Edo LG preaches unity cooperation, wants more constituency for better representation

Edo LG preaches unity cooperation, wants more constituency for better representation

By Ozioruva Aliu BENIN CITY – IT was a gathering of political heavyweights from across the ten wards of Akoko-Edo local government area in Ososo for the first Akoko-Edo summit where participants called for cooperation among the people irrespective of political and ethnic differences for the development of the area. The participants made up of […]
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Insecurity: Dialogue with ESN, Imeobi Igbo Forum, Cleric tell S’East govs

Insecurity: Dialogue with ESN, Imeobi Igbo Forum, Cleric tell S’East govs

By Nwabueze Okonkwo The growing insecurity in the country  especially in the South East geo-political zone  has become a source  of worry to many . The Imeobi Igbo Forum, a grassroot pan Igbo socio-cultural organization has advised South East Governors to avoid fatal confrontations with Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, and its Eastern Security Network, […]

Nigerian Guild of Editors commends Ikpeazu over number of quality roads executed

Nigerian Guild of Editors commends Ikpeazu over number of quality roads executed

The Nigerian Guild of Editors has commended the Governor of Abia State, Dr Okezie Ikpeazu over the number of quality roads executed by the governor in the state. The editors stated this after being conducted round some of the governor’s projects completed and those still ongoing, by the Commissioner for Works, Dr Bob Ogu in […]

Alleged FG contract: No amount of oil blocks worth my anointing — Mbaka

Alleged FG contract: No amount of oil blocks worth my anointing — Mbaka

By Chinedu Adonu The Director of Adoration Ministry, Enugu Nigeria, AMEN, Rev. Fr. Ejike Mbaka yesterday,  reacted to the allegation by the Presidency that he attacked President Muhammadu Buhari because he was refused a contract, saying that no amount of even oil block would make him trade with his prophetic anointing. Mbaka said he was […]

2023: Polls to hold in 176,996 polling units as INEC creates additional 57,023

2023: Polls to hold in 176,996 polling units as INEC creates additional 57,023

…Saves Lagos, Delta, Oyo, Ekiti from losing units By Charles Kumolu Twenty five years after the Independent Electoral Commission of Nigeria, INEC, created Polling Units, PUs, the Commission is poised to create additional 57,023 across the country. The move would increase the number of voting units from 119,973 to 176,996. This is barring any further […]

WORLD PRESS FREEDOM DAY: Atiku, Obaseki, Sanwo-Olu, NUJ, ActionAid seek press freedom in Nigeria

WORLD PRESS FREEDOM DAY: Atiku, Obaseki, Sanwo-Olu, NUJ, ActionAid seek press freedom in Nigeria

…Atiku accuses Buhari regime of stifling press freedom …Obaseki tasks journalists on developmental journalism …Sanwo-Olu promises to uphold press freedom …NUJ seeks better enabling environment for journalists By Innocent Anaba, Olasunkanmi Akoni, Gabriel Enogholase, Gabriel Ewepu Former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar, governors of Edo and Lagos states, Godwin Obaseki, and Babajide Sanwo-Olu, as well as Lagos […]

Pay N100m, give us 10 bikes or we’ll kill 17 students — ABDUCTORS

Pay N100m, give us 10 bikes or we’ll kill 17 students — ABDUCTORS

…Families of students already paid N55 million — Bandit leader, Jalingo …Demands 10 motorbikes …Suspected herdsmen attack Benue communities, kill 19, burn several houses …Kogi council chairman abductors demand N100m ransom By Peter Duru, Boluwaji Obahopo  & Ibrahim Hassan Leader of the bandits who abducted students of Greenfield University, Kaduna, Sani Jalingo, yesterday threatened to […]

A country that is bleeding

A country that is bleeding

By Eric Eniola ON April 22 this year, the Minister of  Defence, Major General Bashir Salihi Magashi(retd) was on the spot. He told State House correspondents that “Nigeria is bleeding”. During the media chat, he informed us that he has been a lawyer for the past 34 years. I guess the country knows him more as […]

Ending suicide through storytelling

Ending suicide through storytelling

 In recent times, a suicide which used to be anathema due to our cultural and religious belief as Africans has surprisingly constituted most of the violent news that confronts Nigerians almost on daily basis. Individuals who have taken their lives either left notes explaining why they transited through the most tragic means known to man, or, left their loved ones, wobbling through a difficult narrative

Why NLNG vessels are not flagged in Nigeria – Shipping firm

Why NLNG vessels are not flagged in Nigeria – Shipping firm

By Godwin Oritse The management of the NLNG Ship Management Limited, NSML, the shipping arm of the Nigerian Liquefied Natural Gas, NLNG, has given reason for putting its vessels in the Bermudian Ship Registry instead of the Nigerian Ship Registry. Ahmed said that none of the NLNG-NSML vessels is Nigerian flagged as the acquisition of […]