•Late Prof Stella Effah-Attoe The National Women Leader of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Prof Stella Effah-Attoe, is dead. Effah-Attoe, a member of the PDP National Working Committee (NWC), died yesterday after a brief illness. PDP spokesman, Debo Ologunagba, in a statement today, said the party lost one of its “best and brightest”. “Pro...
There were gunshots and firing of teargas within the Rivers State House of Assembly Complex today as some lawmakers sat to begin an impeachment process on Governor Siminalayi Fubara. About 23 lawmakers, including the Speaker, Martin Amaewhule, who presided over the sitting, resolved to begin the process. The lawmakers also suspended the leader...
Residents of Ekondo street in Calabar agitated and are asking questions how a fourteen year-old could commit suicide with a shoelace as string. The boy whose name was given as Donald resides with his grandmother at 49, Ekondo Street in Calabar South and on Saturday afternoon, he was alleged to have committed suicide by tying […]
Nigeria’s debt to China increased from $3.93bn as of June 30, 2022, to $4.73bn as of June 30, 2023, showing an increase of $800m in one year. It is an increase of 20.36 per cent from the second quarter of 2022 to Q2 2023, according to an analysis of the external debt stock data from […]
•Photo for illustration purposes only The chamber of Rivers State House of Assembly has been set ablaze. The development comes amid the rumour of plan to impeach Governor Similanayi Fubara, reports Daily Trust. Sources said the arsonist gained entry into the chamber last night and set it ablaze. Our reporter further learnt that the quick [&hel...
The federal government and the organised labour will meet today Monday, October 30, to discuss the progress made so far in the 15 point Memorandum of Understanding signed which led to the suspension of the indefinite strike planned for October 3 by organised labour, NLC President said. The meeting was at the behest of the […]
One person identified as Ulim Amos Udo, suspected to be a cable thief, has been killed as vandalized power infrastructure including electric pole crashed to the ground at Udianga Enem, in Etim Ekpo Local Government Area of Akwa Ibom State. Sources in the community told this reporter that the deceased was a notorious cultist who […]
Tagging their move as another avenue to cash out from the nation’s resources after possibly wasting time on the exercise, civil society organisations, oil and gas experts as well as legal practitioners yesterday, said the move by the Senate to recover the alleged over N11.3 trillion spent on the nation’s moribund refineries as Turn Around [&he...
That the Nigerian economy is still in dire straits is no longer news, but the real worry for stakeholders appears to be the helplessness of both the fiscal and monetary authorities to stem the tide of naira’s free fall that has sent prices of basic items like food, energy and transportation skyrocketing to unprecedented heights […]
•Scholz (left) German Chancellor Olaf Scholz is lamenting the incessant coups in Africa but hopes it does not become a trend. He made the comment yesterday after a closed session with the President of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Omar Touray at the bloc’s headquarters in Abuja, reports Channels TV. In recent […...

