The people of Idi-Arere community in Ibadan, Oyo State, were in shock on Saturday when they discovered the corpse of a resident, Alhaji Kolawole Waheed, with vital organs of his body missing. Waheed died last Thursday and was buried on Friday according to Islamic rites. The deceased’s brother, Taofeek Adebayo, said the 68-year-old was hit by a car while inside a tricycle, adding that he was later taken to a hospital where he died three days after. “On Saturday morning, an older brother called my wife’s phone. He told me…
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NANS Wades Into Lingering ASUU Strike, Proposes Peaceful Protest
The National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) has proposed a nationwide peaceful protest in support of the lingering strike action embarked on by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) over the refusal of the federal government to implement the agreement it reached with the union, two years ago. The agreement borders on payment of staff salaries and emoluments as well as adequate funding of the universities. In a statement issued in Owerri on Wednesday May 25 signed by the deputy zonal co-coordinator of NANS South East zone, Comrade Ejike…
Read MorePDP Primaries: Gov. Ugwuanyi Wins Enugu North Senatorial District Ticket Amid Jubilation
Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi of Enugu State has won the Enugu North Senatorial District Primary Election of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) ahead of the 2023 general elections. Gov. Ugwuanyi was declared winner of the peaceful and transparent senatorial primary election amid jubilation by the Chairman of the five-man Electoral Panel from the National Working Committee (NWC) of the PDP, Prince Vin Yandev Amabei. Prince Amabei disclosed that Gov. Ugwuanyi scored 299 valid votes cast to defeat three other aspirants in the ballot paper, namely Mr. Okanya Celestine, Chief Eze Godwin…
Read MoreMariupol Fighters Finally Surrender
By Alex Nwahiri The Ukrainian forces holed up inside the Azovstal steelworks, today surrendered to the Russian authorities to allow the wounded soldiers and civilians, receive urgent medical attention. A statement from the garrison commander of the troops in the Azovstal steelworks explained, that the garrison was obeying orders to save the lives of troops and get the wounded to the hospital. Journalists who covered the evacuation, reported seeing dozens of buses carrying both the fighters and the wounded, to a medical facility in the Russian controlled town of Novoazovsk…
Read MorePDP NEC Throws 2023 Presidential Contest Open
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) 96th National Executive Committee (NEC) has finally thrown open the contest for the party’s 2023 presidential ticket. PDP’s position was made known during the party’s NEC meeting, Wednesday, in Abuja. Also, ahead of the party’s National Convention to elect the party’s presidential candidate, the NEC appointed former President of the Senate, David Mark to Chair the Convention Committee.
Read MorePetrol marketers warns of looming fuel scarcity
The Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria has asked Nigerians to prepare for the worst fuel crisis. To avoid this, the petrol marketers association asked the Federal Government to prevail on the Nigerian Midstream and Downstream Petroleum Regulatory Authority to pay its members their outstanding bridging claims amounting to over N500 billion. The IPMAN chairman in Kano State, Bashir Danmalam, made the remarks while addressing a news conference in Kano State on Monday. He said the failure of the NMDPRA to pay the the bridging claims, otherwise known as transportation…
Read MoreN1.79bn fraud: Court arraigns Stella Oduah
A former Minister of Aviation, Mrs Stella Adaeze Oduah has arrived the Federal High Court in Abuja to take her plea in the alleged N7.9 billion fraud charges brought against her by the Federal Government. She is to be arraigned before Justice Inyang Eden Ekwo, alongside two other women and four companies. Among the companies is the construction giant, China Civil Engineering Corporation CCECC. Already, the Federal Government’s lawyer, Dr Hassan Liman, SAN, has also arrived in court. About five Senior Advocates of Nigeria are also in court to defend…
Read MoreTown Union vows to fight drug sale and abuse
Newly elected President-General of Ndiokwu Federated Union, Elder Chidi Uneze, has vowed to rid the community of all points of sale of illicit drugs just as he stated that dealers in banned drugs and substances in the community would be reported to law enforcement agencies for prosecution. Elder Chidi Uneze, who made the vow shortly after his election as President-General Ndiokwu Federated Union, Ndiokwu Lorji, Aboh Mbaise LGA of Imo State, said the leadership of the union would work with relevant government agencies to make Ndiokwu Lorji drug-free, and warned…
Read MoreNkwerre: Satellite Communities Meet Reiterate Support For Uzodinma
…Set up 10 Man committee By Williams Odunze The Satellite Communities Leadership Forum,a Political group for Services and development of Nkwerre LGA has brainstormed on the way forward For Socio-Economic and Political development of the Area as they reiterate their support for the present administration of Governor Hope Uzodinma. At the end of the meeting which was well attended by Presidents General of the Communities, Traditional Prime Ministers, Selected Youths and Women Leaders, Former and present Government appointees and other Communities Leaders resolved as follows- That the Communities will continue…
Read MoreEuropean Union To Embargo Russian Oil By End Of The Year
By Alex Nwahiri More than two months into Russia’s brutal war on Ukraine, the European Union today announced an embargo on Russian fossil fuels , its biggest economic sacrifice yet to inflict pain on the Russian economy and Vladimir V Putin. The measure unveiled by the President of the European Union, Ursula Von Der Leyen, would ban Russian crude oil imports to nearly all of European Union in the next six months, and refined oil products by the end of the year. The embargo contained in the sixth round of…
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