By Egufe Yafugborhi Rivers State government has resolved to access a N15 billion Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, infrastructure fund to accelerate completion of three major roads projects in the state. The resolution by the State Executive Council, also backed by the state House of Assembly would see the CBN facility committed to the Oyigbo-Okoloma […]

BUT for January 24 announcement by the Federal Government that it was shelving the planned subsidy removal on petrol and its attendant petrol pump price increase, Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, and its affiliates would have held last week’s suspended nationwide protest alongside their Civil Society Organisations, CSOs, allies without the second Labour Centre in the country, the Trade Union Congress of Nigeria, TUC, and its affiliates.

By Emma Amaize – Agbor Traditional rulers in Delta North senatorial district, Delta State, rose from a meeting, Tuesday, providing backing for the establishment of a new Pan-Anioma group, Anioma Union, AU, to fast-track development of Delta North (Anioma). Anioma Union is an umbrella body of the socio-cultural assemblages of Aniocha, Oshimili, Ika and Ndokwa […]

By Harris Emanuel – Uyo The Akwa Ibom State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has thrown its weight behind Governor Udom Emmanuel’s succession plan. The state party Chairman, Aniekan Akpan, who stated this when the governor visited the party secretariat, pledged unalloyed support and loyalty of the party structures across the state to enable […]

WITH Nigeria’s sudden,  unexpected exit from the ongoing African Cup of Nation, AFCON 2021, in Cameroun, the near-unanimous clamour for Austin Eguavoen to be appointed the full-time Super Eagles’ Head Coach has dissipated into uncertainty.

No political venture is worth compromising the safety of any person or their families, Akwa Ibom State Governor, Mr Udom Emmanuel has declared.

A Deputy Commander of Civilian Joint Task Force, CJTF, Mallam Ibrahim Maliya Saidu who have been very supportive in the fight against Boko Haram/ISWAP died after his patrol vehicle rammed onto a planted Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) while on duty along Biu -Mandaragirau- Damboa -Maiduguri road axis of Borno State.

The Allied People’s Movement ( APM) has carpeted the ruling All Progressives Congress( APC) for the crisis bedeviling the country. APM in a statement personally signed by the chairman, Mr. Wale Adebayo in Osogbo on Thursday, said Nigerians are finding it extremely difficult to survive under the draconian policies of the Federal government. READ ALSO:Plateau […]

Kebbi state chairman of the Social Democratic Party, SDP Alhaji Sani Aliyu Gwadangaji on Wednesday said that his party in Kebbi state is set to wrestle power from ruling All Progressives Congress, APC.

The Federal Neuro-Psychiatric Hospital, Calabar Cross River state has kick-started a 30-bed space facility that comprises an intensive Care Unit, Community clinic, Isolation centre amongst others.