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No COVID-19 Case In Owerri Says Imo Govt
The Imo State Government has debunked rumours making rounds in the state that there is a COVID-19 Case of the Coronavirus disease at the Federal Medical Centre in Owerri. Addressing journalists in Owerri, the state capital, Chairman of the State COVID-19 Committee, Professor Maurice Iwu said the rumour is false and untrue. Professor Iwu warned the people against spreading rumours that can...
Natasha Urges Police To Restore Security As Gunmen Raid Home
On Thursday, Kogi Central senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan, who is currently suspended, expressed concern about a suspected gunman's attack on her family's Kogi State home. She called on the Inspector-General of Police to reinstate her withdrawn security aides. In a statement released by her media office, Akpoti-Uduaghan said the attack occurred during a visit by her younger brother, who was in town...
Abia Government Responds To Allegations of Persecution In Pension Fraud Trial
The Abia State Government has reacted to statements and publications regarding the trial of some civil servants recently arrested for alleged pension fraud. In a press release signed by the Special Adviser to the Governor on Media and Publicity, Ferdinand Ekeoma, the government clarified its position on the case, dismissing claims of persecution and political bias. According to the statement, while...
Seven Years After, Govs Still Violate Supreme Court Ruling On LGAs
Seven years after the Supreme Court voided the law that allowed state governors to appoint caretaker chairmen in place of democratically elected ones for local government areas, at least 18 governors have continued to violate the ruling, ABN TV learned. According to Daily Trust Findings revealed that 349 local government areas in 18 states across the country are being run...
Don’t Rely On White-Collar Jobs For Wealth, NYSC Tells Corps Members
Omotade Ayodele, the National Youth Service Corps' Director of Corps Welfare and Health Services, has urged corpsmen in Benue State to participate completely in the SAED program, which stands for Skills Acquisition and Entrepreneurship Development. Addressing the corps members when he visited the NYSC orientation camp at Wannune in the Tarka Local Government Area of the state on Thursday, Ayodele,...
NAOS UNICAL Alumni Pay Heartfelt Tribute To Late Barr. Sally Okereke
The National Association of Ohafia Students (NAOS) Alumni, University of Calabar (UNICAL) chapter, has penned a moving tribute to one of its distinguished members, Barr. Sally Okereke, who passed away on December 24, 2024. In a statement signed by Hon. Kalu Prince-Iroha and Chief Stanley Mba on behalf of the alumni body, the association described her passing as a painful...
Dangote Refinery To Generate 135,000 Jobs, Says Emefiele
The governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Godwin Emefiele, said the Dangote Oil Refinery is expected to generate 12,000 megawatts of electricity and over 135,000 permanent jobs. Emefiele said this on Monday at the official launching of the Dangote Oil Refinery in Lagos State by President Muhammadu Buhari. “Then, we insisted that under the leadership of President Muhammadu Buhari,...
Emefiele: Hold Those Responsible For Fight Between DSS, Prison Officers – SERAP Tells Tinubu
The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project, SERAP, has called on President Bola Tinubu to hold to account those responsible for the fight between the Department of State Services, DSS, and operatives of the Nigeria Correctional Service. DSS operatives and prisons officers engaged in a face-off after the trial of former Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, Godwin Emefiele,...
Eight Banks Record N156bn Impairment Charges
Eight Nigerian banks incurred a combined N156bn in impairment charges on credit and financial assets in the first quarter of 2025, according to an analysis by The PUNCH of their unaudited financial statements filed on the Nigerian Exchange Limited recently. The impairment charges, often referred to as loan losses or credit losses, reflect provisions set aside by banks to cover...
DSS Debunks Reports It Recently Arrested Any CBN Official
The Department of State Services (DSS) has debunked reports that its operatives recently arrested any official of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN). The DSS refuted the report in a statement on its X handle late Thursday night. “The DSS did not, in the last 48 hours, arrest any former or present official of the CBN,” the statement read. READ ALSO: No...
