The Edo State Government has assured that the Benin City River Port Project is on course, as the screening of the project’s transaction advisor, to coordinate the various stakeholders to deliver the project, intensifies. This is amid work on the dualisation of the Ekehuan link-road to the port, which connects the port city to the […]

By Henry Umoru, Abuja President Muhammadu Buhari has written the Senate, seeking for the screening and subsequent confirmation of 11 nominees as Judges of the Federal High Court of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT). The letter from President Buhari was read yesterday on the floor of the President of the Senate, Senator Ahmad Lawan. The […]

Task FG to set up more orthopaedic hospitals By Tordue Salem – Abuja The House of Representatives Tuesday passed two bills, calling for the establishment of a Federal Government, to establish a Federal Medical Centre in Wase and an orthopaedic hospital Jos, in Plateau State. The Bills, are entitled: A Bill for An Act To […]

The Ondo State House of Assembly has served a notice of impeachment to the Deputy Governor, Agboola Ajayi.

By Davies Iheamnachor, Port-Harcourt A Magistrate Court sitting in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, has remanded in the Correctional Center, four police officers who allegedly tortured Late Chima Ikwunado to death and inflicted various degrees of injuries on three others while being detained in a police cell. It would be recalled that operatives of the Eagle-Crack, […]

By Chukwunonso Ekesiobi A Luta Continua! Anywhere this is proclaimed serves as a rallying cry to galvanise support and solidarity against oppression, injustice and other social ills. The Portuguese phrase (meaning – the struggle continues) was popularised by Samora Machel, the late Mozambique and African leader, radical philosopher and liberation advocate, who alongside fellow freedom […]

…say Buhari should investigate APC members’ likely ally with Hushpuppi …say Buhari should focus on economy to save Nigeria A group of protesters numbering over a hundred, under the aegis, Anti-Corruption Network, today, converged in front of the Unity Fountain, Abuja to protest what it described as the social media trial and attempt by the […]

Major headlines for today: APC faces hard task over 2023 zoning and other interesting stories   Also read: Court remands suspected cultist over allege murder, theft of two bottles of Hennessy   Vanguard News

On Thursday, June 25, 2020, the National Executive Council (NEC) of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) held in the bowel of Aso Rock Villa in Abuja. At the meeting, President Muhammadu Buhari, among other issues, recommended that the National Working Committee (NWC) be dissolved in the light of the many centrifugal forces pushing the party to several dangerous directions and precipices. That advice was carried and a caretaker committee was emplaced in its stead.

The former Editor of the Nigerian Tribune and a practising lawyer, Mr Albert Ogunwusi has berated the ruling party and the former chairman of the party, Mr Adams Oshiomhole, saying his take over of the party’s chairmanship when he became a chairman can be likened to NURTW men taking over the motor garage.