The Nigerian Senate has defended its decision to suspend Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan before the Inter-Parliamentary Union, stating that her suspension was not related to allegations of sexual harassment but due to gross misconduct. Speaking before the IPU on Wednesday, the Chairperson of the House Committee on Women Affairs and Social Development, Kafilat Ogbara, dismissed claims…
Achebe was more like a true African spirit on a mission to provide a counter narrative to the faulty (rac!st) Western narrative of Africa and Africans; narratives told to maintain the supremacy of the Whites. Achebe’s literary “sin”, why he can never deserve the Nobel Laureates title was simply because his works questioned Joseph Conrad’s…
Traditional rulers in Anambra have expressed displeasure with the way the government of Charles Soludo is treating the traditional institution. In a letter signed by Obi of Onitsha, Igwe Alfred Achebe, the chairman of Anambra State Traditional Rulers Council (ASTRC), the traditional rulers said the way and manner the government maltreated and suspended members were…
High Chief Amobi Edeh – Aguabata, Condoles with Prince Onyima over mother’s passing. The family of Prince Humphrey Onyima, CEO of Leadership Scorecard, has continued to receive an outpouring of condolences following the passing of their matriarch, Mrs. Grace Nwoma Onyima, who died on November 1, 2024. Prominent figures, including Nze Amobi N., the Aguabata…
Democracy is defined as the government of the People, by the People and for the People, not for the feudals and aristocrats. This is to say that our government is elected by the citizens, not solely by feudals or aristocrats. Here, citizens vote for their representatives in the government. These officials represent the citizens’ ideas…
The National Universities Commission (NUC) has granted license to Enugu State Government recognising establishment of the State University of Medical and Applied Sciences (SUMAS), Igbo-Eno, Enugu State. The license issued to Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi of Enugu State, at NUC headquarters, Abuja, on Thursday, was sequel to the enactment of the State University of Medical and…
Ahead of the forthcoming 18th meeting of the operators with the Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, some international customers allegedly owe Nigeria about $115.91million (over N35billion) for electricity supplied. LEADERSHIP Scorecard understands that the debts were owed by the CEB of Benin Republic and NIGELEC of Niger Republic, $101.46 million and $14.45…
The word ‘emi lokan’: ‘it’s my turn’, was used by the former governor of Lagos State while speaking with an emotional outburst at the gathering of APC stalwarts. Tinubu, in June, while canvassing for the support of his party members in Abeokuta, Ogun State before the presidential primary election held on June 6 and 7…
Human rights lawyer, Femi Falana, SAN, says in spite of the challenges related to the February 25 presidential and National Assembly elections, many positives were recorded including the destruction of the myth of political structure. Speaking on Channels Television’s Politics Today on Monday, Falana said that in the just concluded elections, the people showed that…
The ongoing construction of 5km New University Gate Nru Junction-9th Mile/Makurdi Expressway by Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi’s administration in Enugu State, which has been stone-based, is an all important project that will provide easy access for residents of the University town of Nsukka and its adjoining communities to the newly licensed State University of Medical and…
