ENUGU STATE GOVERNMENT PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUCENMENT THE INCIDENT AT OGBETE MAIN MARKET The Enugu State Government received with grave concern the ugly incident at Ogbete Main Market, Enugu, today. Information available to Government shows that traders whose shops were sealed for non-compliance with Government’s order banning Monday sit-at-home, defied the instruction on how the shops … [Read more…]
The Senate, on Wednesday, condemned the Monday sit-at-home in the South East geopolitical zone and asked the Federal Government to collaborate with the Finnish Government and extradite a pro-Biafran agitator, Simon Ekpa, for prosecution. The upper chamber also resolved to invite the Minister of Foreign Affairs (when appointed) and relevant stakeholders to carry out thorough … [Read more…]
President Bola Tinubu has said the Economic Community of West African States, ECOWAS, would not tolerate actions that incapacitate democratically-elected government in the sub-region, a direct message to soldiers who have held Niger Republic’s President, Mohamed Bazoum, hostage at the palace. President Tinubu gave the warning in his capacity a the ECOWAS Chairman in a … [Read more…]
Niger President Mohamed Bazoum on Wednesday was being held by disgruntled members of the elite Presidential Guard, who in turn were given an “ultimatum” by the army, a source close to Bazoum said on Wednesday. The West African bloc ECOWAS condemned what it called an “attempted coup” and called on the “plotters” to release Bazoum … [Read more…]
The Enugu State Police Command has reacted to the protest by traders over sealing of their shops by the state government. In a statement released by the state Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Daniel Ndukwe, he revealed that normalcy have been restored by men of the state police command. While stating that the peaceful protest … [Read more…]
Chetanne Chinelo, Enugu An unidentified male has been feared killed on Wednesday as traders of Ogbete Main Market in Enugu State protested the sealing off of their shops by the state government. Following the state government’s ban on the illegal sit-at-home declared by Simon Ekpa, the Governor Peter Mbah administration in Enugu State had sealed … [Read more…]
The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Osun State has sued Governor Ademola Adeleke for appointing himself as the state’s Commissioner for Works. In the suit filed at the Osun State High Court in Osogbo, the state capital, the APC also sued Mr Adeleke’s deputy, Kola Adewusi, over his appointment as the Commissioner for Sports and … [Read more…]
The Central Bank of Nigeria on Tuesday raised its benchmark lending rate to 18.75 per cent from 18.5 per cent. The apex bank made this known after the two-day Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) meeting. The acting CBN governor, Folashodun Shonubi, who chaired the meeting, noted that “hiking the interest rate has made a lot of … [Read more…]
The Nigerian Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) on Tuesday night declared an indefinite nationwide strike. President of the association, Dr Orji Emeka Innocent, said the strike will commence at 12 midnight on Tuesday. He said the strike was declared during the National Executive Council meeting of the association in Lagos. According to Innocent, the major … [Read more…]
The Nigeria Union of Teachers (NUT) in Benue State has threatened to downsize if the government fails to restore promotions and all the arrears of consolidated enhanced allowances removed from their May and June 2023 salaries among other demands. State Chairman of NUT, Comrade Levi Terna Akuma, in a telephone conversation with journalists in Makurdi … [Read more…]
There are high expectations as Taraba State governor Dr Agbu Kefas inaugurated his team of commissioners he described as technocrats. The governor’s team of 22 commissioners is dominated by youths, only seven out of the cabinet members were found to be close to the age of 50 years, even as the team also has seven … [Read more…]
Operatives of the Department of State Services (DSS), on Tuesday, re-arrested suspended Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Godwin Emefiele, after a tussle with officials of the Nigerian Correctional Service (NCS). Emefiele’s re-arrest occurred on the premises of a Federal High Court in Lagos sitting in Ikoyi after Justice Nicholas Oweibo admitted the … [Read more…]