VP Osinbajo visits Abia Monday
Nigeria's Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo will on Monday, January 27th, 2020 pay a one-day working visit to Abia, God's Own State. This is according to a release signed by the Chief Press Secretary to Governor Okezie Ikpeazu of Abia, Onyebuchi Ememanka and made available to ABN TV on Saturday. "The Governor of Abia State, Okezie Ikpeazu, Phd On behalf of the...
Osun Election: APC Using Amotekun To Kill Our Members – PDP Cries Out
Ahead of the July 16 governorship election in Osun State, Diran Oduyemi, a former deputy national secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has accused the All Progressives Congress (APC) of using the South Western security network, Amotekun, ...
Police Officers Who Should Be Fighting Bandits Carry Bags For Wives Of VIP, El-Rufai
Kaduna State Governor, Nasir El-Rufai, has lamented that a sizeable number of officers of the Nigeria Police Force who should be fighting criminal elements in the country are involved in non-police duties like carrying the bags of the wives of Very Important Personalities. El-Rufai said he is frustrated over the killings in his state, adding that the situation at hand...
Obaseki plunges Edo into foreign debt with no result to show, DMO reports says
A report from Nigeria’s Debt Management Office (DMO) has shown that Edo State sunk into scary levels of foreign debt under the administration of Governor Godwin Obaseki. According to the data, Edo State has a foreign debt profile of $276.25m representing 6.53 per cent of the sub-national foreign debt portfolio, a figure second only to Lagos State. In spite of this...
Abia Polytechnic Produces Semi Automated Hand-washing Machines, Others, Donates To State Govt
The Abia state Polytechnic Aba has fabricated 20 pieces of specialized semi automated hand washing machines, hundreds of bottles of hand sanitizers and 1000 face masks and donated same to the COVID-19 Inter-Ministerial Committee in the state. Receiving the items, the Chairman, Inter Ministerial Committee on COVID-19, Barrister Chris Ezem challenged the Management of the institution to take the lead...
Infectious Diseases Control Bill Is Illegal, Unconstitutional- Falana
A frontline human rights lawyer, Femi Falana, SAN, has described the proposed Infectious Diseases Control Bill as superfluous, illegal and unconstitutional. The Senior Advocate of Nigeria said that the efforts to replace the Quarantine Act was a waste of time, adding that the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, NCDC, and Prevention Act of 2018 has taken care of what the...
BREAKING: Popular Adamawa Monarch, Stephen Is Dead
Colonel Honest Irmiya Stephen (retd), the paramount ruler of the Bachama Kingdom in Adamawa State, is dead. The monarch was said to have died in the early hours of Sunday in his sleep. A spokesperson for the kingdom, Chief Timawus Mathias, said, "Homun Honest died in the late hours of the night June 28th 2020 at his palace in Numan, Adamawa...
IPOB Observes Biafra Day Without Sit-At-Home
INDIGENOUS People of Biafra (IPOB) has said the annual Biafra day celebration, to commemorate fallen heroes of Biafra after the civil war, will not be observed with a sit-at-home order as it was in the past. Media and Publicity Secretary of the group, Emma Powerful, in a statement in Owerri, said the celebration, which would hold between May 27 and...
Tambuwal Denies Resigning As Chairman PDP Governors’ Forum
The Sokoto State Governor, Waziri Tambuwal, has denied resigning from his position as Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party Governors Forum. Tambuwal was a PDP presidential aspirant before his withdrawal for the eventual winner of the party’s ticket, Atiku Abubakar, during the party’s primary. The denial is contained in a press statement signed by the Director General of the forum, CID...
Patience Jonathan’s Hotel To Become COVID-19 Isolation Centre
Former First Lady Patience Jonathan has struck a deal to release her 200-bed hotel as COVID-19 Isolation and treatment centre. The Abuja hotel, which is believed to be worth about N2 billion, is under interim forfeiture secured by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) at the court on April 30, 2018. The former First Lady, it was learnt, struck the...
