The United Nations has asked the federal government to provide detailed information on the circumstances surrounding Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB). This was contained in a document titled: ‘Mandates of the Special Rapporteur on Torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishments; the Working Group on Arbitrary…
Kanu has questions to answer over Akunyili’s husband, Gulak, others’ deaths –Malami The Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami (SAN), came under attacks on Friday after the Federal Government tagged the activities of the embattled leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu, and Yoruba Nation agitator, Sunday Adeyemo,…
The United States Government says the Federal Government is expected to deploy the Super Tucano aircraft only in the northern part of the country where Boko Haram terrorists have engaged the Nigerian state in a decade-long insurgency killing thousands and displacing millions. This, therefore, precludes the possibility of the Federal Government deploying the security equipment…
LAST week, the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) threatened to impound 29 private jets on which the owners had not paid statutory duties to the Federal Government. Speaking at a news conference in Abuja, the NCS Public Relations Officer (PRO), Joseph Attah, disclosed that the agency had, in June, commenced the verification of all privately owned…
The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ), working with over 600 journalists from 150 media outlets in 117 countries across the world, pored over 11 million pages of financial documents, has exposed financial irregularities. The investigation penetrated the underbelly of the international financial system that provides cover for some politicians, government officials, businessmen in different…
…Proposes 50-50 revenue formula among Enugu/Anambra/Kogi statesGovernor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi of Enugu State has requested the leadership of the Revenue Mobilization, Allocation and Fiscal Commission (RMAFC) to expedite action on the process of formally designating Enugu as an oil-bearing state in the country. Gov. Ugwuanyi made the request when he received Commissioners and top management team…
In a dramatic twist, the national leadership of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) on Saturday gave official recognition to a group working for the candidature of Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, to succeed President Muhammadu Bihari come 2023. The VP’s supporters, under the name, Progressives Consolidation Group, have received approval of the APC leadership, through…
The Minister of Women Affairs, Dame Pauline Tallen, has described the humiliation and assault meted out on a member of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), Ezeiruaku Ifeyinwa Fidelia, as unfortunate and unacceptable. In the now viral video shared by journalist and activist, Agba Jalingo, a female soldier identified as Lt. Chika Viola Anele, is seen pouring unknown liquid suspected…
The wealth of a state is characterised by the health of her people. Thomas Edison once stated that, “a time comes when the doctors of the future will no longer treat the human frame from drugs, but rather will cure and prevent diseases with nutrition”. This statement is finding expression in our time as the…
The Nigerian Southern Governors’ Forum at its meeting of today, Thursday, 16th September 2021 held in the Government House, Enugu, Enugu State reviewed the state of the nation and the progress of implementation of the decisions reached in her previous meetings and further resolved as follows: Expressed satisfaction with the rate at which the States…
