the Senate President, Godswill Akpabio, at plenary on Tuesday. The letter reads: “It has now become necessary to make further provision for additional palliative...
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has disclosed that it has distributed a total of 5,169,692 Permanent Voter’s Cards, PVCs, in the three states ahead of the November 11 off-cycle governorship elections in Imo, Kogi and Bayelsa states National Commissioner and Chairman,...