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After Amobi Ogah’s Motion, Reps Sets Up Adhoc Committee Over Insecurity In Isuikwuato/Umunneochi (See List)
After a motion of urgent public importance raised by the member representing Isuikwuato/Umunneochi Federal Constituency of Abia State, Hon. Amobi Godwin Ogah in which he sought workable means to curb the activities of bandits, kidnappers and other criminal elements operating in communities around his constituency and beyond, House of Representatives has set up an ad-hoc committee to interface with...
Naira Appreciates, Exchanges For 793.70/$
On Wednesday's Investor & Exporter FX window, the naira strengthened against the US dollar, closing at 793.70/$. The local currency had traded at N825 on the I&E window a week earlier. According to FMDQ estimates, trade began at 778.07/$ on Wednesday and reached a high of 853/$ before closing at 793.70/$. As of the close of trading, the trading had a total...
Mbah Never Forged NYSC Certificate — DSS
The Department of State Services, DSS, has debunked allegations that the governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in the 2023 general election and incumbent governor of the state, Dr. Peter Mbah, forged his National Youths Service Corps, NYSC discharge certificate. The service made this revelation in a report submitted to the Enugu Election Petition Tribunal on Wednesday. The DSS...
Governor Otti Seals Off Collapsed Shopping Complex Building In Aba
Abia State Governor, Dr. Alex Otti, has ordered immediate evacuation and seal-off of the block of shops that collapsed Wednesday morning in Aba, ABN TV reports. A stretch of building housing about 15 shops inside the Shopping Centre Market, Aba, Zone 13, broke apart and caved in as traders got ready for the day's business, Kazie Uko chief press secretary...
Gov Otti In Closed Door Meeting With Security Chiefs
Abia State Governor, Dr. Alex Otti, OFR, on Wednesday held a closed door meeting with heads of some of the security agencies in the state. In attendance at the special security meeting chaired by the Governor were the Corps Commandant of the Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), CC Paul Igwebuike; Captain SK Ogogo, Commandant Nigerian Navy College of...
Fuel Hike: COEASU Directs Members To Work Two Days In A Week
The Colleges of Education Academic Staff Union, COEASU, the umbrella body of lecturers in the nation’s Colleges of Education, has directed its members nationwide to go to work two days weekly until the Federal Government yields to its demand of a 200 per cent increase in salary. The announcement was contained in a statement signed by the union’s National President,...
UNICAL Undergraduate Bags Jail Term For Internet Fraud
An undergraduate from the University of Calabar, Peter Againpriye, has been sentenced to three years in prison for internet fraud by a Federal High Court in Port Harcourt, Rivers State. The EFCC, in a statement by its spokesman, Wilson Uwujaren, on Tuesday, listed the charges as impersonation, obtaining money by false pretence and possession of fraudulent documents. The convict, who pleaded guilty...
Kwara PDP Secretary Resigns
The Kwara State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has received the resignation letter of its State Secretary, Abdulrazaq Lawal. The State Publicity Secretary of the Party, Prince Tunji Moronfoye, said in a statement in Ilorin on Tuesday that Alhaji Lawal, in a letter addressed to the state party chairman and made public, resigned his position as the state...
Some Pensioners Receive N3,000 In Zamfara – NUP Chairman
The chairman of Nigeria Union of Pensioners, NUP, Zamfara State, Alhaji Hassan Mohammed has lamented that many pensioners in the State are still receiving N3,000 per month as pension. He wondered how a pensioner with a wife and children would cope with N3,000 per month, noting that the State pensioners have been subjected to starvation. Mohammed said that since the creation...
Cross River Assembly To Enact Severe Anti-Kidnap Law
Speaker of Cross River State House of Assembly, Elvert Ayambem has disclosed that the House will soon enact a state law that will mete out severe punishment to kidnappers. He spoke to the leadership of the Nigerian Medical Association, NMA, when they called on him to seek the Assembly’s support to rescue their colleague, Prof Ekanem Ephraim of the University...
