Gov Samuel Ortom ofBenue State has given directive for the Executive Chairman of Gboko LGC, Hon James Kachina to immediately construct a bridge at Adi, linking ricemill community Gboko using ecological funds.Chief Press Secretary to the Governor Nathaniel Ikyur in a statement quoted Governor Ortom to have also directed the State Universal Basic Education Board, ,(SUBEB), to construct a block of three classrooms at St Theresa’s Primary School Gboko and furnish same with plastic desks and chairs. The Governor gave the directives Sunday, February 27th, 2022 in Gboko during a thanksgiving service in honour of Commissioner for Health and Human…
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From Naseer Mijinyawa Minna The Chairman Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), In Niger State, Comrade Yakub Garba has dissociated himself from those calling on him to contest for Niger east senatorial seat in 2023.Some group of individuals in the last two weeks have bombarded the social media with calls on the state NLC chairman to contest for the Senate seat currently being occupied by senator Mohammed Sani Musa.Senator Musa is also aspiring for the position of the National Chairman of the All Progressive Congress (APC), in the forthcoming national Convention of the party.But in a swift reaction the state labour leader…
Apparently worried by the effect of the industrial action embarked upon by the Accademic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), Senator Representing Kogi West, Smart Adeyemi has appealed to Government and ASUU to come to a middle ground in the disagreement between them for the sake of the children of the less privileged. Speaking to newsmen recently in his office in Abuja, the senator asked the two parties to reconcile. The latest industrial action by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) is a one Month warning strike which many said is most unwarranted given that universities have been off and…
Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development to be unveiled soon unveil a roadmap for the National Action Plan on Human Trafficking in Nigeria 2022 – 2026.The special adviser to the minister on media Nneka Nkem Anibeze in a statement said, the National Action Plan which was approved at the last Federal Executive Council will coordinate stakeholders’ efforts for greater effectiveness and efficiency in the fight against human trafficking in Nigeria. The Minister, Sadiya Umar Farouq who made the presentation at FEC stated that implementing the NAP 2009-2012 Framework for a coordinated response to human trafficking in Nigeria…
A presidential aspirant for 2023, Dumebi Kachikwu, has called on the President Muhammadu Buhari to urgently evacuate Nigerians, including over 5,600 students, now trapped in Ukraine as a result of the invasion of the country by Russia. Kachikwu, in a statement by his Media Office in Abuja, ask the government to up the ante in it’s ongoing efforts and act fast to ensure that Nigerian citizens in Ukraine don’t suffer avoidable harm and casualties. He insisted that Nigeria cannot afford to allow its citizens, especially students, to be part of the collateral damage now engulfing Ukraine as the United Nations…
From Ahmed Rufa’i, Dutse A group under the aegis of Northern Youth In Progress (NYIP) has asked the serving central bank governor, Godwin Emefiele to throw his hat in the ring to contest to be President of Nigeria This was just as they expressed their complete support for power to shift to the southeast. This was contained in a statement issued by its National Coordinator, Adamu Isah Bello on Sunday which was made available to news men in Dutse. The National Coordinator said “Based on their analysis and criteria, the CBN Governor is the best choice for president come 2023.…
Following President Muhammadu Buhari’s assent to the amended electoral act, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has announced new dates for the 2023 elections. The National Chairman of the commission, Professor Mahmood Yakubu made this known at a news conference in Abuja. According to him, the Presidential and National Assembly elections will now hold on Saturday, February 25, 2023. Governorship and state houses of assembly elections will hold on March 11, 2023.Buhari signed the amended electoral act on Friday having rejected it earlier and the National Assembly reworked it and sent it back.
The Federal High Court, Abuja, last week granted an order against the EFCC for the “maintenance of status quo ante bellum as at 7th of February, 2022, in favour of the Applicant” (Prof Joseph Nwabueze Mbadugha, SAN), over matters “which he knows nothing about, or facts to the like effect, pending the hearing and determination of the substantive originating motion.” Prof Mbadugha, SAN, had approached the court presided over by Hon Justice Inyang Ekwo, through his Counsel, Chief Mike Ozekhome, SAN, to restrain the EFCC from inviting, arresting, or detaining and keeping in custody, the Applicant over some frivolous allegations…
By Suleiman Muhammed The alleged presidential ambition of Mr Godwin Emefiele as reported in some select online and mainstream newspapers penultimate week didn’t come as a surprise to any sane mind given that political era such as it were, are times, traducers’ are usually dusting up their machineries of mischief. Curiously, before the report of the Central Bank Nigeria (CBN) Governor could settle, there were reports that Mr Emefiele imported three private jets into the country for campaign without the report detailing those alleged jets’ serial numbers; manufacturing country; pictures and where there landed. It’s better imagined than said, the…
**”Gunmen kill renowned Professor of economics, Onyemelukwe A burial ceremony in Umuogbuefi village, Ebenebe, Awka North Local Government Area of Anambra State, has turned awry as armed men suspected to be members of a secret cult invaded the ceremony, kill 20 persons It was gathered that the burial ceremony was that of a suspected leader of a cult, Ozo who was killed by a rival cult last year. The suspected cult gang stormed the venue of the ceremony while the corpse of Ozo was lying in state in his compound and sent the mourners scampering for safety, while shooting at…