Dickson calls for multi-party c’ttee to harmonise areas of restructuring
Bayelsa State governor, Mr Seriake Dickson, has renewed his call for a multi-party committee, towards harmonizing critical areas of agreement to enable the All Progressives Congress, APC-led Federal Government facilitate the presentation of the necessary bills that could bring about a restructured Nigeria.
APC’s recipes for electoral meltdown
On at least two keys issues that constituted the core of its campaign exercise in 2015, the APC has failed Nigerians. Many cannot see the justification for the continued retention of Aso Rock tenancy by the party or its leader
Suspected herdsmen storm Makurdi, sack 5,000 inhabitants
Despite the commencement of Exercise Ayem A’ Kpatuma by the military to check the incursion of herdsmen into parts of Benue State, suspected herdsmen have reportedly sacked Mbatoho Chile, an island close to Benue State Government House, at Mbalagh council ward of Makurdi local government.
Like Baru, like Yusuf: Corporate governance failures in PMB’s govt
When we were hoping that we had seen the end of this kind of troubling incidents, then entered Prof. Usman Yusuf who was (or is) the Executive Secretary of the National Health Insurance
Gunmen kidnap Akwa Ibom monarch
THE Village Head of Ikot Edet in Etim Ekpo Local Government Area of Akwa Ibom State, Chief Mfon Udoessien, has been kidnapped by gunmen.
Communities hold campaign against practice of Female Genital Mutilation, FGM/Cutting in Ebonyi
THE age-long practice of Female Genital Mutilation, FGM and Cutting which had over the years affected the pride of womanhood negatively, is gradually becoming a thing of the past following the enlightenment campaigns against the ugly practice by some communities in Ebonyi State.
MOSOP alleges discovery of SPDC’s toxic dump site
Movement for the Survival of Ogoni People, MOSOP, said it has uncovered a toxic dump site belonging to Shell Petroleum Development Company, SPDC, in K-Dere community, Gokana Local Government Area, Rivers State.
Edo PDP chieftain flays Buhari over herdsmen’s rampage
FORMER State deputy chairman of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Edo State, Mr. Clement Edo-Osagie, has lampooned the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari for being insensitive to the serial killings, state of insecurity, pains and the recent kidnap of school children in Yobe State.
Ayade splashes scholarships on 1,000 indigent students
No fewer than 1,000 students of the Northern senatorial district of Cross River State will benefit from Governor Ben Ayade’s scholarship scheme.
10-yr-old maid with rotting hand rescued from Lagos couple
A heavily-pregnant woman, Stella Anyakaora, and her husband, Valentine, are currently being interrogated by the Lagos State Police Command for assaulting their 10-year-old maid.
Ex-PCRC chair takes DPO to court, alleges threat to life
The immediate past Chairman of Police Community Relations Committee, PCRC, Enerhen Police Division, under Uvwie Local Government Area of Delta State, Chief Samuel Brigue, has dragged the Divisional Police Officer, DPO, of the Division, DSP Emmanuel Yakubu, to court on allegations of defamation of character and threat to his life.
