The Secretary of the All Progressives Congress Presidential Campaign Council(APCPCC) and Chairman, House of Representatives Committee on Finance, Hon James Abiodun Faleke has declared that his decision not to participate in the Governorship race of Kogi State is borne out of his desire to subject his personal interest to national interest. A group of Kogites…
The government of the United Kingdom has condemned ethnic profiling and disenfranchisement of Igbos in Lagos during the just concluded governorship election held on March 18. “People chanting anti-Igbo messages and walking on the streets by polling units on election day is totally unacceptable. Not just in Lagos,” Ben Llewellyn-Jones, British deputy high commissioner to…
Godswill Akpabio International Stadium in Uyo hosted the 2022 CAF Confederation Cup final. The 21-storey Dakkada Towers was opened in 2021. It has its own airline, Ibom Air which is Africa’s only sub national airline. Akwa Ibom State, Nigeria has one of Africa’s largest libraries, Ibom E-library in Uyo. It has a 1,000 capacity conference…
Sen. Jibrin Barau,who represents Kano North Senatorial in the National Assembly has been declared as the most experienced candidate for the 10th Senate Presidency. Going with the array of candidates who had indicated interest in the position, Barau is described as the most competent to be the 10th Senate President of the Federal Republic of…
The Nigerian Union of Journalists has called on the Rivers State government to shelve its plan to demolish the transmission station of Daar Communications Plc. Barring any last-minute change, the Rivers State Government will demolish the transmission station of the African Independent Television/Ray Power in Ozuoba, on the outskirts of Port Harcourt. This followed the…
A former Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu; his wife Beatrice and their doctor have been convicted of organ trafficking, in the first verdict of its kind under the Modern Slavery Act. Ekweremadu, 60; his wife, Beatrice, 56; and Dr Obinna Obeta, 51, were found guilty of facilitating the travel of a young man to Britain…
Dr. Peter Mbah while addressing the press after his victory at the poll, the Enugu State Governor-elect, Dr. Peter Mbah of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has assured that he’ll be the governor for all parts of Enugu irrespective of the cultural divide. Dr. Mbah gave the assurance on Thursday in his acceptance speech after…
The Labour Party presidential candidate in the February 25th election, Peter Obi, has expressed disappointment over the comments that Senator Chimaroke Nnamani made about him recently. Obi said that he is surprised that Nnamani who is his elder brother could say such things about him when he knows that what he said is not true….
Presidential Candidate of Labour Party (LP), Mr Peter Obi, has frowned at what he described as the continuous delay in releasing the governorship results of Abia and Enugu states. In a statement on Tuesday, Obi charged the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to release the results immediately. INEC had suspended the collation of results in…
…Says INEC overreaching mandate The Campaign Council of the Enugu State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has disagreed with the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on its decision to suspend the announcement of the final results and declaration of Dr. Peter Mbah as the winner of the Enugu State governorship contest, stressing that…
