Governor Hope Uzodimma of Imo State has announced the dissolution of the State Executive Council (SEC). He, however, retained the Commissioners for Information, Hon Declan Emelumba; that of Works, Chief Ralph Nwosu; Women Affairs, Chief Nkechi Ugwu; Sports, Chief Dan Read more…
The Christian Association of Nigeria has declared a three-day national mourning and prayers over continuous killings and other challenges facing the country. During the period, May 28 to May 30, all local churches are expected to gather in the evening Read more…
Human rights lawyer, Femi Falana (SAN), has urged southern governors in the country to back their ban on open grazing with a legal instrument to enable the prosecution of offenders. Falana spoke on Wednesday evening while featuring on Channels Television’s Read more…
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has registered 49 new cases of COVID-19, bringing the total number of infections in the country to 165,468. The NCDC disclosed this on its official Twitter handle on Monday. The News Agency of Read more…
Frontline aspirant of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for Anambra governorship race, Dr. Obiora Okonkwo, will on June 3, mount the podium to deliver the keynote lecture at the maiden Dr. Michael Okpara Leadership Prize at an event to mark the Read more…
As Anambra State goes to the poll to elect Governor Willie Obiano’s successor on November 6, the President of Association of Anambra State Development Unions (AASDU), Lagos, Sir Amechi Ebeledike, has called on political parties, political actors and followers to play by Read more…
About a year ago, the director general of the World Health Organization asked a group of experts to assess an urgent question: How did we get into this pandemic mess? On Wednesday, the 13-member group, known as the Independent Panel Read more…
One of the two chief rabbis in Israel has called for restraint as local media report horrific scenes of vandalism and street attacks, including an Arab man who was pulled from his car and beaten by a mob. “We must Read more…
A lecturer and consultant pathologist at the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital (LASUTH), Dr Sunday Shoyemi, has presented to the Lagos Judicial Panel probing police brutality the bullet extracted from the head of a victim of police extrajudicial killing. Shoyemi Read more…
On Friday, November 8, 2002, the Supreme Court in a unanimous judgment in the celebrated case of late Chief Gani Fawehinmi, SAN in INEC & Anor V. Balarabe Musa & Ors (2003) 3 NWLR (Pt 806) 72, held that the Independent Read more…
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has tasked the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on electronic transmission of results from polling units in the 2023 general elections. In a statement on Tuesday by spokesman for the PDP, Kola Ologbondiyan, the party Read more…
There was palpable fear on Tuesday morning in Ikot Offiong Mbai community of Akpabuyo local government area in Cross River State when irate youths destroyed an Islamic worship centre in the area. Muslim faithful in the area, who spoke with The Read more…