By BENJAMIN ORISEMEKE, Abuja – President Muhammadu Buhari, has approved the appointment of Dr. Giadom Ferdinand Dumbari as the Project Coordinator (PC) for Hydrocarbon Pollution Remediation Project under the Federal Ministry of Environment. A statement by the Director of Press in the Ministry, Saghir El-Mohammed, on Wednesday, said the...
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Senate on Wednesday rejected a bill to amend the Electoral Act 2022. This comes after the bill failed to pass second reading at the Senate, weeks after President Muhammadu Buhari signed it into law. Buhari had written to the upper and lower legislative chambers seeking amendment to Section...
The Senate has urged the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to allow registered and eligible prison inmates to vote during all general elections in the country. The Upper Chamber discussed this during plenary on Tuesday when it considered a motion on The prerogative of Prison Inmates to vote in...
PATRICK ABANG Calabar – The Nigeria Association of Women Journalists (NAWOJ) Cross River State Chapter has called for collective efforts in ensuring that gender equality is achieved in the country despite challenges faced in the quest for their voices to be heard. The NAWOJ State Chairperson, Comrade Umo Basi-Edet...
A Deputy Inspector General and the head of the Nigeria Police Force Criminal Investigation Department (FCID), Joseph Egbunike is dead. Egbunike collapsed inside his office in Abuja in the late hours of Tuesday, 8th of March. Until his death, Egbunike was in charge of the highest investigating arm of...
By JOY ADARA, Abuja – The Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) has condemned the unacceptable reaction of Ebonyi State Governor Dave Umahi to the Judgment of the Federal High Court, Abuja which ordered him and his deputy, Mr. Eric Kelechi Igwe to vacate their offices on grounds of their defection...
By BARBARA KALU, Abakaliki- The Ebonyi Chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC), has rejected the judgement of the Federal High Court, Abuja, removing Governkr David Umahi and his deputy, Dr. Kelechi Igwe, from office over defection from the PDP to the APC. NATIONAL ACCORD reports that Governor Umahi...
Pro-democracy campaigner and human rights activist, Omoyele Sowore sits with Chude Jideonwo, host of #WithChude and founder of Joy, Inc. to discuss what his activism has caused him, his experiences with loss, and his decision to keep at his fight for Nigeria despite all the circumstances around him. Sharing...
BY JOY ADARA, Abuja – Women and girls, especially in rural communities, continue to face the brunt of the climate crisis that exacerbates pre-existing inequalities, jeopardizes their food security and feeds instability and migration, warns the United Nations World Food Programme on International Women’s Day. International Women’s Day 2022 focuses...
By BENJAMIN ORISEMEKE, Abuja – The Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA) and the Nigerian Meteorological Agency (NiMet), have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) setting out areas of collaboration in weather forecasting and climate research. Director General NIMASA, Dr Bashir Jamoh and his counterpart from NiMet, Prof...
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on Tuesday said it was yet to be served the certified True Copy of the Federal High Court that sacked Gov. Dave Umahi of Ebonyi State and his Deputy, Chief Kelechi Igwe. Mr Festus Okoye, the INEC National Commissioner and Chairman, Information and...
PATRICK ABANG, Calabar – Some widows in Cross River State have said that despite increased awareness, harmful and dehumanising practises against them still continue unabated in central and northern parts of the state. The women disclosed this on Tuesday in Calabar during an event to commemorate The 2022International Women’s...
The Federal Government has so far released N10.06billion to speed up the construction of the Presidential (VIP) Wing of the State House Clinic, Aso Villa, Abuja. The Permanent Secretary, State House, Tijanni Umar, made this known while giving an overview on the financial status of the project, scheduled to...
Kaduna State Governor, Nasir El-Rufai says he is hopeful of the possibility of a woman emerging the Executive Governor of the state considering their numerical strength. Fielding questions from journalists in Kaduna on Tuesday, he said there was ‘50 per cent’ chance of a woman emerging as the next...
Ebonyi State Governor, David Umahihas said that he remains the govenor of the state and will not vacate office for anyone. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) recalls that the Federal High Court sitting in Abuja on Tuesday sacked the govenor and his Deputy, Dr Kelechi Igwe for defecting...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Wife of the Vice President, Mrs Dolapo Osinbajo, was in Maiduguri on Monday to visit the North East Children’s Learning Centre, which is a donor-funded school initiated by her husband on the 8th of March, 2017, during his 60th birthday. The school is designed...
A Federal High Court in Abuja has ordered the Ebonyi State Governor, Dave Umahi and his deputy, Eric Igwe, to vacate their seats as the sitting governor and deputy respectively, on grounds that the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) won the election on March 2019 and not its candidate. Having...
Members of the House of Representatives have rescinded their decision on three bills earlier rejected in the process of the 1999 constitution amendment. The bills are on indigenship, citizenship, and 35 % affirmative action for women. The bills will be recommended for consideration and will be part of the...
Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, who was born on March 8, 1957, has clocked 65 years. Osinbajo survived a helicopter crash in Kogi on Feb. 2, 2019, and won re-election on Feb. 23, 2019, for another four-year term with President Muhammadu Buhari. Osinbajo, Nigeria’s 5th vice president, is the Chairman...
BY SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – The United Nations Information Center (UNIC) in collaboration with the Office of the Senior Special Assistant (SSA) to the President on Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) has organized a two day training workshop on SDGs for Borno State journalist.. Declaring open the two day training...