It is mixed blessing for the Nigerian economy as prices of crude oil further soared on Tuesday, 24 hours after the leaders of the European Union (EU) countries reached an agreement to ban 90 per cent of Russian energy imports by the end of the year. The 27-nation organisation has spent weeks haggling over a … [Read more…]
Bruce Fein, the United States-based lawyer of the leader of the Indigenous Peoples of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu, has written to the Ohanaeze Ndigbo. He warned the group not to sit on the legal fence, noting that Nigeria plans to imprison Kanu indefinitely without trial. In the letter, Bruce Fein of Bruce Fein Law Firms, Washington … [Read more…]
As part of its contribution to address insecurity in Nigeria, the United Nations, UN, yesterday charged Nigerian leaders to intensify their approach towards taming insecurity in the country. This is even as the UN advocated that one of the best approaches to address issues bordering insecurity in Nigeria was to adopt a preventive security deployment … [Read more…]
Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (NCDC) has activated Emergency Operations Centre (EOC) in response to the spread of Monkeypox. NCDC in a statement by its Director General, Ifedayo Adetifa, explained that the action was to strengthen in-country preparedness and to contribute to the global response to the disease. He also confirmed that as … [Read more…]
LESS than one week after leaving the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, former Governor of Anambra State, Mr. Peter Obi, yesterday, won the Labour Party, LP, presidential ticket in style. He joined the workers’ party, on Friday, exactly 48 hours to the primaries held in Asaba, the Delta State capital. For the Presidency in 2023, Obi, … [Read more…]
Few days after his resignation from the People Democratic Party (PDP), former governor of Anambra State, Mr. Peter Obi, yesterday, emerged presidential candidate of the Labour Party. Obi, the PDP vice presidential candidate in the 2019 election, polled 96 delegates votes out of the 98 votes cast to win the primary in Asaba, Delta State. … [Read more…]
Governor Okezie Ikpeazu has explained why the Prelate of the Methodist Church Nigeria, His Eminence, Dr Samuel Uche; the Methodist Bishop of Owerri, Rt Rev Okechukwu Michael and the Prelate’s Chaplain were released within 24 hours after their kidnap by unknown gunmen suspected to be herdsmen along the Lokpa axis of the Enugu-Port Harcourt Expressway. … [Read more…]
2023: Pat Utomi steps down for Peter Obi to emerge Labour Party presidential candidate Professor of political economy and co-convener of the National Consultative Front (NCFront), Pat Utomi has stepped down for the former governor of Anambra state, Mr Peter Obi to emerge the presidential candidate of Labour Party. Utomi announced his decision on Monday … [Read more…]
Abductors of Methodist Prelate demand N100M …Church intensifies prayers, appeals for funds The abductors of the Prelate of the Methodist Church Nigeria, His Eminence, Rev Samuel Kanu-Uche, and two others from the same church are demanding a sum of N100 million before they could be set free. According to a statement signed by the Secretary … [Read more…]
The former governor of Imo state, Rochas Okorocha, has pleaded not guilty to the 17-count money laundering charge the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, preferred against him and six others. Okorocha, who mounted the dock around 9:35am, took his plea alongside a chieftain of the All Progressive, APC, Anyim Nyerere Chinenye, and five companies- … [Read more…]
The Board of Trustees of the Peoples Democratic Party has appealed to party members to close ranks and support the party’s presidential standard bearer for the 2023 general elections, Atiku Abubakar, as the party moves to rescue Nigeria. Chairman of the board, Sen. Walid Jibrin, made the appeal in a statement in Abuja, on Monday. … [Read more…]
The Supreme Court has described the Rivers State commission of inquiry that indicted former governor Rotimi Ameachi, as a mere fact-finding body with no powers to engage in the trial of anybody for anything whatsoever. A seven-member of justices of Supreme Court in a unanimous judgment, said the findings of the probe panel are not … [Read more…]