The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and the Labour Party (LP), today locked horns over the forthcoming national convention of the party being planned by the Julius Abure-led National Working Committee and scheduled to hold by or before end of March. While the NLC said it was not informed about the plan to hold the national […]
•House of Reps The House of Representatives has passed for second reading, a bill to include Anambra State in the newly constituted Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) Board. The bill titled “A Bill for an Act to Amend the Niger Delta Development Commission Act, Cap N86, Laws of the Federation of Nigeria, 2004 to Provide […]
•Soludo In what looked like declaration of war against the media by the Anambra State Government, officials of the state government have destroyed newspapers and beat up vendors in Awka. The attackers who were officials of the Awka Capital Territory Development Authority (ACTDA) disclosed that the state government does not want any Newspaper t...
•Tinubu Prominent groups in the Northern states are currently at loggerheads over certain policies of the Bola Tinubu administration seen by some as anti-North. The latest of such policies is the recent move by President Bola Tinubu to relocate some departments of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to Lagos from Abuja, the Federal Capital. [&he...
•Abass, Agbese and Ochefu For Vice Chancellors of public universities in Nigeria, one of the major hurdles they grapple with is having to shuttle between their institutions and the nation’s capital on a weekly or biweekly basis to answer questions from politicians in the National Assembly. This is even as the National Assembly has halted [&hel...
•Uwazurike The leader of the Movement for Actualisation of Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB), Chief Ralph Uwazuruike, has accused the Archbishop of Owerri Archdiocese, Archbishop Lucious Iwejuru Ugorji, of using the instrument of state to forcibly take over his property at No 26, Housing Area G, New Owerri. He said the landed property on whic...
Thousands of babies have been born into conditions “beyond belief” in Gaza since the war there erupted more than three months ago. UNICEF spokeswoman, Tess Ingram, back from a recent visit to the Gaza Strip, described mothers bleeding to death. Also, one nurse had performed emergency caesarians on six dead women. Nearly 20,000 babies have [&he...
•Senegal defeated Egypt to win the AFCON title in Cameroun Sports, especially football, has a way of turning ordinary enthusiasts into experts, who believe they can predict what would happen even before the first ball is kicked. As it has always been at such major championships such as the FIFA World Cup and the European […]
•Ex- warriors Nigerian civil war veterans and the next of kin of the fallen heroes embarked on a peaceful protest with a threat to shut down federal government facilities nationwide over unpaid 45-year pension arrears. •The protesters The protesters, as reliably gathered, have records of service of 10 years and above, which entitled them to [&...
Following the increasing number of youths involved in use of hard drugs, the Lagos State Government in collaboration with some agencies, today took to the streets of Lagos to campaign against the dangerous vice. Moving in convoys, singing, drumming and wearing customized T-shirts and faze caps, the campaigners particularly addressed the youths...