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Pensioners floor Okorocha in court

Pensioners floor Okorocha in court

National Industrial Court sitting in Owerri, has described the slashing of pensioners’ monthly stipend by Imo State Government as illegal.

Take over payment of primary school teachers —Delta NUT

Take over payment of primary school teachers —Delta NUT

TEACHERS in Delta State, under the aegis of Nigeria Union of Teachers, NUT, yesterday, besieged the State Government House and the state House of Assembly complex, urging the state government to take over the payment of primary school teachers’ salaries.

Stop attacking judiciary over tribunal verdict, Rivers APC tells PDP

Stop attacking judiciary over tribunal verdict, Rivers APC tells PDP

The All Progressives Congress, APC, in Rivers state has advised the PDP to refrain from its vicious attack on the judiciary, especially on the judges that presided over the legislative elections petition tribunal that handled all the petitions emanating from the last Rivers State legislative rerun elections.

Kano Govt renames varsity after Maitama Sule

Kano Govt renames varsity after Maitama Sule

The Governor of Kano State His Excellency Dr Abdullahi Umar Ganduje OFR and the State Executive Council has approved the renaming of Northwest University Kano to Yusuf Maitama Sule University Kano.

Supremacy of the Pope: Who did this to Ahiara Diocese?

Supremacy of the Pope: Who did this to Ahiara Diocese?

But the Catholic Diocese of Ahiara is not bothered about the position of the Canon Law and the hierarchy of the church. To them, a bishop must be appointed among indigenous priests or the status quo remains.

S/South not part of Biafra,  N/Delta youths insist

S/South not part of Biafra, N/Delta youths insist

Niger Delta youths under the aegis of Niger Delta Youth Congress, NDYC, weekend, vowed to resist war drums by Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, in the South-South geopolitical zone of the country.

Senate wades into C-River communal clash, requests military presence

Senate wades into C-River communal clash, requests military presence

THE Senate, yesterday, intervened in the communal clashes between Wanikade and Wanihem communities of North Ukelle, in Yala Iga in Cross River State, just as it called on the Nigerian Army to, as a matter of urgency, maintain presence in the area until the security situation was contained and lasting peace restored.

Use of soldiers for police work

Use of soldiers for police work

It is very worrisome that nineteen years into our renascent democracy, the presence of the Army in the lives of the civilian populace has become even more rampant than ever. Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon Yakubu Dogara, recently told a workshop jointly held by the House of Representatives and Policy and Legal Advocacy Centre (PLAC), that the army is currently deployed in, at least, 28 states of the Federation.

Maitama Sule: How OBJ’s death sentence was commuted —Olarewaju

Maitama Sule: How OBJ’s death sentence was commuted —Olarewaju

A FORMER Minister of Communication, Major-General Tajudeen Olarewaju, retd, has said that the late elder statesman, Alhaji Maitama Sule, former National Security Adviser, Alhaji Ismaila Gwarzo and himself, were instrumental to the commuting of the death sentence passed on ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo by the regime of the late Gen Sani Abacha, retd.