Thursday, 21 November, 2024

Month: March 2023


From Ifeoma Ejiofor The Young Progressives Party (YPP) candidate for the Ihiala federal constituency in the last House of Representatives election, Barr Johnmary Akachukwu Maduakolam, has faulted the February 25th polls. The Anambra-based legal practitioner made his position known in Read more…


By Ezeakukwu Emmanuel Nsoedo Ahead of the planned commissioning of the permanent site of Nnamdi Azikiwe University Teaching Hospital Nnewi, the Crown Prince of Nnewi, Obianefo Orizu, took a tour of the facility to ascertain the extent of development and Read more…


Ukrainian positions in the strategic Donbass city of Artyomovsk, also known as Bakhmut, which is reportedly almost fully encircled by Russian forces, will be reinforced, President Vladimir Zelensky has promised. The fight for Artyomovsk – a major foothold and logistics Read more…


Crisis is gradually brewing in the governing All Progressives Congress (APC) over alleged mismanagement of campaign funds meant to prosecute last year’s governorship election in Osun State. In the Osun governorship poll held on July 16, 2022, the Peoples Democratic Read more…


The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has barred agents from using Point of Sale (PoS) terminals meant for merchants to carry out cash-in and cash-out transactions. The apex bank disclosed this in a circular announcing the Exposure Draft of the Read more…


Five opposition political parties in Rivers State have vowed to resist any attempt to rig the March 18 governorship and State House of Assembly elections in the state. The parties at a joint press briefing in Port Harcourt on Wednesday Read more…


Barely three days after the Central Bank of Nigeria declared old N1,000, N500 and N200 notes as legal tender, Deposit Money Banks say they are beginning to run out of the old currencies. The development led to severe hardship and Read more…


Chairman, Elders Council of the Ohanaeze Ndigbo worldwide, Emmanuel Iwuanyanwu, has assured the presidential candidate of Labour Party (LP), Peter Obi, of their support as he takes his battle to the court. Iwuanyanwu, in a statement, yesterday, also thanked Nigerians Read more…


The Nsukka Professional Association (NPA),  Enugu State, has called on the Inspector -General of Police, Mr. Usman Alkali Baba, and other heads of security agencies to fish out the killers of the Labour Party’s (LP) Senatorial candidate, Mr. Oyibo Chukwu, Read more…


Lagos State government has commenced investigation into the incident of a school principal who reportedly sent a student away because she used a poster of Labour Party, LP’s Peter Obi to wrap her book. In a statement by the Assistant Read more…


Two days before the governorship and state assembly elections, candidates and political parties, yesterday, traded accusations over plots to unleash violence and rig the exercise. The accusations and counter-accusations were made as the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, commenced the Read more…


Atedo Peterside, the founder of Stanbic IBTC Bank Plc and Anap Business Jet Limited, said that the results uploaded by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) during the presidential election are an insult to anyone’s intelligence. In an interview on Read more…