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…
About 600 Nigerians residing in Kuwait are at the risk of being deported over the failure to get their residential permit renewed. This, according to some of the affected Nigerians, is because their passport is less than one year to expire and Kuwait authorities do not accept such for the renewal of residential permit. Some…
Ahead of the 2023 general elections, the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Enugu State has boasted that it will take over the reins of leadership of the State from the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). The party made the declaration in a communiqué it issued at the end of its maiden State Executive Committee (SEC)…
Following the realization that the choice of who becomes the next governor of Anambra State is in their hands, prominent sons of Ihiala early today began mobilizing indigenes of the area at home and in diaspora to vote in Tuesday’s governorship election. It was gathered that the prominent indigenes of the state who began mobilizing…
Mr. Valentine Ozigbo, candidates of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the Anambra governorship election, says he can still emerge victorious in the exercise that is expected to end on Tuesday. The Independent National Electoral (INEC) had declared the election inconclusive on the grounds that election did not hold in Ihiala Local Government. Professor Chukwuma…
The All Progressives Congress, APC, has accused the candidate of the All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA, Chukwuma Soludo, and the Anambra State Governor, Willie Obiano, of rigging the inconclusive governorship election in the state. Basil Ejidike, the Chairman of APC in the state, made the remark while rejecting the results so far declared by the…
Justice C.H Ahuchaogu of the Abia State High Court has struck out the suit to stop the national Caretaker Extra Ordinary and Convention Planning (CECPC) of the All Progressives Congress from acknowledging the list of the winners in the 184 ward congresses conducted in July 2021 by a faction of the party. The suit prayed…
