By Obasi Igwe Peace happily returned to Rivers, Ijaw nationalists having precipitately weighed in for Fubara, turning party affairs ethnic, and leaving Wike with barely feeble support. Rivers State is a contrivance emphasising power over harmonious development, another expression of a flawed Nigerian structure awaiting statesmanly healing, hopefully under a modern democratic secular state of equal […]
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Photo: INEC News Reported incidents of electoral malpractices during the recent off-season governorship polls in Bayelsa, Imo, and Kogi states further attested to the pervasive nature of orchestrated infractions which regrettably has become an undesirable feature of elections in Nigeria. More disturbing however is that electoral offenders are getting more emboldened; owing to impunity exhibited […]
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Benjamin Kalu is the lead sponsor of the South East Development Commission bill. Fifty-three years after the conclusion of the Nigerian civil war, the House of Representatives has passed through the third reading of a bill seeking the establishment of the South East Development Commission. The House unanimously took the decision at the Committee of […]
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The Obi of Onitsha, Nnaemeka Alfred Achebe (right), and the Deputy Speaker of Nigeria’s House of Representatives, Benjamin Kalu The Obi of Onitsha, Nnaemeka Alfred Achebe, has endorsed the non-kinetic approach to resolving the violence in the southeast region of the country. It will be recalled that the approach is being canvassed by the Peace […]
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Catholic Church The Catholic Bishops Conference of Nigeria (CBCN) has said that the recent pronouncement of the Pope on same-sex marriage does not in any way change the Catholic Church’s teaching on marriage. According to the bishops, the declaration by the Pope seeks to clarify the different forms of blessing that can be given to […]
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The Minister of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Alleviation, Betta Edu, has said that the Federal Government has resumed the payment of arrears to beneficiaries of the N-Power programme. N-Power is a scheme set up in 2016 by the former President of Nigeria, Muhammadu Buhari, to address the issues of youth unemployment and help increase social […]
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No fewer than 250 police, military retirees, and other senior citizens across the country will be supported with N950m by the wife of the President, Mrs Remi Tinubu. According to her, each of the beneficiaries will receive N100,000. Tinubu disclosed this at the maiden edition of the Renewed Hope Initiative Elderly Support Scheme on Thursday […]
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The House of Representatives, on Thursday, passed a bill for the extension of the capital component of the 2023 Appropriation Act to 31st March, 2024. In the same vein, the House also amended the Supplementary Appropriation Act by extending its implementation to 31st March, 2024. The bill seeks to amend the Supplementary Appropriation Act, 2022 […]
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The National Economic Council, chaired by Vice President Kashim Shettima, on Thursday, set up committees on Economic Affairs and Crude Oil Theft and management. Both committees will be headed by Kwara State Governor, AbdulRahman AbdulRazak and his Imo State counterpart, Hope Uzodimma, respectively. This followed “deliberations on critical economic matters and assessments of potential short-term, […]
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Members of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) Ekiti State Council have elected a new set of executives that will pilot the affairs of the union for the next three years. At the election conducted on Wednesday at the union’s press centre in Ado Ekiti, Kayode Babatuyi of the Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria emerged […]
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