A judicial panel set up by the Lagos State Government in the wake of the #EndSARS protest that grounded the state in October 2020 said in a report it submitted to the government on Monday said that Nigerian troops massacred protesters. Muslims prayers were observed daily and food packs were donated to lift the spirit of…
The administration of Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi of Enugu State has restored Plot No. P/23CA Independence Layout, Enugu, which was purportedly revoked without the governor’s approval pursuant to the Land Use Act, to the Nigeria Union of Local Government Employees (NULGE) “in line with Allocation Reference No. LEN 29329/4 of 21st January 2011”. The restoration of…
Kenechi Ogwu In his known unstable attitude of always being controversial and economical with the truth whenever he is caught in a mess, the embattled ex- Enugu State Commissioner for Lands and Urban Development, Dr. Victor Nnam, has resorted to using proxies and hirelings to polish his character and reputation in the media. This is…
Leading to the next Gubernatorial elections in Enugu State, Indigent political leaders have activated moves for the governorship position to be zoned to the Enugu East Senatorial District, to produce the next governor of the State. As Isi-Uzo youth rebuff Ekweremadu. This reinstates the call for zoning which was declared in Enugu, on Sunday by…
In a recent development, the ‘Coalition for Good Governance and Equity,’ a pressure group, in Enugu launched a campaign on Thursday to transfer political power to Enugu East Senatorial District in order to produce the next Governor of Enugu State in 2023. Thereby, implying a power shift in 2023. This was made known by the…
Democracy for Good Governance in Nkanu East (DF2GGN), a coalition of youth groups, has stated that they are fully supportive of Enugu State’s sustained and continuous zoning system for good governance and inclusion. They urged all political stakeholders in the state to support the ambition for the Next Governor of Enugu State to come from…
The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has said its weekly Monday sit-at-home order remains cancelled. IPOB’s spokesperson, Emma Powerful, said anyone found to be enforcing the sit-at-home order across the South-East is an enemy of the region. Powerful urged people of the South-East to go about their normal businesses, adding that anyone caught enforcing the…
The Executive Director, North and Public Sector Directorate, Keystone Bank, Lawal Ahmed, at an investigative hearing by the committee in Abuja on Wednesday, told the lawmakers that the bank had remitted all the funds belonging to the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation. In his presentation, Ahmed said, “Our position, as confirmed by the CFO of NNPC,…
Former Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, Professor Charles Chukwuma Soludo, on Wednesday morning made history as the second Governor of the apex bank to become a governor of a state, taking after the late Clement Isong of the old Cross River State, who in 1979, became a governor, after his stint as…
ension reigned supreme at the Federal High Court in Abuja on Monday as officials of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission clashed with officials of the Nigerian Correctional Services over whose custody the jailed former chairman of the now-defunct Pension Reforms Task Team, Abdulrasheed Maina, should be. Though Justice Okon Abang sentenced Maina to 61…
