By Chinonso Alozie, Owerri The National President of the National Union of Pensioners, NUP, Abel Afolayan, yesterday begged the Imo state governor, Hope Uzodimma, to pay the state pensioners their arrears owed them by the former governor, Rochas Okorocha, running into N56.4 billion. Afolayan made this request in Owerri when himself alongside his national executives and Southeast presidents of …
The Federal Republic of Nigeria (FRN) Thursday appeared in the English High Court for a scheduled hearing. The hearing followed the major victory secured by FRN last Friday, allowing it to bring a fraud challenge against a $10 billion arbitration award obtained by vulture-fund-backed P&ID well outside the normal time limits. In a statement on Thursday, a spokesperson …
By Rotimi Ojomoyela The leadership crisis rocking the Southwest caucus of the People’s Democratic Party(PDP), assumed a dramatic dimension on Thursday, as the faction loyal to the Senator representing Ekiti South Senatorial District in Ekiti State, Mrs Biodun Olujimi, has adopted Oyo State Governor, Engr Seyi Makinde, as the party’s zonal leader. This is also as Ekiti PDP …
The Federal Republic of Nigeria (FRN) Thursday appeared in the English High Court for a scheduled hearing. The hearing followed the major victory secured by FRN last Friday, allowing it to bring a fraud challenge against a $10 billion arbitration award obtained by vulture-fund-backed P&ID well outside the normal time limits. In a statement on Thursday from the …
The Federal Republic of Nigeria (FRN) Thursday appeared in the English High Court for a scheduled hearing. The hearing followed the major victory secured by FRN last Friday, allowing it to bring a fraud challenge against a $10 billion arbitration award obtained by vulture-fund-backed P&ID well outside the normal time limits. In a statement on Thursday from the …
The police on Wednesday arraigned 24-year-old Bola Aseyan before a Yaba Magistrate Court on a five-count charge bordering on a false accusation, criminal defamation of character and offensive publication likely to cause a \breach of the peace. The arraignment followed a running battle of a series of accusations and counter-allegations made by the said Bola Aseyan, against the …
By Michael Eboh Special Adviser to the President on Niger Delta, Senator Ita Enang, accused the governors of the Niger Delta states of been unkind to the region and to oil-producing states. Speaking at a webinar on ‘Resolving the Host Communities Question’, organised by Orderpaper in partnership with the House of Representatives’ Committee on Niger Delta and the Nigeria …
By Wole Mosadomi Niger state government has dismissed a Messanger collecting the salaries equivalent to that of a High Court Judge in Niger State along with 79 others involved in other related salary scams in the State. The involved Civil Servants cut across various Ministries and Parastatals in the state with Millions of Naira involved and were found culpable …
Executive Governor of Ebonyi state, Dr Dave Umahi By Peter Okutu – Abakaliki The former Commissioner for Information and State Orientation, Chief Abia Onyike, Thursday raised alarm over what he described as the ongoing act of selling off or taking over of Ebonyi’s landed properties and buildings, located in Lagos, Abuja, Enugu, Abia and other places by Agents of …
By Festus Ahon, Asaba Chevron Nigeria Limited, CNL, operator of the joint venture between the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, NNPC/CNL JV, has donated a Polymerase Chain Reaction, PCR, laboratory to Warri Central Hospital to support the Delta State government in the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic. It also donated test kits, medical consumables, four air conditioners, refrigerators, …
By Ike Uchechukwu – Calabar The Executive Chairman of Bakassi Local Government Area, Hon Iyadim Amboni Iyadim has called on the Federal government to either return the 76 oil well ceded to Akwa Ibom state or settle his people properly. Iyadim also asserted that he doesn’t understand why Bakassi was ceded so fast adding that what happened in …
The Minister of State for Power, Mr Goddy Agba says the Federal Government plans to spend 2.3 billion dollars on the first phase of the Presidential Power Initiative (PPI) projects aimed at increasing the nation’s power transmission capacity to 7,000MW. The Minister disclosed this during the Nigerian Energy Forum (NEF 2020) Webinar in Lagos, tagged “Energy Solution for …
By Egufe Yafugborhi Worried Mrs. Christaina has urged the Police in Rivers state to prosecute her husband, Uchenna Tobias, for allegedly defiling three of their daughters. The mother of four alleged that the husband, currently detained at Elekahia Police Station, Port Harcourt, had been estranged for years and only joined her in Port Harcourt this year after pleading her …
President Muhammadu Buhari President Muhammadu Buhari Thursday in Abuja said the COVID-19 pandemic exposed the level of preparedness of nations to shocks of food security, explaining that the Federal Government’s wisdom in promoting self-sufficiency over the years helped significantly in averting a food crisis. Speaking at the National Food Security Council meeting held at the State House, President Buhari …
By Kingsley Omonobi – Abuja The Nigerian Military on Thursday disclosed that it would not join issues with the Benue State governor, Mr Samuel Ortom, and a former governor of the state, Senator Gabriel Suswan, over the killing of the most wanted criminal and militia gang leader in Benue state, Terwase Agwaza aka Gana, by Special Forces of the …
NYSC members officiating elections By Ozioruva Aliu THE Oba of Benin, Omo N’Oba N’Edo Uku Akpolokpolo, Oba Ewuare II has called for the protection of members of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) that would be deployed as Adhoc staff for the September 19 governorship election in Edo State. Oba Ewuare II made this call when the Director-General of …
By Emem Idio – Yenogoa The National Directorate of Employment, NDE, has commenced the training of 100 youths in Bayelsa State in agriculture under the Sustainable Agriculture Development Training Scheme, SADTS. Flagging off the training in Yenagoa, the State capital yesterday, the Director General of NDE, Dr Nasiru Argungu, said the NDE was using the SADTS initiative to …
Sen. Bala Mohammed, Executive Governor of Bauchi state By Charly Agwam – Bauchi A fraud of over N700 million in the Bauchi State Pension Fund has been discovered by a financial consulting firm, DYNATECH Solutions Limited, contracted by the State government to rid its payroll and nominal roll of ghost workers. The firm revealed this on Thursday in Bauchi …
Gana By Peter Duru – Makurdi Humanitarian worker and social activist, Mr. Ukan Kurugh has disclosed that he had for some weeks discussed with the late militia leader, Terwase Agwaza also known as ‘Gana’ before his eventual surrender and death during which he stated clearly that he did not want the police and the military to play a part …
A trader, Mr Hakeem Ganiu, on Thursday told a Mapo Customary Court in Ibadan to dissolve his six-year-old marriage to estranged wife, Adeola. In his testimony, Ganiu accused his wife of calling him a ‘ritualist”. ”She has caused me nothing but pain and nightmares. Also read: Deregulation: ‘PPPRA, PEF no longer relevant in downstream oil sector’ “Adeola told …
