Niger Delta leaders have issued a three-month ultimatum to the Federal Government to restructure the country and convene a national dialogue comprising representatives of ethnic groups in order to chart a new course for the country. This position was contained in a communique issued at the end of a South-South zonal conference held in Port…
In the spirit of Eid-Kabir celebration, Governor Abdullahi Umar Ganduje of Kano State has released 136 inmates from Kano Correctional Centres. He also provided to them N5000 each as transport fires back to their homes. While effecting their release from detentions, Governor Ganduje, urged them to be people of sound character when they are finally…
Chief Yomi Aliu, the lawyer to Yoruba Nation agitator, Sunday Adeyemo aka Sunday Igboho, has given reasons his client cannot be extradited to Nigeria. Aliu argued that Igboho cannot be extradited because of a treaty with Benin Republic on political offenders. He noted that the treaty states categorically that any political offender unlikely to get…
“This Governor has not only mitigated the chasm in Rural- Urban dichotomy with flurry of projects, but has left Enugu state comparatively safer”.–Dr Ifeanyi Ojobo, Chairman NIPR Enugu chapter. July 16 was earmarked as the WORLD PUBLIC RELATIONS DAY. Different continents, nay countries of the world participated in this momentous global fiesta. In Nigeria, the…
Abubakar Malami, attorney-general of the federation (AGF), rejected a move by Catriona Laing, UK high commissioner to Nigeria, to discuss the arrest of Nnamdi Kanu, Biafra separatist leader, when they both met on Thursday, TheCable understands. Kanu, who is also a British citizen and leads the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), was repatriated to Nigeria…
Minister of Labour and Employment, Chris Ngige has told the proscribed Indigenous Peoples of Biafra (IPOB) to desist from linking him to the re-arrest of its leader, Nnamdi Kanu. Ngige, in a statement by his media office on Saturday, insisted he does not have the time to involve himself with security and diplomatic matters. The Minister…
The Buhari Media Organisation (BMO) has accused Bishop Mathew Kukah, the Catholic Bishop of Sokoto, of misrepresenting facts and deliberately exploiting the nation’s diversity to further his undisguised agenda against President Muhammadu Buhari administration. The organisation said this while reacting to the cleric’s virtual testimony at the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission of the U.S. Congress. BMO…
Some Federal Government retirees are spending years after retirement not being able to access their pensions for reasons they did not cause. This is not because the Contributory Pension Scheme (CPS), which they transited to from the Defined Benefits Scheme (DBS), is not working, but because of government’s failure to implement the Retirement Benefits Bond…
Ngozi Onyia is a 1982 medical graduate of the University of Ibadan, a Fellow of the West African College of Physicians in Paediatrics and a Travel Health Phydician. An alumna of the Lagos Business School EMBA 11, she became a medical entrepreneur after 28 years of medical practice in both the public and private healthcare…
~Brought to you by the Leadership of ODENGENE PEOPLES MOVEMENT (OPM) Consistency and collaboration with relevant stakeholders in an Administration are prerequisites not just only in the policy making but vital for effective and efficient leadership. On most issues, Governor Ugwuanyi’s administration has moved beyond a set of attitudes to specific thought-out positions and glorious…
