When Governor Willie Obiano instituted the Chinua Achebe Prize for Literature in 2021, his government was showered with encomiums. If anybody’s name deserved a literary prize, it had to be that of the Father of African Literature. However, the people Read more…
Justice Inyang Ekwo of the Federal High Court, Abuja, on Friday, ordered the Vice Chancellor of the University of Abuja, Prof. Rasheed Na’Allah, to appear before it on June 13 to show cause why the planned inauguration of the newly Read more…
Abia State Governor, Alex Otti, has increased the N25m bounty placed on the killers of five soldiers at Obikabia junction in Aba to N30m. Otti announced this on Friday when the Chief of Air Staff, Air Marshall Hasan Abubakar, paid Read more…
Aare Onakakanfo of Yorubaland, Iba Gani Adams has asked the Yoruba nation activist, Sunday Adeyemo popularly known as Igboho, to either Apologise or face legal action for allegedly invading his privacy. Adams made this demand in a pre-litigation letter written Read more…
The People’s Democratic Party (PDP) Kaduna State chapter said the reports of the Kaduna State House of Assembly investigations on financial expenditure of the immediate past administration of Malam Nasir Elrufai has vindicated their position. A statement issued by PDP Read more…
The Federal Government has increased its offer of a new national minimum wage from ₦60,000 to N62,000. The organised labour, on the other hand, has also reduced its demand from ₦494,000 to ₦250,000. Already the Tripartite Committee on New National Read more…
POLICE SERVICE COMMISSION PRESS AND PUBLIC RELATIONS UNIT PRESS RELEASE The Police Service Commission has approved the appointment of AIG Yahaya Sahabo ABUBAKAR as Deputy Inspector General of Police. He was until his appointment the AIG in charge of Zone Read more…
*IDEATO, IHIALA,ORLU TO EMERGE SENATORIAL ZONES ** FEDERAL CONSTITUENCIES, LGAs TO EMERGE ..NEW STATE TO EMERGE FROM IMO ABIA AND ANAMBRA The House of Representatives at the plenary on May 22nd introduced and passed through first reading a Bill which Read more…
The anniversary of D-Day is celebrated annually with solemn ceremonies and grand re-enactments. But this year — the hugely symbolic 80th anniversary since that day of days — it may be the last major milestone for many veterans to recount in their own words the Read more…
Concerned about the escalating insecurity in the country’s North West and North Central zones, the Senate has called on President Bola Tinubu to set up a task force to evaluate the effectiveness and implications of negotiating with bandits. This task force Read more…
Governor Alex Otti of Abia State has disclosed that credible information about the killers of five soldiers in Aba on May 30, has started trickling in. The Governor who made the revelation when he visited the 144 Battalion Osisioma, Abayi, Read more…
The Presidency has debunked the report making the rounds that the Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister of the Economy, Wale Edun, has proposed N105,000 as the new minimum wage. Special Adviser to the President on Media and Strategy, Bayo Read more…