MAMBILLA POWER PLANT: EX-MINISTER ACCUSES FORMER PRESIDENT OBASANJO OF SPREADING FALSEHOODS A former Minister of Power and Steel, Olu Agunloye, has accused former President Olusegun Obasanjo of deliberately spreading falsehoods to obscure his own record regarding the Mambilla power project. Agunloye, who was accused of a six-billion-dollar Mambilla Hydroelectric plant fraud, had earlier sought the intervention of the Minister of …

PRESIDENT TINUBU MAKES 45 FRESH APPOINTMENTS President Bola Tinubu has approved the fresh appointments of board persons and Chief Executive Officers (CEOs) of various government establishments.The President, in a statement by his Special Adviser on Information and Strategy, Bayo Onanuga, appointed board chairpersons for 42 federal organizations and a secretary to the board of the Civil Defence, Immigration, and Prisons …

THERE’S NO VANDALISATION OF ELECTRICITY INSTALLATIONS IN ENUGU COMMUNITY – CHIEF ENEOLI A former President General of Udi Town Union, Chief Emmanuel Eneoli, has said that there was no truth in the allegation made by one Flavour Eze and Benjamin Onyia about vandalisation of electricity installations at Umuoka Village in Udi town, Udi Local Government Area of Enugu State. Reacting …

HOPE FOR REVITALIZATION OF PREMIER CASHEW INDUSTRY OGHE RISES ASENUGU, FUNGUTAI ENGINEERING, NATIONAL CASHEW ASSOCIATION SIGN MoU TO BOOST AGRICULTURE, INDUSTRIALISATION The Enugu State Government and Fungtai Engineering Ltd. have signed a Memorandum of Understanding, MoU, for the production of cash crops on 7,221 hectares of agricultural land at Ugwujoro, Nimbo, in Uzo-Uwani LGA, in line with Governor Peter Mbah’s …

TRUMP ORDERS RELEASE OF LONG-SECRET FINAL FILES ON JFK, RFK, MLK ASSASSINATIONS President Trump on Thursday ordered the declassification and release of long-secret files on the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy, his brother Robert F. Kennedy and civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. Trump, 78, announced the actions in the Oval Office — after decades of speculation and …

ENUGU GOVT JUSTIFIES INCREASE IN TAXES, CITES NEED FOR IMPROVED INFRASTRUCTURE, ECONOMIC GROWTH The Enugu State Government has justified the recent increase in taxes, citing the need to improve infrastructure and boost economic growth. The Deputy Governor, Ifeanyi Ossai, provided the explanation on Thursday during the Annual General Meeting of the Enugu Chamber of Commerce, Industry, Mines, and Agriculture, held …

NO NORTHERN STATE HAS 50% QUALIFIED TEACHERS – BABANGIDA ALIYU Former Governor of Niger State, Dr Mu’azu Babangida Aliyu, has said that no state in North Nigeria has 50 per cent qualified teachers. Aliyu stated this at the 22nd Daily Trust Dialogue themed “Food Security: Availability or Affordability” and held at NAF Conference Centre, Abuja, on Thursday. The former governor …

LABOUR CRIES FOUL AS POWER MINISTER PLANS TO MIGRATE BAND B ELECTRICITY USERS TO BAND A The President of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Joe Ajaero, has described the service-based tariff, which assigns electricity users to different bands according to the service delivered by distribution companies, as the highest form of fraud. The Minister of Power, Adebayo Adelabu, during a …

Reresenting Gov. Peter Mbah of Enugu state and Barr Olangwa Ezekwu Special Advisor to Enugu state Governor on Diaspora Matters during the Zonal Sensitisation and Advocacy Programme on Promotion of Diaspora Investment in Enugu state. A statement issued by the Director, Media and Public Relations and Protocol Unit NiDCOM, Abuja, Abdur-Rahman Balogun, quoted Dabiri-Erewa to have also pointed out NiDCOM’s …

LOTS OF NIGERIANS WILL BE CAUGHT IN THE WEB. OF TRUMP’S BIRTHRIGHT CITIZENSHIP BAN – AKANDE A former presidential media aide, Laolu Akande, has faulted President Donald Trump’s executive order banning birthright citizenship. The former lecturer of African history at New York College expressed this while speaking on Channels Television’s Sunrise Daily on Thursday. The move was part of Trump’s …

FEDERAL JUDGE BLOCKS TRUMP’S BIRTHRIGHT CITIZENSHIP EXECUTIVE ORDER A federal judge in Seattle has signed a temporary restraining order blocking President Donald Trump’s executive order on birthright citizenship. U.S. District Judge John Coughenour on Thursday heard a request made by four Democratic-led states to issue a temporary restraining order against the executive order signed by Trump that purports to limit …

FORMER MILITARY PRESIDENT, IBRAHIM BABANGIDA, WRITES MEMOIR 32 YEARS OUT OF OFFICE Former military President Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida (IBB) is set to launch his long-awaited autobiography. The memoir titled: ‘A Journey In Service’, will be released on February 20, 2025, at the event billed for the Congress Hall of Transcorp Hilton Hotel in Abuja. The development is coming 32 years …

FORMER FCT MINISTER, JEREMIAH USENI, PASSES ON AT 82 former Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Jeremiah Useni, is dead. It was gathered that Useni, a retired army officer died on Thursday at the age of 82, after a protracted illness. His death was announced on Thursday night by Plateau State Governor, Caleb Mutfwang, in a statement issued by his …

GOVERNOR LOCKS OUT COMMISSIONERS, WORKERS FROM OFFICES Benue State Governor Rev Fr Hyacinth Alia locked out hundreds of workers and some commissioners from the state secretariat on Wednesday, January 22. The governor, who regularly conducts unscheduled visits, berated workers at the secretariat for their lack of punctuality. Governor Alia’s convoy had arrived at the secretariat at around 10:35 am. Due …

TRUMP REVOKES EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY ACT OF 1965 President Trump issued a sweeping executive order Tuesday night revoking decades of diversity and affirmative action practices in federal government. Why it matters: This takes the current anti-DEI activism on diversity, equity and inclusion to a new level — abolishing decades of government standards on diversity and equal opportunity, and seeking to …