Senator Abdullahi Adamu (APC-Nasarawa), says zoning political offices between North and South is not a Constitutional issue, but an arrangement by political parties. Adamu said this when he spoke with newsmen in Abuja, while reacting to rising clamour for power shift from North to South in 2023. “On the issue of zoning, people are misreading […]

By Chinonso Alozie – Owerri  Two suspected armed robbers were, Monday, paraded for allegedly robbing a football betting shop and stole the sum of N70,000 at Chukwuma Nwaoha in Owerri Municipal council, Imo state.  The suspects who were paraded at the Imo state Police headquarters, were all males, Stanley Anozie, 27-year-old man, from Ugiri Obollo […]

…Decries abductions, extra-judicial killings of Igbo youths by security agents …Says Nig needs brand new constitution to curb excess power of executive By Steve Oko A priest of the Catholic Diocese of Umuahia and Provost, Madonna College of Health Technology Olokoro, Rev. Father Dr. Christian Anokwuru, has said that members of the National Assembly are […]

By Joseph Erunke, Abuja The United Nations Educational,Scientific and Cultural Organisation, UNESCO, has asked Nigeria to support institutionalization and domestication of Gender Based Violence Protocol in higher institutions. The Director,UNESCO Regional Office, Abuja,Mr Dimitri Sanga, said this in Abuja,Monday, at the launch of Gender Mainstreaming Training Manual for Higher Institutions in Nigeria,organized by the International […]

By Omeiza Ajayi, Abuja A governorship aspirant of the All Progressives Congress APC in Anambra state, Dr Chidozie Nwankwo has described the ruling party in the state, the All Progressives Grand Alliance APGA as no match for the APC ahead of the forthcoming Governorship Election slated for November 6. This was as he weighed in […]

The Federal Government says it may consider capital punishment for railway track vandals in the country. The Minister of Transportation, Mr Rotimi Amaechi, said this during a Town Hall Meeting on ”Protecting Public Infrastructure ” on Monday in Abuja. According to Amaechi, rail track vandalism is a capital offense and its consequences should be treated […]

By Steve Oko, Aba A new state has been proposed from Abia, Rivers and Imo State. Proponents of the new state called ENOA say its creation will fast-track development in Abia /Rivers corridor considering the rich oil deposit in the region. Coordinator of ENOA State Movement Associate Professor Onwubiko Dike, told newsmen in Aba that […]

An election observer and Civil Society Organisation, Yiaga Africa, yesterday, expressed dismay and condemned Federal Government’s ban on Twitter Nigeria

By Vincent Ujumadu -Awka REACTIONS have trailed the circulation of posters of the former vice president, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar and the former governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, Professor Chukwuma Soludo  as joint candidates for the 2023 presidential election, with Soludo’s media aides describing it as the handiwork of desperate politicians who are afraid […]

The people of Ewu-Urhobo Kingdom, on Monday, gathered at the historic town of Ewu to crown their new monarch in the person of HRM Gabriel Owhodje Macaulay, Aroh I of Ewu Kingdom amidst pomp and pageantry.