Thousands of primary and secondary school children and teachers across Cross River State were stranded Thursday morning following the sudden declaration of a two-day public holiday by Governor Bassey Otu. According to a press release by the Chief Press Secretary to the State Governor, Nsa Gill, the public holiday is to allow teachers, public officials, and other citizens to travel to their respective wards and local government areas to participate in the local government and ward elections. Gill released the announcement late last night, by which time many school authorities…
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Diri faults Nigeria’s brand of federalism
Bayelsa Governor, Senator Douye Diri has faulted Nigeria’s brand of federalism where only the federal government can create local government, describing it as an aberration. Governor Diri also said Nigeria was on the wrong development path and needed to turn back. Delivering a lecture titled: “Rethinking Our Future: The Need For True Federalism and Economic Renaissance,” at the 64th Founders’ Day Lecture of the University of Nigeria in Nsukka, Enugu, the Bayelsa governor averred that states should constitutionally have the right to create and legislate on local governments in a…
Read MoreI Told Tinubu To Stop This Mess – Wabara Fumes Over Court Order Stopping Rivers’ Allocation
Chairman, Board of Trustees (BoT) of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Senator Adolphus Wabara, has expressed disappointment over the judgment of the Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, which ordered the seizure of statutory allocations to Rivers State Government. Naijaonpoint reported on Wednesday that Justice Joyce Abdulmalik of the Abuja Federal High Court declared that Governor Siminalayi Fubara’s presentation of the 2024 budget before a four-member Rivers House of Assembly contradicted Constitutional provisions. She criticized Fubara’s ongoing receipt and use of monthly federal allocations since January, calling it a Constitutional…
Read MoreFubara, Wike’s Feud : Niger Delta Militant Group Threatens To Shut Down Oil Installations
A nascent Niger Delta Militia Group christened Niger Delta Development Force, NDDF, has threatened to blow up oil installations in the Niger Delta should President Bola Tinubu refuses to rein in and stop the meddlesomeness of the Minister of the Federal Capital territory, Nyesom Wike, in the administration of Governor Sim Fubara of Rivers State. NDDF said they are particularly piqued over plot by Wike to use a friendly Judge to rule in his favor stopping Local Government allocations to the state on Monday. Justice Joyce Abdulmalik of the Federal…
Read MoreIllegal Sale Of Property: Stay Off NUJ Press Centre,Court Warns Enedo Enterprise, Akaraonye,Others.
…Case Adj.Nov 24. An Imo state High Court presided over by Hon Justice Ann Ononeze-Madu handling the case of illegal sale of Imo NUJ Press Centre along Port Harcourt Road, yesterday while hearing the matter warned the Respondents: Chris Isiguzo,Chris Akaraonye and Juliet Dim and their associate,Enedo Enterprise to stop their frequent invasion of the property pending the determination of the matter before it. The court cautioned that further attempt by the Respondents to do any thing that will act as an attempt to disrespect his court would attract…
Read MoreIf Souldo was doing well, I won’t have any business joining the Governorship race- LP guber aspirant, Nwosu
A Governorship aspirant of the Labour Party, LP in the 2025 Governorship election in Anambra State, Mr John Nwosu over the weekend said that he joined the race to right the wrongs of the incumbent Governor, Prof Chukwuma Soludo. Nwosu who addressed a team of select journalists at the Geogold hotel in Awka decried the increasing State of insecurity in the state, saying that Soludo has failed to live up to expectations. He said, if the present administrators are doing well, I won’t have any business joining the race. As…
Read MoreAHAEJIAGAMBA NDIGBO: Guild of Imo Elders, UNN Aumni, Uchehara, Akagburu, Mourns Emmanuel Iwuanyanwu
It is with great pain and to the Will of the Almighty God that I accept the transition to Glory of my political father, mentor and a great leader of outstanding personality, Chief (Dr) Engr. Emmanuel Iwuanyanwu CFR, OFR MFR, (Ahaejiagamba Ndigbo). Chief Iwuanyanwu was my role model, leader with many parts, very compassionate, easy going, inspiring and motivational with a touch of class. His exit will leave a vacuum too difficult to fill. He was everything to different individuals that came across him. As a man with unlimited contacts,…
Read MoreNLC To IMF, W/Bank: Your Policies Are Insincere, Suffocating Nigerians
The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has strongly criticized the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank, urging them to cease their “insincere” policy advisories that are suffocating Nigerians. This statement follows remarks made by Abebe Selassie, the IMF’s African Region Director, during a press conference at the IMF and World Bank Annual Meetings in Washington, DC. Selassie characterized the Nigerian government’s decision to eliminate the fuel subsidy as a domestic matter, distancing the IMF from the resulting hardships that Nigerians are experiencing. The NLC responded with skepticism to the…
Read MoreNigerians Suffering More Than Civil War Times- Ugorji
…Inaugurates St Mary’s Parish Amakaohia Ubi. A lot of the bizarre happenings in Nigeria’s security sector, has been linked to the excessive consumption of hard drugs by youths. This formed the central message of the Catholic Archbishop of Owerri, Most Rev. Lucius Iwejuru Ugorji, in a homily he delivered weekend, during the inauguration of St. Mary’s Catholic Parish, Amakohia-Ubi, Owerri West local council area of Imo State. His words: “It is true that there is a lot of suffering and hardship in the land. It appears that we are suffering…
Read MoreI Spent Three-and-half years In My Mother’s Womb
bikunle Amosun A former governor of Ogun State, Sen Ibikunle Amosun, revealed on Sunday, said his late mother, Rafatu Sanusi-Amosun, carried him in her womb for three-and-half years before he was born. Amosun said his birth was nothing short of a miracle and many people couldn’t believe he was a human being at birth, having stayed for such a long period before birth. The former governor gave the startling revelation at the 25th remembrance prayer for his late mother, Rafatu Sanusi-Amosun, held at the Amosun family residence in Abeokuta, the…
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