Kidnappers of IPMAN Chairman in Edo, ‘Baba Petrol’, demands N80m

Kidnappers of IPMAN Chairman in Edo, ‘Baba Petrol’, demands N80m

By Ozioruva Aliu – Benin City Five days after he was kidnapped in front of his house in Jattu, Etsako West local government area of Edo State, abductors of popular member and factional chairman of the Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria (IPMAN), Benin Depot, Alhaji Abdul-Hamid Egele popularly called ‘Baba Petrol’ have demanded N80 million […]
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Kanu’s change of clothes: DSS violating court order – IPOB Legal team

Kanu’s change of clothes: DSS violating court order – IPOB Legal team

The legal team of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, on Friday raised an alarm that the operatives of the Department of State Service, DSS, has allegedly refused the IPOB leader in the DSS detention facility to change his clothes despite subsisting court order mandating that Kanu should be allowed to change his cloths.

JUST IN: Gunmen assassinate Kaduna govt official

JUST IN: Gunmen assassinate Kaduna govt official

By Ibrahim Hassan-Wuyo  The Director of Operations of the Kaduna Geographic Information Service (KADGIS), Malam Dauda has been assassinated. The senior Kaduna government official was killed on Friday morning. The Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO) in the state, ASP Mohammed Jalige is yet to respond to inquiry on the development.  Muhammad Abdullahi who is the […]

N2trn debt: Contractors give NDDC 5-day ultimatum

N2trn debt: Contractors give NDDC 5-day ultimatum

By Henry Umoru – Abuja A group of indigenous contractors have given the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, five days ultimatum to pay the N2 trillion debt owed them. The contractors also vowed to organise protest simultaneously across the nine states of the Niger Delta and the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, if their demands are […]

Diri vows to link more communities in Bayelsa

Diri vows to link more communities in Bayelsa

By Samuel Oyadongha & Emem Idio – Yenogoa Governor Douye Diri of Bayelsa State has promised that his administration will construct more roads to link communities in the state. The governor spoke as his Oyo State counterpart, Seyi Makinde, inaugurated the 4.5km Igbedi community road in Kolokuma-Opokuma Local Government Area, yesterday, as part of activities […]

NMRDS threatens to sue NIPOST over N200m debt

NMRDS threatens to sue NIPOST over N200m debt

By Emmanuel Elebeke The National Mail Route Delivery Service (NMRDS) has threatened to drag the Nigerian Postal Service (NIPOST) to court over an alleged N200 million debt it owed its members in the last eight months. In a petition to the Minister of Communication and Digital Economy, Prof Isa Pantami, signed by counsel to the […]

DELTA 2023:Don’t give PDP guber ticket to thieves – Gbagi

DELTA 2023:Don’t give PDP guber ticket to thieves – Gbagi

By Emma Amaize EFFURUN- PEOPLES Democratic Party, PDP, governorship aspirant in Delta State, and industrialist, Olorogun Kenneth Gbagi, has said the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, should not give its 2023 gubernatorial ticket to aspirants, who stole resources of the state and undergoing interrogation by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC.  Gbagi, who stated this during […]

2023: Group backs call for Udom presidency

2023: Group backs call for Udom presidency

A group, the Southern Youths For Sustainable Development, has thrown its weight behind the Arewa Movement For Actionable Change (AMFAC) which called on Governor Udom Emmanuel to run for Nigeria’s president next year.

APC to ratify amended constitution at National Convention

APC to ratify amended constitution at National Convention

By Omeiza Ajayi, Abuja T he Governor Mai Mala Buni-led Caretaker/Extraordinary Convention Planning Committee CECPC of the All Progressives Congress APC has served a notice of proposed amendments to the Party’s Constitution on delegates to the February 26 National Convention. The CECPC had last year established a Constitution Review Committee under the chairmanship of a […]

Igbophobia (2)

Igbophobia (2)

By Donu Kogbara ON this page last week, I contradicted people who have a low opinion of Igbos and feel that they do not deserve presidential power. The response to my article surprised me. It went viral and was shared on several online platforms in Nigeria and internationally. It was as if I had accidentally […]

We’ll down tools if… —ASUU- AAUA

We’ll down tools if… —ASUU- AAUA

The Adekunle Ajasin University, Akungba Akoko (AAUA), Ondo State, branch of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has said that the Union has started mobilization of its members to down tools if the Federal Government fails to sign and implement the renegotiated 2009 ASUU-FGN Agreement.

Mountain facing Yahaya Bello

Mountain facing Yahaya Bello

By Azu Ishiekwene EVEN though the All Progressives Congress, APC, has repeatedly denied zoning the position of chairman to the North Central, there’s hardly any credible analysis which does not feature candidates from the zone in the first three spots. Days to the party’s first national convention in four years, there is growing public interest […]