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CATHOLICS GATHER TO SAY GOODBYE AS POPE FRANCIS LIES IN STATE Pope Francis’s body was transported to Saint Peter’s Basilica on Wednesday where he will lie in state before his funeral on Saturday. The late Pope’s open wooden coffin was carried by pallbearers for 500 metres from the Casa Santa Marta, where he lived and died. Red-robed cardinals, priests, friars …

HOUSE OF REPS DONATES ₦‎18M TO ENUGU TANKER EXPLOSION VICTIMS The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Rt. Hon. Tajudeen Abbas, on Tuesday presented an N18 million relief cheque to the Enugu State Government to support victims of the January 25 petrol tanker explosion at Ugwu Onyeama along the Enugu-Onitsha Expressway. The tragic incident claimed multiple lives and left several …

HOUSE OF REPS DONATES ₦‎18M TO ENUGU TANKER EXPLOSION VICTIMS The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Rt. Hon. Tajudeen Abbas, on Tuesday presented an N18 million relief cheque to the Enugu State Government to support victims of the January 25 petrol tanker explosion at Ugwu Onyeama along the Enugu-Onitsha Expressway. The tragic incident claimed multiple lives and left several …

ENUGU SIGNS DEAL TO BUILD INDUSTRIAL HUB, TARGETS $30 BILLION GDP GROWTH The Enugu State Government has signed a landmark Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Lion Business Park Limited to establish a world-class industrial and commercial hub within the Enugu Industrial Park Free Trade Zone; a strategic step aimed at boosting the state’s GDP from $4.4 billion to $30 billion. …

ENUGU SIGNS DEAL TO BUILD INDUSTRIAL HUB, TARGETS $30 BILLION GDP GROWTH The Enugu State Government has signed a landmark Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Lion Business Park Limited to establish a world-class industrial and commercial hub within the Enugu Industrial Park Free Trade Zone; a strategic step aimed at boosting the state’s GDP from $4.4 billion to $30 billion. …

RIVERS CRISIS: TINUBU, FUBARA MEET IN LONDON President Bola Tinubu met with suspended Rivers State governor, Sim Fubara in London over political crisis in the store According to The Africa Report, the meeting took place last week, shortly after Tinubu left Paris. The meeting, it was learnt, was at the insistence of Governor Fubara, who has been desperate to return …

RIVERS CRISIS: TINUBU, FUBARA MEET IN LONDON President Bola Tinubu allegedly met with suspended Rivers State governor, Sim Fubara in London over political crisis in the store According to The Africa Report, the meeting took place last week, shortly after Tinubu left Paris. The meeting, it was learnt, was at the insistence of Governor Fubara, who has been desperate to …

RIVERS CRISIS: TINUBU, FUBARA MEET IN LONDON President Bola Tinubu met with suspended Rivers State governor, Sim Fubara in London over political crisis in the store According to The Africa Report, the meeting took place last week, shortly after Tinubu left Paris. The meeting, it was learnt, was at the insistence of Governor Fubara, who has been desperate to return …

BODE GEORGE BLASTS DEFECTING PDP GOVERNORS, SAYS IT’S ACT OF BETRAYAL A former Deputy National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Bode George, has slammed some governors of the opposition party who are purportedly planning to decamp to the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), describing the act as a betrayal of the platform that gave them their political relevance. …

SENATE HITS BACK AT TUNDE BAKARE OVER COMMENT ON TINUBU GOVT The leadership of the Senate has dismissed Pastor Tunde Bakare’s recent comments on the National Assembly’s role in the declaration of a state of emergency in Rivers State and the suspension of Kogi Central Senator, Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan.Naija News reports that the Senate described Bakare’s remarks as misleading and containing …