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Only Igbo Presidency Will Save You From Boko Haram Punishment, Ohanaeze Youths Tell North
Ohanaeze Ndigbo Youth Council (OYC) has commended the Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Sa'ad Abubakar 111 over a recent comment on the consequences of bad leadership especially in the North where rate of poverty is high and out of school children on the increase. OYC also added that insurgency in the North is a direct consequence of sins committed against the...
Italy suspends Serie A football games over coronavirus fears
Italy's top football league has postponed three matches scheduled for Sunday in the northern regions of Lombardy and Veneto after the deaths of two people infected with the coronavirus. On orders from the Italian government, the Serie A games between Inter Milan and Sampdoria, Atalanta and Sassuolo as well as Hellas Verona and Cagliari were called off. Three other matches in...
BREAKING: Abia Hits 1bn Naira In Monthly IGR As Ikpeazu Says Payment Of Workers Not A Problem
Abia State has met her target of hitting the N1bn mark in her internally generated revenue drive for the month of January 2020 thereby significantly raising her revenue profile while also paying the new minimum wage agreed by the Federal Government and Labour to its civil servants without any rancour or hesitation. This much was stated by the State’s Commissioner...
Abia Assembly Mourns Late Solomon Ogunji
......Says he served the State Meritoriously Members of the 7th Abia State House of Assembly during plenary on Wednesday, 27th May 2020, commiserated with Governor Okezie Victor Ikpeazu, the Ogunji family and the people of Abia State over the unfortunate demise of the Commissioner for Environment, Dr. Solomon Ogunji. The House described the late Commissioner as a man known for standing...
4 In 10 Nigerians Lost Their Jobs In April – NBS
Not less than four in every ten Nigerians (42 per cent) who were working before the outbreak of coronavirus in the country lost their jobs due to the impact of COVID-19, in April, an NBS survey found. This estimate includes respondents in the poorest households, where about 5 in 10 (45 per cent) stopped working due to COVID-19, and the...
Boko Haram Kill 42 Civilians In Fresh Borno Attack
At least 42 persons were killed when Boko Haram attacked Goni Usmanti village in Gubio local government area of Borno state on Saturday. Ahmadu Modu, a witness, said the insurgents stormed the village in four gun trucks and motorcycles around 1 am. He said some members of the civilian joint task force in the village engaged the Boko Haram fighters in...
Mascot Uzor Kalu Commiserates With Nnamdi Nwachukwu Over Father’s Death
A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Abia State chapter Hon. Mascot Uzor Kalu has commiserated with the member representing Osisioma Ngwa South State Constituency at the Abia State House of Assembly Hon. Nnamdi Allen over the death of his father Chief Allen Nwachukwu. Speaking to newsmen over the phone, Hon. Mascot disclosed that the news of the death...
Youths Snatch Riffle From Policeman For Collecting Bribe In Cross River
The police have received an AK-47 service riffle snatched from one of its operatives at Itu-Odukpani bridge, the boundary between Cross River State and Akwa Ibom State. Grassroot Reporters gathered that the riffle was snatched from one of the police officers attached to the Cross River State Covid-19 Interstate Movement Enforcement Team stationed at the bridgehead. The unknown youths who were...
Abia APC’s Strength Surges As Former LP Chieftain, Nzechi Joins Party
Candidate of the Labour Party, LP for Ikwuano/Umuahia federal constituency seat in the 2019 election, Chief Charles Nzechi has joined the All Progressives Congress. This comes few months after leaving his former party the Labour Party, LP, without disclosing his next political move. He documented his membership at his Isingwu ward in Umuahia North local government area of Abia state. It is...
Magu Reacts To Malami’s Accusations, Says “No Blackmail Can Stop Me”
Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Ibrahim Magu, has stated that no amount of blackmail can deter him from fighting corruption in Nigeria. Magu, an award-winning anti-corruption Czar, on Thursday, disclosed that those stealing Nigeria’s money must be stopped. Addressing a delegation of the Nigerian Union of Journalists in Abuja, He said; “Those stealing, embezzling, hiding and carrying...
