Flooding seems to have gradually become an annual event in Nigeria. At least, this has been the case in the past couple of years. Frequent flood disasters in Nigeria have had devastating consequences on the socio-economic lives of citizens. Residential homes, towns, villages, farmlands, public buildings such as schools, health centres, among others, have been washed away as a result of flooding. Agriculture and food production have been badly hit due to frequent flooding that affects many states in the country. At some point, the soaring prices of food items…
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DANGOTE REFINERY IS A SCAM
By Banji Ogungbemi Below is the perspective of a senior friend of mine on Dangote Refinery story. “That Refinery is a scam.It is a government premature monster baby. It can not survive without the feeding bottle provided by the government. There was no proper feasibility study. Something was put together by his assorted Indian experts. They told us in London that the Refinery was built on the assumption that subsidy would continue into perpetuity. A man with a degree in Arabic & Islamic Studies from a Cairo University killed all…
Read MoreAiling Nnamdi Kanu Denied Access To Doctor In DSS Custody Despite Formal Request, Says IPOB Leader’s Lawyer, Ejimakor
According to Ejimakor, Kanu is currently experiencing shortness of breath, low blood pressure, and general malaise. Barrister Aloy Ejimakor, special counsel for Nnamdi Kanu, the detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), has expressed concern over Kanu’s deteriorating health. According to Ejimakor, Kanu is currently experiencing shortness of breath, low blood pressure, and general malaise. Ejimakor stated that Kanu requested medical attention from his personal physician, and subsequently, his legal team submitted a formal request to the Department of State Services (DSS) to grant access to Kanu’s doctor.…
Read MoreTarget Rivers’ Budget”: Pro-Wike Lawmakers Lambasted For Attempting to Stop Fubara From Spending
The National Vanguard for Rule of Law (NVRL) has dismissed the attempt by lawmakers loyal to the FCT minister, Nyesom Wike to shut down Rivers stategovernment expenditure. This move by pro-Wike lawmakers will prevent Governor Fubara from spending any moneyon behalf of the state. The group described the move by the Amaewhule-led House of Assembly purportedly shut down all government expenditures until Fubara presents his budget before the House as “illegal, null and void”. This was disclosed in a statement signed by Comrade Johnson Babatunde and made available to Legit.ng…
Read MoreInsecurity In Njaba: Etiokwe-Njaba-Obi Strongly Condemns Gruesome Killings In Umuaka
…Vows To prioritize Security of Lives,Property If elected LG Chair On Monday, July 8, the Njaba LGA Chairmanship hopeful, under APC platform, Hon.Vitalis Ugochukwu Obi (Etiokwe-Njaba) condemned in strongest terms the gruesome killing of three members of community Vigilante outfit and an innocent girl who was hit by stray bullet in Uba, Umuaka in Njaba Local Government Area on Sunday July 7 by yet to be identified gunmen. In a Press statement through his spokesman/ Director,Media/ Publicity of his Campaign Organization, Rt. Comr Chimezie Odoemenam, Hon. Obi, who cancelled his…
Read MoreNLC Threatens One Month Nationwide Shutdown, Worshippers Shot Dead As Gunmen Attack Mosque
As the nation waits for a new National Minimum Wage, the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, has threatened to shut down the country for a month over plans by the National Assembly to deregulate the Minimum Wage. President of NLC, Joe Ajaero, who spoke on the sideline of the 67th Annual General Meeting, AGM, in Lagos, insisted that minimum wage is a national issue. Ajaero warned that organised labour would not accept a situation where governors working with the members of the National Assembly would imposed slave wage and poverty on…
Read MoreImolites Pressurizing Araraume To Run For Imo Guber, 2027
…Source: He’s yet to show any interest for now There are indications that as 2027 draws nearer, scores of prominent Imo people at home and in Diaspora have started mounting pressure on Distinguished Senator Ifeanyi Godwin Araraume to prepare for the Governorship of the State. Nigeria Newspoint gathered from sources close to the former Senator for Okigwe (Imo North ) confirmed that individuals and Groups from Imo state have been visiting Araraume to plead with him to throw his hat in the ring again for the Imo Governorship Seat. Those…
Read MoreStand up against Nnamdi Kanu’s rendition -Ejimakor challenges Britain
Aloy Ejimakor, lead counsel of Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, called on Britain on Monday to stand up against the rendition of the Biafra agitator. He made the call in response to reports by United States lawmakers urging the U.S. State Department to secure the release of Tigran Gambaryan, Binance’s head of Financial Crime Compliance. Gambaryan was arrested on allegations of money laundering and tax evasion alongside his colleague, Nadeem Anjarwalla, but Nigerian authorities dropped the tax evasion charges in June. The money laundering case…
Read MoreI Live In A Rented Apartment In Abuja –Dangote
Africa’s richest man, Mr Aliko Dangote, has said the house he stays whenever he is in Nigeria’s capital city is not his personal property. During a media parley at the Dangote Petroleum Refinery, Ibeju-Lekki, Lagos State, on Sunday, Dangote said his passion for an industrialised Nigeria is the sole reason he doesn’t have houses outside Nigeria. He revealed that he once had a house in London, disclosing that he sold it in 1996. “The reason I don’t have a London or America house is solely because I wanted to focus…
Read MoreOrlu Senate: Izunaso ‘s One Year: Esiwe commends Izunaso on quality representation
The Immediate past co-ordinator of Nkwerre West Development Centre, High Chief Michael Esiwe has commended the Senator representing Orlu zone in the National Assembly, Senator Osita.B. Izunaso on quality and effective representation. Esiwe gave the commendation while speaking to journalists on the occasion of his score card presentation/Town Hall Meeting with his constituents held at Nkwerre Country Club in Nkwerre Local Government Area,Imo state. The former Coordinator, Development Centre who described the event as a welcome development, a step in the right direction lauded the senator for the initiative to…
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