Some 147 Ex-Militants have filed contempt process against Coordinator of the Presidential Amnesty Programme Col. Miland Dikio (Rtd) at Federal High Court Yenagoa for allegedly disobeying a judgment of the court. The ex-agitators are seeking the enforcement of the court judgement to compel Dikio to pay the judgement... Read more
For his sterling display coupled with his exceptional leadership style, the Executive Committee of the International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF) has reappointed Nigeria’s Wahid Enitan Oshodi as the Chairman of its Nomination Committee for another term of office. In a statement signed by the ITTF Secretary General, Raul Calin,... Read more
The Government of Akwa Ibom State on Saturday declared seven-day mourning period beginning from December 26 for Otuekong Idongesit Nkanga, who died on December 24 from complications arising from COVID-19. This is contained in a statement signed by the Secretary to the State Government, Dr Emmanuel Ekuwem, and made... Read more
SECRETARY of Maris Trust Council (MTC), Mr Fidelis Egugbo, has said that personalities billed to participate in the March 31, 2021 edition of Maris annual public service lecture were the same persons scheduled to participate in the 2020 edition which was truncated by COVID-19 pandemic. Egugbo, who is also... Read more
*Says National Assembly panels sound like broken record Bemoaning what it called “the unprecedented grand scale of corruption, pervasive unethical procurement practices in most federal ministries and agencies of government”, the nation’s prominent Civil Rights Advocacy group-: Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA) has wondered why the country’s... Read more
The Bayelsa government says it is pursuing the revalidation of the licence for the Atala marginal oilfields on Oil Mining Lease (OML) 46 earlier revoked by the Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR). Mr Ayiba Duba, Bayelsa Commisioner for Information and Orientation said on Monday that the state government... Read more
The President of the Nigeria Football Federation, Mr Amaju Melvin Pinnick has approved the recommendation of the League Management Company (LMC) for the appointment of Mr Davidson Owumi as the new Chief Executive Officer of the organizing body for the Nigeria Professional Football League. Owumi, who has... Read more
Nigeria’s premier and leading financial inclusion services provider, First Bank of Nigeria Limited has announced that the 59th edition of its annually sponsored Lagos Amateur Golf Championship Teed-Off at the golf section of Ikoyi Club 1938 on Monday, 28 December 2020. The competition, which is one of the longest... Read more
The Civil Rights Advocacy group-: Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA) has condemned in the strongest possible terms, the violent kidnap by armed kidnappers, of the newly installed Catholic Auxiliary Bishop of Owerri Roman Catholic Archdiocese, His Eminence, Rt. Reverend Dr. Moses Chikwe in Owerri just as the... Read more
Rivers State governor, Nyesom Ezenwo Wike, says the essence of joining a political party should be to improve the well-being of the people and not for pecuniary benefits. The governor has maintained that there is still no alternative to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) which has been working conscientiously to... Read more
