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After Widespread Criticism, Prisons Service Redeploys Comptroller, Ekpendu Over Chidinma’s Beauty Pageant
Following the uproar generated over the beauty pageant conducted in the female section of Nigerian Prisons Kirikiri, Lagos, where murder suspect, Chidinma Ojukwu, emerged as Miss Cell 2022, the Comptroller of the facility, Mrs Lizzie Ekpendu has been redeployed. Ojukwu, the alleged murder suspect of the Chief Executive Officer of Super TV, Usifo Ataga, was crowned ‘Miss Cell 2022’, on...
It’s Time For Our Looted Artefacts To Return Home – FG To Britain
The Federal Government says the British authority has taken care of its looted artefacts for so long and it is time for the cultural and historical works of art to return home. The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, stated this...
FG Working To Avert Impending ASUU Strike – Ministry
The Federal Ministry of Education said the Federal Government was working to avert another strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities. Rising from its National Executive Council meeting, held at the University of Ibadan last weekend, ASUU had given the Federal Government a 21-day ultimatum to meet its outstanding demands or lecturers would go on strike. Further speaking on Wednesday...
950, 000 Women At Risk Of Maternal Deaths In Zamfara – State Govt
Zamfara State Commissioner of Health, Dr. Aisha M.Z. Anka, has raised alarm that over 950,000 women in the state are at high risk of maternal deaths. The commissioner stated this in Gusau, the state capital on Monday during the opening ceremony of a five-day workshop on preventing maternal deaths for health workers in the state. The workshop was organized by the...
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...
Kingsley Byron Foundation donates books to students in Ibesikpo Asutan
AKWA IBOM - A humanitarian group, Kingsley Byron Foundation has distributed 1500 copies of exercise books to students in secondary schools in Ibesikpo Asutan local government area, Akwa Ibom State. The foundation which is funded by an officer of the Nigerian Army, Mr. Kingsley Byron Ekpenyong has undertaken many interventions in support of the free and compulsory education programme of...
Abducted Benue Commissioner Regains Freedom
Benue Commissioner for Information, Culture, and Tourism, Hon. Matthew Abo, who was abducted by gunmen in his hometown in Ukum Local Government Area of Benue State has regained his freedom. His release from captivity was confirmed in a statement by the Chief Press Secretary to the Governor, Sir Tersoo Kula . Mr. Abo has since reunited with his family in Sankera,...
You Rigged 2023 Election, Not Tinubu – Asari Dokubo Slams Peter Obi
A former Niger Delta militant leader, Mujahid Asari Dokubo, has dismissed claims that the President-elect, Bola Tinubu, rigged the 2023 presidential election. Asari Dokubo said contrary to claims, the Labour Party, LP, presidential candidate Peter Obi rigged the just concluded presidential election and not Tinubu. READ ALSO: It’s My Turn To Be Senate President – Sen. Orji Kalu Obi and Atiku Abubakar...
Incoming Administration Must Blur Lines Of Division Caused By Elections — Obasanjo
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has said the outcome of this year’s general elections has made Nigeria more divided than ever before. He said the administration after President Muhammadu Buhari’s must find ways of healing the wounds caused by the division. He said this on Thursday at a national seminar titled ‘From Elections to Governance and Performance. The event was organised by the...
I Will Not Support Unsuccessful Economic Approach, Says Tinubu
President Bola Tinubu has announced that Nigeria will not continue to support an unsuccessful economic approach that results in 90% of its limited income being squandered on repaying foreign debts, despite the many developmental challenges the nation is confronting. As conveyed through a press release by Ajuri Ngelale, the President’s Special Adviser, Tinubu made this statement in Abuja on Sunday while...
