by The City Reporters The City ReportersThe protesters were allowed into the state government house after hours of struggle Abia State University (ABSU) students have lashed out at Governor Theodore A. Orji for his inability to address the terrible state of education and dilapidated roads in the state. The students, who protested at the state…
by Kene Amazuoke Baring last minutes manoeuvres, the former governor of Abia State Dr. Orji Uzor-Kalu is set to bounce back to political reckoning through the forthcoming elections of the Apex Igbo socio-cultural group Ohanaeze Ndigbo Youth and Women wings which is coming up on Saturday 5th and Sunday 6th April 2014 in the Ohanaeze…
By Emma Ogoigbe Gunmen yesterday struck at Kiagbodo in Burutu Local Government Area of Delta State, seizing and taking away Ebikeme Clark, son of elder statesman and Ijaw national leader, Chief Edwin Clark. A top police source in Delta, who confirmed the kidnap, said Ebikeme’s abductors emerged from the water in the evening and whisked…
A Federal High Court in Lagos has restrained the Nigeria Police and the Department of State Services from arresting or harrassing the suspended Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Sanusi Lamido. The court also ordered the DSS to release Mr. Sanusi’s passport to him immediately while also awarding the embattled CBN boss N50 million…
Some delegate at the on-going National Conference taking place in Abuja has made a strong case for the issue of indigene and settlers that has impacted negatively to be brought to an end after the conference. Speaking during plenary on Wednesday, a delegate from North East and representative of minority nationalities, Dr Dauda Sale said…
Victor AHIUMA-YOUNG PETROLEUM and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria, PENGASSAN, has advised the Federal Government against any attempt to secretly sell the four public refineries without following due process and addressing all labour concerns. The umbrella body for senior employees in Nigeria’s petroleum industry, threatened that any attempt to discreetly privatize the refineries,…
The military claimed on Tuesday to have seized 288 rifles and 35 rockets from terrorists in Cameroon at the weekend. A statement signed by the Director of Defence Information at Defence Headquarters, Major General Chris Olukolade, attributed the seizure to the collaboration in fighting terrorism in the sub-region, as Cameroon security forces made the huge…
A former Vice President, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, has said the restructuring of the current federal arrangement in the country should be a major focus of delegates at the on-going national conference. Atiku said the Federal Government in the current arrangement was too powerful.In a speech delivered at the Nasarawa State University, Keffi, on Tuesday, the…
Barely five months after joining Imo State Governor, Owelle Rochas Anayo Okorocha, to the All Progressives Congress, APC, a frontline senatorial aspirant for Orlu Zone and renowned philanthropist, Chief Chidi Felix Idiga, popularly known as Jafac has jettisoned his political romance with the governor and his party only to join the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP.…
by: foluso Governor of Lagos state, Babatunde Fashola has shared his opinion on the way President Jonathan is leading the country.Fashola while speaking in Lagos at the sixth Bola Tinubu Colloquium in Lagos, tagged ‘The Summit of the Common man’ made his opinion known, thereby urging Nigerians to choose wisely those who will rule saying:“You…