Buhari Holds Closed-Door Meeting With Ghanaian President In Abuja
President Muhammadu Buhari on Sunday night met behind closed doors with President Nana Akufo-Addo of Ghana at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. Bashir Ahmad, the President’s Personal Assistant on New Media, confirmed this on his Twitter handle. The presidential aide, who did not elaborate on the agenda of the meeting between the two leaders, however, posted pictures in which the Nigerian leader...
Biafra Doesn’t Need Your Investment – IPOB Replies Miyetti Allah
The Indigenous People of Biafra IPOB, Thursday, replied Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria, MACBAN’s claim that they were in the South-East just for business interest. IPOB said Miyetti Allah’s kind of business lead to loss of lives and the sacking of indigenes. In a statement by its Media and Publicity Secretary, Emma Powerful, the pro-Biafra group said it...
Sen. Kalu Mourns Victims Of Ebonyi Accident
Former Governor of Abia State and Chief Whip of the Senate, Senator Orji Kalu has commiserated with families of victims of the road accident along Akaeze-Ishiagu axis of Afikpo-Okigwe highway in Ivo Local Government Area of Ebonyi state. While wishing the victims hospitalized quick recovery, Kalu described the incident as devastating. Kalu in a condolence message said, "the ghastly motor accident...
Your Mother Was A Great Advocate Of Peace, Abia Speaker Consoles Hon. Apugo (Photos)
The Speaker of Abia State House of Assembly, Rt. Hon. Chinedum Enyinnaya Orji has condoled with Hon. Prince Martins Ikechukwu Apugo over his mother's death, Late Mrs. Dorathy Apugo. Hon. Apugo was a former General Manager of the Abia State Environmental Protection Agency (ASEPA). Speaking at his hometown on Saturday during the condolence visit, the Speaker described the Late Mrs Dorathy...
BREAKING: Lagos Government Okays Full Reopening Of Churches, Mosques
After months of being shut down, the Lagos State Government has approved the full reopening of worship centres in the state. Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu, announced this during a briefing in the state on Saturday. According to him, churches are now allowed to observe their mid-week services, while the mosques are also allowed to carry out their five times a day prayer...
Judge Rules That A Landlord’s Outstanding Electricity Bill Or That Of Previous Tenant Can’t Be Enforced On A New Tenant
Nigeria Electricity Regulatory Commission has announced that a landlord’s outstanding electricity bill or that of the previous tenant can’t be enforced on a new tenant, according to a judge ruling. NERC wrote on Twitter: “A Landlord’s outstanding electricity bills cannot be enforced on a tenant. “A judge recently ruled that the bills of a previous tenant cannot be enforced on a new...
Abia Govt Vows To Prosecute Those Responsible For Collapsed Building In Aba
Abia State Governor, Dr Okezie Ikpeazu, has directed Abia State Environmental Protection Agency (ASEPA) and the Aba South LGA Town Planning Authority to immediately ensure full and safe demolition of the partially collapsed 3-storey building along Azikiwe Road in Aba. This was disclosed by the state Commissioner for Information, Chief John Okiyi Kalu, during a radio program monitored by ABN...
We’re In Igbo Land For Business Interest – Herdsmen
THE Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders’ Association of Nigeria, MACBAN, South-East zone, has explained that its interest in the zone is purely economic not domination. MACBAN in the zone, Alhaji Gidado Siddiki, who gave the explanation Monday after a meeting of the joint executive council of the group in Enugu, said that the explanation became necessary following growing suspicion and...
Fuel hike: Buhari Not A Man Of His Words, COSEYL, Carpets FG
The coalition of South East Youth Leaders, COSEYL, the apex socio-political youth group in the South East has expressed dissatisfaction over the recent increase in petroleum price and electricity tariff. ABN TV reports that the Coalition says President Muhammadu Buhari has demonstrated that he is not a man of his words, wondering why the federal government should take such a...
Why We Stopped Importation Of Food Into Nigeria – Buhari
President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday said the Federal Government stopped food importation to boost agriculture and save Nigerians from joblessness. He stressed that practicing agriculture locally is vital in boosting productivity, reducing joblessness, and poverty in the country. “For us to bounce back to productivity, especially in agriculture, the unemployed with many of them uneducated had to be persuaded to go...
