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Deputy Speaker, Kalu Inaugurates Committee To Manage Peace Fund For Victims Of Insecurity In South East (Photos)
The Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, Rt. Hon. Benjamin Okezie Kalu inaugurated a committee on Sunday, June 02, 2024, to oversee the operations of the Peace Fund for Victims of Insecurity in the South East. The inauguration of the Committee follows on the heels of his visit to the widows of the soldiers who were slain in the...
One Year Anniversary: I Didn’t Believe I’ll Last One Month In Office — Fubara
Rivers State Governor, Siminalayi Fubara, has said that he never believed he could stay in office up to one year, following the political crisis that rocked the state shortly after he took office. Fubara was sworn into office on May 29, 2023 and by October 30 of the same year, a political crisis brewed in the state, beginning with a...
Deputy Speaker, Kalu Launches Peace Fund To Support Victims Of Insecurity In South East
The Deputy Speaker visited the 144 Battalion Headquarters in Asa to condole with widows of soldiers killed in the Obikabia incident on May 30th, 2024. He pledged to establish a Peace Fund to support victims of insecurity in the South East region, launching it with a personal donation of 10 million naira. The Peace Fund, under the Peace In South East...
NASS Leadership Holds Emergency Meeting With Labour To Prevent Nationwide Strike
In a last-ditch effort to avert a nationwide strike, the leadership of the National Assembly is currently meeting with organised labour in a closed-door session. The meeting, presided over by Senate President Godswill Akpabio, aims to find a compromise and prevent the strike scheduled to begin soon. Akpabio urged labour leaders to show understanding, assuring that the National Assembly is committed...
Deputy Speaker, Kalu Commiserates With Ex-Minister, Ogah, Rep. Member Amobi Over Mother’s Death
Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, Rt. Hon. Benjamin Okezie Kalu has paid a condolence visit to the former minister of state for mines and steel development, Chief Uchechukwu Ogah and his brother, Hon. Amobi Ogah who is currently representing Isikwuato/Umunneochi Federal Constituency of Abia State in the parliament over their mother's demise. Commiserating with the bereaved family...
Deputy Speaker, Kalu Meets Military High Command In Abia, Backs Tinubu On Fishing Out Killers Of Soldiers (Photos)
Miffed by the brutal murder of 5 soldiers in Aba, Abia State recently, the Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, Rt. Hon. Benjamin Okezie Kalu on Sunday paid a condolence visit to the 144 Infantry Battalion Headquarters in Asa, Ukwa West Local Government Area of the State where he declared that there was no justification for the mindless...
Hardship In Nigeria Consequency Of Voting APC, Says Sokoto Governor
Former Governor of Sokoto State and Senator representing Sokoto-South, Aminu Waziri Tambuwal, has described the current hardship in the country as a repercussion of re-electing the All Progressives Congress (APC) government in 2023. Speaking during a stakeholders meeting of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in Sokoto on Sunday, Tambuwal said, “during our campaigns in 2023, we warned Nigerians not to...
Niger Delta Ex-agitators Hail Asari Dokubo At 60, Describe Him As True Freedom Fighter
Ex-agitators, leaders and stakeholders from the Six States of the Niger Delta region under the auspices of Niger Delta Advocate for Peace And Good Governance Group, NDAPGGG have showered encomiums Leader of the defunct Niger Delta People's Volunteer Force, Alhaji Mujahid Asari Dokubo on his 60th Birthday anniversary, describing him as one of Niger Delta region's freedom fighter that...
Abba Kyari Released From Kuje Prison
The Suspended Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP), Abba Kyari, has perfected his bail conditions from the two cases he is facing – alleged asset declaration and illicit drugs – at the Federal High Court in Abuja and has been released from the Kuje Correctional Centre, after spending twenty-seven months. Justice James Omotosho of the Federal High Court in Abuja had...
Nigeria Needs Good Governance Not Change In System – Shettima
Vice-President Kashim Shettima has said what the country needs is good governance, not a change in the system of governance as being clamoured in some quarters. The Vice President spoke at the 30th anniversary of Yusuf Ali & Co (Ghalib chambers) in Ilọrin, Kwara State capital, on Saturday. According to him, “Democracy can only survive by adherence to rule of law...
