RESIGN AS LP CHAIRMAN IF YOU NEED FORGIVENESS, AJAERO TELLS ABURE The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) on Thursday told the National Chairman of the Labour Party (LP) Julius Abure to obey a judgment of the FCT High Court if he needs the forgiveness if its president, Joe Ajaero. The court restrained him and two others from parading themselves as national …

NJC DROPS WIFE OF  EX-GOV YAHAYA BELLO FROM LIST OF JUDGES APPROVED FOR KOGI HIGH COURT The Nigerian Judicial Council (NJC) has finally dropped the name of Amina Bello, the wife of the fugitive and immediate past governor of Kogi State, Yahaya Bello, from the list of nominees to be appointed as judges of the High Court of Kogi State. …

COURT RESTRAINS ENUGU GOVT FROM DEMOLISHING OSISATECH POLYTECHNIC A Federal High Court in Enugu has ordered the Enugu State government to stop the demolition of Our Saviour Institute of Science, Agriculture and Technology (OSISATECH) Polytechnic and College of Education for the proposed Enugu Central Station. Governor Peter Mbah’s administration has demolished properties on 30 hectares of land for the proposed …

MANY CRUSHED TO DEATH AT POLICE CHECKPOINT IN ABIA At least 18 travellers were killed in a crash on the Umuahia-Enugu axis of the Port Harcourt Enugu Highway on Thursday morning. It was gathered that the accident occurred at a police checkpoint around the Lokpanta area of Abia State in the wee hours of Thursday. It was also learned that …

17-YEAR-OLD GIRL, DOROTHY JEAN TILLMAN, EARNS DOCTORATE DEGREE A teenager from Chicago walked in her graduation ceremony this month after earning her doctoral degree at 17. Dorothy Jean Tillman II told “Good Morning America” that she was homeschooled in her early years before entering college at age 10. In 2020, she said she earned a Master of Science degree, and …

DEATH TOLL FROM KANO MOSQUE ATTACK RISES TO EIGHT Death toll from the Gezawa Mosque attack in Kano State has risen to eight, with 17 others still in critical condition receiving treatment. Seven more victims died while receiving treatment at the Murtala Muhammad Specialist Hospital in Kano, as confirmed by the police. SP Abdullahi Haruna Kiyawa, the Police Public Relations …

FUBARA RELEASES DOCUMENTS OF MASSIVE CORRUPTION UNDER FORMER GOVERNOR WIKE Rivers State Governor, Siminalayi Fubara, after months of stooping low in the face of onslaughts from the camp of his former principal, turned political adversary, Nyesom Wike, has finally braced for battle. The governor has since last week continued to fire shots at the immediate past governor of the state, …

TIME RUNNING OUT FOR APC CHAIRMAN, GANDUJE, AS GOVS PUSH FOR REPLACEMENT Time is running out for Abdullahi Ganduje as national chairman of the ruling All Progressive Congress (APC), according to sources within the party. Governors elected on the platform of the party are said to have resolved to persuade President Bola Tinubu to sacrifice the former governor of Kano …

FG TO EMPOWER NYSC MEMBERS WITH N10M EACH The Federal Government has announced its plan to support 5,000 National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) members with N10 million each for their entrepreneurial ventures after their service year. This was revealed by Dr. Jamila Ibrahim, the Minister of Youth Development, during the inaugural meeting of the NYSC management with heads of Corps …

SENATE TELLS TINUBU TO STOP ALLOCATION OF FUNDS TO LG CARETAKER COMMITTEES The Senate, on Wednesday, accused state governors of misappropriating funds allocated to Local Government Councils in Nigeria. It claimed that Area Council chairmen were usually compelled to sign off cheques by State governors, who in turn allocate peanuts to them. This is coming, even as the Senate has …

ENUGU GOVT, LABOUR PARTY DISAGREE OVER N100BN AGRO PROJECT The Enugu State chapter of the Labour Party, LP, and the Enugu State government are not on the same page as the government consummates an agriculture partnership agreement with Pragmatic Farms Limited. The partnership between the Enugu State Government and Pragmatic Farms Limited, worth N100 billion, is for the revival of …

ONLY COURT WILL DETERMINE FATE OF RIVERS LAWMAKERS  WHO DEFECTED FROM PDP – INEC CHAIRMAN The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), has finally broke its silence on the controversy trailing the status of the members of the Rivers State House of Assembly that crossed from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to the All Progressives Congress (APC). Commission’s chairman, Mahmood Yakubu, …

NIGERIANS ARE IN PAINS, KUKAH TELLS TINUBU Catholic Bishop of Sokoto Diocese, Bishop Matthew Hassan Kukah, says Nigerians are in pains, calling on President Bola Tinubu to open a channel of communication with the people on when his policies will begin to yield result. Kukah said even though the “pains are unintended”, it was brought about as the results of …

LABOUR REJECTS ₦48,000 FG’S MINIMUM WAGE OFFER, WALKS OUT OF COMMITTEE MEETING THE Organized labour on Wednesday stormed out of the minimum wage committee meeting with the Federal Government over the later’s offer of N48,000 new wage. Recall that the organized labour had made a demand of N615,000 as the new minimum wage and had given the government up till …

BREAKING: FUBARA LOSES FIVE COMMISSIONERS IN ONE DAY AS TWO MORE WIKE LOYALISTS QUIT GOVT The Commissioner for Social Welfare, Inime Aguma and Jacobson Nbina, Commissioner for Transport, have all tendered their resignation letters to the state government. Their resignations were contained in separate letters addressed to the governor, Siminalayi Fubara, through the Office of the Secretary to the Rivers …