Umahi Flags Off N1.2BN Water Project, Rural Electrification
  The Ebonyi State Governor, Engr. David Nweze Umahi, has flagged off the construction of the Ivo Water Project estimated to cost over N1.2bn. Speaking at the ceremony in Amagu Ishiagu, Ivo Local Government Area, Umahi disclosed that the project which was conceived when he was a deputy governor... Read more
From Buhari, Chains To Nigerians As Budget
By Onwuasoanya FCC Jones I will be surprised if the National Assembly go ahead to pass this sabotage called; 2016 Appropriation Bill, authored by a most thoughtless economic team assembled by President Muhammadu Buhari. Passing this budget is tantamount to putting Nigeria in chains for the next 200 years, and... Read more
Judge withdraws from pro-Biafra leader’s trial
Justice Ahmed Ramat Mohammed of the Federal High Court in Abuja has withdrawn from presiding over the suit instituted by Nigeria’s Federal Government against the prisoner of conscience and leader of the pro-Biafra movement, Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu over alleged treason and felony. The judge withdrew... Read more
Osun, US firm sign MOU on Agriculture, as Aregbesola, Oluwo renew calls for tax payment
  The Governor of Osun, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola  has described the notion that Osun is a civil servants state as a misnomer that must be resisted by all well-meaning Osun indigenes. The Governor while signing a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) on behalf of the state government and an American... Read more
Blatter and Platini Banned For Eight Years
FIFA President Sepp Blatter and UEFA boss Michel Platini, the two most powerful men in world soccer, were banned for eight years on Monday for ethics violations, leaving the world’s most popular sport rudderless in a sea of corruption cases. The pair, who were also fined, had been suspended... Read more
NACA, SURE-P target 5,000 in free HIV screening, medical outreach in Bayelsa
  The National Agency for Control of Aids (NACA) on Sunday commenced a free HIV counseling, testing and medical outreach targeted at covering 5,000 beneficiaries in Bayelsa.   Addressing the combined medical team at BGGS, Ovom community in Yenagoa, Dr Rosemary Adu, Head of SURE-P unit of NACA said... Read more
Ebri, Former Cross River Governor Joins APC As Niger Delta Affairs Minister, Ndoma-Egba, Others Applaud Move
  . Claims being on a salvage mission….Says “I Looked Before Taking This Giant Leap”    From: Diana Okon-Effiong, Mkpani, Cross River State.   A former governor of Cross River State, Chief Clement Ebri, has  formally joined the All Progressives Congress (APC) with his supporters.    Ebri was governor of... Read more
Gunmen abduct Bayelsa Commissioner, Gov Dickson’s sister in separate incidents
Gunmen suspected to be kidnappers on Sunday abducted Bayelsa Commissioner for Local Government Madam Serefina Otazi , family sources say.   Mr Patrick Oba nephew to the Commissioner said that she was kidnapped in Otuoke on her way to Ewoi Community in Ogbia L0cal Government Area (LGA) for funeral... Read more
Activists raise alarm after soldiers cart away dead, wounded shooting victims at Onitsha hospital
Human rights’ activists in Nigeria have cried out after soldiers of the Onitsha military Cantonment stormed a hospital and took away dead and surviving victims shot by operatives drawn from the cantonment and forcibly took them to an unknown destination. The outcry was contained in a release signed by the Board Chairman... Read more
We have it on good authority that four to eight dead victims and 13 critically injured members of the public who were shot dead and critically injured by the soldiers of the Onitsha Military Cantonment in the evening of yesterday, 17th December 2015 at the Ojukwu Gateway, Onitsha Niger... Read more