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Abia Online Media Practitioners Pledges Objective Reporting, Accountability
The Abia State Chairman of the Online Media Practitioners Association of Nigeria (OMPAN), Chief Promise Uzoma Okoro, has assured that the union will continue to report the activities of the state government objectively and hold the government accountable for its decisions and policies. Okoro made this statement during the union's interactive session at the Umuahia North local government area Multi-Purpose...
Flood Destroys INEC’s Voter Enrolment Machines In Edo
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has said that massive flood occasioned by heavy rain has destroyed part of its state headquarters building in Benin City, the Edo State capital. National Commissioner and Chairman, Information and Voter Education Committee of INEC, Sam Olumekun, said this Saturday in a statement in Abuja. He said due to the flood, several moveable and immovable...
Ex-EFCC Chairman, Ibrahim Lamorde Is Dead
A former Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Ibrahim Lamorde, is dead. Lamorde, a retired police officer, was said to have died after he battled an undisclosed illness. The retired Deputy Inspector-General of Police died at the age of 61 in Egypt where he was receiving medical treatment. A former EFCC official told our correspondent on Sunday morning that...
Nigeria Has Stopped Bleeding Under Me, Moving To Prosperity — Tinubu
President Bola Tinubu has said that the past 12 months have been fulfilling for his administration despite the presence of some challenges that are being addressed frontally. According to the President, his administration has been able to stop Nigeria from bleeding which will propel it to prosperity. Tinubu spoke when he received a delegation of the Yoruba Leaders of Thought at...
Senator Kalu Calls For Reactivation Of Oloibiri Airstrip As Airforce Base (Video)
Senator Oji Uzor Kalu, representing Abia North, has made a passionate appeal to the Nigerian Senate to revive the abandoned Shell airstrip in Oloibiri, Bayelsa State, and convert it into an Airforce base. The former governor of Abia, Senator Kalu argued that the airstrip's strategic location between Oloibiri and the Atlantic Ocean makes it an ideal launching point for the...
FG Team Visits Abia, Inspects Proposed Site For Airport As Gov. Otti Secures Access Bank’s Partnership
A Federal Government team from the Ministry of Aviation has visited Abia State to inspect a proposed site for a new airport planned for the State. This comes as Abia State Governor, Dr. Alex Otti, has declared that one of Nigeria's leading financial institutions, Access Bank, has expressed willingness to partner with the State Government in developing the airport project,...
Diasporans Donate Container Load of Medical Equipment to Support OPM Free Hospitals (Photos)
In a remarkable display of generosity, diasporans have donated a full container load of medical equipment to support the OPM Free Hospitals in Nigeria. This is the first foreign medical equipment donation to the hospital since its establishment by HRM King Chibuzor Chinyere, the General Overseer of OPM Worldwide, over 10 years ago. The donation, which includes a wide range...
Benin Varsity Hospital Threatens To Conduct Mass Burial For Unclaimed Corpses
The Management of the University of Benin Teaching Hospital (UBTH) has threatened to dispose all unclaimed corpses that have been in the hospital mortuary for a very long time. According to a statement by the hospital, the corpses in question include those of infants that have been in the mortuary since January 2023 and corpses of adults that have been...
Tinubu Jets Out To Chad For Déby’s Inauguration
President Bola Tinubu will depart Abuja on Thursday, May 23, for N’Djamena, Republic of Chad, to attend the inauguration of President Idriss Mahamat Déby Itno. The inauguration follows the declaration of President Déby as the winner of the country’s presidential election earlier this month and subsequent affirmation by the Constitutional Court of Chad. According to the statement by presidential spokesman Ajuri...
Court Grants Abba Kyari Two Weeks Bail To Complete Mother’s Burial Rites
Justice Emeka Nwite of the Federal High Court Abuja has granted erstwhile Commander of the Force Intelligence Response Team, DCP Abba Kyari, temporarily bail for two weeks on passionate grounds, to go bury his mother. Kyari was granted bail to the tune of 50 million Naira and a surety in like sum. While giving the order, Justice Nwite also held that...
