Former governor of Anambra State, Mr. Peter Obi, has described security votes as the biggest source of waste in the country and asked that governors be made to account for them. Obi, who also described security votes as unconstitutional, spoke at The Platform, a programme organised by Covenant Christian Centre, Lagos. The former governor said: […]
Three suicide bombings rocked the northeast Nigerian city of Maiduguri on Wednesday, killing one civilian militia member and injuring several others, security personnel told AFP. The bombings came two days after multiple suicide attacks near the strategic city that killed four members of the civilian joint taskforce (JTF) and injured two others. “There have been […]
Olalekan Adetayo, Abuja Niger State Governor, Abubakar Bello, on Friday claimed that the N6bn that the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission traced to a former commissioner in the state was stolen from Niger State Government account. Bello made the claim in an interview with journalists shortly after joining President Muhammadu Buhari for the two-raka’at Juma’at […]
Olalekan Adetayo, Abuja & Mudiaga Affe, Calabar President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday expressed shock over the event that took the lives of several Nigerians at a football viewing centre in Calabar, Cross River State, Thursday night. In a statement by his Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Mallam Garba Shehu, the President commiserated with […]
n a developing story, over 30 people are feared dead at a football viewing centre in Calabar, the Cross River State capital after being electrocuted by a high tension cable that reportedly fell on them. Channels TV reported that the football fans were at the centre to watch a UEFA Europa League quarter-final match between […]
Ade Adesomoju, Abuja Human rights lawyer, Mr. Femi Falana (SAN), has asked Governor Akinwunmi Ambode of Lagos State to commute the death penalty passed on death row inmates in the state to life imprisonment instead of executing them. Those on death row upon the judgment of the court of Lagos State included the General-Overseer […]
The decline in Nigerian public school education was once again brought to the fore after a headteacher wrote ‘she is too playerful’ on a pupil’s report card. The headteacher apparently wanted to write ‘playful’. A viral photo of the report card, issued by the Universal Basic Education Board in Rivers State, showed that the pupil […]
From Juliana Taiwo-Obalonye, Abuja President Muhammadu Buhari has attributed the successful reopening of the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja, 24 hours ahead of schedule to inter-agency cooperation and efficiency. He said he wants to see such dislay of cooperation and efficiency in the operation of the entire federal government activities. The Special Adviser on Media […]
Lagos govt. to execute Rev King, others — 18th April 2017 Some inmates on death row in Lagos State prisons face imminent execution, among whom is the General-Overseer of the Christian Praying Assembly, Chukwuemeka Ezeugo, a.k.a Rev. King The State Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice, Adeniji Kazeem, who made this known at a news […]
BY ANAYO OKOLI. UMUAHIA – IN an effort to improve the quality of shoes produced in Aba, Abia State to international standard, Governor Okezie Ikpeazu has secured the interest of a Chinese company which has agreed to set up $1.5 billion shoe industry in Aba. The company, Huajian Shoe Industry based in Dongguan, Guangzhou, China […]
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