Friday, 17 January, 2025

Month: January 2022


By Ifeoma EjioforThe lawmaker representing Idemili North and Idemili South Local Government Areas in the lower chamber of the National Assembly, Hon Obinna Chidoka, on Friday flagged off road projects in his constituency. The legislator per excellence also distributed over Read more…


The All Progressives Congress (APC) Imo State chapter has called on Senator Rochas Okorocha, a former governor of Imo State, to consider the option of resigning  as the senator representing Imo West having shown what it termed;  “unpardonable incompetence”. The Read more…


Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, has declared 19 persons wanted for operating illegal crude oil refining sites responsible for the soot pandemic in the State. The governor has also directed the Rivers State Head of Service to query one Mr. Read more…


Aguobu Iwollo Community in Ezeagu Local Government Area of Enugu has called on the state Governor, Chief Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi to intervene in the leadership crisis rocking the community. This call was made during a massive protest organized by members of Read more…


Barely two weeks after the Senate Minority leader Ennyinnaya Abaribe declared interest in the governorship seat of Abia State, one of his allies, Chief Ncheta Omerekpe, has equally thrown his towel into the governorship ring of the state come 2023. Read more…


The Indigenous People of Biafra has said that saboteurs and traitors within its ranks were the ones forcing the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), not to release its leader, Nnamdi Kanu. In a statement on Sunday, the group’s Media Read more…


The All Progressives Congress and Peoples Democratic Party have the key to the preservation of unity of Nigeria by observing the zoning convention, which midwifed the fourth Republic in 1999, a founding member of APC, Osita Okechukwu, has said. He Read more…


•Says Organised Labour ready to protest against obnoxious policies Mr Ayo Olorunfemi is the General Secretary, Senior Staff Association of Statutory Corporation and Government Owned Companies (SASGOC). He speaks with CHRISTIAN APPOLOS about plans of labour unions in 2022 concerning Read more…


SUSPECTED Fulani kidnappers resumed criminal activities in Oyo State early on Saturday, as they struck at Onigaari axis of the Lagos-Ibadan highway, killing a commercial driver, identified as Oluwatosin Aruwajoye, and abducting five of his passengers, while another one, Ibrahim Read more…


Moscow “disappointed” with lack of understanding from West ahead of upcoming security talks Russia harbors no illusions and does not expect “swift progress” from this week’s security talks with the US and NATO, Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov has said, Read more…


2021 ended with a report that Nigeria experienced a deficit of almost 200 million barrels of crude in the first 11 months of the year, mainly due to oil theft. But these experiences are all too common, and not limited Read more…


It was learnt that the herder, suspected to be of Fulani tribe, reportedly led his cattle to graze on farmers’ cassava farm, resulting in argument and eventual violent clash. It was also gathered that dangerous weapons such as cutlasses and Read more…