The face-mending gestures of Imo state government towards youths in the state however turned sour at the weekend as a handsome largesse made available to them after an interactive session with the State Deputy Governor, Prince Eze Madumeer has erupted confusion and disagreement. Following complaints from youth groups in the state that they were not…
A former Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, Prince Chibudom Nwuche, in this interview with journalists bares his mind on the Nigeria Governors’ Forum chairmanship election and other issues. Rivers State Governor Rotimi Amaechi has said he was suspended because of the dissolution of a local government by the state House of Assembly. How…
The south south region which has enjoyed relative calm in recent times may have begun to exhibit traits of unease within the region. Information available to 247ureports.com indicates a riot has broken out that the University of Uyo [UNIUYO] in Akwa Ibom State – where the students have set a riot over the shooting of…
As Aregbesola, Sagay, others proffer solution on how to make LGs functional LAGOS—ONE thought dominated the comments of discussants on how to make local councils in Nigeria effective at a forum in Lagos Tuesday: There is so much rot in the councils and decisive actions are needed to make them deliver democracy dividends. However, the…
Imo State governor, Chief Rochas Okorocha, has warned the ruling Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, to start preparing its handover notes now as the newly formed All Progressives Congress, APC, would wrestle power from it in 2015.
Months of relentless campaign by Radio Biafra on the issue surrounding the dumping of over 100 bodies in Ezu River near Amansea has finally paid off as Nigerian government bow to pressure and orders release of the report many months after it was written. In a report that possed more questions than it provided answers…
The Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra MASSOB, said yesterday that it has sacrificed itself to liberate Igbo from marginalisation. MASSOB leader Chief Ralph Uwazuruike, said MASSOB is suffering for Ndigbo but rather than they being appreciated, their people have kept castigating them. The group insisted that hoodlums and other groups…
The Federal Road Safety Commission, FRSC, yesterday said at least 1, 600 auto crashes occur monthly on Nigerian roads, just as over 200 motorists are arrested weekly throughout the country for various traffic offences. Also, the commission revealed that no fewer than 200, 000 new number plates have been issued so far to motorists nationwide…
No fewer than 6,000 people ,mostly women, children and elderly, displaced following the military onslaught against members of Islamist militant sects, Boko Haram and the al Qaeda-linked Ansaru, have fled to neighbouring Niger Republic. United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, also known as the UN Refugee Agency, made this known in a report it presented…
ELDER statesman and Southsouth leader Chief Edwin Clark has identified unity that is devoid of segregation and sentiments among all the tribes as what Nigeria needs to develop. The Ijaw leader spoke yesterday when he received members of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) women from the Southwest under the aegis of Dynamic Women International who…