NCDC team. Photo; Twitter/Chikwei Rivers State took the lead in the country’s COVID-19 infections as the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) logged 828 new infections on Saturday. The Rivers state capital, Port Harcourt, a metropolis that is considered the commercial center of the Nigerian oil industry, registered 188 infections out of the 828 declared […]
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Photo: Lucy Ladidi Ateko The Biafra Nations League (BNL) has given the Federal Government up to January 23, 2022 to free all Biafra agitators detainees, especially the leader of the Indigenous people of Biafra (IPOB), Mazi Nnamdi Kanu and leader of Biafra Zionist Federation (BZF), Mr. Benjamin Onwuka. The group said many detained Biafra agitators […]
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President Muhammadu Buhari . Photo credit: Bloomberg By Martins Oloja ‘The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is the one that gets the people to do the greatest things.’ – Ronald Reagan It is in the light of the above powerful words of one of America’s greatest leaders, […]
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State governors’ angling for more airports is a misplaced priority that the National Assembly and Federal aviation authorities should discourage as it amounts to prodigal awards of state resources. Though bereft of how to run them efficiently, Nigeria already has an unwieldy list of airports that are enough to go round almost all the 36 […]
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The last is yet to be heard of controversy surrounding move to expend N42.4b on renovation of the National Assembly complex in Abuja, the Federal Capital Territory (FCT). Three leading pro-democracy groups: the Centre for Democracy and Development (CDD), the Civil Society Legislative Advocacy Centre (CISLAC) and Human Rights Writers’ Association (HURIWA) maintained the proposed […]
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A school in Riyom Local Council Over 10, 000 children used yearly as child labourers in farmhouses in remote forests of Oyo, Ogun, Lagos, Ekiti, Osun, Kwara, Ondo and Edo states Families in Benue and Plateau states are offering their children to be trafficked for cheap labour in Oyo, Ogun, Lagos, Ekiti, Osun, Kwara, Ondo […]
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Electoral officials collect results at the state headquarters of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, on March 10, 2019.(Photo by Pius Utomi Ekpei / AFP) • NASS May Override President • I Bet My Life, Buhari Will Not Sign Any Electoral Act — Galadima As the constitutional window closes today […]
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Senator Lawan’s explanation on National Assembly’s annual allocation not tenable After years of keeping secret the salaries and allowances drawn monthly by federal legislators, the Senate President, Dr. Ahmed Lawan, has disclosed their remunerations. At the first Distinguished Parliamentarians Lecture Series last week, Dr. Lawan told his audience that each Senator is paid a salary […]
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Chief Judge of Ondo State, Justice Williams Akintoroye, has granted pardon to 18 inmates serving jail terms for major and minor offences such as murder, rape, conspiracy at various Nigerian Correctional Service in the State. Justice Akintoroye granted the pardon when he made his first official visit to all Correctional Centres in the state. He […]
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The Coalition of Civil Society for Good Governance on Friday called on politicians to give consideration to the calls for the South to produce the next President. They said allowing the South to produce the President in 2023 would right many wrongs and end every anomaly in leadership. The CSOs, under the hashtag #TheNextPresident, also […]
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