Abia State House of Assembly has resolved to investigate the reasons behind the plethora of incomplete and abandoned estates that dot the State with a view to sanctioning erring developers who prey on the government’s desire to provide housing for its citizens, and get government to give them large expanse of land for little or no fee among such other incentives under the PPP system only for them to abandon the project just shortly after taking off.

UYO –A staff of Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, in Akwa Ibom State, Mr Amba Anso, has testified against the commission at the National Assembly Elections Petition Tribunal sitting in Uyo. Chris Ekpenyong of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, was declared winner of the Akwa Ibom North West  senatorial  district election by INEC.

Uyo—SOME residents of Akwa Ibom State have resorted to fastening fetish traditional charms called Ayei, on their property marked for demolition to prevent government officials from carrying out the exercise.

BENINCITY—THE leadership of the National Assembly,  Inspector General of Police and Director-General of Department of State Services, DSS, after examining the crisis rocking the Edo State House of Assembly, between Tuesday night and early hours of yesterday,  in Abuja, resolved that Governor Godwin Obaseki should issue a fresh proclamation for  inauguration of the House.

FOLLOWING strong opposition from several quarters, President Muhammadu Buhari has suspended implementation of the controversial Ruga settlements project across the country.

IN what could be described as academic excellence at its best, Albesta Academy, Eleko, Ibeju-Lekki, Lagos once again proved its mettle as one of the best schools in Lagos State as it emerged the winner of the 2019 Tolaram Science Challenge for the fourth time in a row.

IT is worrisome that pupils  in nursery and primary schools can no longer  transfer  textbooks they previously use to their siblings, as such textbooks have been programmed for questions which must be answered with either a pen or pencil on the same textbooks. The cost of the nine textbooks in this category run into thousands of Naira.

Special Adviser to the President on Niger Delta and Coordinator, Amnesty Programme, Prof. Charles Dokubo, has said that the use of technology incubation centres by beneficiaries of the programme trained and empowered in the agricultural and allied sector will improve their expertise in various areas of specialisation.

The central bank governor, Godwin Emefiele, believes smugglers are “killing” Nigeria’s economy. Speaking at a recent roundtable event in Lagos, he said: “Nigeria is very good at making brilliant economic policies, but smugglers are those sabotaging these policies”. Thus, he said, the CBN would “block the smugglers’ accounts in all Nigerian banks”. Those circumventing the government’s foreign exchange restrictions on certain importswould also be “blacklisted” and prevented from operating in the foreign exchange market and the banking industry.

THE agitation for local government’s independence has been louder in recent times by well-meaning Nigerians, considering how this third tier of government has become subservient to state governors across the country. 

The Chief Judge of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) High Court, Abuja, Hon. Justice Ishaq Bello, on Tuesday, commended Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi of Enugu State for facilitating the adoption of the Administration of Criminal Justice Act in the state.

Emma Ujah, Abuja Bureau Chief It has come to light, how the National Livestock Transformation Plan (NLTP) was bungled by the Permanent Secretary of the Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, Dr.  Mohammed Umar’s haste to implement it. A top sources at the ministry, who was part of the NLTP from its policy formulation […]

I am not a fan of former President Olusegun Obasanjo. Here is a man who, despite his golden opportunity to reinvent Nigeria and put the country on an irreversible march to greatness, dealt its fledgeling democracy a blow. Considering the circumstances that led to his civilian presidency on May 29, 1999, even the most unrepentant agnostic, ever doubtful of the God-factor in the affairs of men, grudgingly acknowledged the invisible forces at work in his favour. He missed the opportunity. Most, if not all, of the crises bedevilling the country today, are consequences of his political bad faith.

A former Presidential Aspirant and Convener, YesWeFit Revolutionary Movement, Dr. Thomas-Wilson Ikubese has written an open letter to the Director of Strategic Communication of the Muhammadu Buhari Campaign Organization in the last election, Mr. Festus Keyamo, SAN, over his recent call for the arrest of a senator of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Elisha Abbo who was caught on camera assaulting a lady in a sex toy’s shop.

Persons with Disabilities PWDs, in Lagos State, have joined their counterparts across the country, to preach against corruption regardless of whose ox is gorged.