Sunday, 21 April, 2024

Month: August 2021


Embattled national chairman of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), Prince Uche Secondus, on Saturday, asked the deputy national chairman (South), Elder Yemi Akinwomi, to preside over the National Executive Committee (NEC) meeting of the party in his stead. In a Read more…


Khadijat was kidnapped at Okoru village, near Malete at about 9pm while on a walk out with her colleague. The suspected kidnappers on Monday contacted some people in Malete, demanding a N50m ransom before they could release the victim. Six Read more…


The Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, has denied any plans to carry out attacks on journalists in Nigeria, saying Journalists are their dependable allies, and will never attack them. IPOB in a statement by its Media and Publicity Secretary, Emma Read more…


Itsekiri Interest Group, IIG, has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to appoint an Itsekiri person as the next substantive chairman of the Board of the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC. The group in a letter to the President signed by Read more…


Legendary highlife musician, Sir Victor Uwaifo died on Saturday at the age of 80 in Benin. The music icon whose tracks “Joromi” and “Mammy Water” were hits till his demise, was a multi instrumentalist and a renowned virtual artist. One Read more…


The close military cooperation between Russia and China is cause for great concern, and the authorities in Washington must seriously reconsider its current strategy of “containment” towards the two large Eurasian superpowers. That’s according to Admiral Charles Richard, the commander Read more…


President Joe Biden warned those behind a deadly terrorist attack that killed and wounded American service members and Afghan civilians in Kabul on Thursday that the U.S. would “hunt you down and make you pay.” A day later, he followed through Read more…


The 26th day of August 2021 was a great day to behold as lovers of sports throng out to Nnewi high School to witness the Otolo football ⚽ tournament finals. You could recall that the Otolo youth football tournament started Read more…


By Ifeoma Ejiofor The Anambra State Chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has felicitated with Ndi-Anambra on the occasion of the thirtieth anniversary of the creation of the state. The PDP’s felicitation was contained in a press release signed Read more…


Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has approved the devolution of the Continuous Voters Registration (CVR) to the 326 wards in Anambra State ahead of the November 6 governorship election. INEC said the move is to ensure that fresh voters who Read more…


Ebonyi State government yesterday debunked the statement credited to the special assistant to the president on media and publicity, Mr Shehu Garba, that the state was among the states in the federation that received the sum of N6billion each from Read more…


A tax expert, Dr Kennedy Iwundu has said that the Nigerian constitution never stipulated who to collect VAT, adding that transaction taxes such as VAT and WHT were never mentioned in the exclusive and concurrent lists. Iwundu stated this yesterday Read more…